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TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd 215

Posted by kdawson from the satellites-descending dept.
Lorien_the_first_one writes "After years of wrangling, TiVo has won its day in court against Dish Network, formerly known as the EchoStar, when the Supreme Court declined to take up Dish Network's appeal, forcing the satellite television company to pay $104 million in damages. According to the article, 'TiVo originally won a patent infringement case in 2004 against Dish, which was then named EchoStar Communications. It charged that Dish illegally copied its technology, which allows people to pause, rewind, and record live television on digital video recorders.' Despite an injunction, Dish continued distributing its set-top boxes in the belief that the work-around they had implemented avoided infringing TiVo's patents. Now the case goes back to the lower court for review to determine if they did indeed steer clear of those patents."

Scientists Make Item Invisible to Microwaves 219

Posted by Zonk from the on-our-way-to-vulcan-level-tech dept.
Vicissidude writes "A team of American and British researchers has made a cloak of invisibility. In their experiment the scientists used microwaves to try and detect a copper cylinder. Like light and radar waves, microwaves bounce off objects making them visible and creating a shadow, though it has to be detected with instruments. If you can hide something from microwaves, you can hide it from radar and visible light. In effect the device, made of metamaterials — engineered mixtures of metal and circuit board materials, which could include ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite materials — channels the microwaves around the object being hidden. When water flows around a rock, co-author David R. Smith explained, the water recombines after it passes the rock and people looking at the water downstream would never know it had passed a rock. The first working cloak was in only two dimensions and did cast a small shadow, Smith acknowledged. The next step is to go for three dimensions and to eliminate any shadow."

Comment Perception of Wintel Machines (Score 1) 834

by samuel.powell (#12775151) Attached to: Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging
Consider that in the past, Wintel machines were exactly that, Windows + Intel. Often the MS Windows taglines were followed by the "Intel Inside" outro to an advertisment. How would Microsoft feel if Dell advertisments featured "Apple Inside" with that annoying chime at the end. The positive advertisment of Apple combined with the misrepresentation of the relationship (and possible consumer confusion) could no doubt account for a percentage point of sales amongst users not clued into the actual situation.

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