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		<title>France Mulls Culture Tax on Smartphones and Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/france-mulls-culture-tax-on-smartphones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS (AP) &#8212; The French government is considering creating a new tax on smartphones and tablets in a bid to raise millions to support the creation of digital cultural content inside France. The proposal, handed to President Francois Hollande Monday, outlines a 1 percent tax on the sale of Internet-compatible devices, targeting companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon. The tax would yield about 86 million euros per year. The revenue would help cultural industries create French content such as music, images and videos. The proposal is part of France&#8217;s &#8220;cultural exception,&#8221; a policy that protects French cinema and music industries, and other creative sectors, against foreign &#8211; often American &#8211; competition. The French government will meet leading figures of the cultural sector in the next few weeks before any decision is made.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162645&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Firms Say Syria Goes Offline Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Barbara Ortutay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Syria is experiencing an Internet outage similar to a two-day blackout late last fall, according to companies that monitor online traffic around the world. Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer at Renesys, said his firm saw Syria&#8217;s networks go offline abruptly at 6:25 p.m. UTC (2:25 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday. Google Inc. also indicated that its services were inaccessible in Syria for more than three hours as of 6:00 p.m. EDT. Syrian authorities have cut phone and Internet service in select areas in the past to disrupt rebel communications when regime forces were conducting major operations. Such widespread outages, however, have been rare. Akamai Technologies Inc., which helps companies distribute online content, also confirmed the outage. &#8220;We saw our traffic to that region drop to zero,&#8221; said David Belson, who monitors the traffic at Akamai. Last fall&#8217;s communications blackout also included telephone service, but it was unclear late Tuesday if phone service was also cut off in the civil war-torn country. Belson said there was another, brief outage in early January.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162376&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Will the Online Sales Tax Bill Mean for You?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/what-will-the-online-sales-tax-bill-mean-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Anick Jesdanun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Congress is considering legislation that would give states the ability to require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes. If the measure passes, consumers would lose a loophole that has resulted in years of tax-free online shopping. Out-of-state merchants would have to collect statewide sales taxes on Internet, mail-order and other purchases &#8211; as well as any county and local sales taxes. Why is this necessary? And what will this mean for your online purchases? Here&#8217;s a guide: Q. Don&#8217;t I already pay sales taxes on Internet purchases? A. Sometimes. Some retailers already collect sales taxes for where you live, but many don&#8217;t and haven&#8217;t been required to do so. In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can&#8217;t force businesses elsewhere to collect those taxes unless the company has a physical presence in that state &#8211; such as a physical retail store or an office. Retailers that operate in one or a few states typically collect taxes only for those states and not others. Q. Why haven&#8217;t retailers collected the taxes anyway, if they are already collecting them for some states? Retailers argue that it&#8217;s complex to keep track of state, county and local taxes in thousands of jurisdictions across the nation. It&#8217;s not just the different rates, but different rules on what products are and aren&#8217;t taxed. Some states exempt clothing, for instance, and some charge taxes only when the price is above a certain amount. Bubble gum might be considered candy in one state and a tax-exempt food item in another. Out-of-state retailers don&#8217;t emphasize this, but not having to collect the taxes also makes their products cheaper, compared with in-state retailers that have to. Q. So if the Supreme Court settled this, why is Congress getting involved? There was hardly any online commerce when the Supreme Court issued its ruling two decades ago. These days, states believe they are losing out on billions of dollars in revenue collectively each year. They have been pressuring Congress to change the law, as they face<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162300&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Kill Switch to Deactivate Stolen Phones</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/call-for-kill-switch-to-deactivate-stolen-phones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics are startling: Cell phone theft is on the rise across the country. In Los Angeles, cell phone thefts are up 27% year-over-year, and New York City’s crime rate rose last year due entirely to a rise in stolen phones. But nowhere is the problem worse than in San Francisco. Nearly half of all robberies in the city involve cell phones, with daring thieves grabbing devices straight from owners’ hands. Though San Francisco may be leading the nation in cell phone crime, it’s also leading the nation in combating it. