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There has been an overwhelming response to “The Real Dirt on Food” food sustainability conference at the University of Toronto. The organizers are pleased to announce that the conference is sold out! For those who are unable to attend, please note that selections from the conference will be videotaped and available for download via audio and video podcasts. To learn more about the conference visit The Real Dirt on Food’s website at TheRealDirt.ca.

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Malaysian authorities have begun raiding computer retail outlets offering pirated software amid concerns that illegal copies of Microsoft Corp.’s newest operating system, Windows Vista, are on sale.The strategy marks a shift from crackdowns over the past year that mainly targeted companies using unlicensed software, Ahmad Dahuri Mahmud, the Domestic Trade Ministry’s deputy director general of enforcement, said Friday.”Computer dealers often sweeten computer purchases by offering consumers free (pirated) software pre-loaded onto their personal computers,” Ahmad Dahuri told a news conference.The current clampdown started Thursday with the arrest of a store owner in a Kuala Lumpur suburban shopping mall.

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Apple Inc. has issued a security update for its Mac OS X operating system that repairs multiple vulnerabilities.
The security fixes, issued on Wednesday, repair a series of flaws through which an attacker could fool a person into taking actions that would let someone hijack, crash or obtain access rights to a computer.
The vulnerabilities exist in [...]

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Google’s SEC filing on February 7th, 2007, finally revealed the breakdown of profits shared by YouTube’s investors after the sale of the company to Google for $1.65 billion in stock in late 2006.The largest profits went to YouTube’s three founders and Sequoia Capital, the principal financier of the internet’s number one video-sharing site.The NY Times reported that founder and YouTube’s chief executive Chad Hurley received 694,087 shares of Google and an additional 41,232 in a trust.

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Nicholas Negroponte answered some questions during a Q and A session on the One Laptop per Child project.  Of special interest was the discussions with Microsoft in opening up the platform to MS software, and the battles with Intel.
Q. You’ve had some disagreements with Microsoft and Intel during the course of this project. Can you [...]

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