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		<title>Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal , right, walks with House Speaker David ...</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Selers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (AP) - Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal , right, walks with House Speaker David Ralston, left, before they talk to members of the media about a crack down on Internet gambling at the State Capitol on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 in Atlanta. Deal ordered state authorities to crack down on illegal gambling dens masquerading as Internet cafÃ©s on Thursday, amid fears that the firms are planning a âmassive expansionâ into the state with hundreds of new outlets. About 50 to 100 active gambling sites have already set up shop in Georgia, and Deal said investigators believe Internet sweepstakes parlors are eyeing hundreds more locations throughout the state. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal &#038; Constitution, Jason Getz) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT ]]></description>
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		<title>A Playstation Vita is presented to the media in June 2011 in ...</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (AFP/Getty Images/File) - A Playstation Vita is presented to the media in June 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Sony's upcoming PlayStation Vita game console will not hit shops in North America and Europe until after the key Christmas holiday shopping season, the Japanese company said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew) ]]></description>
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		<title>Panel sees no evidence of wrongdoing at Dow Jones (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Drew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The independent committee charged with monitoring editorial integrity at The Wall Street Journal said Saturday it is not aware of any wrongdoing at the Journal or its parent company, Dow Jones &#038; Co. Dow Jones is owned by News Corp., which is mired in a phone-hacking scandal involving its British newspapers. The committee that monitors the Journal's editorial practices also said in a statement that it did not believe Les Hinton's resignation as publisher of the Journal and chief executive of Dow Jones was related to activities at the Journal or Dow Jones. Hinton resigned Friday. He had been chairman of News Corp.'s British newspaper arm for some of the years its staffers are alleged to have unlawfully accessed the voicemail messages of politicians, sports figures, and celebrities in search of news scoops. Thomas Bray, chairman of the committee, said the group did not conduct an independent investigation to come to its conclusion. "All we can testify to is what has or has not come to our attention," Bray said when reached Saturday. "That's our function. We're not a police force." Even so, Bray said the committee knows a number of staff members at the Journal well enough that if there were a systemic problem like phone-hacking or other illegal activities at the paper, he is "pretty sure we would have known about it." "Obviously, (there are) no flat guarantees about this sort of thing," Bray said. The Dow Jones Special Committee was formed in 2007 as a condition of News Corp.'s $5.7 billion purchase of Dow Jones. The acquisition was seen as "the cherry on top of the cake in terms of respectability," for News Corp.'s chief executive Rupert Murdoch, says newspaper analyst Ken Doctor. Murdoch agreed to set up the committee to ease concerns that the paper's quality and independence would suffer under his control. Each of the group's five members is paid $100,000 a year to monitor the editorial independence of the Journal and Dow Jones. "Those of us who watch the press didn't really expect (the special committee) to have any teeth," said Doctor. "It doesn't surprise me that it hasn't done an investigation." Kelly McBride, senior faculty for ethics at the nonprofit journalism think tank Poynter Institute, said that the committee is most like a traditional standards committee that larger newspapers have. She said such groups rarely have an investigative function. Regardless, McBride said that the Journal's coverage of the scandal is telling. "You can judge a newsroom by its work and in this case, the coverage has been lacking," McBride said. "This is the kind of story the Journal would be all over." The resignation of Hinton and Rebekah Brooks, who ran the British newspaper arm, suggests that Murdoch doesn't want the Journal, still one of the world's most respected newspapers, to get tarred in a scandal involving the tawdry behavior of journalists at a British tabloid, Doctor said. The Journal, he said, is one of the top global brands in business news, along with the Financial Times and Reuters. Protecting the Journal's reputation has become more important to Murdoch now that the scandal has diminished his political influence in Britain, Doctor said. Since the Journal had top executives from News Corp.'s British operations, Doctor said it's important for the newspaper to get ahead of the story and conduct an independent investigation "to be absolutely clear with its reading public that it in no way used any of the techniques that News of the World" is accused of. There have been no allegations that the paper has been involved in phone-hacking or other illegal activity and Doctor and other media-watchers don't expect any such revelations. For its part, Bray said the special committee will continue to monitor the situation, through its regular quarterly meetings and other interim meetings with staff and management. In addition to Bray, a former editorial page editor of Detroit News, other committee members are Louis Boccardi, former chief executive of The Associated Press; Jack Fuller, retired president of Tribune Publishing Co.; Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Susan M. Phillips, former dean of the George Washington University School of Business. &#8226; Associated Press writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco and Associated Press editor Jennifer Merritt in New York contributed to this report. