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	<title>Aviran's Place</title>
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	<description>The Technology Hangout</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Joost exits consumer online video business</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/07/03/joost-exits-consumer-online-video-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran Mordo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare in 2007 by the same people behind Skype and Kazaa, is restructuring its business after discovering that it can&#8217;t survive on advertising to fund its operations.
The chief executive, Mike Volpi, has stepped down but will remain as chairman.
The London-based company said it will shift its focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Leno wins right to Web name for his new show</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/07/03/jay-leno-wins-right-to-web-name-for-his-new-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran Mordo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show.
The U.N.&#8217;s World Intellectual Property Organization says current owner Guadalupe Zambrano of Katy, Texas, will have to transfer the domain name - thejaylenoshow.com - to the comedian.
The agency says Zambrano failed to demonstrate he had a legitimate reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP unveils &#8216;treasure trove&#8217; of historical footage</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/07/03/ap-unveils-treasure-trove-of-historical-footage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/07/03/ap-unveils-treasure-trove-of-historical-footage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran Mordo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a &#8220;treasure trove&#8221; of historical film footage from the 1960s and &#8217;70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower&#8217;s former World War II headquarters in London.
The archive includes color film recordings of a young Yasser Arafat, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi immediately after taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Bay Sold</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/07/01/pirate-bay-sold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/07/01/pirate-bay-sold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[File Sharing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Global Gaming Factory X AB, which operates Internet cafes and provides software, said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns ($7.7 million).
The website made world headlines in April when the three Swedish founders and a financial backer were each sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Electronic Quantum Processor Created</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/first-electronic-quantum-processor-created/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/first-electronic-quantum-processor-created/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran Mordo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A team led by Yale University researchers has ]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota Develops Mind-Controlled Wheelchair</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/toyota-develops-mind-controlled-wheelchair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/toyota-develops-mind-controlled-wheelchair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran Mordo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota (NYSE: TM) researchers in Japan have built a brain/machine interface (BMI) that has been demonstrated to control a wheelchair using a person&#8217;s thoughts.
The system enables a person to make a wheelchair turn left or right to move forward simply by thinking the commands. The response time is in 125 milliseconds. One millisecond is equal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High court won&#8217;t block remote storage DVR system</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/high-court-wont-block-remote-storage-dvr-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/high-court-wont-block-remote-storage-dvr-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for viewers to bypass commercials.
The justices declined to hear arguments on whether Cablevision Systems Corp.&#8217;s remote-storage DVR system would violate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast to offer wireless Internet service</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/comcast-to-offer-wireless-internet-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/30/comcast-to-offer-wireless-internet-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Comcast Corp. will become the first major cable TV operator to roll out wireless broadband outside of Wi-Fi hotspots as it launches the service in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday, with at least three other cities to follow this year.
Comcast will offer speeds of up to 4 Megabits per second, faster than any other comparable, non-Wi-Fi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Bay judge ruled unbiased</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/29/pirate-bay-judge-ruled-unbiased/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/29/pirate-bay-judge-ruled-unbiased/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran Mordo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The judge in the Pirate Bay case, Tomas Norström, was not biased. That&#8217;s the decision of the Swedish High Court of Justice, which investigated accusations made by the four defendants in the high-profile file-sharing case.
The accusations were based on Norström&#8217;s membership in organizations such as the Swedish Copyright Association, which counts among its members lawyers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/29/netflix-prize-may-have-been-achieved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/29/netflix-prize-may-have-been-achieved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The long-running $1,000,000 competition to improve on the Netflix Cinematch recommendation system by 10% (in terms of the RMSE) may have finally been won. Recent results show a 10.05% improvement from the team called BellKor&#8217;s Pragmatic Chaos, a merger between some of the teams who were getting close to the contest&#8217;s goal.
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		<title>Microsoft to offer Windows 7 on USB thumb drives?</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/29/microsoft-to-offer-windows-7-on-usb-thumb-drives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/29/microsoft-to-offer-windows-7-on-usb-thumb-drives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is reportedly considering offering Windows 7 on USB thumb drives to allow netbook owners to upgrade their machines.
Windows has, until now, only been distributed on DVDs or via download. However, netbooks don&#8217;t come with optical drives and downloading an operating system is a frankly painful experience.
The Windows 7 ISO weighs in at 2.3GB, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian software helps Iranian dissidents connect</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/28/canadian-software-helps-iranian-dissidents-connect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/28/canadian-software-helps-iranian-dissidents-connect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Software developed by a Canadian lab to circumvent online censorship has been downloaded by more than 18,000 Iranians in the last 10 days, says its developer Rafal Rohozinski.
A thirst for online freedom in Iran, as well as in China, Myanmar and other authoritarian hotspots, has led to a sudden proliferation of all technologies designed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipino inmates in `Thriller&#8217; video stage tribute</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/28/filipino-inmates-in-thriller-video-stage-tribute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/28/filipino-inmates-in-thriller-video-stage-tribute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Filipino inmates who shot to global fame with a YouTube video of their &#8220;Thriller&#8221; dance swayed and stomped again Saturday in a behind-bars tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson.
After being told of Jackson&#8217;s death Thursday in Los Angeles, the 1,500 inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center hit the exercise yard, practicing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/27/unclear-what-happens-to-personal-info-with-clear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/27/unclear-what-happens-to-personal-info-with-clear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than a quarter million people are wondering what will happen to their fingerprints, Social Security numbers, home addresses and other personal information now that a company that sped them through airport security is out of business.
Government officials are wondering too.
The sudden shutdown of the Clear program, run by Verified Identity Pass Inc., this week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Iranian regime hackers invade Oregon computers</title>
		<link>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/26/pro-iranian-regime-hackers-invade-oregon-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aviransplace.com/2009/06/26/pro-iranian-regime-hackers-invade-oregon-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviran</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hackers defaced the home page of the Oregon University System, posting a caustic message telling President Barack Obama to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election.
Attempts to access the university system&#8217;s Web site were automatically redirected to another page, where readers viewed a message said to be from Iran that [...]]]></description>
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