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Submission + - Users can edit Google Maps locations, wiki-style (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19, 2007 @07:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: For those who have gotten lost, delayed or just plain frustrated on a trip due to a mistaken marker on Google Maps, the company has unveiled a potential solution. Google on Monday announced that registered Google users in the US and Australia can move incorrect markers for their homes or businesses to the correct locations. Google did note that access to some listings, such as hospitals, government buildings or businesses whose listings have been claimed through Google's Local Business Center, will be restricted. In addition, some edits, such as moving a place marker more than 200 yards (or 200 meters in some countries) from its original location requires a moderator's approval before they show up on the map, according to Google. To prevent users from deliberately moving a marker to the wrong address, there will be a "Show Original" link that will direct users to the original marker. If the new one is in the wrong place, users can fix it.

Submission + - FSF Releases New License for Web Services (fsf.org) 1

Submitted by

mako

on Monday November 19, 2007 @04:05PM

mako writes: "The Free Software Foundation has released the Affero General Public license version 3. The license is essentially the GPLv3 with an added clause that requires that source code be distributed to users that interact with the application over a network. The license effectively extends copyright to web applications. The new AGPL will have important effects for companies that, under the GPL, have no obligation to distribute changes to users on the web. This release makes adds the license to the stable of official FSF licenses and is compatible with the GPLv3."

Comment Re:Article totally misleading.... get the facts (Score 2, Insightful) 242

by blueiron on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @10:01AM (#21100033) Attached to: Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs

Marcos Eliziario wrote:
"And if a law needs clarification"

It's not a law, it's a proposal. There is a huge difference. It still has to go through several steps.

Submission + - Spammers overcome Hotmail/Yahoo CAPTCHA systems

Submitted by thefickler on Sunday July 08, 2007 @03:12PM

thefickler writes: It appears that spammers have found a way of automatically creating Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, having already created more than 15,000 bogus Hotmail accounts, according to security company BitDefender.p>

BitDefender says that a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, is using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email, which suggests that spammers have found a way to overcome Microsoft's and Yahoo's CAPTCHA systems.p>

Submission + - Microsoft bullies UK developer (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

ZDOne

on Friday June 01, 2007 @05:18AM

ZDOne writes: "Microsoft has shown that once again despite having a near bottomless marketing budget — it is supremely talented at coming across as ruthless and uncaring. The boys at Redmond have demanded — with very unsubtle lawyers' letters — that a London-based Windows developer withdraws a version of his free debugging tool from distribution, and is claiming that the tool breaches its licensing conditions. What's this about Microsoft finally seeing the light around the benefits of an open source community approach to software development — we are not convinced.

Microsoft angered by UK developer

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,3928 7310,00.htm"

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