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is asking major smartphone manufacturers Apple and Google to combat the growing problem with a beautifully simple suggestion: Give all phones a remote-activated kill switch. With a kill switch, a stolen phone would be permanently bricked – that is, made useless. The idea is that if every phone has a kill switch, stolen phones will be deactivated and useless to their new owners. And if a phone has no resale value to a thief, it’s far less likely to be stolen. In 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created a wireless phone database to help cut down on crime. When a phone listed in the database is stolen, police can use the unique identification number on the device to track it down and keep it from being re-activated. Unfortunately, the database has only limited effectiveness as stolen phones frequently wind up for sale in foreign countries, and criminals have easy ways of altering your phone’s ID number. So far, the idea is meeting a cool reception from Silicon Valley’s giants. After all, stolen phones don’t just make thieves rich – it makes cellphone manufacturers wealthy as well. According to mobile security firm Lookout, stolen and lost cell phones accounted for an estimated $30 billion in cell phone sales in 2012. Of course, even without a kill switch, you have tools at your disposal to combat cell phone theft before it happens. Third-party apps can help locate your phone and even take pictures of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162296&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Clears Use of Samsung Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea (AP) &#8212; Samsung Electronics Co. says the U.S. Department of Defense has approved using Samsung smartphones for its networks. The South Korean company said Friday the Galaxy S 4 smartphone has become the first Android device to meet the security requirements set out by the U.S. government, allowing government and military officials to access the Defense Department&#8217;s networks with the S 4. Samsung is making a big push to enter the smartphone market for governments and enterprises dominated by Research In Motion Ltd.&#8217;s BlackBerry devices. Earlier this year, Samsung announced software for security-conscious users called Samsung Knox aimed at people who want to use their personal mobile devices to access secured networks at the workplace. Samsung said Knox is only available with the S 4 and will be installed in other Samsung devices later.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161788&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung to Block Access to App Store in Iran</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/26/samsung-to-block-access-to-app-store-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran (AP) &#8212; Iranian users of Samsung mobile applications said Thursday that the company had notified them that they will no longer have access to the company&#8217;s online store as of May 22. The move is seen as part of international sanctions on the country over its disputed nuclear program. The West has imposed banking and insurance sanctions on Iran since it suspects Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. At a Tehran shopping mall, owners of mobile phones and tablets said Thursday that they had received the message via email from the company late the night before. Retailers said they had no power over the decision. &#8220;We have heard about it, but we are only responsible for hardware here, not software and apps,&#8221; shopkeeper Bijan Ashtiani said. In the message, Samsung said that it cannot provide access to the store, known as Samsung Apps, in Iran because of &#8220;legal barriers.&#8221; It apologized to customers in emailed statement seen by the Associated Press on Thursday. Samsung&#8217;s offices in Tehran could not be immediately reached for comment due to the weekend there, and its headquarters in South Korea did not immediately respond to a request. The decision quickly provoked ire on social media. &#8220;Samsung is to stop its apps in Iran, oh how we appreciate our officials,&#8221; wrote Bahareh, a Twitter user blaming Tehran&#8217;s policy. Another, named Armin, pointed at the technology giant itself, saying: &#8220;Now, Samsung&#8217;s sanctions honor us as well!&#8221; Samsung spokesman Chris Jung in Seoul declined to comment. Unlike Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, Samsung has provided localized services to Iranians in their native Persian language. In 2012, Finnish communications giant Nokia stopped its services in the country.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161129&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Agrees to Change How It Displays Search Results in Europe</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/google-agrees-to-change-how-it-displays-search-results-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Juergen Baetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS (AP) &#8212; Google has agreed to change how it displays search results in Europe &#8211; including a better labeling of its promoted content and displaying links to competitors &#8211; to appease concerns it might be abusing its dominant market position, the European Union&#8217;s antitrust body said Thursday. Google&#8217;s search engine, which is the world&#8217;s most influential gateway to online information and commerce, enjoys a near-monopoly in Europe. The EU Commission, which acts as the 27-nation bloc&#8217;s antitrust authority, has since 2010 been investigating whether the company is unfairly stifling competition. It pointed out several areas of concern that Google is now trying to