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Submission + - Pirate Bay Defendant Heads For Supreme Court (eweekeurope.co.uk)

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justice4all writes: One of the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial says he will take his appeal bid to the Supreme Court in Sweden

One of the defendants of the Pirate Bay trial, the Swedish tech magnate Carl Lundstrom, has confirmed he will appeal the sentence imposed by a Swedish appeal court, by taking his case to Sweden’s Supreme Court.

Lundstrom, along with his three co-defendants – Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Fredrik Neij – were found guilty of being accessories to copyright violations by a Swedish court back in April 2009.

The copyright test case against The Pirate Bay was brought by the Swedish subsidiaries of leading music and film companies, including Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Brothers.
Google

Submission + - Security Expert Warns Of Android Browser Flaw (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Google is working on a fix to a zero-day flaw that could see Android users’ data being accessed by hackers

A British security expert, Thomas Cannon, has a discovered a potentially serious vulnerability in the Android browser that could lead to a user’s data on their mobile phone or tablet device being exposed to attack. Google confirmed to eWEEK Europe UK that it is currently working on a fix.

Cannon discovered the vulnerability in the Android browser and then informed Google, before posting information about the flaw on his blog.

“While doing an application security assessment one evening I found a general vulnerability in Android which allows a malicious website to get the contents of any file stored on the SD card,” Cannon wrote. “It would also be possible to retrieve a limited range of other data and files stored on the phone using this vulnerability.”
The Internet

Submission + - WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: British company claims to have solved the problem of delivering a reliable broadband connection to people in rural communities.

Deltenna has developed a small, self installable gadget called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler), which uses the 3G mobile network to create a 2Mbps web hotspot. The device sounds similar in concept to devices like Novatel’s MiFi — but Deltenna claims it works even in places where a 3G mobile phone wouldn’t register a signal. The WiBE has five-times the range of a 3G dongle, and can deliver 30-times data throughput as well compared to a 3G USB modem dongle, Deltenna believes
Apple

Submission + - What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) for Business (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman investigates what businesses can expect from Apple's new iOS 4. Multitasking, the biggest new capability, is for now simply a promise, as apps will need to be retrofitted to make use of the capability. The other big new capability for IT, a set of APIs that allow BlackBerry-like management of the iPhone, such as auditing of policies and apps, over-the-air provisioning of apps without iTunes, and over-the-air configuration and policy management, also remains in the realm of promise, as the various mobile management tools that have been reworked to take advantage of the new iOS 4 capabilities won't be available until July or later. And despite the fact that email works more as it does on the desktop, iOS 4 still fails to deliver several email capabilities key to business users, including zipped attachment management, junk mail filtering, message rules, and message flagging."
Government

Submission + - Mastery of RareEarth Elements Vital to US Security (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, recently cautioned members of a Congressional panel that "rare-earth research in the USA on mineral extraction, rare-earth separation, processing of the oxides into metallic alloys and other useful forms, substitution, and recycling is virtually zero." To optimize the use of rare earths in current and future products, scientists combine rare earths with other elements to create alloys intended for specific purposes. Yet the United States and other nations have ceded much of this alloying knowledge to China, Gschneidner said.....[C]urrent methods used to manufacture the magnets produce hazardous byproducts. In contrast, the Ames Lab process eliminates production of these byproducts. Also significant, the Ames Laboratory process has the potential to enable the United States to produce neodymium-iron-boron magnets less expensively.
Science

Submission + - Nokia Targets Mobile Kinetic Energy Charging (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Nokia has filed a US patent for a phone charger that harvests kinetic energy

The technology has been used in laptops, PDAs and GPS receivers, according to Nokia. Essentially, the mobile devices would be powered, in part, through the movements of their owners.
Idle

Submission + - Quarter Of Germans Happy To Have Chip Implants (eweekeurope.co.uk) 1

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: CeBit: If it means shorter lines at the supermarket, a quarter of Germans would be happy to have a chip implanted under their skin

The head of Germany’s main IT trade body told the audience at the opening ceremony of the CeBIT technology exhibition that one in four of his countrymen are happy to have a microchip inserted for ID purposes.
Google

Submission + - Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Microsoft told the US Department of Justice and the European Commission how Google's business practices may be harming publishers, advertisers and competition in search and online advertising

A lawyer for Microsoft confirmed that the software giant told the US Department of Justice and the European Commission how Google’s business practices may be harming publishers, advertisers and competition in search and online advertising.

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