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NZ judge saves girl from bloody silly name
Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii
An NZ judge has done the decent thing and made a nine-year-old girl a ward of court to allow her to ditch what must rate among the most preposterous names of all time - Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.? 
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Apple account hijacks spread to developers
From iTunes to Apple Developer Connections
Account hijackers have targeted Apple iTunes for months, but now they're hitting Apple developers as well.?
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Feargal Sharkey on the music-ISP MoU
Three Strikes RIP?
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business will lead to radically new "legal P2P" services, British Music Rights' Feargal Sharkey told us this morning. Licensing deals have already been signed, we reported recently.?
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Norwegians demo 10cm video & GPS pocket-chopper
Palmtop helipad aviation goes live
"The world's smallest full authority helicopter", with rotors just 10cm across, has been successfully flight tested in Norway. Scandinavian microcopter developers hailed the debut of the prototype PD-100 Black Hornet as "a major success".?
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Sony Ericsson C702 rugged handset
More Ross Kemp than Andy McNab
Review The C702's moniker might give the impression that it's a stripped-down version of the 5mp camera-toting C902. But while it shares some features, the C702 is very much its own model.?
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Nokia and Qualcomm end patent war
Legal attack dogs muzzled
Nokia and Qualcomm have agreed to end their worldwide legal battle over patents.?
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MPs probe MoD accountancy shenanigans
'The arms industry are your masters, aren't they?'
Analysis The UK Ministry of Defence has taken yet another lengthy roasting from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, PAC, which has been examining its recently audited accounts. The MoD is accused of "masking" the costs of its biggest and most expensive equipment projects by creative accounting, and responds by pointing out that some of these costs are not of its own making but result from political meddling.? 
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Cannibal's legal objection hamstrings German horror film
Rights infringement leads to ban
A horror film has been banned in Germany because it infringes on the personality rights of the German man who killed and ate a voluntary victim on Christmas Day in 2001.?
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HMV lines up a few VAT-free CDs and DVDs
How not to cannibalise your sales
HMV is planning to put kiosks into some of its stores to allow customers to order out-of-stock CDs and DVDs which will be fulfilled VAT-free from the Channel Islands.?
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Sun to support AMP plus Linux
Money talks
OSCON Sun Microsystems is putting the "L" back into LAMP with plans to support customers running the open-source Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP (AMP) stack on Linux.?
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