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Submission + - Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany (bbc.com)

Submitted by Celexi
Celexi writes: In a surprising move, Motorola mobility which is to be taken over by Google, has won an injunction preventing the distribution of windows 7 and the xbox in Germany until Microsoft starts paying royalty fees for the patents Microsoft is said to be infringing( two patents needed used to display H.264). The ruling is suspended as of now because of an restraining order, the effect in the rest of the EU and US if the ban is enforced if the restraining order is lifted, is unclear.
Apple

Submission + - Apple blocks Dropbox-based apps (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
Barence
Barence writes: "Apple is rejecting apps that use the new Dropbox SDK because they inadvertently allow users to buy extra online storage without Apple taking a cut.

Online storage service Dropbox is commonly used by iOS developers as a way of allowing users to share files created within their apps to other devices.

Dropbox's latest SDK has incurred the wrath of Apple, because users who don't have the Dropbox app installed on their iPhone/iPad are instead pushed to Dropbox's website via the Safari browser. Here, they can click a link to the desktop version of the service, which allows them to buy extra Dropbox storage without Apple taking its usual 30% cut.

"Apple should reject all web browser apps because they can take you to a page that lets you purchase stuff," writes one infuriated developer. "Go Apple! Crack down on all commerce!""

Comment Microsoft's online encryption has always been bad (Score 2) 453

by Celexi (#39800917) Attached to: Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires
Hotmail's default isn't SSL as far i know, and their chat service isn't ssl or encrypted or even able to run encrypted ( unlike google's chat/XMPP). So it isn't exactly safe, not long ago someone was trying an dictionary attack of some sort for days on my MSN messenger account as it prevented me from logging in due to "too many password attempts" . ( when i had not been the one doing those attempts.)
Spam

Submission + - California Appeals Court Rules that Anonymous Domain Name Service Is Illegal. (wordpress.com) 1

Submitted by
www.sorehands.com
www.sorehands.com writes: "Last week, a California Court of Appeals upheld the trial court decision awarding Dan Balsam $7,000.00 in damages and $81,900 in attorney fees and costs.

The court found that the Defendants use of Godaddy's Domains by Proxy service for the domain names in the headers was sufficient to make the headers deceptive where there was no other identifier in the from lines to identify Trancos as the sender was illegal as a matter of law. In a past case, I successfully argued that these types of domain name anonymity service makes the provider of the service liable as the owner of the domain name.

This case also endorsed the ruling in Hypertouch v. Valueclick, which found that the California law is not preempted by the I-CAN-SPAM Act."
Privacy

Submission + - PayPal Revises Privacy Policy, User Agreement Policy 1

Submitted by wiedzmin
wiedzmin writes: PayPal announced that they are following Google's suit in changing of both its privacy and user agreement policies, adding tweaks to its customer identification program and the way they collect and store its customers’ personal information. The changes will take effect on April 1st and will include the use of session cookies, persistent cookies, flash cookies and pixel tags for user tracking. Additionally, PayPal will reserve the right to limit, suspend or outright cancel any account if date of birth, taxpayer identification number, driver’s license or “other identifying documents” are not provided upon request, for "account verification" purposes. Other ridiculous provisions include their right to demand IRS form 1099-K from customers who receive more that 200 payments a year, and employ all tracking mechanisms on their mobile applications across all platforms.

Comment Re:Any good anti virus software fpr Android? (Score 1) 236

by Celexi (#38558880) Attached to: Fake Antivirus Scams Spread To Android
There is no good antivirus for android, maybe you could mod a linux one. But still it would take long way until it could be used. Big Problem here is the android Market being open, it should at the very least search in applications for malware patterns on the applications uploaded and put them to manual review or something.

Comment All these projects were nice by google. (Score 1) 196

by Celexi (#38558846) Attached to: Google Health's Lifeline Runs Out
However, they really need to focus on their core products and bring them up to par to their competitors, if they did that. They would be leading in thos specific things instead of launching these stupid things every other month or 2 months, like google Talk PC client, has not been updated since 2006 or 2007. And doesn't have the same voice codecs of any of the web versions or video. Not to mention their mess up on google talk and Messenger on google plus. But that is just one of them, i will support google for some more to come. But there is only so much we can have faith on.
Classic Games (Games)

Lost Online Games From the Pre-Web Era 186

Posted by Soulskill from the you-are-no-match-for-my-imperial-starship dept.
harrymcc writes "Long before the Web came along, people were playing online games — on BBSes, on services such as Prodigy and CompuServe, and elsewhere. Gaming historian Benj Edwards has rounded up a dozen RPGs, MUDs, and other fascinating curiosities from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s — and the cool part is: they're all playable on the Web today." What old games were good enough for you to watch them scroll by on your 300 baud modem?
First Person Shooters (Games)

Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany 193

Posted by Soulskill from the sweet-zombie-reagan dept.
gzipped_tar writes "According to Spiegel Online, 'A new computer game where players assume the roles of border guards and shoot people trying to escape from communist East Germany has unleashed a storm of controversy in Germany. The game's creator says he wanted to teach young people about history, but he has been accused of glorifying violence. ... The name of the multi-player FPS game, 1,378 (kilometers), was inspired by the length of the border between East and West Germany. ... [Players] choose between the roles of the border guards or would-be escapees: the escapee only has one goal — to get over the wall, but the border guard has more options, and can shoot or capture the escapee. He can also swap sides and try to clamber over the border defenses himself.' By choosing to play the border guard and kill the escapee, the player would win an in-game medal from the government of East Germany. But then the guard would time-travel forward to the year 2000, where he would have to stand trial. Jens Stober, 23, designed the game as a media art student at the University of Design, Media and Arts in Karlsruhe. He said that his intention was to teach young people about German history."
Social Networks

Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted 305

Posted by Soulskill from the lost-amid-breakfast-descriptions dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Social media is ill-suited to promoting real social change, argues Malcolm Gladwell in this article from The New Yorker magazine. He deftly debunks conventional wisdom surrounding the impact of Twitter, Facebook and other social media in driving systemic social change, comparing them to the organizational strategies of the 1960s civil rights movement. For example, the Montgomery bus boycott, he argues, was successful because it was driven by the disciplined and hierarchically organized NAACP. In contrast, a loose, social-media style network wouldn't have sustained the year long campaign. He concludes that social media promote social 'weak ties' which are not strong enough to motivate people to take big risks, such as imprisonment or attack, for social change."
Image

New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs 322

Posted by samzenpus from the beware-the-big-letters dept.
250,000 street signs in New York City feature street names in capital letters only, which is not the national standard. Having no other issues on the table, The New York City Department of Transportation has decided to fix the problem and put up proper signs featuring both capital and lower-case letters at a cost of $27.5 million. The Transportation Department hopes to have the job completed by 2018 with 11,000 of the most important improperly capitaled signs fixed by the end of the year. Catastrophe averted.

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