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Apple pays S.Korean user compensation over iPhone tracking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Selers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ SEOUL &#124; Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:48am EDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple Inc's Korean unit has paid compensation to a user of its popular iPhone after collecting location data without consent, lawyers and court officials said, the first payout by the company over these complaints. Apple Korea agreed to pay 1 million won ($946) in compensation to Kim Hyung-suk, a lawyer, following a court order in May, two officials at Changwon District Court told Reuters on Thursday. They declined to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media. Kim's law firm, Mirae Law, said Apple made payment last month. Apple could not be immediately reached for comment in Seoul. Mirae Law said it was now preparing a class action lawsuit against Apple for the unauthorized data collection. A website for class action sign-up has been set up but was paralyzed due to heavy traffic. (www.sueapple.co.kr) Apple released a software update in May to fix a problem that enabled its mobile devices to collect and store customers' location data. The revelation that Apple's iPhone collected data and stored it for up to a year has prompted renewed scrutiny of the nexus between location and privacy. U.S. lawmakers have accused the technology industry of exploiting location data for marketing purposes - a potentially multibillion-dollar industry -- without getting proper consent from phone users. Google Inc's Seoul office was raided in May on suspicion its mobile advertising unit AdMob had illegally collected location data without consent, in the latest setback to the Internet search firm's Korean operations. Executives of both Apple and Google have said they did not abuse the information. Any class action may further pressure Apple in the home market of its key rival Samsung Electronics. Samsung's flagship Galaxy S smartphone has emerged as a major competitor to the iPhone. The iPhone is sold by top mobile carrier SK Telecom and second-ranked KT Corp in South Korea. KT, the major seller of the iPhone, said its iPhone subscribers reach more than 2.7 million, while SK Telecom declined to provide any details. Apple sold a record 18.65 million units of its blockbuster iPhone globally in the March quarter. ($1 = 1056.800 Korean Won) (Reporting by Ju-min Park and Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Anshuman Daga and Lincoln Feast ) ]]></description>
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		<title>Kotick in final talks to buy out Myspace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An undated image courtesy of MySpace. Credit: Reuters/Handout By Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK &#124; Thu Jun 9, 2011 8:24pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investor group including Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick is in final talks to take a controlling stake in News Corp's social network site Myspace, according to three people familiar with the matter. Kotick's involvement is personal and nothing to do with Activision at this stage, the people said. Kotick was approached by the investor group in recent weeks and has not yet made a full commitment to the Myspace project, one of the people said. If he does get involved his stake is likely to be very small, two of the sources said. Activision is best known for its 'Call of Duty' war game franchise. There remain others in the race, according to the first person, but the Kotick group is now the favored bidder. Under the terms of the discussions, News Corp would retain an equity stake, possibly of about 20 percent, one of the sources said. News Corp, which paid $580 million for Myspace in 2005, had hoped to do a deal valuing Myspace at about $100 million, but sources said in April that it was unlikely to achieve that target. Like Friendster, Myspace was a pioneer of the social networking space between 2005 and 2007, but it soon lost out to Facebook, now the market leader in social networking. Last year News Corp relaunched Myspace as a social entertainment site with a focus on music, movies and celebrities. Technology blog AllThingsDigital cited sources earlier on Kotick's interest. (Reporting by Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Carol Bishopric) ]]></description>
