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David Pogue on his New York Times blog wrote today about a disturbing situation regarding Amazon, the Kindle and George Orwell: due to some sort of problem with its U.S. publisher, Amazon zapped the previously purchased e-book from the Kindles of its purchasers, apparently crediting their accounts in the process.

Writes Pogue:

This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is “rare,” but that it can happen at all is unsettling; we’ve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, we’ve learned that they’re not really like books, in that once we’re finished reading them, we can’t resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final.

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Has the VLC video player gone too far by allowing you to record encrypted DVDs?

The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN.

LOS ANGELES, CA–(Marketwire – July 15, 2009) – Mobile BIS , one of the nation’s leading technology providers, is now offering advance demonstrations of the new Verizon BlackBerry Tour , the most sophisticated multimedia cell phone system available. Designed to provide instant international world-wide access to voice, work files, e-mail, editing of Microsoft files, video streaming, GPS, stereo …