After months of teetering on the brink of collapse, the Canadian government finally fell yesterday following a no confidence vote. Will Canadians get the government they want, or the government they need or even the government they deserve?
Intellectual Property: Belgian Court defines extent and limitation of copyright infringement.
Record stores clearing shelves as Madonna is frozen out of Belgium. But there's a golden opportunity for Apple if it moves fast.
Crime: UK convicts spammer but not of sending spam
A court in the UK has convicted a spammer who used spam as a means of extortion
Drugs Trafficking: Aussies rally around another convict
It's a cliche that Australia is populated with the descendents of transported criminals. Whilst it's not true, the Aussies are getting so heated about their nationals being sentenced abroad for drugs trafficking.
Tech: Sony BMG under fire over copy protection
As noted earlier this week, Sony BMG are in trouble over CD copy protection. Now the media giant has been sued in the USA over the same issue.
A survey of prime retail space around the world puts several Asian cities towards the top of the table but there are still some relative bargains...
Automotive Industry: "we're not broke but your job's gone"
The USA's giant carmaker General Motors told its workforce last week that rumours of its death were greatly exaggerated; then yesterday it droppe...
CD Copy protection: it's all getting messy
The owners of mechanical copyright are desperate to prevent duplication of optical disks because, unlike "home taping" digital copying...
Pricing: record industry to turn economics on its head
The recording industry is planning a strategy that turns both existing market approaches and basic economics on its head.
Child mortality rates present an interesting picture
Data collected by the US government from more than 200 countries presents an illuminating picture of where children as most at risk of death duri...
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