address through the proposed concessions. Google has offered to more clearly label search results stemming from its own services such as Google News, Google Maps or its shopping and flight search functions. That would allow users to distinguish between natural search results and others promoted by Google. It also agreed to display some search results from its competitors and links to their services, the EU Commission said. The Commission has often taken a harder line with U.S. tech companies than its American counterparts, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department. Google, which is based in Mountain View, California, was able to settle a similar antitrust complaint on its search business with the FTC in January without making any major concessions on how it runs its search engine. The EU Commission is now proposing a market test of the concessions for a month. That would give competitors the chance to say whether they deem them sufficient. &#8220;The objective of this process is to try to see if we can achieve a settled outcome in this antitrust investigation,&#8221; said Commission spokesman Antoine Colombani. A group of 17 companies competing with Google &#8211; including tech giants and internet companies such as Microsoft, Nokia Expedia and TripAdvisor &#8211; vowed to carefully study the concessions proposed by Google. &#8220;The most important remedy to Google&#8217;s abuse of dominance is to require the search monopoly (&#8230;) to subject its own products and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161051&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German Privacy Watchdog Loses Facebook Appeal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/german-privacy-watchdog-loses-facebook-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) &#8212; A German privacy watchdog has failed in its bid to stop Facebook from forcing users to register with their real names. Schleswig-Holstein state&#8217;s data protection office had argued that the ban on fake names breaches German privacy laws and European rules designed to protect free speech online. But a state appeals court has confirmed a lower tribunal&#8217;s ruling that German privacy laws don&#8217;t apply to Facebook because the social networking site has its European headquarters in Ireland, where privacy rules are less stringent. Data protection Commissioner Thilo Weichert said in a statement Wednesday that he would accept the ruling, but urged lawmakers to consider changing legislation to harmonize privacy laws across the European Union. Facebook officials could not immediately be reached for comment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160998&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing E-Tail: How the Senate Plans to Tax Online Shopping</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/23/taxing-e-tail-how-the-senate-plans-to-tax-online-shopping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are supposed to pay state taxes on goods purchased online. Only 1.6% of taxpayers do. A new Senate bill could help states change that, and collect billions of dollars in new revenue. Taxing E-Tail: How The Senate Plans To Tax Online Shopping &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160844&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Fined by German Data Protection Agency</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/google-fined-by-german-data-protection-agency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) &#8212; A German data protection agency fined Google Inc. 145,000 euros ($189,000) for illegally recording information from unsecured wireless networks &#8211; an amount it acknowledged is &#8220;totally inadequate&#8221; as a deterrent to the multinational giant. Hamburg&#8217;s state data protection agency said Monday that Google admitted collecting data including emails, passwords, photos and chat protocols from 2008-2010 as it prepared to launch its Street View service. Google says it never intended to store personal data and the agency says it has been deleted. Agency head Johannes Caspar says &#8220;company internal control mechanisms failed seriously&#8221; at Google but the maximum fine possible was 150,000 euros which was &#8220;unlikely&#8230;to have a deterring effect.&#8221; Google earned $3.3 billion in the first quarter. Caspar urged dramatic increases to possible maximum fines under future European regulations.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160770&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Ban Handheld Smartphone Maps While Driving? California Court Thinks So</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/should-we-ban-handheld-smartphone-maps-while-driving-california-court-thinks-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=159772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s weird out there and getting weirder: A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone&#8217;s map app while driving ought to be as illegal as texting or using the device without a handsfree solution. I&#8217;ll get back to that in a moment, but let&#8217;s talk briefly about the stuff we do while driving. Some years ago I bought my first car-based GPS, an entry-level Garmin you clipped into one of these windshield holders that attach by plastic cup and a lever you clamp down to really crank the suction. For years, both here in the U.S. and another two living in the U.K., I used the thing to go everywhere. And, I suspect like most people, I&#8217;d often fiddle with it while driving, whether adding new routes or destinations, checking sub-screens for additional info, or just tapping to mute it altogether. There&#8217;s no question that&#8217;s a distraction, you know, if we define that word as