Ryan Stevens founded NoteUtopia in order to provide a mechanism for students to buy, sell, and share their university course notes.

But less than six weeks into the startup's history, NoteUtopia has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California State University system, charging that the company violates a provision of the state education code.

It's worth noting, says Stevens, that sororities and fraternities have long had systems for sharing course materials among members.

Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information - in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names - to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles to Facebook's strictest privacy settings.

The apps reviewed by the Journal were sending Facebook ID numbers to at least 25 advertising and data firms, several of which build profiles of Internet users by tracking their online activities.

A group of key OpenOffice.org (OOo) contributors and community members recently decided to fork the project and establish The Document Foundation (TDF) in order to drive forward community-driven development of the open source office suite. Oracle has responded to the move by asking several members of TDF to step down from their positions as representatives on the OOo community council.

Saurez-Potts is Oracle's OpenOffice.org community manager, a role that he also held at Sun prior to the acquisition. His position suggests that Oracle views LibreOffice as a hostile fork and will not join TDF as some had hoped.

The online leak of thousands of secret military documents from the war in Afghanistan by the website WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods, the Department of Defense concluded.

But a senior NATO official in Kabul told CNN that there has not been a single case of Afghans needing protection or to be moved because of the leak.

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) internet customers lost access to Fox.com and Fox programming on Hulu for a time Saturday afternoon'the result of a misguided effort on News Corp.'s part to cut off online viewing as an alternative in its standoff with the cable operator over retrans fees.

Fox backed off the blockade but may have started a dangerous game of dominoes when it comes to the debate over online content access and net neutrality.

A source familiar with the situation said Fox agreed to restore the programming when it realized people who were not Cablevision video subscribers were affected and thart there was no way online to discern between the two.

Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterand "condemned" Free and vowed to issue a decree clarifying the requirement, a promise he lived up to recently, stunning many who thought the process would take at least several weeks and require formal tweaking of the "Creation and Internet Law."

It didn't help matters any that French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to make an example of a "rebellious" ISP.

With Pres Sarkozy gunning for your defeat its now wonder they chose to toe the "three-strikes" line, especially after he's repeatedly vowed to do everything in his power to "protect" copyright holders, even calling increased Internet regulation a "moral imperative" necessary to "correct the excesses and abuses that arise from the total absence of rules."

The Carte Musique scheme gives €25 (US$35) to French residents aged 12 to 25 to spend on music downloads or subscription services. Young people can purchase a €50 card for just €25, with the balance paid by the state.

The Carte Musique is aimed at combating illegal downloads by getting young people into the habit of paying for music online through legal channels.

Although elements of the engine have been built over the last 173 years, a complete working model of the steam-powered machine has never been made.

"A hundred years ago, before computers were available, [Babbage] had envisaged this machine."

"What you realise when you read Babbage's papers is that this was the first real computer," said Mr Graham-Cumming. "It had expandable memory, a CPU, microcode, a printer, a plotter and was programmable with punch cards.

The study, which surveyed 3,001 people over the summer, found that 74 percent of American adults use the Internet. And out of that group, 23 percent of folks have tried video calls, chats, or teleconferences over the Web.

In the study it was the first time that the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project asked about the use of video calling online and via cell phones.

Schneier said: "Less privacy makes a better market for social networks. Facebook is the worst offender - not because it's evil but because its market is selling user data to its commercial partners."

"Don't fool yourself that use are the user of social networks - you are the product."