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Luxpro Sues Apple for Damages and 'Power Abuse' 62

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:57PM from the not-sure-they-would-have-made-a-hundred-million dept.

Dystopian Rebel writes "The Financial Times reports that Taiwanese company Luxpro (discussed on Slashdot last year) intends to sue Apple for US$100M for 'lost revenue caused by Apple's abuse of their global power.' In 2005, Apple obtained an injunction against Luxpro's Super Shuffle/Super Tangent but the Taiwanese Supreme Court has overturned the injunction, opening the door to Luxpro's legal action. From the article: 'The [Luxpro] product had almost the same measurements and weight, came in a white plastic casing and had similar buttons on the front. Its name, Super Shuffle, also closely resembled the original.'"

Submission + - Michigan county launches free WiFi network

Submitted by

hlovy

on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:37PM

hlovy writes: "Wireless Oakland is part of a longer-term plan to "close the digital divide" by first blanketing the county's 910 square miles with free Internet service, then providing "low-cost or no-cost" computers and training to the county's "underserved population groups." Story and video can be found here."

Submission + - Over 105,000 petition against UK vehicle tracking

Submitted by stevenjbaker on Friday January 05, 2007 @01:35PM

stevenjbaker writes: Today, the UK Prime Minister's petitions site clocked up over 105,000 signatures against vehicle tracking for road pricing. It would be bad enough if they hadn't already looked at "Intelligent speed adaptation", similarly powered by sat nav...

UK "subjects" sign up here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

See how the petition dwarfs all others here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/list/open?sort=signers

Submission + - Linux deployments will surge in '07, analyst says

Submitted by

Jane Walker

on Friday January 05, 2007 @11:00AM

Jane Walker writes: "There's no stopping Linux now. A new survey shows that over the next five years Linux will surge into mission-critical enterprise deployments to the tune of a 50% market share by 2011."

Submission + - Simple solution to Minimal Enclosing Circle

Submitted by on Friday January 05, 2007 @10:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: Prof. Felix Friedman developed a simple and elegant solution for Minimal Enclosing Circle (finding the smallest circle enclosing a set of points.) Friedman's algorithm is O(n), can work 'on-line' (before all points are known,) and can be extended to higher dimensions. Because he teaches at a little-known state university in eastern Pennsylvania, he doesn't seem to be getting the recognition that comes with such a major advance in a problem well-studied for 150 years.

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