something &#8220;that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else&#8221; (thanks New Oxford American Dictionary). Then again, by that definition, eating in the car counts as a distraction. So does fiddling with the climate control or audio systems, changing CDs, glancing at a piece of paper with a handwritten address or scanning printed route directions. You can make the argument that even stuff along the road, say splashy billboards with clever (or not-so-clever) advertising and political rhetoric are distracting (rubberneck much?). Really, most things we do in life count as distractions. Sitting here typing this, the music that&#8217;s playing in the background is a distraction (listening to Hiromi&#8217;s new album, Move, keeps drawing my attention away from writing). The rain splashing the window on what&#8217;s turning out to be a pretty gloomy Monday is a distraction. The cup of coffee I keep reaching for (and having to refill) is definitely a distraction. (Thus, my excuse for taking too long to type this up: music, rain and coffee.) No, I&#8217;m not hurtling down the road in a 2-ton metal hulk on a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159772&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Double Standard in the Room: ReDigi and the (Now Illegal) Resale of MP3s</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/the-double-standard-in-the-room-redigi-and-the-now-illegal-resale-of-mp3s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for your right to resell MP3 music files: a U.S. District court just decided that the resale of MP3 files &#8212; where those files are transferred by copying &#8212; officially violates the Copyright Act. If you want to resell a book, you can check out Abebooks, Cash4Books and half a dozen others. If you want to resell clothes, pictures or furniture, there&#8217;s Craigslist, your local consignment store or your neighborhood&#8217;s poles and signposts (to which people customarily affix pieces of paper with the words &#8220;Garage Sale!&#8221; sporting hand-scrawled arrows pointing the way). If you want to resell a CD or DVD, there&#8217;s SecondSpin, eBay, Amazon and dozens more. Lists of ways and places to resell used goods could probably fill a set of encyclopedias, and include both offline and online venues. Humans have been exchanging secondhand goods for millennia. I&#8217;m in the process of doing it myself. Glancing through my condo this morning, currently half-packed in boxes (incidentally purchased used off Craiglist) for an upcoming move with piles of books, CDs, movies, clothes, pictures, computers, baby items, miscellaneous electronics, musical equipment, kitchen wares and furniture, I see nothing that isn&#8217;t resalable. I&#8217;d balk &#8212; and I suspect you would too &#8212; if someone told us we couldn&#8217;t resell any of this stuff. And yet we&#8217;ve also, over the past decade or so, begun acquiring troves of items that pose significant resale challenges: intangible &#8212; but no less physical &#8212; digital goods, from MP3s and video games to videos and e-books. But let&#8217;s say a store existed where you could resell digital music files, perhaps MP3s purchased through Apple&#8217;s iTunes Store. In fact such a store already exists: Music exchange ReDigi&#8217;s been allowing the purchase and resale of digital music since its inception in October 2011, calling itself &#8220;a free cloud service that allows you to store, stream, buy, and sell your legally purchased pre-owned digital music.&#8221; Employing technology it calls a &#8220;Verification Engine,&#8221; ReDigi claims it can validate your music collection, then upload &#8212; but not copy, since that would be leaving<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159418&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hallowed Be Thy Name: Ron Paul Tries to Retrieve RonPaul.com</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/19/hallowed-be-thy-name-ron-paul-tries-to-retrieve-ronpaul-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul is waging a fight to wrest his namesake Web address from the current owners. It’s harder than it sounds… Hallowed Be Thy Name: Ron Paul Tries to Retrieve RonPaul.com &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158492&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Administration: Mobile Phone Unlocking Should Be Legal</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/05/obama-administration-mobile-phone-unlocking-should-be-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration will push to reverse a new prohibition on mobile phone unlocking after an online White House petition protesting the ban drew more than 100,000 signatures. via Obama Administration: Mobile Phone ‘Unlocking’ Should Be Legal &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157609&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Combat Roles: Who Knew Video Games Were So Progressive?