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Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Apple to re-enter the sub-notebook market

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has plans to reenter the sub-notebook market this year. FTFA: "This new tiny MacBook, people familiar with the project say, remains in development ahead of its target launch date around the time WWDC rolls around mid-year. It will be both lighter and more compact than any other Mac portable Apple has put forth in recent years, bundling a display of similarly smaller proportions."

http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2500

Feed World Business Briefing | Europe: Finland: Layoffs at Nokia (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed
The Nokia Corporation said it would lay off up to 700 people globally, mostly in its enterprise business operation, to increase efficiency and improve competitiveness. The layoffs, expected within the next few months, include 340 workers in Finland. The cuts will affect research and development, related sales and marketing, as well as internal information technology operations, the company said. Nokia said it would try to transfer some workers to different posts.

Feed Russian Judge Dismisses Any Penalty In Piracy Case (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed
MOSCOW, Feb. 15 — A Russian judge convicted a provincial school headmaster on Thursday for using pirated Microsoft software in school computers, but declined to impose any penalty, saying that Microsoft’s loss was insignificant compared with its overall earnings.
Sony

Submission + - Sydney Newspaper: Hooray for Blu-ray!

Submitted by
Richard Manley
Richard Manley writes: "GWN have an interesting post up regarding a news piece they spotted in the Sydney Morning Herald today:

"Sydney Morning Herald claims "HD DVD movies are difficult to find, barring a few titles from Universal Pictures". "We don't want to be selling $1000 clocks," said retailer JBHiFi, referring to the fact that buying an expensive high-definition player is useless if there are no corresponding movies."

Read the full article here."
Security

Submission + - Security analyst for Sandia wins lawsuit

Submitted by DeQuincey
DeQuincey writes: The Register is reporting that Shawn Carpenter, the security analyst at Sandia National Laboratories who was fired for investigating attacks on SNL, has been awarded $4.7 Million. Carpenter investigated the attacks, dubbed "Titan Rain," despite his employer's refusal to approve the action. He contacted the FBI about the attacks and they were aware of this activities. Despite this, Sandia didn't take it lightly and terminated his employment.
Microsoft

Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy 252

Posted by CowboyNeal from the off-the-hook dept.
Piracy Support Line writes "Russian principal Alexander Ponosov will not be visiting Siberia any time soon, at least not for the allegedly illegal Microsoft software that were preloaded on the computers they bought and Microsoft supported the reseller's story. Although Bill Gates rejected Mikhail Gorbachev's personal appeal for mercy on behalf of the teacher, the judge was kinder. Judge Elvira Mosheva decided to dismiss the case because 'Microsoft's financial damage is too insignificant for a criminal investigation.'"
Education

Submission + - Teacher + porn malware + students = 40 yr sentence

Submitted by nettework
nettework writes: A jury in Norwich, CT has has convicted substitute teacher Julie Amero on four counts of risk of injury to a minor because she was viewing porn on the classroom computer during class. The 40-year-old and married Amero, who "did not even know how to turn off a monitor", was in charge of the class when the classroom computer (which was not behind a firewall because the school had failed to pay the bill) began spewing out pornographic images in windows she couldn't close. Because of a legal technicality, the jurors weren't allowed to see the full testimony of computer forensics experts Herb Horner, who (surprisingly!) discovered that the computer was infested with malware and spyware and that these pop-up images were the result. From a juror in the case:

The bottom line was that it didn't make a difference who or how the porn sites showed up on the computer...If you and your wife were watching an xxx rated movie the you put into the dvd player, you powered it up and you hit play, then went into the other room for a snack and your child or grandchild entered the room would you expect your wife to stop the dvd or just let it play because she didn't start it. No you would be upset as all get out.
She faces up to 40 years in prison, and her sentencing is March 2.
Programming

Submission + - Is Homebrew coming of age?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I saw this on Evil Avatar today. A blog called the pensive gamer has taken a look at how close we are to having homebrew readily available without hacks and modchips on all three consoles. While today's post looked at Xbox 360 (xna coding), they also looked at the Wii (web) and PS3 (linux and web). http://blogs.spouting-tech.com/thepensivegamer/200 7/02/here_comes_home_2.html
Handhelds

Camera Phones Read Hidden Messages in Print 126

Posted by CowboyNeal from the go-go-gadget-decoder dept.
pikine writes "As reported by BBC News, Fujitsu has developed a technology that encodes 12-bytes of information in a printed picture by skewing yellow hue, which is difficult to discern by human eye but fairly easy for camera phones to decode using software written in Java." The first target uses are promotional contests and competitions, not entirely unlike those game pieces that need to be viewed through a colored filter.

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