Archive for May 17, 2008

Andersen gets highest-ever attorney fees award against RIAA

Exonerated P2P defendant Tanya Andersen was awarded $107,834 in court costs and attorneys’ fees for her successful defense against the RIAA’s copyright infringement charges. It’s the largest fee award so far against the RIAA, and over triple what the RIAA argued it should pay.

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Flash Player 10 [Beta] coming with Ubuntu support

The Flash Player 10 beta features a brand-new Just In Time (JIT) engine to load pixel bite code into the Flash Player engine. Flash Player 10 will also extend support for Linux to Ubuntu versions 7 and 8, going beyond the current Red Hat, SuSE, Mac OS/X and Windows.

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Apple OK with Safari’s “Carpet Bombing” Vulnerability

Next time you get nagged to install Apple’s Safari browser keep this in mind: The company’s security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way for miscreants to use the browser to litter an end user’s machine with malicious files.

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From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of “Exergaming”

After hugely successful launches in Japan and Europe, Nintendo’s Wii Fit exercise game is coming to the United States May on 19th, where it is sure to find sales success. But Wii Fit is hardly the first example of an attempt to meld videogaming and exercise — it’s not even the first fitness offering from Nintendo.

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Yahoo downgrades antispam measure

The problem arose when Yahoo decided as an anti-spamming measure to stop any emails going through the servers, which it runs for its partner BT, that did not have a matching BT/Yahoo address in the From: field

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Note to EA. . .Stop Buying Developers, Make More Games. . .

Everyone
’s favorite Madden factory is growing, but it’s profits aren’t following suit.

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$100 laptop’ nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft - AP

BOSTON (AP) — The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.

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Taking Your Laptop into the US? Be Sure to Hide Your Data

Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. So how do you protect yourself? By hiding your data.

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How Apple is changing DRM

As more stores and record labels abandon digital rights management, Apple may have an alternative plan for subscription services

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Multitouch Goodness: Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here

It’s not from Apple, but it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from the Cupertino company: a band of developers called the NUI Group have developed Lux, a platform that shows the power of a free open framework that will enable true multitouch interaction in Mac OS X.

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How did Ubuntu end up so popular?

How did this come to pass? Seriously. I was there
… not from the very start but from very close to the beginning. The very first release was Ubuntu 4.10, nicknamed Warty Warthog. I started with the next release, Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog). My first experience with Ubuntu was not the best. But I came back to Ubuntu. Why?

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DNS trouble knocks NSA off Internet

‘Our techs are working on it,’ says an agency spokeswoman

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