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New German Government ID Hacked By CCC: wiedzmin writes Public broadcaster ARDs show Plusminus teamed up with the known hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC) to find out how secure the controversial new radio-frequency (RFID) chips were. The report shows how they used the basic new home

Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework: eldavojohn writes A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five-page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was very sorry and the

Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype: rexjoec writes Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would derail a planned initial public offering from Skype and redraw the battle lines in the lucrative market of video communications. The rumored price is $5B.

Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes: A few readers have noted that another gulf oil rig has exploded. This one is off the coast of Lousiana. So far all the workers are accounted for, but they are in immersion suits waiting for rescue.

Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released: tlhIngan writes Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modders hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40)

Facebook Posting Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Homework: eldavojohn writes A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was very sorry and

Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret: beschra writes BBC writes of terra-forming Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of

Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?: rsmiller510 writes Could Apples announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apples social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned. Of course it is. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance: cgriffin21 writes Samsung is making no bones about it: Google Android is its future. And with the revealing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the company is showing that its all in when it comes to Android. At the IFA consumer

Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website: An anonymous reader writes It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the y at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the

Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang: Hugh Pickens writes The Guardian reports that in his new book, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity.

IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever: adeelarshad82 writes IBM revealed details of its 5.2-GHz chip, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, IBM described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes. The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip

The Best Video Games On Awful Systems: Buffalo55 writes For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wiis Virtual

Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle: aarondubrow writes Three years ago, researchers from Caltech and The University of Texas at Austin came together to create a computational tool that could model the Earth and answer the most pressing questions in geophysics: What controls the speed of

Lineage II Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA: We recently discussed a man who sued NCsoft for making Lineage II too addictive after he spent 20,000 hours over five years playing it. Now, several readers have pointed out that the lawsuit has progressed past its first major hurdle:

Target To Sell Facebook "Credits" As Gift Cards: Julie188 writes Target will begin selling Facebooks virtual currency as gift cards on September 5, becoming the first brick-and-mortar retailer to do so. Facebook Credit gift cards will be available in $15, $25 and $50 denominations at the retailers 1,750

Australian Crackdown On Console Modchips Likely To Continue: angry tapir writes Late last week an Australian court issued an injunction against a handful of retailers selling or importing hardware — commonly known as mod chips — that allows unauthorized software to run on Sonys PlayStation 3. The court

Charles Darwin's Best-kept Secret: beschra writes BBC writes of terra-forming Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of

Li-Ion Batteries Get Green Seal of Approval: thecarchik writes It is not an easy task to compare the environmental effects of battery powered cars to those caused by conventionally fueled automobiles. The degree to which manufacture, usage and disposal of the batteries used to store the necessary

A New Species of Patent Troll: Geoffrey.landis writes According to the Wall Street Journal, theres a new species of patent troll out there. These new trolls sue companies that sell products with an expired patent number on them. Thats right, its against the law to sell

Digg Technology

Apple Announces Music Social Media Service: Ping | Driven Far Off: Apple today, at their annual music event, announced new iPods and an updated version of iTunes that includes a new social media service called Ping. iTunes 10, which is available now, features Ping which add social media capabilities to iTunes

Confirmed: T-Mobile G2 will have Android 2.2, Flash and 800MHz CPU: T-Mobile is calling it the fastest smartphone experience in America, but as it turns out, its Qualcomm Scorpion CPU is actually relatively slow -- the cellular carriers insider newsletter T-Mobile Scoop says the phones MSM7x30 chip will be clocked at

One man's desperate attempt to stop illegal rhino poaching; does anyone think this is ethi(...): submitted by Ryguythescienceguy to science

MySpace Now Offers Sync with Facebook Profiles, Pages: When you can’t defeat the enemy, befriend him. This is the new strategy apparently adopted by the much struggling social networking site, MySpace.

FCC Questions Key Aspects of Google and Verizon’s Net Neutrality Proposal: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is diving deeper into Google and Verizons proposed net neutrality framework with a public notice and inquiry into

35 Logos with hidden messages in 2010: Here are 35 exceptionally creative logos that have a hidden message within them. FedEx logo design is an old example now, check new brilliant hidden logos here. Few logo designers are capable of creating negative space logo design.

Brett Dickins Wall Sculptures: No description.

Russia's seed bank under threat - One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the (...): submitted by pyth to science

Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down: For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz AWS-3 band. The service would pay for itself via advertisements and by selling

Reddit ‘excited’ about chance to eat Digg’s lunch: For a long time now, Digg has been the king of technology news aggregation. Tech fans liked the way they could rate their favorite tech stories highly, and see links to those rise to the top of the site’s home

"Fingers Cross Upcoming Goes Live Tomorrow" - @KevinRose: From the man himself digg update: coders found a big bug in the promotion algo, fix going live soon. fingers cross upcoming goes live tomorrow

5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring: We know the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. Thats all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on

All the Cool New Stuff From Apple Today: Apples music event was so full of shiny gadgets and awesome news that your head might still be spinning. In case you struggled to keep up with everything or want a review, here are all the highlights:

Old Digg Crushes New Digg in Reader Vote: In the debate between the old version of Digg and the new Digg, the readers have spoken.Last week, Digg launched version 4.0 of the popular social news website. Its been a rocky road pre-launch, so why would it be any

Epic's spectacular Unreal Engine 3 tech demo free at iTunes App Store: Did you oooh and ahh at the fantastic gaming graphics that accompanied todays Apple keynote? You wont have to wait for next weeks iOS 4.1 to get a taste of those textures for yourself. Though the full-on gladiator dueling of

NOOOO, a gunman is holding someone hostage at the Discovery Channel Headquarters!: submitted by ohsnaaap to reddit.com

Microsoft unveils new Xbox 360 controller: New wireless controller features an improved D-pad and a gray and black finish instead of a white finish with multicolored buttons.

