http://www.itworld.com/legal xx http://www.itworld.com/internet/85621/global-warming-research-exposed-after-hack An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate between skeptics of global warming and those who see it as an urgent problem. http://www.itworld.com/internet/85621/global-warming-research-exposed-after-hack#comments Internet Legal Security News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:04 -0500 ITworld staff 85621 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline#comments Business Government Green IT Legal Mobile & wireless Operating systems Personal tech Security Software Windows Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85605 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/government/85528/eu-gives-oracle-extra-time-respond-sun-inquiry Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday. http://www.itworld.com/government/85528/eu-gives-oracle-extra-time-respond-sun-inquiry#comments Government Legal Open Source Software News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:40:54 -0500 ITworld staff 85528 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/legal/85516/judge-sets-schedule-google-book-search-case The judge in the copyright infringement case pitting the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) against Google and its book search program has set a date for the final hearing on the parties' controversial settlement proposal. http://www.itworld.com/legal/85516/judge-sets-schedule-google-book-search-case#comments Internet Legal News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:40:45 -0500 ITworld staff 85516 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/85422/company-selling-free-web-auction-kits-settles-ftc An online marketer offering supposedly free Internet auction kits has settled a complaint filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for charging consumers US$59.95 a month for enrollment in an "online-supplier" program, the FTC said Thursday. http://www.itworld.com/internet/85422/company-selling-free-web-auction-kits-settles-ftc#comments Government Internet Legal News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:09:57 -0500 ITworld staff 85422 at http://www.itworld.com