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Submission + - Eminem's Publisher Sues Apple Over Downloads

Submitted by purpledinoz
purpledinoz writes: PC World has an interesting article about a lawsuit Eminem has filed against Apple: "The music publishing companies that represent rap artist Eminem have filed a multimillion-dollar suit against Apple Inc. for selling downloads of Eminem's music on iTunes online music service without compensating them. The suit could have ramifications for the current compensation plan that online music services have for divvying up profits between record labels and the publishing companies that hold rights to artists' songs."
Businesses

Submission + - An Ebay Sale is a Sale

Submitted by syousef
syousef writes: An Ebay Sale is a Sale says an Australian New South Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to reneg because he'd received an offer $100,000 greater than the Ebay sale price elsewhere. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000 at the last minute took him to court. "It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendent and that it should be specifically enforced," Justice Rein said in his decision. All dollar figures are in AUD.
Portables

Submission + - The demise of the Nokia E90 communicator

Submitted by S3D
S3D writes: Nokia is not quite famous for the great smartphone design, but in the case of E90 Communicator hardware looks nice. However where Nokia completly failed is software side — the The Register think. The first mistake was replacing business oriented S80 platform with consumer oriented S60. S60 is designed for one-thumb actions — not an adequate choice for full-keyboard communicator. The article go on listing deficiencies and missing features, concluding that Nokia, trying to impress gadget bloggers completely forgot core market of business users. Immature 3rd party application market for Symbian make it unlikely those deficiencies will be fixed.
The Internet

Submission + - The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org 3

Submitted by kungfujesus
kungfujesus writes: The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: "The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks", today it became clear that he was referring to the resurrection of Suprnova. Article Here
Biotech

Submission + - Chernobyl Mushrooms Feeding on Radiation

Submitted by cowtamer
cowtamer writes: According to a National Geographic Article certain fungi can use ionizing radiation to perform "radiosynthesis" using the pigment melanin (the same one in our skin that protects us from UV radiation). It is speculated that this might be useful on long space voyages where energy from the Sun is not readily available.
Privacy

Submission + - Is the RIAA back to it's torrent-crushing tactics? (tgohome.com) 1

Submitted by
Tom
Tom writes: "During a download from The Pirate Bay, I saw 11 similar IP addresses (via. the 'Peers' tab) on the .available.above.net server. This is really odd, because the chance of this happening is something close to 11 in 26 billion. Also, uTorrent constantly was complaining about pieces failing hash checks..."
Slashdot.org

Submission + - What do we think of the Opinion Center?

Submitted by DuncanE
DuncanE writes: In case any (all?) of you didn't notice the slashdot opinion centre recently switched from AMD to INTEL. You may have also noticed as a logged in user some subtle and not so subtle javascript thingys (technical term) promoting this change over. I for one would prefer to see the so called "opinion centre" pieces posted as articles in the main window. Sure highlight them in the nice lime(y) green, make um clear they are ads and then we can all tell Intel exactly what we think about their articles. Plus slashdot can probably charge a heap more to Intel for the privilege.

The weird think is I'm not joking. As long as its kept to a reasonable level and maybe its not exclusive to Intel, I think it could actually be a interesting experience for both us, the slashdot community, and them, the IT vendors. So what do you think?
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - 30 Days of AppleTV - A comprehensive Review

Submitted by
InfinityMurph
InfinityMurph writes: "For the past 30 Days Michael at Apple Gazette has been blogging daily about his experiences with the AppleTV. From spotty content in iTunes, to the miracle of Visual Hub and a Macbook Pro, Podcasts, and even an AppleTV freeze up — this is the most comprehensive look at the device to date. Click Here to take a look."

GeForce 8800GTX Benchmarked 214

Posted by Zonk from the new-shininess dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The card does not launch for another week, but DailyTech already has benchmarks of the new GeForce 8800GTX on its website. The new card is the flagship GPU to replace GeForce 7900, and according to the benchmarks has no problem embarrassing the Radeon X1950 XTX either. According to the article, 'The GeForce 8800GTX used for testing is equipped with 768MB of GDDR3 video memory on a 384-bit memory bus as previously reported. Core and memory clocks are set at 575 MHz and 900 MHz respectively.'"
Software

Submission + - Getting a Price Quote from a Software Vendor

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Why is it so difficult to get a price? I wanted a price for Matlab from Mathworks. I couldn't find a price nor an email address from their website. Instead they wanted me to fill out a detailed web form. Instead, I just emailed the particulars of how many seats of the software I needed to sales@mathworks.com. A couple days later, a saleperson emailed asking me to call her. I said I didn't have time. She basically responded that I needed to call her. Mind you, she didn't ask any questions and didn't include any price list. I sent one last email to a cofounder of the company, after which I started getting messages on my voicemail from the salesperson to which I refuse to respond (I guess she googled my phone number). So now, I still have no price despite an email from the cofounder that he'd look into it. Don't they want to sell me the software? Why does the salesperson insist in talking despite my obvious desire to handle this via email? I've had similar experiences with other companies, but none where the salesperson was so stubborn (well as stubborn as me). Is this practice widespread?

Feed News: Child's Play 2006! (penny-arcade.com)

From feed by pennyarcadefeed
Tycho: The site refresh is now live, so head on over and see if we've got a hospital even closer to you this year. If you live in Egypt, the odds of that are very good.More info next week.(CW)TB
The Internet

Submission + - Jimmy Wales resigns chair at wikipedia

Submitted by
user24
user24 writes: "As reported by Wikipedia's Signpost ezine, "The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has moved forward with a step in restructuring the organization by reorganizing itself. Following a planning retreat in Frankfurt, Jimmy Wales stepped down as Chair of the board, and Florence Nibart-Devouard was chosen to replace him." ... "Wales, meanwhile, will continue to serve on the board and assume the honorary title of Chairman Emeritus. He will remain active in Wikimedia projects, but chose to pass on the responsibility of heading the board, due in part to his commitments to outside projects.""

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