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Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @02:45AM from the super-mario-takedown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"

Comment Ban speech (Score 2, Funny) 103

by ohnoitsavram on Monday November 30, 2009 @07:54PM (#30277270) Attached to: India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones

Geez if the idea is to fight terrorism and fraud by raising the costs of distance communication why not just raise the costs of communication altogether and outlaw people talking to each other in general.

Submission + - Nvidia's DX11 GF100 graphics processor detailed (techreport.com)

Submitted by J. Dzhugashvili on Monday November 23, 2009 @09:51PM

J. Dzhugashvili writes: While it's played up the general-purpose computing prowess of its next-gen GPU architecture, Nvidia has talked little about Fermi's graphics capabilities—so much so that some accuse Nvidia of turning its back on PC gaming. Not so, says The Tech Report in a detailed architectural overview of GF100, the first Fermi-based consumer graphics processor. Alongside a wealth of technical information, the article includes enlightening estimates and direct comparisons with AMD's Radeon HD 5870. The GF100 will be up to twice as fast as the GeForce GTX 285, the author reckons, but the gap with the Radeon HD 5870 should be "a bit more slender." Still, Nvidia may have the fastest consumer GPU ever on its hands—and far from forsaking games, Fermi has been built as a graphics processor first and foremost.

Submission + - Fedora 12's package installation policy tightened (redhat.com) 1

Submitted by AdamWill on Friday November 20, 2009 @01:26AM

AdamWill writes: In response to Slashdot's earlier story about Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see the official announcement and the development mailing list post for more details.

Submission + - GIMP dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 (digitizor.com) 2

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Thursday November 19, 2009 @01:53AM

kai_hiwatari writes: It seems like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. So they are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. This actually feels like a good reason as most people uses GIMP as a "Paint"-like software.

Submission + - TASER to switch from shocks to IT (techtarget.com)

Submitted by eekygeeky on Thursday November 19, 2009 @12:49AM

eekygeeky writes: TASER Int'l, best known for stun guns that usually don't kill people, has started a "secure cloud" built on Cisco's UCS and VMware that supposedly guarantees a simon-pure 'chain-of-evidence' that can be used in court, for video, audio, GPS, and incident data from head cams and tasers mounted on police officers. VP of Network Development Vince Stephens says the service will be the mainstay of company revenue in two years, begging...lots of questions.

Submission + - Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @12:50PM

MikeChino writes: Working in partnership with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Berry Plastics has rolled out a new breed of bomb-proof wallpaper. Dubbed the X-Flex Blast Protection System, the wallpaper is so effective that a single layer can keep a wrecking ball from smashing through a brick wall, and a double layer can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4) from knocking down drywall. According to its designers, covering an entire room takes less than an hour.

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