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Submission + - warner brings blue ray and HDDVD on a single disc

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ganjadude
ganjadude writes: "According to PC mag, Warner brothers has introduced total HD, a disc which has blue ray on 1 side and HDDVD on the other

FTA:
"A two-format marketplace is not ideal," he concedes. "We can't change the fact that the current multiple-format marketplace is there." But with Total HD, "you can get all of the content with none of the risk."

Could this be the solution we have been looking for?"
Windows

Submission + - 'Craplets' Could Hurt Vista Launch

Submitted by chromacat
chromacat writes: Uncertified OEM installed applications could cause compatibility problems for Vista users — at least one senior Micrsoft official thinks so.

From the CBC article: "We call them craplets," the official said. The term is a contraction of the words "crap" and "applet."
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Cisco Sues Apple over iPhone Name

Submitted by
PoconoPCDoctor
PoconoPCDoctor writes: "It sounded too good to be true — that two corporate giants could work out a deal behind the scenes to help each other.

The other shoe has dropped, and Apple is being sued by Cisco over the use of Cisco's already trademarked "iPhone" name.

From the article...

"Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco's iPhone name," said Mark Chandler, Cisco senior vice president and general counsel, in a statement. "There is no doubt that Apple's new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission."

Cisco is seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying Cisco's iPhone trademark.

"Today's iPhone is not tomorrow's iPhone. The potential for convergence of the home phone, cell phone, work phone and PC is limitless, which is why it is so important for us to protect our brand," Chandler added."
The Courts

Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark 556

Posted by samzenpus from the that-didn't-take-long dept.
lucabrasi999 writes "It appears that Apple may be running out of items that they can prefix with the letter "i". Cisco is suing Apple over trademark infringement. Cisco claims to own the rights to the "iPhone" trademark since they purchased Infogear in 2000. Infogear filed for the rights to the trademark in 1996."
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - Play GBA Games on Your Nintendo Wii

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: DCEmu have posted a tutorial that explains how to get Game Boy Advance games on your Nintendo Wii using an Action Replay disc with builtin Freeloader and also Datels Advance Game Port which plugs into a Gamecube Memory Card slot on the Nintendo Wii, using this tutorial will allow you to play all your GBA games and even homebrew if you have the hardware needed.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Cisco Sues Apple Over use of iPhone Name

Submitted by
IronThrone
IronThrone writes: "MacWorld.com reports that Cisco Systems, owner of Linksys, is suing Apple Inc. over the use of the name iPhone for its new cellphone device announced in Steve Job's Keynote address yesterday at the Macworld convention. Cisco has filed an injunction with the federal courts to stop Apple from using the name iPhone for its new device, which will be a merger of smartphone and iPod technologies. Cisco spokesman John Noh told reporters that they have been in negotiations with Apple for over two years to license the name, but as of the night before the Keynote, no agreement was signed. While the Apple phone is not scheduled to be released until June 2007, with Apple announcing their iPhone to great media attention, the stakes are high for Apple to resolve this matter swiftly."
Announcements

Submission + - Solar car attempts to break record

Submitted by
snowdon
snowdon writes: "The UNSW solar car, Jaycar Sunswift III, set off yesterday in an attempt to break the world record for a west-to-east crossing of Australia: about 4000km. The previous record stands at 8.5 days, set by Dick Smith and Aurora in 1993, and the team is attempting to complete the journey in less than 6. The car is one of the most advanced ever built, and is the result of several years of undergrad and postgrad volunteer labour. Features of interest: the car's design was refined by performing simulations on a large (80 PC) cluster for three months; the car is constructed almost exclusively using carbon fibre (including suspension and steering components); the car's control, power and telemetry electronics are custom-built and run both Linux and L4/Iguana. You can track the team's progress over the next few days at www.sunswift.com."
Patents

Submission + - Cisco Sues Apple Over "iPhone" Name

Submitted by Luminus
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.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - uClinux on the PSP

Submitted by
chris_mulhearn
chris_mulhearn writes: "I recently ported uClinux-2.4.19 to the Playstation Portable. It doesn't do very much yet, but it does boot into an interactive shell that is accessible through a serial port located on the headphone jack. There is also a minimal statically-linked userland based on sources in the uClinux-dist package. Check it out here."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark

Submitted by Random Utinni
Random Utinni writes: Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court over Apple's use of Cisco's registered iPhone trademark for its new handheld device. It seems that Apple tried to force the negotiations, and it backfired...
Businesses

Do You Tell a Job Candidate How Badly They Did? 702

Posted by Cliff from the let-the-job-market-sort-it-out dept.
skelter asks: "I have been lamenting with friends in the industry about interviewing woes and the candidates that we find. Consider a hypothetical job candidate comes in after some how making it through screening. In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, usher them out and say nothing? Play with them on the whiteboard the way your cat plays with injured mice? Should you leave them as their own warning to others? Is there any obligation to guide them to gaining real experience? Can you give them any advice or is it all liability?"

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