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		<title>More ads hit online TV as Web audiences grow (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Selers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES &#8211; One of the rewards of watching TV online is not having to sit through as many commercials. Now the networks are chipping away at that little luxury. CBS shows twice as many ads per show on its website as it did last year. The CW network shows four times as many. Dozens of shows from major cable networks now carry as many ads online as they do on TV. More shows will follow soon. The online audience is still small compared with television, but it's growing. Networks hope that by showing more ads, they can make about as much money per viewer online as they do on the tube. It's a change from the early days of online video. When ABC started putting full episodes of its shows online in 2006, fans could zip through the hour-long dramas "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" in about 45 minutes. One short ad played a few times per show. Limiting commercials kept people from going to unauthorized websites to watch pirated copies of shows. It also helped networks reach new audiences in college dorms and teenage bedrooms. Now, as online audiences grow, networks see an opportunity to make more money. A recent episode of "Hawaii Five-O" carried six and a half minutes of ads online. That's less than the 16 minutes on TV but double what an hour-long show carried on CBS.com a year ago. Online video has improved in recent years with faster Internet connections and better technology. The advances have led some people to give up on regular TV &#8212; and hefty cable bills that come with it &#8212; and watch only online. The websites of ABC and NBC and some cable channels offer a range of recent episodes online, as does Hulu, a site owned by the parent companies of ABC, NBC and Fox. Other networks offer live sports online. ESPN puts events on ESPN3.com for viewers who get Internet service through certain providers. And NBC put hundreds of hours of live competition online during the 2008 and 2010 Olympics. NBC agreed Tuesday to pay $4.4 billion for the rights to televise the Olympics through 2020. Watching your shows on a computer, of course, means being forced to watch the ads. On the tube, digital video recorders allow you to fast-forward through them. For many people, the convenience of watching whenever, wherever makes going online worth it. Kate Hooper, a 24-year-old nanny from Los Angeles, often travels for work. On a recent trip to Hawaii, booting up her laptop was the only way to catch her favorite CW show, "Gossip Girl." "I usually just put up with it and I'll take a break or go get food or something while the commercials are playing," Hooper said. CBS now shows about two or three ads per break online, up from one a year ago. CBS can charge higher rates than TV partly because online ads can do more &#8212; allow viewers to click to a website for more information, for instance. "We've got a model today where we're comfortable whether that viewership happens on the Web or TV," said Zander Lurie, CBS' senior vice president of strategic development. The company doesn't give a breakdown of how much revenue it makes from each format. The CW, a broadcast network owned by CBS and Time Warner, now shows four commercials in a typical break instead of one &#8212; as many as there are on regular TV. For both networks, viewership online grew anyway, a sign that viewers don't seem to mind. The CBS and CW examples show that for big-budget TV productions, at least, it's possible to make enough money from the Internet to pay for shows if audiences suddenly shift entirely online. Newspapers and music companies have struggled with similar dilemmas as their audiences have moved online. Networks still make far more money from TV than from the Internet, largely because online audiences are still comparatively small. Networks also get a piece of the monthly bills that viewers pay to satellite or cable companies for TV subscriptions. Americans on average spent about 160 hours a month in front of the tube in early 2010 and only seven watching video on a computer or phone, according to the latest data available from Nielsen Co. But online video is growing fast. According to online ad firm FreeWheel Media Inc., people watched 9 billion online videos from clients such as Fox, CBS and Turner in the last three months of 2010, an increase of about 50 percent from the previous quarter. ZenithOptimedia expects online video ad revenue in the U.S. to grow 22 percent this year to $3.3 billion, compared with just 5 percent growth for all TV ads to $59.4 billion. For the networks, there's a side benefit to the growth of online ads. If Internet viewers watch shows with exactly the same ads as their TV counterparts, they will be counted in Nielsen's regular TV audience ratings. That means that when networks approach advertisers every spring to sell commercial time for their upcoming fall lineups, they can add online audiences to their total count and bring in more money. Until April, the online audience didn't count at all in the advance sales season. "It's recapturing those eyeballs," said Jeremy Legg, a senior vice president at Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System. "From a monetization standpoint, it's the most effective for us." Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Sony says &quot;Anonymous&quot; set stage for data theft</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Stocks   Howard Stringer, chief executive and president of Sony Corporation, speaks at a function to launch the Sony Media Technology Centre at a film school on the outskirts of Mumbai March 4, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui By Diane Bartz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON &#124; Wed May 4, 2011 3:44pm EDT WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Sony Corp blamed Internet vigilante group Anonymous for indirectly allowing a hacker to gain access to personal data of more than 100 million video game users. The accusation came in a letter to Congress and prompted renewed complaints that the Japanese electronics giant's disclosure had been inadequate and tardy. The company said it waited two days after first discovering data was stolen from its PlayStation video game network before contacting law enforcement, and did not meet with FBI officials until five days later. "Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack," Kazuo Hirai, chairman of the board of Sony Computer Entertainment America, said in a letter to the U.S. Congress. The theft prompted the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation to open an investigation, officials said on Wednesday. "It is something we are taking extremely seriously," said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. He said the government is also probing the theft of reams of email addresses and names that Alliance Data Systems Corp's Epsilon marketing unit discovered last month. