News tagged with george orwell
Amazon settles suit over deleted Orwell books
Amazon.com has settled a lawsuit that sprang from a Big Brother-like move of deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers as a quick fix for copyright concerns.
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Amazon sued over Kindle deletion of Orwell books
(AP) -- A high school student is suing Amazon.com Inc. for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for deleting pirated copies of George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from their e-reader devices.
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Pirated copies of Orwell books pulled from Kindle
(AP) -- A pirated e-book of "1984" led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers.
Jul 18, 2009 |
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High court troubled by warrantless GPS tracking (Update)
The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Apple 'genius' Steve Jobs dies from cancer
Suddenly, the next version of the iPhone doesn't seem so important. It's time to mourn Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley maestro who always seemed to hit the right note as he transformed Apple Inc. into technology's ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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In Jobs' second act with Apple, a dramatic revival
Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple Inc.'s CEO on Wednesday was freighted with sentimental significance, the curtain call on a dramatic 14-year performance in which he rescued one of the world's most beloved ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Discovery of GPS tracker becomes privacy issue
(AP) -- Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old computer salesman and community college student, took his car in for an oil change earlier this month and his mechanic spotted an odd wire hanging from the undercarriage.
Oct 17, 2010 |
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Crystal clear: Eureka! moment leads to major breakthroughs in structural biology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuning out the noise of fellow passengers and the incessant hum of the turbojet engine, Lin Chen pored voraciously over the pages of James Watson's The Double Helix. The words and ideas flowed ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Thailand censors more websites as protests persist
(AP) -- George Orwell's "1984" had its Big Brother, and Thailand has Ranongrak Suwanchawee. The country's information minister stares down from billboards along Bangkok's expressways, warning that "Bad websites ...
May 08, 2010 |
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Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students (Update)
(AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia school district used the webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Books pulled from Amazon.com in pricing dispute
(AP) -- New copies of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," Andrew Young's "The Politician" and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over ...
Jan 30, 2010 |
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Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole'
Amazon fended off Saturday accusations of Big Brother-like behavior after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers' electronic book readers this week.
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Jul 18, 2009 |
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