Neowin News Feed for: Spain

Spain: Basque Country embraces exclusively open source software

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:27:16 +0100

The local government wants to “share” all the software written for the public authority with everyone. There will be a few exceptions, but they will have to be justified. Read more...

Microsoft and Skype offer free WiFi for Spain next week

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:34:41 +0000

Next week, Microsoft and Skype are offering residents of Spain free amounts of WiFi at over 24,000 hotspots next week as a part of Microsoft's World Mobile Congress marketing promotions. Read more...

US threatened Spain over web censorship laws

Tyler Holman — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:21:33 +0000

The US is apparently not content to destroy its own web with laws like SOPA; new reports from a Spanish newspaper offer more insight on the US' efforts to force Spain into adopting similar policies. Read more...

Rumor: Netflix looking to expand to UK and Spain in 2012?

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:03:49 +0100

Even as the video streaming and DVD rental service Netflix still deals with the consumer backlash over the raise of its subscription rates, the company is rumored to be making more moves to expand to... Read more...

Spain Arrests DOM Team Hackers

Sagittarius — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:16:55 +0100

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The Spanish National Police have announced the arrest of five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and... Read more...

Ubuntu 7.10 on XPS M1330, Ubuntu on Dells comes to Spain

Slimy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:56:35 +0000

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In response to feedback from Dell customers who want Linux on more hardware and in more countries, Dell has announced that starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchase Ubuntu... Read more...

Spain Outlaws Unauthorized P2P Filesharing

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:09:39 +0100

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Last Thursday, the Spanish congress approved new laws making it a civil offense to download any copyrighted content, even for personal usage. This legislation toughens previous laws which permitted downloads if they were for purely... Read more...

Console mod-chips ruled legal in Spain

Marcel Klum — Mon, 03 May 2004 20:36:36 +0100

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A Spanish judge presiding over a case against a video games store which offered Xbox and PS2 mod-chips to customers has ruled that the devices are legal thanks to a loophole in the country's copyright... Read more...

Console mod-chips ruled legal in Spain

malebolgia — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:23:28 +0100

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