Sony's scheming a streaming music and video subscription service, too?: Perhaps youve heard that Apples investing in digital video distribution at the moment? Perhaps youve read that Amazons working on a subscription video network, too? Sony makes number three, as the Financial Times is reporting the electronics giant is looking

Palm brings improved multitasking and Node.js to webOS 2.0: Palms webOS smartphone platform introduced some compelling innovations when it was first released in 2009. The next major version of the operating system, which is currently under development, brings some noteworthy feature improvements and new capabilities for developers.The first beta

iPod nano vs touch vs shuffle... fight!: Three new iPods under one roof -- how could we not throw on a table and see how they size up to one another? Obviously, the iPod touch is the black sheep here in terms of sheer physical space, but

CNET News.com

The mystery of the disappearing Facebook-Ping integration: On Wednesday Apple said users of its music social network could find new friends via Facebook. But the feature disappeared and it appears to be over a disagreement between the two companies.

Survey: E-mail eats up your time off: Outlook add-in maker Xobni finds Americans and Britons are having trouble getting away from the workplace because of the reach e-mail has into their lives.

Focus EV to use liquid thermal battery control: Car will take its battery pack temperature, then automatically cool or warm it to optimal temperature range before charging or engaging the battery.

Motor City getting in on electric fever: Coulomb Technologies installs free public electric-charging station in downtown Detroit as part of ChargePoint America program to encourage EV adoption.

Nigerian scam tops list of decade's online cons: Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Securitys ranking of decades top Net swindles.

India wants local servers from RIM, Google, Skype: India plans to ask the three companies to set up local servers in the country so that security agencies can monitor customer communications.

Real Apple news: A new streaming Apple TV arrives with Netflix as predicted, iOS 4.1 comes with HDR photography and GameCenter, and new iPod nanos drop the iconic clickwheel.

Navteq tries to make GPS directions more 'human': Company creates a way to make GPS directions far more understandable to the average driver.

Road Trip Pic of the Week, 9/2: What is this?: If you know what this is and where its located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge.

Cisco buys wireless sensor outfit Arch Rock in smart-grid push: Networking giant Cisco moves to beef up its IP-based communications technology with planned purchase of start-up Arch Rock, which makes IP-based wireless sensors for buildings, data centers, and utility networks.

Two years on, Chrome reshapes browser market: The influence Googles browser has had on the market is broader than its use. And on Chromes second anniversary, Google releases another update.

Google and AOL renew their partnership: The companies say theyll keep their worldwide partnership going for five more years, in an arrangement that now factors in YouTube and mobile search.

Walkman beats iPod in Japan, if only for a moment: Sonys music gadget surpasses Apples iPod in sales in Japan for the full month of August, coincidentally just ahead of Apples annual refresh of its music player line.

HP ups 3Par bid to $33 a share: The bidding war with Dell to take possession of the cloud storage company has gotten a bit messy as Hewlett-Packard once again ups its counteroffer.

Steve Jobs on why no Facebook for Ping: Talks with Facebook about Apples new Ping music social network fizzled, Jobs says, because Facebook wanted onerous terms that we could not agree to.

Samsung: Galaxy Tab has leg up on Apple iPad: Executives from the Korean electronics giant say their Android-based tablet matches and sometimes outdoes Apples iPad. Samsung has its work cut out.

Is Apple's iPod tune getting old?: Apples incredible success in the digital music player category puts it in an odd position. Except for a few minor tweaks of design, its not clear how much more Apple can do with the category.

Exclusive deals make 3D TV audience even smaller: More and more sporting events are being broadcast in 3D, but exclusive distribution deals limit who can see what.

How Apple's Ping dings Twitter, Facebook: Ping picks at the good parts of Twitter and Facebook and builds a social network around something for which everyone has strong feelings. Might Ping teach Facebook something about privacy too?

Twitter plans to record all links clicked: In a move that could raise privacy concerns, the microblogging site said Wednesday evening that it will record and analyze every link users click on when using its Web site or any of the thousands of third-party apps.

ZDNet

Microsoft demos new 'social' phone: No description.

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Samsung BD-C6900 (photos): The Samsung BD-C6900 has excellent Blu-ray performance and is loaded with features, but youre paying a lot for the 3D functionality.

Review: twelvesouth BookArc for iPad: Twelvesouths BookArc stands are a nice solution for docking the iPad on a desk or nightstand.

ViewSonic rolls out 'world's first' 27-inch full HD monitor: ViewSonic has just unveiled a new creation, the uniquely-named VX2739wm display. Dubbed as the "worlds first" 27-inch HD monitor with a 1ms response time, it should surely be a suitable choice...

Wired Technology

String Theory Finally Does Something Useful: String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics.The theory has long been touted as the best hope for a unified “theory of everything,” bringing together the

Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer: Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis, likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet that

Heavy European Snowfall Caused by ‘Weather Collision’: By Duncan Geere, Wired UKThe uncharacteristically snowy weather that hit Northern Europe and North America in the winter of 2009/10 was caused by a rare combination of two separate weather oscillations in the Atlantic and Pacific, claim meteorologists.The harsh winter

Furor Erupts Over the Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolution: A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson’s latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution.The debate centers around an idea called kin selection, which biologists

Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery: Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in interstellar space, and where water and life

Video: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing Muscle Fibers: runMobileCompatibilityScript(myExperience601174639001, anId);brightcove.createExperiences();The unexpected emergence of complex patterns in an apparently unremarkable dish of muscle cells may give researchers a valuable tool for studying self-organizing systems.Similar patterns are seen in bird

