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Comment Actually contacted Psion (Score 1) 234

Actually contacted Psion about this issue-here's what I sent: I'm quite concerned over your firm's recent cease and desist notices to several websites about netbooks because although there is a trademark registrations for that name, it's commonly used to refer to small laptops that run Linux or Windows. I suggest that you reconsider and respect this growing segment by not letting your legal firm sending out such notices to sites that are about small laptops that run Linux or Windows caled "netbooks"-it's harming these site owners and the industry for these. If you continue to assert your rights to the term, other sites and makers of these low-cost laptops will have no choice but to stop using "netbook" and find a alternative term to describe these. So-I would expect Psion-Teklogix to reply saying they don't want people referring to small and low-cost laptops as netbooks. If the site used netbook explicity-then Psion would have the right to send c&d's, if it was netbooks (do they have a trademark on the plural word netbooks?)-then not.
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Roland Piquepaille alerts us to work by US and Israeli researchers who have developed software that can identify the subject of an image characterized using only 256 to 1024 bits of data. The researchers said this "could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a basis for computers to see like humans do." As an example, they've picked up about 13 million images from the Web and stored them in a searchable database of just 600 MB, making it possible to search for similar pictures through millions of images in less than a second on a typical PC. The lead researcher, MIT's Antonio Torralba, will be presenting the research next month at a conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

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