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PlayStation (Games)

PC Style Gameplay To The PlayStation 3

Submitted by
mewt
mewt writes "Innovative peripheral maker SplitFish GameWare, Inc today officially announced the company's upcoming FragFX game controller for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The patent pending FragFX features a separate right hand mouse controller and detachable left hand grip controller, ideal for experiencing the traditional PC mouse and keyboard style gameplay of shooter games in a console environment. Read the Full story at LucidLAN"
Music

RIAA Backs Down After Receiving Stern Letter

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In SONY BMG v. Merchant, in California, the defendant's lawyer wrote the RIAA a rather stern letter recounting how weak the RIAA's evidence is, referring to the deposition of the RIAA's expert witness (see Slashdot commentary), and threatening a malicious prosecution lawsuit. The very same day the RIAA put its tail between its legs and dropped the case, filing a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal. About an hour earlier NYCL had termed the letter a "model letter"; maybe he was right."
The Internet

ICC to YouTube - Remove Cricket World Cup Clips

Submitted by
kalyanbk
kalyanbk writes "The International Cricket Council has ordered World Cup Clips to be taken off YouTube as copyright infringement http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/cur rent/story/287319.html However cricket has only 10 full-time countries and the majority of people are deprived of watching the world cup if resident in other countries or have to pay exorbitant amounts to catch the action. Even within the 10 countries television channels fight to get exclusive rights on Pay Per View and it is estimated around 75% of the cricketing world does not have easy access to cricket. Others pay through their nose for PPV or put up with endless ads to the tune of 2/3 ads every 4 minutes and also running ads on screen throughout the game. Fans have rushed feedback that YouTube clips, encourage more people to watch the game. http://usa.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/sto ry/287326.html The ICC administrators has been accused of placing money over the game, making the matches meaningless and taking fun out of the game. This has been one of the reasons alleged to give rise to Illegal betting and match fixing. These illegal betting syndicates are one of the suspects to be behind the murder of Bob Woolmer the coach of Pakistan the day after they crashed out in the first round of the world cup upsetting bookies calculations. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/cur rent/story/287377.html"
Movies

China: 1.6 Million Pirated DVDs Seized

Submitted by Nihaoma
Nihaoma writes "Chinese officials seized 1.6 million illegal DVDs in southern China in the country's largest anti-piracy haul of the year, a film industry group said Monday. The midnight raid on the DVD factory and storage center in the city of Guangzhou turned up pirated versions of Chinese, American, Korean and Japanese movies and TV shows, according to the Motion Picture Association, which said it tipped off the authorities"
Novell

De Icaza Pleads For Mono/.Net Cooperation 262

Posted by kdawson
from the talk-to-me dept.
suka writes "In a recent interview with the online edition of an Austrian newspaper, Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for cooperation between Mono and Microsoft's .Net: 'I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration'. The whole interview has some other interesting bits, like de Icaza's thoughts on open sourced Java and information about upcoming versions of Mono."
Windows

Vista Sales Numbers Don't Add Up

Submitted by Overly Critical Guy
Overly Critical Guy writes "Vista's sales numbers don't add up according to Joe Wilcox of Microsoft-Watch. Going through the numbers and citing NPD, Gartner, and IDC, Wilcox describes the difference between licenses sold to manufacturers and actual consumer purchases, noting that there haven't been 20 million PCs sold since Jan. 30, contrary to Microsoft's numbers. In fact, only 3 million PCs have been sold since the start of the year."
Security

Government's quantum science push moves forward

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes "The government's interest in all things related to Quantum Information Science continued this week with a couple contracts awarded to BBN Technologies and HRL Laboratories. First, BBN, was awarded an almost $3.5 million increment of a $14 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to continue work on military applications of quantum information science. The applications and/or contract is expected to be completed in May 2010. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1298 6"
Software

Collaboration Equals Knowledge Gain

Submitted by jamesrayge
jamesrayge writes "How do social networks fit within the corporate structure? At first glance it might seem that communities like MySpace, designed to bring strangers together en masse, are inappropriate for the cloistered life of the enterprise worker. But the laboratory of the Web, as so often, shows the way with a new kind of social network... http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archi ve/2007/03/27/collaboration-equals-knowledge-gain. aspx"

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