Category
Sharman Networks, Ltd., owners of the KaZaA peer-to-peer file-sharing network, have sued entertainment companies for copyright infringement. Yep, that's right, the company that makes it possible to swap bootleg digital music is suing the music companies.
Just a few minutes ago, a federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled to ban the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Do Not Call (no telemarketing) list. Lawyers for the FTC will file an appeal.
California Governor Gray Davis must be bucking for the Geek vote in the October 7th special election in which he could be recalled from office. Today he stood tough and signed an antispam law that prohibits anyone from sending unsolicted commmercial e-mail (UCE, aka spam) to a California e-mail address.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will launch its new 64-bit Athlon microprocessor tomorrow. This chip gives AMD a significant edge over rival Intel. Microsoft is slated to release a version of the Windows operating system optimized to run on AMD's new chip, forcing Intel to model the AMD component architecture or convince Microsoft to create a Windows version for the as-yet-unreleased 64-bit chip from Intel.
[ News.com ] has an article about some MIT graduates building something anologous to Bluetooth using magnetic fields. Seems like this could be used in some "gee whiz!" sorts of ways but a 4-foot transmission radius seems awful small to be of any wide-scale use. In other news, applications for replacement credit cards and repairs of analog watches seen skyrocketing.
We all know that when we type in a URL and do a typo we normally will get a DNS error on our browser. Well is seems Verisign in an attempt to re-direct those typo's to a page that have designed will cause havoc in the e-mail arena. This will get very ugly before it's all over and I would
IMing, shorthand for Instant Messaging, could waste a lot of valuable business time. Even though IM could be a digital replacement to the office water cooler, replacing the physical congregating to swap office gossip and the athletic spreads, IM seems to be used appropriately.