New Image of Superwind-Blowing Starburst Galaxy: The galaxy dominating the center of this image, called NGC 4666, is suffering a particularly intense fit of star formation. The starburst is thought to be caused by gravitational interactions with its neighboring galaxies, including NGC 4668 at the lower

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New Technique Finds Gaseous Metals in Exoplanet Atmospheres: A previously undetected element has been found in the atmospheres of two different extrasolar planets. Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of exoplanet scientists have discovered potassium in the atmospheres of two hot Jupiters more

Sea Creatures Hint at Recent Trans-Antarctic Seaway: The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now solid Antarctic ice sheet — 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick — points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago.The

Tube Full of Plasma Creates Solar Eruption in the Lab: Explosive bursts normally seen only on the surface of the sun can now be captured in a 13-foot-long tube using lab-created plasmas and bursts of laser light.Physicists have created a scaled-down model of solar eruptions called coronal mass ejections, which

The Identifiable Victim Bias: The epic drilling to save the trapped Chilean miners has begun:The 31-ton drill made a shallow, preliminary test hole Tuesday in the solid rock it must bore through, the first step in the weeklong digging of a ”pilot hole” to

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Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Discovered: One of paleontology’s most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother. Scientists have discovered a group of astonishing fossils high in the Canadian Rockies, just 40 kilometers from the famous Burgess Shale location.A paper describing the find appears in

New Predatory Dinosaur Discovered in Romania: A stocky, two-clawed relative of Velociraptor and feathered dinosaurs has been discovered in Romania. Balaur bondoc, which means stocky dragon, is the first meat-eating dinosaur to be described that lived in Europe during the final 60 million years of the

In Search of Time: Ever since Einstein, physicists have been telling us that time – this steady tick-tock of the universe – is much weirder than we think. It doesn’t flow in a single, linear direction, or beat like a steady metronome. Instead, it

Tiny Fridge Gets Near Absolute Zero: Annoyingly tiny fridges may not be restricted to hotels or dorm rooms much longer. A new study proposes a way to construct the smallest refrigerator yet, based on just a few particles and capable of cooling to near absolute zero.The

Video: 30 Years of Asteroid Discoveries: runMobileCompatibilityScript(myExperience597218848001, anId);brightcove.createExperiences();This animation from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plots the positions of all the known asteroids in the solar system in 1980, and adds new ones as they are discovered. The pace

Weird Oblong Crater Deepens Mars Mystery: This amoeba-shaped depression on Mars, called Orcus Patera, has had planetary scientists scratching their heads for decades. Despite these sharp new images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, the crater’s origin is a complete mystery.Orcus Patera, discovered in

Maps: How Mankind Remade Nature: As scientists get used to the idea that Earth is in a new geological age, that the Holocene — the last geological age — has been replaced by Anthropocene, they’re figuring out how it got to be that way.Two years

Tom's Hardware

ASRock Core 100HT-BD Home Theater PC: ASRock delivers a Wii-sized home theater PC (HTPC) with a powerful Core i3 CPU, Intel HD Graphics, and a Blu-ray drive. We put

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Workstation Shootout: Nvidia Quadro 5000 Vs. ATI FirePro V8800: Nvidia sure didnt waste any time introducing its Fermi architecture to the workstation space. Its Quadro 5000

Time To Upgrade, Part 2: Picking The Parts To Replace: After looking at whether or not it makes sense to replace a PC built back

Tom's Hardware's Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded Up: Which SSD should you buy today? Seventeen flash-based drives battle across a benchmark suite that include throughput, I/O performance,

Roundup: Nine GeForce GTX 460 1 GB Boards Benchmarked: Happy with Nvidias GeForce GTX 460, we invited a dozen of the industrys top graphics companies to

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Hands-on with iTunes Ping, sans Facebook Connect: Because we all need another social network in our lives, Apple introduced Ping as part of iTunes 10 during its big media event this week. Described by Steve Jobs as

PSP Go straightens tie, knocks on death's door: Playing games on the PSP Go was one of the most annoying experiences possible in a job that can be full of annoying experiences; if it takes you hours to

Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab: Apple became the biggest fish in the very small touchscreen tablet pond when it launched the iPad this past spring. But more fish will arrive starting mid-month when Samsung launches

Scammers using fake copyright infringement notices for profit: HADOPI, meet the internautes. The French high authority that oversees the countrys three strikes anti-P2P file-sharing campaign is now being used by spammers and scammers who attempt to trick people

Feature: Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system: Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the companys transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitters extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook

Wagering on warfare: Black Ops multiplayer revealed: Even though its set to hit PCs and consoles in a little over a month, there has been little in the way of multiplayer details for the Treyarch-developed Call of

An ISP that knows nothing of "data hogs": Pop quiz—which US Internet service provider made the following statement about a network upgrade?During the construction of this network we have given a lot of thought... to the business model

Feature: Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industry: It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasnt so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried

Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down: For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz AWS-3 band. The

Hot water around giant carbon star creates interstellar mystery: Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory

Microsoft puts final touches on Windows Phone 7, sends it to OEMs: Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone 7 has hit the release to manufacturing milestone. The OS has been finalized and has been sent off to Microsofts partners around the world,

Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse: After a month of rumors and leaks, Microsoft has released the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale on Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and Buy.com for $69.95. It will ship

FCC reacts to Google/Verizon deal with decisive action more questions: The FCCs plan for network neutrality—ideas which Chairman Julius Genachowski made central to his tenure, and which were backed by President Obama—has been under direct assault for the last month.

iTunes 10 adds "Ping" social network, TV rentals, AirPlay: During Apples annual music event Wednesday, CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the 10th major version of its iTunes media management software. Since the program now handles music, video, books, iOS apps,

Hands-on photos, observations of new iPods, Apple TV: As youve likely already seen, Apple unveiled all manner of new media products at Wednesdays media event. The iPod touch gained cameras and FaceTime, the iPod nano went screen-only, the

