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Submission + - Physicists create model solar system with Trojan A

Submitted by Rocky Mudbutt
Rocky Mudbutt writes: Physorg.com reports that graduate students at Rice University have created a Rydberg atom with a comma shaped wave function that mimics the Trojan asteroids associated with Jupiter. Using a linearly polarized sinusoidal electric field whose period slowly increased, the electron wave function was coerced into an orbit approximately the size of a period. Measuring this has shown that Bohr's prediction is correct, the classical and quantum descriptions of the orbiting electron wave packets match.

For the paper see Creating and Transporting Trojan Wave Packets.
Microsoft

Submission + - Nokia Numbers Show Microsoft's Mobile Madness (informationweek.com)

Submitted by
gManZboy
gManZboy writes: "Nokia said it "sold" 1 million Lumia devices in the fourth quarter (in quotations because there is no easy way to tell how many units actually made it to consumers or are simply idling in channel inventories). That means every Windows Phone 7 device Nokia shipped in Q4 cost Microsoft $250, minus the royalty. That's for phones, like the Lumia 710, that can be bought for $50 or less with a standard carrier contract.

Ordinarily, this would be madness. Even a kid with a lemonade stand knows you're supposed to sell stuff for more than it costs to make. But these are not normal times at Redmond. Microsoft's willingness to extend what is basically a billion-dollar bribe to Nokia, still the world's biggest handset maker by volume, to ditch Symbian and use Windows Phone as its default OS shows how desperate the software maker is to get back into the mobile race, where it badly trails Apple and Google."

Submission + - Italian scientists demonstrate cold fusion

Submitted by Rocky Mudbutt
Rocky Mudbutt writes: Here we go again. Using a nickel/hydrogen process, Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna generated steam producing more energy than input.
  An eyewitness report (pdf) confirms the production of steam greater than the energy supplied with no chemical process involving hydrogen. A paper (pdf) gives details on their incomplete understanding of the process.
Businesses

Submission + - EU bans sock-puppet blogs

Submitted by PhilipMarlowe9000
PhilipMarlowe9000 writes: Businesses which write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from "falsely representing oneself as a consumer".

        From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they can be named and shamed by trading standards or taken to court.

        The Times has learnt that the new regulations also will apply to authors who praise their own books under a fake identity on websites such as Amazon.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/art icle1361968.ece
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Ex-Box: The Death of Microsoft's Xbox

Submitted by
Tyler Treat
Tyler Treat writes: "I think it's safe to say that the Xbox has officially passed away (it's no longer being manufactured). It had a decent run, and gave Sony's PlayStation 2 a run for its money. However, instead of letting it fade away into the grave of lost consoles, let's look back at the good times. (Full Story | Digg)"
Nintendo

Submission + - Nintendo Rewards Southwest's Frequent Fliers

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njkid1
njkid1 writes: "Nintendo and Southwest Airlines announced today a special collaboration. Fifty of Southwest's Rapid Rewards Members have been mailed a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, apparently marking the first time Southwest has teamed with an outside company for such a reward. These Rapid Rewards Members have, in total, flown more than 79.2 million miles and spent more than 132,854 hours in the air. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=15183&n cid=AOLGAM000500000000007"
Games

Submission + - Videogames Improve Vision by Rewiring Your Brain

Submitted by
Crucial
Crucial writes: "For those of you who are sick of people telling you that Videogames do nothing but rot your brain, here's a brief article that proves them wrong. The article states that games like Unreal Tournament can actually cause the brain to utilize different paths to process visual stimuli."
Perl

Submission + - Advanced XML parsing techniques using Perl

Submitted by IndioMan
IndioMan writes: This article shows you how to convert an XML document using Perl into a tree of objects in memory. Most Perl programmers find this approach more natural, and it is indeed more convenient. It then introduces you to SAX and event-based parsing, an entirely different style of programming, one that turns out to be very rich, using the SAX pipeline.
The Courts

Submission + - Big Win for Innocent RIAA Defendant

Submitted by
lpq
lpq writes: "
Good news for an "almost" victim of the RIAA: "she's won back her attorneys' fees. The decision today is one of the first in the country to award attorneys fees to a defendant in an RIAA case over music sharing on the Internet." Another, similar "writeup: Court Awards Wrongly Sued Woman Legal Fees From The RIAA; Calls Lawsuits Frivolous And Unreasonable "
Yipee-kiyi-yeay!
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