Comment Re:I can fully understand the operators (Score 2, Insightful) 329

by the_unknown_soldier on Friday January 08, 2010 @09:32PM (#30703252) Attached to: Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints

Where I come from telcos support the phones they sell... I can't see how that's 'naive' since that's how it works in most of the world...

Comment dupe (Score 1) 180

by the_unknown_soldier on Thursday September 20, 2007 @05:45AM (#20678563) Attached to: 12 Year Old Gets $6.5M for Gaming Company

Not only is this story almost certainly a dupe, it's also over 4 months old.

Submission + - Software companies sues popular Australian forum (whirlpool.net.au) 3

Submitted by Pugzly on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:25AM

Pugzly writes: In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system...

Nanostructured Li-ion Batteries for Electric Cars 153

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @01:49AM from the total-overkill-but-totally-appreciated dept.

schliz writes "Researchers at the Delft University of Technology are developing nanostructured batteries that are expected to deliver more usage between charges, and shorter charge/discharge times, to mobile consumers within the next five years. The batteries will improve electric and hybrid vehicles, researchers say."

Wikipedia Covers April Fool's Hoaxes 129

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @08:25PM from the check-out-what-you-missed dept.

vladd_rom writes "Wikipedia maintains an up to date list with April Fools hoaxes from this year. The list already includes hundreds of entries. Among the most popular, one could find Google Romance, a new Google.com project, Google Browser, as well as Yahoo!'s desire to buy all Web 2.0 companies on the web. However, it seems that this year hoaxes will be more interconnected: the wiki page already includes some websites that announced that they have been bought by Yahoo!, and linked to Yahoo!'s blog post from their pages."

Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims 174

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 18, 2006 @01:31AM from the talking-crazy dept.

CRIAWatch writes "The Canadian Recording Industry Association has quietly issued a new study that contradicts many of its own claims about the impact of P2P usage on the music industry. Michael Geist summarizes the 144 page study by noting that the research 'concludes that P2P downloading constitutes less than one-third of the music on downloaders' computers, that P2P users frequently try music on P2P services before they buy, that the largest P2P downloader demographic is also the largest music buying demographic, and that reduced purchasing has little to do with the availability of music on P2P services.'"