No longer a hobby? $99 Apple TV drops storage, integrates Netflix: Apple’s September music event wasn’t entirely about iPods and iTunes this year. Alongside the music players, Apple announced a smaller, black Apple TV that costs $99, has no built-in storage,

Chrome August's big winner as Internet Explorer resumes slide: As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted. Internet Explorer has not managed to gain share for a third month

New iPods abound—including multitouch nano—at Apple event: Apple held its annual fall media event Wednesday. During the event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a new line of iPods, as has become tradition, including a new shuffle, a

Liveblog: Apple 2010 Music Event on September 1: Apple is holding its annual September media event that many believe will come with new iPods, new music announcements, and possibly other goodies. The event begins at 10AM PDT, on

Cat leaves bag: PSJailbreak cloned, released, freely available: The PSJailbreak hardware may be held up by the Australian courts, but to the surprise of no one, the code behind the project has been reverse-engineered and is now freely

Hard OCP

DRM is Dead, RIAA Says: The RIAA says DRM is dead. Wait. What? Who are you people and what have you done with the real RIAA?For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who

Undercover Cop Arrests Undercover Cop: You have to wonder how effective an undercover operation is when one undercover cop arrests another undercover cop for trying to sell him drugs. Regardless, once the newspaper ran this story, everyone’s cover was blown. If either police department bothered

Apple Approves Marijuana App: Let’s see, you can’t get an iPhone app showing boobies but you can get an app to help you find weed. I guess I’m not surprised by an iToke app, we are after all talking about Apple here. You now

Microsoft Responds to Obama’s Xbox Criticism: Damn you Xbox machine for making our kids stay up late and be stupid. If my kid ends up being a high school drop out, we know who to blame now! For our kids to excel, we must accept our

New Pirate Bay to Be Based on Give-And-Take Models: Does anyone seriously think this is going to work? Remember how much everyone loved Napster? Remember how much they liked it once it became a legit site? Yeah, that’s what is going to happen here too. The more you give,

Creating Font Using a Car: Here is your creative font of the day (its free too). A group of people made a new font using a computer, a sophisticated camera tracking system and a car. I use my car all the time to make fonts

Ping Pong Table-Door: From the why didn’t I think of that files comes the amazing ping pong table/door! From the looks of it, this amazing product not only makes you popular, it gets you chicks too! Comments

Company Offering "Buy-Back" Program For Electronics?: This is either the greatest idea in the world or the most retarded, I’m not sure which one it is just yet.Here’s how the program works: For prices ranging from $19.99 to $249, depending on the electronic gadget, customers can

Intel 34-nm 320GB SSD Coming Soon: Engadget has the scoop on Intels Postville-family progress and has some good news for people that want an Intel SSD but dont want to fork over the big bucks for the X25 line. Check out the article for more details.Still,

Distracted Driving is Dangerous... and People Don't Care: The New York Times takes a look at distracted driving and found that many people just dont seem to care. Its a long article but well worth the read. Earlier today my wife had to get out of the way

Amazon Deletes Illegal Orwell Books from Kindles: Much has been made about Amazon deleting copies of George Orwells 1984 and Animal Farm books from Kindle devices and refunding the owners for those purchases. However, this CNET blogger takes them to task by checking facts and finding that

Big Week Coming as Tech Companies Report Earnings: IBM & Google got things rolling last week by reporting their most recent quarterly earnings for 2009 and next week has more coming. The Associated Press has an article about other earnings reports that are due next week and what

Urine-Powered Cars Coming Soon?: A scientist has developed a catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine and says it could be used to power hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the near future. Garadine Botte hasn’t received much federal funding for her project, though she’s

Microsoft Changes IE8 Default Settings: While Microsoft battles the European Union over antitrust allegations, eWeek reports that MS went ahead and changed the default browser settings for IE8 to allow users to more easily change the default browser on a system. Sounds like they’re just

VisionTek Responds to Rumors of Bankruptcy: The below statement is a response to our earlier posted rumors of VisionTeks possible bankruptcy. As was later explained to us by credible sources, VisionTek has received an infusion of venture capital money in order to move its business forward

Verizon Wireless Introduces New Novatel EVDO Card: Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless announced that the PC770 2-in-1 PC Card and Express Card will be available on Sunday at www.verizonwireless.com, through business sales channels and by calling 1-800-2 JOIN IN. The PC770 gives customers access to Verizon Wireless

EVGA Launches InterView Dual-Display: EVGA Corporation announced the availability of the InterView, with two rotatable super-thin high resolution 17 TFT LCD displays supported by one desktop stand. Designed for business presentations, researchers, physicians, financial consultants or creative professionals, the 1440 x 900 resolution screens

IBM Reports 2009 2Q Results: IBM announced second-quarter 2009 diluted earnings of $2.32 per share compared with diluted earnings of $1.97 per share in the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 18 percent. The earnings per share results were the highest for any first,

Google Chrome Update Fixes Flaws: I just wanted to let all you Chrome users know that version 2.0.172.37 has been released. This latest build fixes a handful of minor bugs as well as two serious security flaws. A compromised renderer (tab) process could cause the

Riot Police Raid Facebook Party: If you are planning a BBQ with friends and family, do not…I repeat…do not make a Facebook post alerting everyone or SWAT will show up (helicopter and all). I don’t know why this guy is complaining, in Texas, it’s not

AnandTech

iBUYPOWER Paladin XLC: Enthusiast Class: Our readership is composed largely of people who prefer to roll their own, but recently we've had the opportunity to take a look at some interesting desktop machines from big name manufacturers. Now we tread on much more challenging terrain:

