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Submission + - Microsoft attack Google over 'fair use'

Submitted by Theendisnigh on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:39AM

Theendisnigh writes: Quoted from the Guardian online: "Microsoft will today launch a blistering attack on Google, accusing the Silicon Valley giant of a "cavalier" attitude to copyright.
In a prepared speech to the American Association of Publishers, senior Microsoft lawyer Tom Rubin is expected to hit out at Google for profiting from other people's work.
"Companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the backs of other people's content, are raking in billions through advertising revenue and IPOs," he says."

Complete Guardian story available here.

Submission + - Latest iTunes update hints at Apple TV Games!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:25AM

An anonymous reader writes: "The latest release of iTunes, numbered 7.1, brings clear evidence that the Apple TV will be able to play games as users on the Internet noticed that it makes reference in its resource files to an Apple TV Games syncing feature." More info and explanation on how to verify this in your own copy of iTunes (Mac) can be found on MacScoop.

Submission + - Scots sherrif gets medieval on spammers

Submitted by

David Off

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @08:59AM

David Off writes: "A spammer has been ordered to pay £750 compensation and £616.66 in costs to the recipient of unsolicited commercial email. It is a landmark ruling as it is the first time a UK court has set a level of compensation for junk email. The private prosecution was brought by Gordon Dick under under European Union wide antispam law which makes it illegal to send junk electronic mail. Mr Dick told Edinburgh Sheriff Court that his email address had been "harvested" from a group where he was a member in contravention of the Data Protection Act and EU electronic privacy legislation. The spam mail had been sent to 72,000 recipients. Mr Dick is himself electronic marketing specialist has set up his own website ScotchSpam to highlight and help others with the problem of spam email."

Submission + - Google rumoured to be making a cell phone

Submitted by on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @08:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to Cnet, rumours of a Google cell phone are starting to spread like wildfire. It questions, however, whether or not this is just "a case of mobile phone fanboys having a copy of Photoshop CS2 and too much time on their hands? Or worse still, is this a case of tech writers being so keen to see new and exciting products that any blurry image will get us hyping it up as if it were real?" I personally think it's definitely a case of tech writers getting over excited, it's extremely unlikely that Google will ever make a cell phone but as the article points out, you never know.

Submission + - New zero day flaw found in Microsoft Word

Submitted by filenavigator on Sunday December 10, 2006 @09:19PM

filenavigator writes: A new zero day flaw that affects Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003 and the Word Viewer 2003 has been announced by Microsoft. This is a totally different flaw than the one found last week. No word from Microsft yet as to when patches will be released for both flaws.

Submission + - Java EE & Streaming Architectures

Submitted by

Amin Ahmad

on Sunday December 10, 2006 @07:54PM

Amin Ahmad writes: "Implementing a streaming architecture on a Java EE application server provides asymptotically better memory performance, and, hence, scalability, than current, widely-implemented, Java EE patterns endorsed by Sun. This article provides a concrete implementation of a streaming architecture and compares its scalability to two other, standard implementations: Remote EJB and Local EJB-based solutions. The implementation based on a streaming architecture comes out the hands-down winner: for example, when sending back 300 rows of data to the client, the Local EJB solution fails beyond 16 concurrent users whereas the streaming solution is still running at 128 concurrent users! The article includes complete source code and the entire results database for the stress test. I would be interested in hearing your feedback."

Vista the End of An Era? 446

Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 10, 2006 @07:25PM from the dinosaurs-die-out dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Times Online has an article about the uncertain future of Windows. Even Microsoft, it seems is admitting that Vista will be the last OS of its kind. With the push towards a constant presence on the internet, and the churn that entails, the company has admitted that even with a two year delay 'it is not really ready'." From the article: "Security experts are acknowledging that Vista is the most secure of Windows to date. However, 'The bad guys will always target the most popular systems,' Mikko Hypponen, of F-Secure, the security group, said. 'Vista's vulnerability to phishing attacks, hackers, viruses and other malicious software will increase quickly.' But the current fear is that the Internet will kill Windows, with Google being Public Enemy No. 1: 'Microsoft is way behind Google when it comes to the internet,' Rupert Godwins, the technology editor at ZDNet, the industry website, said. 'Building Vista, Microsoft is still doing things the old way at the same time as it undergoes a big shift to catch up.'"

Submission + - Top 5 Wii Downfalls

Submitted by

Deathspawner

on Sunday December 10, 2006 @07:07PM

Deathspawner writes: "Since the Wii has been released there has been mostly great things said about it. Techgage has found more wrong than right with the console however, and lays out five prime reasons where the Wii fails and should be improved. Some of the features picked on include the subpar online Virtual Console selection, clunky setup and even the reason the Wii is popular to begin with."

Submission + - Torrentspy Reemed By Malicious Ads

Submitted by

Magoo

on Sunday December 10, 2006 @02:49PM

Magoo writes: "Torrentspy is displaying a warning on the search pages of its site explicitly warning users about the malicious advertisements it is currently showing it's users. More details here... unless you want to throw on NoScript and check it out for yourself."

Journal Journal: Questioning the Second Amendment 16

Journal by Timex on Sunday December 10, 2006 @02:45PM

Scope of 2nd Amendment Questioned
By MATT APUZZO
The Associated Press
Thursday, December 7, 2006; 8:49 PM
WASHINGTON -- In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.

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