Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
chill writes "Skype's co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor consortium. In exchange, Friis and Zennstrom will join the investor consortium and obtain a 14 percent stake in Skype. The other consortium partners,...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
An anonymous reader writes "A visually impaired gamer has sued Sony because game products allegedly violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. 'According to the suit, Sony ignored repeated requests through postal mail and e-mail to come up with reasonable modifications to its games to make them more accessible.' This suit seems to be a combination of National Federation of the Blind v. Target,...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Goatbert writes "Rafael Rivera over at WithinWindows.com has found evidence that Microsoft has potentially stolen code from an open source/GPL'd project (ImageMaster) for a utility made available on the Microsoft Store to allow download customers to copy the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Flash Drive. If Rivera's evidence holds up, this could be some serious egg in the face for Microsoft...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
TechnologyResource writes "More than two years ago in California, a police officer wrote Shaun Malone a ticket for going 62mph in a 45-mph zone. Malone was ordered to pay a $190 fine, but his parents appealed the decision, saying data from a GPS tracking system they installed in his car to monitor his driving proved he was not speeding. What ensued was the longest court battle over a speeding...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
alphadogg writes "Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device. 'MARS customers can expect non-Cisco network device data...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Tell other TeleRead community members when you spot e-book-related products steeply discounted. Some holiday bargains—although I didn’t spot an e-book one—are already online. Black Friday is officially the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday is the first Monday after BF. Related: Internetnews and Techmeme roundup on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
fulldecent writes "The New Hampshire Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that calls into question the legal protections available to independent Web sites that cover news. The case involves mortgage lender Implode-Explode, a Las Vegas-based site launched in 2007 that publishes stories about the meltdown of the mortgage industry. Associate Justice Carol Ann Conboy pressed...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
C4st13v4n14 writes "In a sudden outbreak of uncommon sense yesterday, a Norwegian District Court handed down the decision that Telenor, Norway's largest ISP, will not have to block access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor was sued earlier this year by the IFPI after being threatened and not backing down. 'The court ruled that Telenor is not contributing to any infringements of copyright law when its...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Jiilik Oiolosse writes "KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded by the Federal President for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, cultural,...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
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Global Positioning Systems (GPS) (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Radar Beats GPS In Court Or Does It? (Slashdot) TechnologyResource writes “More than two years ago in California, a police officer wrote Shaun Malone a ticket for going 62mph in a 45-mph zone. Malone was ordered to pay a $190 fine, but his parents appealed the decision, saying data from a GPS tracking system they [...]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The new Freda program reads nonDRMed ePub, TXT and HTML and lets you customize fonts and colors. Check out the details and get the free download here.A special version exists for Windows Mobile 6 users who encounter stability problems. (Via MobileRead). Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Ask Slashdot (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Hugh Pickens writes "Science Daily reports findings from a new study which suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, long before their first babble or coo, and are able to memorize sounds from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
An anonymous reader writes "It's not just Microsoft investigating full body, markerless motion capture. Sony has enlisted the help of Swiss firm Atracsys to develop similar technology. Sony has openly discussed the technology with New Scientist, and has realistic expectations for the new system — it can capture broad body gestures but not individual fingers. That's just one trade-off needed...
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