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Submission + - Lawsuit accuses Apple of foxing worker pay (forbes.com)

Submitted by mangu
mangu writes: Siddarth Hariharan, a former software engineer for Lucasfilm, filed a class action suit in California accusing a number of companies of antitrust violations and unfair competition. At the core of the suit is a series of agreements among the corporations, with Apple in the central role, to limit the competition among them for technology workers. Besides Apple, the companies mentioned are Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Google, Intel, and Intuit. Basically, the interconnected agreements consisted in not to “cold call” one another’s employees. Considering that switching jobs is one of the few opportunities a technology worker has to get a significant pay raise these agreements imposed strong limits on career evolution.

Submission + - New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water (gizmag.com)

Submitted by fergus07
fergus07 writes: Scientists at Stanford have developed a battery that uses nanotechnology to create electricity from the difference in salt content between fresh water and sea water. The researchers hope to use the technology to create power plants where fresh-water rivers flow into the ocean. The new "mixing entropy" battery alternately immerses its electrodes in river water and sea water to produce the electrical power.
Piracy

Submission + - CNET sued over LimeWire downloads (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Alki David, the wealthy film producer and entrepreneur behind sites like FilmOn, has sued CNET and its owner, CBS, for providing hundreds of millions of downloads of LimeWire P2P software over the last decade. He argues that CNET had "direct participation in massive copyright infringement on peer-to-peer systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and distribute songs, films and other artistic works," and that CNET's Download.com was the "main distributor" of the software. P2P software isn't illegal, though companies that use it to induce or encourage copyright infringement can be held liable. The principle, most famously articulated by the US Supreme Court in the Grokster shutdown, was extended to LimeWire last year when a federal judge shut down most of the company's activity.

ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/cnet-sued-over-limewire-blamed-for-internet-piracy-phenomenon.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
IOS

Submission + - iOS 5 rumored to bring over-the-air iOS updates (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new report suggests that Apple has plans to eventually include within iOS 5 the ability for users to download iOS updates over the air. As it stands now, iOS updates can only be downloaded via iTunes on a tethered connection. While the feature isn’t expected to be available when iOS 5 launches this Fall, sources relay that Apple is planning to add that functionality in subsequent iOS 5.x updates.

Comment Re:All bets are off! (Score 1) 537

by ThePromenader (#36032214) Attached to: Chinese iPad Factory Staff Forced To Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge

In China, there is no voting, as it's an authoritarian government, so they don't have to worry about placating the voters, except to keep them from rioting too much. For this reason, I'd say things are probably a lot more honest over there.

...yet things were pretty scary during the Bush/Cheney years - "Freedom of speech zones"? Yes, China and the US' economy/government power balances are almost perfect opposites, but they are both headed towards a common middle ground: the merging of economy (corporation) and state.

I can't remember the name of the (horrible) movie I was watching, but it began with a description of a war between the North American and Eurasian corporations. I don't think I even finished the film, but that scenario really rang a bell.

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