Sandy Bridge Graphics Update: Last week we published our preview of Intel's 2011 Core microarchitecture update, codenamed Sandy Bridge. In the preview we presented a conservative estimate of what shipping Sandy Bridge performance will look like in Q1 2011. I call it conservative because

BlackBerry Torch 9800 Review: Keeping RIM's Flame Alive: This summer has been a busy one for smartphone platforms. We started the summer with an Apple iOS update that remedied a number of the primary concerns with Apple’s iDevice platforms, followed by the launch of the iPhone 4. Meanwhile,

ASRock 890FX Deluxe: Comprehensive Motherboard Review & Investigation of Thuban Performance Scaling: We kick off our long overdue focus on AMD with an in-depth review of ASRock's 890FX Deluxe 4. Landing with an MSRP of $180, the Deluxe 4 slots in between the very best 890GX motherboards and

Toshiba Satellite A660D-ST2G01: AMD's Quad-Core Phenom II P920 Joins the Mobile Party: We've looked at AMD's slightly older Tigris platform in the form of their M300 and M600 processors. While performance of those parts was better than previous AMD designs, Intel still maintained a healthy lead in performance and battery life. That

AnandTech 2010 Server Upgrade: The CPUs: Years ago I used to publish a series of articles called Behind AnandTech. We'd occasionally do a massive server upgrade and I'd publish detailed specs, shots and info about the upgrade as we went along the

Intel Atom N550 Notebooks: Intel has launched their first dual-core Atom processor designed purely for netbooks, the N550. The new CPU has led to the netbook manufacturers scrambling to update their products to feature the latest silicon. Intel promises that there will be a

Intel's Core 2011 Mobile Roadmap Revealed: Sandy Bridge Part II: Late last week we pulled back the covers on Intel's next-generation Core architecture update: Sandy Bridge. Due out in Q1 2011, we learned a lot about Sandy Bridge's performance in our preview. Sandy Bridge will be the first high performance

Farewell to ATI, AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year: Four years ago AMD did the unthinkable: it announced the 5.4 billion dollar acquisition of ATI in a combination of cash and stock. What followed was a handful of very difficult years for AMD, an upward

DisplayPort: Active Single-Link DVI Adaptors Available Soon: For quite a while now one of the largest obsticles for using Eyefinity in budget scanrios has been an issue of connectivity. Eyefinity video cards are cheap and large TV-derrived monitors are fairly cheap, but cheap monitors rarely have the

AnandTech 13-year Anniversary Giveaways Continue: PowerColor Radeon HD 5770s: Last week we had our first (and unfortunately only) 6GB memory kit giveaway. Today I'm happy to announce the winner: khaydin. Check your email :)Today we have two prizes from our good friends at PowerColor. I've got two PowerColor PCS

The Sandy Bridge Preview: Every two years Intel is committed to introducing a new microprocessor architecture. It's a part of the whole tick-tock strategy that Intel hatched back in 2005 - 2006. Thus far, every tock has been a knockout

Zotac IONITX-P-E: Can Intel's CULV Processors Reinvigorate Interest in NVIDIA's ION?: NVIDIA’s ION brought a tremendous appeal to mini-ITX last year, but over the past six months Clarkdale has established itself as the natural and more capable choice for small form factor builds. Zotac are today attempting

Dell Studio 17: When Gaming Isn't Enough: Usually when we get to the 17"-class notebooks here, we're dealing with machines designed almost exclusively for gaming. The problem is that these machines also tend to be prohibitively expensive, owing in no small part to the healthy premiums their

Quick Look: PowerColor’s Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex Edition: With the recent rise in the number of triple-slot cards, we have a few different cards in-house that we’re going to be looking at over the next few weeks. But to kick things off, we decided to start small, looking

Netgear AV Series Set for Expansion: The first half of 2010 saw Netgear get started on their AV Series product line. Their intent was to create a set of products to enhance the consumer's home theater experience. The first few products appeared to be just rebranded

AMD Bobcat & Bulldozer Hot Chips Presentations Online: Yesterday we published our coverage of AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer architecture disclosures. If you haven't had a chance to read the piece or haven't been following AMD for the past few years: Bobcat is AMD's new low power architecture, while

Powerline Networking with the Western Digital Livewire: Almost all CE devices sold in the market today have some sort of connection to the Internet as well as the home network. The consumers' need to trasnfer data back and forth between various locations in their residences has led

Intel & Nokia Partner to Research 3D Mobile Interfaces: Here at AnandTech, we’ve been talking for a considerable time about Intel and Nokia’s joint collaboration in the mobile space on the MeeGo mobile operating system. Today, the two companies have announced another partnership aimed at improving MeeGo’s potential for

AMD Discloses Bobcat & Bulldozer Architectures at Hot Chips 2010: We've been waiting years for AMD to deliver another knockout microprocessor architecture rather than continue to play the value game. While we've been waiting for its next generation Bobcat and Bulldozer architectures since we first heard of

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Toward a local syzygy: aligning deals, check-ins and places: The check-in is hardly the apogee of the local consumer experience. It works, for now, but it wont be the long-term solution for customer/business relationships and physical point of presence. So what will replace it? Heres a look at the

Data Week: Becoming a data scientist: Data Week is a new series that brings together notable stories and developments from the data world. Links in this edition include: the connection between visualizations and art, advice on becoming a data scientist, BigCouch goes open source, and more.

Four short links: 2 Sep 2010: Guardian Science Blogs -- the latest in a series of science blog aggregators. Nobody is too sure what benefits a blog umbrella like Discovery or Nature (or the Guardian) offers bloggers. Regardless of this, the content is fantastic. v2ex: A

Fun Project Honeynet Log Challenge: Log Mysteries: Project Honeynet just released its latest Forensic Challenge 5 - Log Mysteries. It is based on logs from a compromised virtual server and requires quite a bit of digging through messy log data.

