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Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts   |  AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware     Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market  Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts  US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent  AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware  NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops  Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists  In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail  Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library?  IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview  The First Amendment and Software Speech  Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service  Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK  New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700%  Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Wine Cellar?  House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle"     Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market  From the skynet-at-low-altitude department eldavojohn writes "Gartner's released a report on worldwide numbers of 2012 3Q phone sales and the staggering results posted from Android have caused people like IW's Eric Zeman to call for sanity. Keep in mind these are worldwide numbers, which...   Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts  From the spam-spam-spam-pizza-spam department jfruh writes "Nationwide pizza chain Papa John's is finding itself on the receiving end of a $250 million text spam lawsuit. From the article: 'Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish McGuigan, representing three Papa John's customers, alleged that the...   US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent  From the on-second-thought department angry tapir writes "The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a major ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project after spending $1 billion, concluding that finishing it would cost far too much more money for too little gain. Dubbed the...   AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware  From the because-it-is-hateful department cylonlover writes "AdTrap is a new low-power, zero configuration device which promises to banish adverts from computers, tablets, and anything else connected to the local network. AdTrap's creators point out that their device works not only with...   NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops  From the violators-will-be-employed-with-social-security department pev writes "After losing another laptop containing personal information, NASA wants to have all of its laptops encrypted within a month's time with an intermediate ban on laptops containing sensitive information leaving its facilities. Between...   Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists  From the playing-the-game department An anonymous reader writes "Climate treaty negotiators would do well to have a little chat with some game theorists, according to this article. The fundamental approach they've been taking for the last several years is flawed, these researchers...   In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail  From the greater-good department concealment writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press story, as carried by the Houston Chronicle:"In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted each year for posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene,...   Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library?  From the check-it-out! department DeptofDepartments writes "With Kindles and ebooks on everyone's lips (sc. hands) nowadays, this might come as a surprise to some, but besides being a techie, I have also amassed quite a collection of actual books (mostly hardcover and first...   IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview  From the check-it-out department Billly Gates writes "IE 10 just hit the final preview yesterday for Windows 7. Windows XP and Windows Vista support has been dropped. Most slashdotters have a complex relationship with Internet Explorer. Many of us hate it but have to use it in...   The First Amendment and Software Speech  From the hello-world-vs-the-state department First time accepted submitter stanlrev writes "When is software, or content generated by software, 'speech' for First Amendment purposes? That is the question that Andrew Tutt seeks to answer in an article published today in the Stanford Law...   Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service  From the you've-been-served department wbr1 writes "I just received an email from Amazon Payments, the Amazon competitor to PayPal, stating among other things, that they were changing and simplifying their policies. It should be no surprise then, that similar to what PayPal and many...   Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK  From the eula-do-what-we-say department SternisheFan writes "Google has expanded its legal agreement with developers working on Android applications to specifically prohibit them from taking any action that could lead to a fragmentation of the operating system. The prohibition was added...   New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700%  From the greased-lightning department MrSeb writes "Engineers at NC State University (NCSU) have discovered a way of boosting the throughput of busy WiFi networks by up to 700%. Perhaps most importantly, the breakthrough is purely software-based, meaning it could be rolled out to...   Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Wine Cellar?  From the herzliche-glueckwunsch department theodp writes "Ever get carded by your FedEx guy? You will. Several writers at GeekWire had just unboxed, uncorked and polished off their first bottle of Amazon wine, only to have their buzz killed by the need to cover Steven Sinofsky's unexpected...   House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle"  From the who's-to-blame department OverTheGeicoE writes "The Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security held a hearing on TSA's recent decision to move X-ray body scanners from major airports to smaller ones, which the subcommittee refers to as a 'Scanner Shuffle.'...

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