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Submission + - CERN Says LHC Offline Until April

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rfunches
rfunches writes: "The Large Hadron Collider will be offline until April 2009 due to last Friday's electrical fault. That incident (covered here on /.) originally resulted in a repair estimate of two months, but officials at CERN said that a planned shutdown in early December to save money on electricity would have left researchers "scant time to run the collider." As a result, the LHC will stay offline until after the winter hiatus. Director-general Robert Aymar called the delay "a psychological blow," but vowed that "we will overcome this setback with the same degree of rigor and application." The LHC had a minor malfunction when it first went online, but researchers were able to run some successful tests before Friday's electrical fault."
Media

Submission + - Blu-ray, HDDVD Target of EU Antitrust Probe (wsj.com)

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rfunches
rfunches writes: "The Wall Street Journal reports that EU antitrust regulators are turning up the heat on the Blu-ray and HD-DVD format consortiums as the European Commission demanded evidence of Hollywood studios' "communications and agreements on the new generation of DVD formats." From the article:

The European Commission, the European Union's executive body, appears to be particularly interested in the activities of the Blu-ray group because of its dominance in Hollywood, according to people familiar with the situation. The commission is investigating whether improper tactics were used to suppress competition and persuade the studios to back their format.
The article points out that all of the major Hollywood studios except Universal are backing Blu-ray; Universal is backing HD-DVD. It also notes that while one industry watcher believes the first format to have an installed base of two million homes will come out on top, there were millions of Betamax units already sold when VHS won out in the format wars of the 80's."
Businesses

Submission + - SCO Group Avoids NASDAQ Delisting

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rfunches
rfunches writes: "The SCO Group has avoided being delisted from NASDAQ, which was reported on /. back in April when SCO's stock price had fallen below the minimum continued listing requirement of $1 per share. Since then the stock has been in the mid-$1 range. However, SCO is not improving financially, as the company's losses continue to mount and revenue from its SCOsource intellectual property has finally dried up."
Patents

Submission + - Vonage's Request for Retrial Denied

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rfunches
rfunches writes: "The New York Times (via Reuters) reports that Vonage's request for a retrial of the patent infringement case brought against the company by Verizon has been denied by a federal appeals court. Vonage had hoped to have the lower court's ruling overturned because of a Supreme Court ruling on Monday. From the article:

"The appeals court said Vonage could cite the new Supreme Court ruling as part of its pending appeal. Vonage had argued that the March 8 infringement verdict in favor of Verizon should be reconsidered after the Supreme Court loosened a crucial legal standard, making it easier to invalidate some patents on the grounds they are obvious inventions."
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