TOC's Wednesday Devices, and Gadgets and EReaders Update #2: The IFA traditionally offers an early indication of what gadgets will sell well through Christmas. Its no wonder so much attention is focused on the show with order volume stemming from last years show reaching nearly $3.8 billion.

View From the Trenches: Surviving Change: I am a veteran of the format wars. I started as an innocent civilian, caught on the side of Beta while the DVD army pushed the front closer and closer to my home. Later, I joined the motion picture special

What we can learn from data, 3-D and a giant globe: IBM researcher and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Julia Grace spends her days digging into data. Her tools are a little unusual, though. Instead of spreadsheets and bar graphs, she uses visualizations and a seven-foot-tall, three-dimensional globe. Grace discusses life with

Four short links: 1 September 2010: R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by

Your App is a Theme Park Part 1: Marty Sklar, former Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, has many times presented a list of rules that are now know as Mickeys 10 Commandments. Well take a look at these rules and see how they

Is Your Survey Data Lying to You?: Statistical nuggets are great because in isolation they give us a glimpse into why people do what they do, and how we can adjust our business to match market needs. But how often do we blindly accept data because it

A New Take on the Coffee Table Book: In one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes, Kramer comes up with the brilliant idea for a coffee table book with fold-down legs that makes it into a little coffee table--a coffee table book COFFEE TABLE book. Hilarious. Today I receive

Amazon's cloud platform still the largest, but others are closing the gap: Tims recent tweet on the growing demand for Google App Engine skills inspired me to measure the popularity of the major cloud computing platforms. Elance is one of many job boards in our data warehouse of U.S. job postings1 ,

Radar is getting a redesign: Radar will get refreshed later this week with a new look and more functionality. This brief overview offers a preview of the design and explains our rationale for the change.

Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map: In my blog post State of the Internet Operating System a few months ago (and the followup Handicapping the Internet Platform Wars), I used the analogy of the Great Game played out between England and Russia in the late Victorian

Hacking online advertising: Grand and bold declarations about the demise of online advertising -- and the web itself -- get all the attention. But two recent ads serve as countermeasures to the gloom: hackers are calibrating online advertising to serve their own specific

Four short links: 31 August 2010: Rules for Revolutionaries -- Carl Malamuds talk to the WWW2010 Conference. Video, slides, and text available. Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter -- a how-I-did-it for a homegrown project to do sentiment analysis on Twitter. LUXR -- the Lean User

Why project managers should care about development: In a recent post on Building Better Software, I wrote about why developers should care about project management. But I think its worth making the opposite case: why project managers should care about development.

The network neutrality debate: It all depends on what you fear: Network neutrality confuses a lot of laypeople because of all the different levels on which its being argued and the opposing ways language is used by differentparticipants. Andy Oram takes a look at the loaded words in the net neutrality

The VC-free startup: The big-bet venture capital model works on occasion in Silicon Valley, but it seldom works elsewhere. Dale Daugherty mulls the trajectory of non-VC startups: the small firms that dont need an exit strategy because the business creates its own type

Four short links: 30 August 2010: Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage

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VMworld: Day Two news roundup: Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 04:48:00SUSE, security and storage at the foreDay two of the VMworld 2010 conference in San Francisco saw host companyVMware and Novell announce the

FCC delays on net neutrality decision: Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 03:23:00Looking for still more consultation on internet’s futureThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said that it is delaying aruling on the future of

Salesforce pieces together Jigsaw for CRM: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 03:03:00Tool to manage, analyse contact informationSalesforce.com has added a new contact management and analysis tool to itscustomer relationship management (CRM) service.The company said

Apple overhauls iPod line-up: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 02:05:00iTunes adds social networking serviceApple has unveiled the latest generation of its iPod portable media playerline.The updates cover the entire iPod lineup, from

GlobalFoundries maps out 28nm future: Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 01:50:00Unveils first ARM A9 design and 90nm Flash plansGlobalFoundries has been laying out its schedule for moving into 28nm andsmaller chip production and

Analyst warns CDM reforms could spark carbon price spike: BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:15:00Point Carbon report suggests attempts to tackle dodgy offset credits couldlead to constrained supply of Certified Emission ReductionsReforms to the UNs Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) currently

Onzo and SEE reveal plan for smart heat meters: BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:15:00Companies announce fresh funding to support development of smart meterfunctionality for heating and hot water systemsSmart meters capable of measuring and managing a buildings electricity usein

Symbian to get Swype keyboard: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 2 September 2010 at 00:01:00Typing system planned by NokiaNokia is developing a version of the Swype typing tool for the Symbiansmartphone platform.The company said that it will

Apple: new iPod Shuffle, Nano and Touch, plus new iTunes: Tom Royal, Computeractive, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 19:27:00New iPod Shuffle, Nano and Touch announced, plus new iTunes 10 and updatediOSApple hasannounced three revamped iPod models, plus a new version of iTunes with a

Latest Sony e-readers battle it out with Kindle and iPad: Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 17:42:00Devices come with 2GB onboard memory and touch screensSony has unveiled three e-reader devices as the company attempts to claw backmarket share from the increasingly popular

Data Robotics bags Barracuda man Thackeray: Sam Trendall, CRN, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 17:36:00Paul Thackeray joins storage player as EMEA chief after long anddistinguished security careerLong-standing Barracuda Networks executive Paul Thackeray has been appointedas EMEA vice president at storage

HP boosts efficiency with thin provisioning expansion: Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 17:17:00Virtualised Storage Services add agile capacity management capabilitiesHP Enterprise Services has announced HP Virtualised Storage Services (VSS),an addition to its Storage Management outsourcing services that adds

Advertising Standards Authority to regulate online ads: Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 17:11:00Powers will extend to all marketing communications from 1 March 2011The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has been granted new powers toregulate all online adverts, in a