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/25/women-in-combat-roles-video-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Pentagon announced this week that the U.S. military will allow women to fight on the front lines within a few years, I was taken aback – but not because I have any problem with the policy change. To be honest, I just didn&#8217;t realize the military had a rule against women in combat roles to begin with. It&#8217;s probably because I spend too much time soaking up technology news, and not enough time reading about everything else. But maybe some of my dumbfoundedness comes from the fact that I play video games. In the virtual warzones of my favorite hobby, it&#8217;s totally normal for men and women to fight alongside one another. One of my favorite games of 2012 was XCom: Enemy Unknown, in which you command a small squad of super soldiers in a fight against alien invaders. The rank and file of your paramilitary group hail from both sexes, and on the battlefield, there&#8217;s no tactical difference between them. A female soldier can aim a sniper rifle or launch a rocket just as capably as any male squaddie. She&#8217;s entitled to the same promotions as well, and can rise through the ranks just as quickly. XCom is somewhat of an ideal example, but it&#8217;s not the only one. In the Mass Effect series, your protagonist can be male or female, and so can the characters who head into battle with you. In Halo 4, your Spartan soldier can be either gender with exactly the same abilities. Gears of War 3 added female squad members to the mix, where previous games had relegated them to support roles away from the action. The funny thing is that video games aren&#8217;t known for treating women fairly. A lot of times, women serve primarily as eye candy, or damsels in distress, or just glorified secretaries for men doing the real work. That&#8217;s assuming there are any women in the game at all. (And of course, not all war games include women. The Call of Duty series, for instance, is almost<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155614&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wants More Violent Video Game Studies, and That&#8217;s Okay</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/17/obama-wants-more-violent-video-game-studies-and-thats-okay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=155207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting fact that came out of the recent debate over gun control: Thanks to the U.S. Congress, the government has been unable to fully research firearm safety for the last 16 years. In 1996, as Reuters tells it, the National Rifle Association pressured lawmakers into cutting $2.6 million worth of Centers for Disease Control funding, which was being used for firearms research. Congress later restored the funds, but with a restriction on any research that &#8220;may be used to advocate or promote gun control.&#8221; Apparently the NRA had been dismissing past studies as &#8220;anti-gun propaganda,&#8221; but it&#8217;s hard to see the group as anything but afraid of what we might learn through more research. Now that President Obama wants Congress to fund research into violent video games, I&#8217;m sad to see a parallel among some of my fellow gamers and game journalists, who think the government should just leave games alone. &#8220;Dear Mr. President, We are not ignorant about the relationship between media including videogames and violence. Studies show there isn&#8217;t one,&#8221; Garnett Lee, Editorial Director of GameFly Media, wrote on Twitter. &#8220;No matter how many studies show no links, it&#8217;ll never be seen as a reason to not fund another one,&#8221; Wired Editor Chris Kohler wrote. Sorry, but I can&#8217;t join in on this collective freak out. For as defensive as I am about video games, and my right to enjoy them like any other form of speech, I draw the line at declaring we don&#8217;t need any more knowledge. True, there isn&#8217;t much strong evidence to prove that violent video games make children violent in the real world. That&#8217;s why, in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to let California outlaw the sale of violent games to minors. The state didn&#8217;t have enough evidence to prove that violent video games cause violence &#8212; certainly not more than any other media &#8212; so just like the movie and music industries, the video game industry gets to regulate itself. It uses its own ratings system, and retailers take it upon themselves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155207&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google CEO Meets with Feds as U.S. Senator Blasts FTC over Antitrust Probe</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/11/28/google-ceo-meets-with-feds-as-u-s-senator-blasts-ftc-over-antitrust-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the clock ticking down until a crucial Federal Trade Commission vote over whether to sue Google for antitrust violations, the search giant’s CEO Larry Page met with federal officials in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Google CEO Larry Page Meets with Feds as Sen. Ron Wyden Blasts FTC Over Antitrust Probe &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152198&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quit Posting Facebook Copyright/Privacy Messages &#8212; It&#8217;s a Hoax</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/26/quit-posting-facebook-copyrightprivacy-messages-its-a-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the one where you&#8217;re supposed to post a legal notice to your Facebook profile to ensure the social networking titan can&#8217;t use anything you&#8217;ve written without your permission? No, doing so won&#8217;t accomplish anything legally speaking, and yes, it&#8217;s a hoax &#8212; an old one that already made the rounds earlier this year according to urban legend tracker Snopes.com. I scraped a copy of the message off my own Facebook News Feed this afternoon (one of my friends had posted it), and other TIME editors confirmed seeing it in their feeds this morning. Here it is, in full: In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, graphics, comics, paintings, photos, and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For any and all commercial use of the above my written consent is required in every instance. (Those reading this may copy and paste this text on their Facebook walls. This will place them under protection of copyright laws. By the present communiqué, I hereby notify Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate, or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The aforementioned prohibited actions also apply to employees, students, agents, and/or any staff under Facebook&#8217;s direction or control. