ISPs have long complained about the fantastic amount of traffic consumed by P2P users. The network providers have never been keen on having their bandwidth hit so hard, especially when much of P2P's bandwidth—let's face it—consists of copyright-infringing material.

Apparently swayed by pressure from thousands of stranded evacuees, Mayor C. Ray Nagin said that all checkpoints into the city have been lifted.

Washington announces $1bn (£564m) to help Georgia's reconstruction after the conflict with Russia.

When John McCain greeted his own family, and that of his running mate, he lingered a little extra when he got to Bristol Palin, Ms. Palin's 17-year-old, whose pregnancy made national news this week.

Baghdad's Mustansariya University after a bombing in 2007. (Photo by Max Becherer for The New York Times) Ali Hameed is an Iraqi employee of The New York Times. BAGHDAD - No one can deny that Iraqis are fond of education. They spend hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to provide the proper atmosphere to their sons and daughters [...].

At least initially, the stock market seemed less than impressed with Coca-Cola's $2.4 billion acquisition of the Chinese juice maker Huiyuan. In late-morning trading Wednesday, shares of the Atlanta-based drink maker were down slightly. But while the price that Coca-Cola paid -- three times the juice maker's market value -- seems heady, it could eventually [...].

New health department data for 2007 showed a drop in infant mortality in New York City and a surge in births, particularly among Asians.

At the Republican Convention, Matt Yglesias catches a funny picture of an AT&T poster touting the company's enthusiasm for the patent system. It reads: "life, liberty, and the pursuit of more patents. AT&T: Averaging 2 patent applications per day. Proudly connecting political supporters in Minneapolis."

Photo by Matt Yglesias at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.
It's interesting that AT&T is bragging about its pursuit of "more patents" rather than, say, more R&D spending or more innovation. AT&T isn't exactly known for its record of high-tech innovation, so it's a little surprising to see it hold itself out as a poster child for the patent system—particularly when we remember that AT&T and other telco incumbents have used the patent system to extort tens of millions of dollars from companies like Vonage that are actually innovating.

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