Scottish school shifts wholly to the iPad: Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 17:07:00Head of computing and IT at Cedars School gives the rationale behind hisdecisionA Scottish independent Christian school has opted to educate its pupils byditching paper and

Digital teams warned not to fall foul of advertising watchdog: Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 16:20:00ASA will soon have power to punish spurious claims on company web sites andsocial media postingsThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has extended its remit to regulateadvertisers’

IBM adds Magny-Cours to System x server line: Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 16:19:00System x3755 M3 puts 12-core Opterons in a 2U rack systemIBM has added to its System x series of servers with a new model based onAMDs

Lighting industry takes on mercury menace with recycling campaign: James Murray, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 16:07:00Initiative aims to deliver 600 energy-efficient light bulb recycling pointsby the end of the yearThe lighting industry has today launched a major campaign designed toaccelerate the

VMworld: VMware pushes IT-as-a-service: David Neal and Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 16:01:00Virtualisation firm launches vCloud, vShield and vFabricVMware has used the VMworld conference to launch a series of product andservice offerings designed to facilitate

Semiconductor sales record rise worldwide: Fleur Doidge, CRN, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 15:39:00Gartner predicts 31.5 per cent rise in semiconductor revenues this year withsmartphones and flash to remain strongSales of semiconductors this year are tipped to reach $300

Former London Philharmonic FD ‘facing jail’ over fraud: Santhie Goundar, Accountancy Age, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 15:25:00Cameron Poole ‘likely to be sent to jail’ after admitting fraud of £645,000A former finance director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra facesimprisonment after admitting to embezzling £645,000 from the company, the

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Cocoa Memory Management: the 7 Step Program: Cocoa memory management is fairly straightforward, so I shouldnt have to post this. But I will, if only to prevent someone else from doing so. Only longer. And wronger.

BANANA CARAMEL PIE: BANANA CARAMEL PIE IS NOT THAT HARD IF YOU THINK IT IS HARD THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU BANANA CARAMEL PIE REQUIRES BOTH PATIENCE AND RICE IF YOU HAVE NEITHER GO TO HELL

Games People Play: A Book Review: Welcome to the K5 Book Club! Discussions on K5 have brought up this book. In an unrelated situation, real life people have recommended the same book to me. Mildly cultish following and also a nice short read. Dated but charming,

To Save The Gulf, Send The Enterprise: The real Planet Earth has an ongoing situation that could use a ship of superheros like those in Gene Roddenberrys Star Trek soap opera. 60+ days have passed since the Deepwater Horizons explosion and sinking. BP company engineers have been

Salaryman's Bank Performance Report: Salaryman arrived to the car-park just as Bosss chauffeur was stamping on his cigarette. “Boss will be down in a second,” the chauffeur said. “You dont happen to have a laptop running OS/2, do you?” “No, I dont,” Salaryman said,

Booting Up with Salaryman: Salaryman set his coffee mug on his desk. On a coaster, of course. Salaryman respected his banking firm too much to stain their solid oak desks with his fresh-ground Brazilian coffee. Smacking his lips, Salaryman hit the space bar on

Why I Almost Gave OpenBSD $100,000--But Didn't: It is never a happy occasion to realize that a not-for-profit group, no matter how destitute or successful, is undeserving of charitable donations. And just last week I had such an unhappy realization. I wanted to donate a sizable sum

Murder the Chinese People!...with Red Dawn (2010): Like many of my childhood friends, I was deeply moved by the 1984 B survival movie Red Dawn (Chinese title: 《赤色黎明》)--but that was during the peak of the Cold War when people still believed MAD was on the horizon...Patrick Swayze

Why I Left OpenBSD: I was a long-time OpenBSD user since the 3.1 days, and cut my teeth on Unix development there. I was attracted by its focus on security and conscientious coding practices. I was happy through the early 4.x days, but the

Android 2.2: Google's Catchupgrade: Recently, Google announced Android 2.2, the next version of their Linux-based mobile operating system targeted at phones and PDAs, at Google I/O 2010. Developers praised the update, calling it and its features a welcome addition to the platform.Android 2.2 will

h.264 vs VP8: the politics of internet video: Theres a fight over video codecs brewing on the Internet. First, the bad news; the most popular video codec specification in the world - h.264 - used all over the web, on blu-rays and in broadcast media, is patented up

What Really Killed K5: After a 10 year run (far too long in Internet time) K5 isnt exactly a thriving, vibrant site. Despite what many think, K5 was not a victim of its own trolls thats only a symptom. No, what really did it

Inside the Professional Masturbation Tour: An Interview with LilDebbie: I recently had the opportunity to catch up with LilDebbie of the Professional Masturbation Tour. The PMT was formed in 2001 in the wake of the New York City terrorist attacks and has been growing steadily since its inception. The

Another Day, Another Firefox Update: I am often away from my computer for weeks at a time, digging at archaeology sites, before I return to clean, sort, and catalog my finds. And every time I launch my browser of choice, I have to sit through

Party Man: Remember way back in 2008 when we were all obsessed with the Presidential election? There was a lot of talk of delegate counts for nomination and such. Some of you may have asked, who are these people and how did

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Woman Sues Facebook After Getting Banned: Michael Scott points us to a story of a woman who not only drove from Maryland to California to go to Facebooks offices to complain about having her account banned, but (when that didnt get the account reinstated) then she

Music Publishers Angry That Apple Didn't First Grovel To Them About 60-Second Song Previews: Its really incredible to watch music industry folks shoot themselves in the foot over and over again with a simple inability to understand that promotions can lead to more sales, and that you dont need to get paid for every

