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Submission + - Judge imposes Vonage injunction

Submitted by PoundNanog on Friday April 06, 2007 @11:51AM

PoundNanog writes: A judge issued an injunction Friday that effectively bars Internet phone carrier Vonage from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon. Vonage planned an immediate appeal.
Vonage's lawyers said the compromise injunction posted by U.S District Judge Hilton is almost as devastating as an injunction that would have affected Vonage's 2.2 million existing customers.

"It's the difference of cutting off oxygen as opposed to the bullet in the head," Vonage lawyer Roger Warin said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070406/ap_on_hi_te/vo nage_verizon_suit

Submission + - Google founders & CEO take $1 salaries again!

Submitted by

Kensai7

on Friday April 06, 2007 @11:37AM

Kensai7 writes: "PC World reports how "poor" Google top executives and founders are getting (again in 2006) one of the lowest salaries in the industry but at the same time continue growing their billionaire fortunes by being stockholders of their own successful company.

In fact, this is probably the best way to climb quickly the Forbes list: have a revolutionary product/service and invest on thyself early on!"

Submission + - A Brief Look at Free Quake3 Engine Based Games

Submitted by

Thilo2

on Friday April 06, 2007 @10:59AM

Thilo2 writes: "As most of you probably know, id software released the Quake3 engine in summer 2005 under the terms of the GPL, which is now past over two years. Ever wonder what came out of it? Even though the engine is eight years old, just recently two independent projects have released fully featured multiplayers games, weighing in with downloads of about 550 megabytes each. Urban Terror and World of Padman, formerly modifications that required you to have the original Quake III Arena game, can now be played independently as stand-alone versions. Urban Terror combines realistic environments and weaponry with movement similar to Quake3. World of Padman on the other hand is a colorful shooter in comic style giving you fun weapons like water balloons and water pistols to shoot with. Last but not least there is Tremulous, a first person shooter with added real time strategy elements which has been out for quite some time now. Interesting to note, its game data is licensed under a CC license. All three games use an improved Quake3 engine from ioquake3, which has cleaned up the Quake3 source code since its release and made many improvements like OpenAL, Vorbis and SDL support, and thus are available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. If you are willing to compile the engine yourself you can get support for even more platforms like Solaris or *BSD."

Submission + - 5 GHz Power6 Servers Coming Mid-2007

Submitted by cmarkn on Friday April 06, 2007 @09:46AM

cmarkn writes: ComputerWorld reports that IBM is planning to more than double the speed of its servers from 2.2 GHz to 5 GHz, and start shipping these by the middle of this year. Moreover, they plan to do this without turning these servers into power-guzzling toasters by making them more efficient, using “small, 65-nanometer-process geometry, high-bandwidth buses running as fast as 75GB per second and voltage thresholds as low as 0.8 volts”. They hope to reach new customers in commercial database and transaction processing, while holding on to their current servers’ financial and high-performance computing users.

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