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed Sony entities over the breaches. Schneiderman subpoenaed Sony for conversations and documents that related to its security systems and any representations about those systems made to consumers, said a source familiar with the issue. A Schneiderman spokesman declined comment. GOOD ENOUGH? Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said Sony's public disclosures have not been sufficient to quell customer concerns about the theft. He would like to see Sony notify each of the 12.3 million customers whose credit data may have been stolen. "Sony needs to make a statement to consumers: 'You will not be harmed, and we will indemnify you against any harm,' And they just have not done that in any of their apologies." Sony said that its video game network was breached at the same time it was defending itself against a major denial-of-service attack by a group calling itself Anonymous. A denial-of-service attacks makes a server or system unavailable by overwhelming its network with internet traffic. Anonymous is the name of a grass-roots cyber group that in December launched attacks that temporarily shut down the sites of MasterCard Inc and Visa Inc using simple software tools available for free over the Internet. The group attacked the two credit card companies with denial-of-service attacks that overwhelmed their servers for blocking payments to WikiLeaks. Sony said on Wednesday that Anonymous targeted it several weeks ago using a denial-of-service attack in protest of Sony defending itself against a hacker in federal court in San Francisco. The attack that stole the personal data of millions of Sony customers was launched separately, while the company was distracted protecting itself against the denial-of-service campaign, Sony said. The company said it was not sure whether the organizers of the two attacks were working together. Sony did say that its PC gaming unit, Sony Online Entertainment, discovered last Sunday a file planted on a server that was named "Anonymous" and had the words "We are legion," in it. But the self-styled vigilantes denied involvement in the data theft. They released a statement via YouTube last month saying that while the group's organizers had not stolen the data, it was possible some members of the group were involved in the matter. ( bit.ly/mG3WvT ) Members of Anonymous involved in the denial-of-service campaign may have decided to seize the opportunity to steal the data while Sony was distracted protecting its network, said Jeff Moss, chief security officer for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. 'HALF-BAKED' RESPONSE The company noticed unauthorized activity on its network on April 19, and discovered that data had been transferred off the network the next day. It waited until April 22 to notify the FBI. Sony chose to disclose the latest details of the attacks in a letter to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on commerce, manufacturing and trade rather than testify in a hearing on cyber attacks that was held on Wednesday. Lawmakers expressed disappointment that Sony and Epsilon declined to appear at the hearing and pledged a bill that would require companies to do a better job of safeguarding their customers' data and to quickly disclose to customers when their data was lost. Subcommittee Chairwoman Mary Bono Mack noted with dismay that Sony first disclosed the breach on a blog. "Sony put the burden on consumers to search for information, instead of accepting the burden of notifying them," she said. "If I have anything to do with it, that kind of half-hearted, half-baked response is not going to fly in the future." (Additional reporting by Liana B. Baker and Joan Gralla in New York; Editing by Maureen Bavdek, Gerald E. McCormick and Steve Orlofsky) ]]></description>
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		<title>OMG: Tweets, Facebook welcome in Mass. courtroom (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Drew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ BOSTON &#8211; When the camera switches on in one of the busiest courtrooms in Massachusetts, murder arraignments, traffic and drug cases heard there will become fodder for a new experiment: how bloggers and other citizen journalists can cover courts using new media and social media. Starting Monday, most of what happens in a bustling courtroom in Quincy District Court will be streamed live over the Web for anyone to see. The courtroom, which usually does not allow reporters to use even computers, will now welcome laptops, iPads and smartphones, and will encourage live blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking. It's all part of an experiment court officials around the country hope will help establish suggested guidelines for courts as they grapple with how to use digital technology and how to accommodate citizen journalists and bloggers. The pilot project in Quincy, just south of Boston, is believed to be one of the broadest experiments in the country for using new media in the courts. While many states allow cameras in the courtroom and some stream supreme court arguments online, the Quincy project is unusual because it will continuously stream live, unedited court proceedings all day. The courtroom will be unusually welcoming to bloggers and citizen journalists with a special seating section and Wi-Fi connection. "In the past, reporters were