Bartenders Looking For Greater Intellectual Property Protection For Drinks: Copycense points us to yet another story about another person in another industry whining about not getting enough monopoly privileges from the government. This time, believe it or not, its bartenders wanting to protect mixed drink recipes. Seriously. Unfortunately, the

Reminder: You Don't Own Your Ebooks; Amazon Locks Customer Out And Doesn't Respond To Help Requests: Weve pointed out in the past that if youre buying ebooks on devices like the Kindle or the iPad, its important to remember that youre not really buying the books, and you dont really own them. Were seeing that once

Connecting With Fans Is About More Than Getting People To Pay Attention To You: When I first start talking about this whole CwF+RtB thing, I tended to focus more on the RtB -- Reason to Buy part of it, because I naturally assumed that was the big problem. After all, the big thing we

Filipino Gov't Loses Court Case Because It Relied On Wikipedia: A few years back, we discussed whether or not it was appropriate for judges to cite Wikipedia, noting that some were against the idea. Now, Slashdot points us to a case over in the Philippines, where the Filipino government has

Is Falsely Being Accused Of File Sharing With An Automated Pre-Settlement Letter A Form Of Hara(...): With law operations like ACS:Law in the UK and US Copyright Group in the US sending out thousands upon thousands of pre-settlement (i.e., pay us or well sue you) letters for those it accuses of copyright infringement, based on extremely

BBC Loses Its Attempt To Silence Top Gear Test Driver The Stig From Revealing His Identity: The incredibly popular UK BBC TV show Top Gear has been involved in a legal fight with publisher HarperCollins over the plans to publish a book revealing the identity of The Stig, the always secretive test driver who appears in

When Will People Learn: Websites Are Not Liable For What People Write In The Comments: It still amazes me when lawsuits actually get filed against sites for things that people write in the comments. Section 230 case law is really well established on this, and you would think lawyers would know better. But, such lawsuits

eBay Dumping All Third Party Checkout Options: Reader Mike sent over a story from Investors.com claiming that eBay was now banning Google Checkout from eBay. That struck me as odd, because we had written about eBay banning Google Checkout more than four years ago, and werent aware

Lawyer Tries Selling DIY Legal Response Kit For Those Hit By US Copyright Group Suits: With US Copyright Group (really DC law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver) filing tens of thousands of lawsuits against individuals accused of file sharing certain movies, theres been something of a scramble for some of those accused to find legal

If You Have To Tweet About Me Before I Give You Content, Will You Still Respect Me In The Morning?: A couple months back, we discussed the growing trend of some content creators to require some sort of promotion in exchange for free content -- such as tweet about our album and you can download a song. Apparently, such practices

How Microsoft Missed The Disruptive Innovation In Paid Search: We recently highlighted a part of one of Paul Grahams recent essays that told the story of how Yahoo missed the paid search opportunity, by fearing that it would cannibalize all the revenue coming in from its portal business. As

Court Refuses To Dismiss Righthaven Lawsuit Just Because Righthaven Bought The Copyright After (...): Weve noted a variety of creative defenses being tested in response to lawsuits from Righthaven. One attempt was to claim that Righthaven had no standing, because it did not hold the copyright when the actual infringement occurred. Thats because the

Ohio Senator Introduces Bill That Would Let Ex-Convicts Try To Erase Online Information About T(...): You may remember a story from last year about a convicted murderer in Germany trying to use a law that was designed to protect an individuals name and likeness from unwanted publicity, to demand Wikipedia remove all information about him,

Record Labels Flip Out After Indian Copyright Board Massively Lowers Radio Royalties: Get ready to hear all sorts of stories from record labels about how India is anti-music and a problem. Thats because the Copyright Board in India just drastically changed the royalty structure for playing music on FM radios. Rather than

How The Patent Office Outsourced Its Job To Non-Expert Jurors: I already wrote about Larry Downes blog post suggesting that Paul Allens patent lawsuits might actually be an attempt to expose problems with the patent system, but I wanted to discuss a different point Downes raised earlier in the post,

When Suing A Website For Libel, It Helps To Actually Sue The Right One: Last week, a story caught my eye, about a website being ordered to pay $11 million for failing to respond to a lawsuit claiming libel. The story caught my attention for a few reasons: first, Im always interested in libel

If Fashion Copyright Harms So Many, Why Is Congress Pushing For It?: With the latest version of the totally unnecessary and ridiculously dangerous fashion copyright bill likely to become law, despite a near total lack of justification for it, combined with significant evidence of the harm it will do, it might make

Does Steven Levitan Also Want A Cut Every Time You Buy A TV?: We recently wrote about how TV producer Steven Levitan was publicly complaining that content creators deserve a cut of any IPO proceeds that Hulu gets, if it does go public. We pointed out what a ridiculous sense of entitlement was

X-bit labs

AMD Announces Inexpensive DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI Adapter: AMD Expands Monitor Range for ATI Eyefinity with New Adapter

Nvidia Reportedly Working on a New Core-Logic Set: Nvidia Rumored to Launch GPU with Chipset I/O Functions

Globalfoundries to Start Risk Production Using 20nm/22nm in Late 2012: Globalfoundries on Track for Volume Production at 20nm/22nm Nodes in 2013

AMD Displays Die-Shot of Upcoming Eight-Core "Orochi" Processor for the First Time: AMD Shows Off Die-Short of 32nm Bulldozer-Based Orochi Chip

Graphics Chips to Gain Horsepower and Programmability - Chief Scientist of Nvidia: CPUs and GPUs Will Get Close to Each Other, But Will Not Converge

Globalfoundries Adds Another 28nm Fabrication Process to Roadmap: Globalfoundries New 28nm HPP Process to Boost Performance

PNY Offers Discounts to Owners of BFG Technology Graphics Cards: Owners of BFG May Get New Boards with 25% Discount

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