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Submission + - Cisco Sues Apple Over "iPhone" Name

Submitted by Luminus on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @08:15PM

Luminus writes: Well, the inevitable lawsuit has arrived. Cisco is suing Apple over "iPhone".

From the article: SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco Systems sued Apple Inc. in federal court Wednesday, saying the computer maker's new iPhone violates its trademark. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, came just a day after Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPhone in dramatic fashion at a trade show in San Francisco.

Submission + - IBM says perfect teleportation possible

Submitted by trex279 on Sunday December 31, 2006 @05:16PM

trex279 writes: In the past, the idea of teleportation was not taken very seriously by scientists, because it was thought to violate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, which forbids any measuring or scanning process from extracting all the information in an atom or other object. According to the uncertainty principle, the more accurately an object is scanned, the more it is disturbed by the scanning process, until one reaches a point where the object's original state has been completely disrupted, still without having extracted enough information to make a perfect replica. But the six scientists found a way to make an end run around this logic, using a celebrated and paradoxical feature of quantum mechanics known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect.

Darwin Awards 2006 199

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 31, 2006 @11:23AM from the natural-selection-in-action dept.

ms1234 writes "The year is coming to and end so it is time to see how our genepool is doing. Darwin Awards 2006 includes everything from whacking RPGs with hammers to recreating experiments by Franklin."

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