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Submission + - Forgent Patent Troll Loses Again

Submitted by

anagama

on Sunday August 12, 2007 @01:57AM

anagama writes: "Forgent Networks, a patent troll, got the slap down by a TX jury in May when it invalidated a patent Forgent held regarding video teleconferencing over telephone lines, and today, its motion for a new trial against EchoStar was denied. In fact, the court awarded EchoStar $90k in costs. Forgent probably isn't crying that much though, it already extorted $28m from other defendants. Some of you may recall that Forgent made a business out of cheating companies for jpeg use — till their patent was largely invalidated on that front as well."

Feed Spying Too Secret for the Courts (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:12PM

AT&T and the government tell an appeals court that the case against the telecom for allegedly helping the government spy on Americans is too secret for any court, despite the Administration's admission it did spy on Americans without warrants.

Google Aids Indian Goverment Censorship 245

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 12, 2007 @09:58PM from the don't-be-what? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google's Orkut has made a deal to provide IP addresses of posters of content deemed objectionable by Bombay police. They object, among others, to posts against certain Indian personalities, young women admiring Indian mobsters, and, amazingly, "anti-Indian words" (!)."

Submission + - 1.7 Billion Digits of Pi on One CD ISO

Submitted by H0ek on Monday March 12, 2007 @08:37PM

H0ek writes: With March 14th coming up, and already one article about Pi day up, I figure it's time to expose the CD ISO of 1.7 billion digits of pi. This CD has a search tool (and source code) on it to allow you to find groups of digits, and a textfile that describes how to use the tools and links to the source of this material. This was mentioned a few years ago but it's time for the ISO to make rounds again. Want to prove your memorization skills? Here's your chance!

Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai 555

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 12, 2007 @07:43PM from the might-as-well dept.

theodp writes "Much-maligned defense contractor Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai's friendly tax laws will add to Halliburton's bottom line. Last year the company earned $2.3B in profits. Sen. Patrick Leahy called the company's move 'corporate greed at its worst.' Halliburton, once headed by VP Dick Cheney, has been awarded contracts valued at an estimated $25.7B for its work in Iraq."

Submission + - Interview: Castlevania's future

Submitted by

ferricide

on Monday March 12, 2007 @07:11PM

ferricide writes: "The latest game in the Castlevania series, Dracula X Chronicles, will be released for the PSP later this year. Thanks to Game Developers Conference, GamesRadar was able to sit down and have a lengthy interview with Koji "IGA" Igarashi. It started out as a discussion of that game (a pack which contains a ground-up remake of the 1993 classic and a port of 1997's Symphony of the Night) but which became more wide-ranging, concerning the development philosophy and future of the entire series."

Submission + - Seagate's Encrypted Hard Drives on Route

Submitted by Yeah on Monday March 12, 2007 @07:10PM

Yeah writes: Seagate Technology LLC, the world's largest hard drive maker, announced Monday the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with its new built-in encryption technology.

Submission + - Bloggers spot more Yahoo copyright violations!

Submitted by

Viswam

on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:57PM

Viswam writes: "Indian bloggers spot more Yahoo copyright violations!
The search is on, and the search company is on the hot seat

March 12, 2007 (IDG News Service) — Yahoo Inc.'s problems with Indian bloggers over unauthorized reproduction of their content on its Indian portals may be just beginning. Bloggers claim they have identified more instances of their content being reproduced without permission on Yahoo's Indian portals. Yahoo's Indian subsidiary has yet to come up with an appropriate response that satisfies the bloggers. After bloggers complained about Yahoo India's unauthorized publication of recipes from a blogger called Su, the subsidiary apologized on Thursday. In a statement, it said it regretted any inconvenience caused by the inadvertent Yahoo's Indian subsidiary on its Malayalam-language portal. Yahoo did not refer to Su or her blog by name, and also blamed the mistake on its content provider Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd. A Malayalam-language version of the statement was posted by Yahoo on its Malayalam portal, but that did not satisfy the bloggers. The issue is not about Yahoo publishing her content without attribution, said Su reacting to Yahoo's statement in an e-mail Saturday. The bloggers, whose content she said was stolen, are fighting against Yahoo violating their copyrights, she wrote. Su has demanded a written apology from Yahoo for allegedly stealing her blog content. The blogger describes herself as a housewife from Kerala in south India in her blog. She said that her next step would be to take the dispute to court on a number of charges including copyright violation, if "Yahoo keeps on washing their hands off and tries to do a mockery of an apology." Bloggers in India are also compiling a list of content allegedly stolen from them by Yahoo's content provider, and posted to Yahoo's portals in India. The 12 incidents of copyright violation and content theft identified so far may be only be the tip of the iceberg, a blogger wrote Sunday. The content on Yahoo's seven Indian languages portals is provided by Webdunia.com under the express representation that Webdunia.com has all the necessary rights and authorization for all the content provided by them, Yahoo India said last week. Yahoo India did not comment on the most recent allegations by bloggers, but a spokeswoman said on Monday that the company is likely to issue another statement soon."

