• In an essay on his personal site that's been circulating the interwebs, Marc Deslauriers outlines the pangs he and the Linux community have felt over the years trying to use iPods on the open source platform, surmising that Apple is intentionally and repeatedly seeking ways to block non-iTunes programs from syncing in any way with its devices.

    ENGADGET: Palm complains about Apple to USB governing body, while Pre / iTunes sync "fix" is explained

  • The singer received a warm welcome at the Nkoko Primary School in the central tobacco-growing district of Kasungu on Tuesday where she had constructed a school block with the non-profit organisation, BuildOn, our reporter says.

    BBC: Madonna row over Malawi 'schools'

  • By the late eighties, Carol was the only non-gentrifier left on the block.

    NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors

  • In a somewhat more significant part of the deal, Google also agreed to make its standards-essential patents available on so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms without using injunctions to block their use by rivals.

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  • Other "non-strategic" products are also on the chopping block, and we'd have to think that includes video conferencing after yesterday's announcement.

    ENGADGET

  • Non-profit Spamhaus maintains what are known as "block lists" which many organisations use to spot sources of spam and other junk mail to stop them clogging mail servers and inboxes with unwanted messages.

    BBC: Dutchman arrested over huge web attack

  • In Iran, Lundin reportedly maintains a 30% non-operating interest in the country's Munir oil block in the Khuzestan region.

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  • William Thomas, a senior American congressman, told delegates that rich-world subsidies and other non-tariff barriers, such as sanitation inspections, still block imports of African foodstuffs: crateloads rot in American ports.

    ECONOMIST: Trade and development

  • The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.

    CNN: High court to tackle Native American adoption dispute

  • Still on the block: certain natural gas assets in Western Canada and non-core North Sea assets.

    FORBES: Suncor or Cenovus: Which Is A Better Buy?

  • Colette Neuville, an influential French advocate of shareholder rights, has called on the AMF to block the family's move, arguing that it would put non-family minority shareholders at a disadvantage because the value of their shares would be reduced if a majority of the shares were locked up.

    ECONOMIST: Luxury goods

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