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of my privacy is punishable by law (UCC 1 1-308-308 1-103 and the Rome Statute). Facebook is now an open capital entity. All members are recommended to publish a notice like this, or if you prefer, then you may copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you will be allowing tacitly the use of elements such as your photos, as well as the information contained in your profile status updates The idea seems to be that by posting this, you can somehow override the privacy strictures you agreed to when you signed up for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151969&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should We Ban &#8216;Killer Robots&#8217;? Human Rights Group Thinks So</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/20/should-we-ban-killer-robots-human-rights-group-thinks-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if deploying drones &#8212; unmanned aerial vehicles &#8212; on the battlefield wasn&#8217;t controversial enough, here&#8217;s an even more disturbing question: Should we allow weapon-wielding robots that can &#8220;think&#8221; for themselves to attack people? Imagine a drone that didn&#8217;t require a human controller remotely pulling its strings from some secure remote location &#8212; a drone that could make decisions about where to go, who to surveil&#8230;or who to liquidate. No one&#8217;s deployed a robot like that yet, but international human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch sees it as an issue we need to deal with before the genie&#8217;s out of the bottle. The group is calling for a preemptive ban on all such devices &#8220;because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict.&#8221; They&#8217;ve even drafted a 50-page report titled &#8220;Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots,&#8221;which lays out its case against autonomous weaponized machines. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing in artificial intelligence or robotics that could discriminate between a combatant and a civilian,&#8221; argues Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield, in the HRW video above. &#8220;It would be impossible to tell the difference between a little girl pointing an ice cream at a robot, or someone pointing a rifle at it.&#8221; And that&#8217;s the chief concern: that a robot given autonomy to choose who to attack, without human input, could misjudge and either injure or kill unlawful targets like civilians in combat. Autonomous, non-sentient robots would also, obviously, lack human compassion, as well as the ability to assess a situation proportionally &#8212; gauging whether risk of harm to civilians in a given situation outweighs the need to use force. Autonomous weaponized robots also raise the thorny philosophical question of who would be accountable, say such a robot did injure or kill a civilian (or anyone else, unlawfully). Remember, autonomous doesn&#8217;t equal conscious, so punishing the robot&#8217;s out. Who then? The operational personnel that programmed or deployed it? The researchers that designed it? The military or government in general? In a statement accompanying the report, HRW warns<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151716&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medal of Honor Classified Consult Lands 7 Navy SEALs in Hot Water</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/09/medal-of-honor-classified-consult-lands-7-navy-seals-in-hot-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds like the perfect public relations ploy: &#8220;Buy this game! Top secret military info revealed! Most realistic first-person shooter ever!&#8221; According to CBS News, a group of seven Navy SEALS &#8212; elite special forces trained to operate by sea, air or on land &#8212; has been disciplined for passing along classified information to video game maker Electronic Arts, information that may have been used in EA&#8217;s just-launched modern-day military shooter, Medal of Honor: Warfighter. There&#8217;s even a SEAL Team Six angle (the group of SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden). CBS reports that one of the seven participated in Operation Neptune Spear, the U.S. special forces mission that culminated in the death of bin Laden on May 2, 2011. The SEALs allegedly passed the classified information to EA while working as paid consultants earlier this year. What did they reveal? No one knows, but clearly nothing worth losing their jobs over &#8212; all seven remain on active duty, says CBS. That said, the punishment could be career-stunting: Each of the seven received a letter of reprimand and had their pay docked for two months. &#8220;We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy,&#8221; said deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli, in a statement (via Associated Press), adding that the punishments &#8221;send a clear message throughout our force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to say whether the news helps or hinders EA&#8217;s game at this point. Medal of Honor: Warfighter has received &#8220;mixed or average&#8221; reviews on Metacritic from critics and users alike, a pretty lackluster reaction compared to last year&#8217;s more warmly received Medal of Honor series reboot. MORE: SEAL Those Lips<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=150851&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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