The Search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy 212

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:34PM from the someone-needs-to-turn-on-a-light dept.

mlimber writes "The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article on dark matter and dark energy, discussing the past, present, and future. 'Astronomers now realize that dark matter probably involves matter that is nonbaryonic ["meaning that it doesn't consist of the protons and neutrons of 'normal' matter"]. And whatever it is that dark energy involves, we know it's not 'normal,' either. In that case, maybe this next round of evidence will have to be not only beyond anything we know but also beyond anything we know how to know.'"

Submission + - How To Rob The Clickbank?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:06PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Don't be scared by reading the criminalistic title of this article. I would tell you some ways here for legit robbery at the world's most famed and profit producing digital product bank. Interestingly you would not be prosecuted for this robbery rather your friends and relatives would envy your success. So let us start preparation for this robbery.
You know before committing any robbery you need to be armed with some sort of weapon otherwise your victim would not be inclined you hand over any thing to you. So first of all check your podket and then decide which way of robbery you would like; A Free Way ( which needs more hard work and labour on your part indeed to get a profit) or An Automated way to work less and reap higher profits automatically. I would list both the ways for your convenience so that you may find it easy to make a decision. But first go to www.clickbank .com and sign up to enter the bank itself. After signing up your duty is to choose the right product for promotion so that you may get a commission in return when you bring a sale for the product. A pretty easy method of finding the right product is to know your passion. It is a well known fact you would more take care of a thing which you like the most. So follow your passion. In more easy words if you like golf, you would obviously feel inclined to look for the products about this golfing niche. So select a product according to your passion and then look at the sales page of that product and also see the conversion rate or refer rate given under each product in clickbank website and don't choose a product which gives you less than 50% commission on every sale and has a refer ration of less than 60%. Then your next step is to make a quick and free blog at www.blogger.com and write 4-5 meaty posts of the producline you have chosen. For example if you have chosen an ebook to promote about "How To Remove Your Acne In 3 Days", you should write some posts about acne and acne treatment and then you should choose your ebook and write a 200-300 words review of the ebook you can get a lot of information about the ebook from its sales letter or even you may send an email to the owner of the ebook requesting a complimentary copy of ebook to help you write a review more precisely. You should not forget to sign up with google adsense and paste google adsense ads on blog as an additional source of income.

Lastly start writing at least 300-400 words press releases at least two press releases a week in different Free press release service providing sites, don't forget to to write 400-500 word articles at least 2 articles every wekk and submit them to various article directories. You would place your website or blog's URL at the end of the wrticle in the resource box. This way you would get a backlink your site and of course a higher ranking by the search engines. Go to relevant forums and sign up there. Sign up with at least 5 forums and do visit them turn by turn posting meaty comments and providing pithy information to the readers about their problems. Go to Yahoo and Google Groups once in a two weeks and repeat the above referred method there. Submit the Rss Feeds of your blog into various RSS feed directories. All this seems too much work but it is worh doing it! But alternatively if you have some money in your pocket, you may launch an adwords campaign. Google adwords drive the most targeted traffic to your website and you can make insane profts overnight if you use this program wisely and sensibly.
If implemented whole-heartedly, even the above listed Free strategies can generate nice income for you from the clickbank and also from adsense. If you add google adwords in your clickbank product marketing campaign you for sure lave no stone unturned in robbing the well famed digital product seller_ the clickbank.com.
For more details visit my log where I write honest reviews of hottest clickbank products at http://weblime-honestreviews.blogspot.com/"

ReactOS 0.3.1 Released 189

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @07:01PM from the fresh-bits dept.

fireballrus writes with news of the release of ReactOS 0.3.1 — press release, changelog, download packages. ReactOS is "an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003)." The press release notes: "Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware."

Google's Best Perk — Transport 342

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:28PM from the Wi-Fi-included dept.

Reverse Gear writes "The New York Times has an interesting article about how different kinds of fringe benefits are starting to count more in the fight for the best brains in Silicon Valley. The article mainly focuses on Google's high-tech shuttle-bus system, which is quite extensive, covering a majority of the San Fransisco Bay area. The article quotes a transportation expert opining that Google's may be the largest such private system anywhere. One-quarter of the headquarters employees are now using it. A Google software engineer said: 'They could either charge for the food or cut it altogether... If they cut the shuttle, it would be a disaster.'"

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