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Students, law prof want RIAA trial live and onlineYesterday

The group of Harvard Law students defending one Joel Tenenbaum in an RIAA lawsuit have an unusual request for the judge: they want the whole case streamed live over the Internet.

CES.Ars: Live blog of Microsoft keynoteYesterday

Ars Technica's live coverage of the Microsoft keynote at CES 2009

OQO launches world's smallest Vista PC with OLED screenYesterday

OQO has been around almost as long as Ars, and through the years the company has been so far ahead of the portable computing curve that it hasn't been able to catch on with consumers. But Intel's Atom and the rise of OLED could make 2009 OQO's year, at long last.

DVCS adoption is soaring among open source projectsYesterday

Large-scale open source software projects are increasingly adopting distributed version control systems such as Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial. Ars takes a look at the challenges and rewards of making the jump to a DVCS.

Oprah and her book club latest target of patent trollsYesterday

A patent holding company has wound up with a patent that appears to cover the transmission of books via the Internet, and (after settling with Google) now has Oprah Winfrey's book club in its sights. But the real story may be how the patent was produced in the first place.