Police blotter: Google searches nab wireless hacker
Police blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Wireless hacker pleads guilty when his Google searches are used as evidence against him. When: 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on October 27. Outcome: Prison sentence of 15 months upheld. What happened, according to court documents: Matthew Schuster began work as a computer technician for Alpha Computer Services in Wausau, Wisc., in 2000. Schuster provided technical support for a wireless Internet system called CWWIS and also was a paying subscriber to CWWIS for his home. Schuster was fired in May 2003. His home CWWIS account was terminated and the

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Grant funds open-source challenge to Google library
The nonprofit Internet Archive announced Wednesday it has received $1 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue its effort to scan public domain works for open online accessibility. The archiving organizations Open-Access Text Archive is an open-source alternative to book-scanning efforts like the ones from Google and Microsoft. Internet Archive, perhaps best known for its WayBack Machine archive of Web pages by date–is also an online digital library of text, audio, software, images and video content. Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are pioneers in this exciting and historic opportunity to create a universal digital

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Marketworks Teams Up with Google to Offer Small Businesses Professionally-Designed Storefront Options
Marketworks? customers can now easily transform the look and performance of their storefronts with a variety of new designer Web site templates. (PRWeb Dec 21, 2006) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/UGlnZy1JbnNlLU1hZ24tVGhpci1NYWduLVplcm8=

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