the connection to the nation's courts, but with the changes in the media landscape, there are just less and less journalists who are that bridge to the public," said John Davidow, executive producer of the "OpenCourt" project. "At the same time, there's been the proliferation of reporting tools that are in the hands of all citizens, including iPhones and other smartphones that can record. People can Tweet, blog, report. The idea is to bring the courts and what goes on in the courts closer to the people so they understand how the law and the justice system work in this country," he said. These new modern tools are not widely embraced by the nation's courts, where judges, jurors and lawyers are restricted in their use of digital technology and social media. In some publicized cases, jurors using portable electronic devices in other courtrooms have caused mistrials and overturned convictions. A judge in San Francisco dismissed 600 potential jurors after several acknowledged going online to research the criminal case they were called to consider. A federal judge in Florida declared a mistrial after eight jurors admitted Web surfing about a drug case. And last year, "Twitter instructions" were issued to federal judges to read to jurors, barring them from visiting Internet chat rooms, blogs or social websites and from using electronic devices in connection with their cases. The Quincy project is funded by a $250,000 grant through Knight News Challenge, a contest that encourages media innovation, to Boston's National Public Radio affiliate WBUR, where Davidow works as executive editor for new media. Davidow and others met regularly for months with court staff and lawyers to work out rules for the project. The idea has not been embraced by some defense attorneys and prosecutors in Massachusetts. The court has had training sessions for lawyers to show them dead zones in the courtroom where they can have conversations that won't be picked up by microphones, but some are still concerned that their private talks with clients could be recorded and come back to haunt them. "I'm not overly fond of the idea," said Richard Sweeney, a Quincy defense attorney who regularly defends criminal clients in the courtroom, now newly wired. "I think there are a lot of pitfalls. I understand and respect the concept &#8212; they want an open court. In this era of everyone having cellphones and videos, I can understand that, but it's fraught with perils for attorneys with conversations that can be picked up." Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said he is concerned that the cameras could discourage victims of domestic violence or stalking from going to court to seek protections and that information about gang investigations, including witness identifications, could become public. "In certain delicate cases, the court is going to have to exercise the appropriate discretion and balance that with the public's right to know," Morrissey said. Judge Mark Coven, Quincy District Court's presiding judge, said he has ultimate control over the camera and could decide to shut it off at certain times, such as when sexual assault or domestic violence cases are being heard, or could move those hearings to another courtroom. "We wanted to shape the project in a way that balances the public's right to know with the right to privacy and the right to a fair hearing for anyone who comes before the court," Coven said. Court officials from around the country are watching the Quincy experiment as they try to come up with policies on dealing with live streaming, citizen journalists and bloggers. "There's no firm national standard on how to do this," said Gregory Hurley, an analyst for the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Va. "I do think this is the wave of the future. More courts are going to want to experiment with this and see if they want to make this available to the public." John Bracken, director of digital media for the Knight Foundation, which awarded the grant for the project, said that with the news industry struggling and many news organizations laying off staff reporters, there are fewer mainstream journalists available to cover the courts. He said giving citizen journalists greater access to courts and allowing them to use communications devices in court could help fill that void. "In every courtroom, every day, there are everyday citizens walking in with little miniature communications devices in their pockets. If those people were unleashed and exercised responsibility, they provide a great opportunity to pick up the storytelling and the important information that we may lose otherwise," Bracken said. Davidow and other supporters say they hope making the everyday workings of the court available online will promote a better understanding of the judicial system. "Historically, courtrooms were built in the center of town, where people could come and go, but as life has become more complicated people have become more and more removed from the courts," Davidow said. "The goal is really to come up with the best practices of how to use digital technology to bring the courts closer to the public." ___ Online: http://www.opencourt.us Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Selers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Reuters) - Members of the media look over the Apple iPad 2 during its launch event in San Francisco, California March 2, 2011. Apple unveiled its next generation iPad at an event in San Francisco. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is on indefinite medical leave, led the event. The tablet device contains a dual-core processor, front and rear cameras, is 8.8 millimeters thick. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH BUSINESS) ]]></description>
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