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Court gives Qualcomm reprieve during appeal, will allow 3G phone imports
Imports of new 3G handset models containing Qualcomm chips found to infringe on Broadcom patents can continue for the time being. An appeals court has stayed an ITC ruling blocking their importation.Read More...
Nintendo remains dominant in this month's NPD numbers
As the console wars rages on, Nintendo remains on top while Microsoft widens the gap between it and Sony, even selling the most copies of Madden at launch for the first time.Read More...
Verizon unhappy with 700MHz open access requirements, sues FCC
Verizon wants a federal appeals court to overturn the FCC's open access requirements for next year's 700MHz spectrum auction. Read More...
Google announces the Google Lunar X PRIZE
Google are stumping up $30 million to spur private teams into landing a probe on the moon's surface by 2014.Read More...
Dutch police shut down DVD piracy plant
A DVD production plant in the Netherlands that had gone bankrupt was put to new use by a group of organized pirates, churning out thousands illegal copies of movies and music to be sold on the street. Dutch police have shut down the plant, but the IFPI is taking the incident very seriously.Read More...
New hard drive tech could double storage densities
A bit of theoretical pondering may provide the way forward to increasing storage densities on hard drive systems.Read More...
Googlebomb the Polish president, go to jail
A prank that returned the Polish president as the number one search result for the word "kutas" (penis) has landed a young Polish hacker in jail.Read More...
FBI accused of using illegal letters for illegal information requests
New revelations surfaced this week that FBI's already-improper "exigent letters" to telecom providers included a request for information about the suspect's "community of interest." Fulfilling those requests likely required analyzing the calling records of numerous people not related to any investigation.Read More...
Report: fair use adds $2.2 trillion to US economy each year
A new report uses the methods normally designed to measure the economic effects of copyright to find out just how much fair use contributes to US economic growth.Read More...
Autodesk sued for $10 million after invoking DMCA to stop eBay resales
A Seattle man has filed suit against Autodesk, the creators of AutoCAD, for abusing the DMCA in order to have his eBay auctions for legal versions of the company's software removed. Autodesk claims that its license agreement limits the resale of the software, but the man says that the doctrine of first sale can't just be signed away by a shrinkwrapped EULA.Read More...
Defendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"
A South Carolina woman who say she has been mistakenly targeted by the RIAA fights back, pointing out that the court system isn't meant to be used to fix a broken business model.Read More...
UK's mobile telecom research program says cell phones are safe
The UK's Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme has issued a status report on the known health risks of phone and wireless communications use, concluding that there are none that they can currently detect.Read More...
Microsoft to tweak search in Vista SP1 in response to concerns
Microsoft has published documentation that explains how developers can integrate third-party search tools into Windows Vista. Although it's easy for developers to change the default search program, it falls short of what Google has been asking for.Read More...