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| Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: yahoo.com |
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| Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled. The High Court ruled Thursday that record label EMI Group Ltd. can't sell Pink Floyd tracks individually without the band's permission. A judge said that the band's contract applied both to physical albums and Internet sales. Experts said the ruling offers another brick in the wall supporting artists' control of their own work — and a boost for music fans dismayed by the power of online music retailers to slice and dice albums into individual tracks. The ruling comes in a long-running legal case that saw Pink Floyd sue its record label, saying its contract prohibited selling songs "unbundled" from their original album setting. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_hi_te/eu_britain_pink_floyd;_ylt=AjE08cGzpNOI7JodmVtKX8YjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJxYTIxc3BtBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzExL2V1X2JyaXRhaW5fcGlua19mbG95ZARwb3MDNARzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3BpbmtmbG95ZHdpbg-- |
| Date Posted: Mar,11 2010 - 12:18 pm |
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| Sony unveils new motion contoller |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: theglobeandmail.com |
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| Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. With the “PlayStation Move,” Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the first to introduce motion-detecting controllers. Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment, credited Nintendo Co. for “introducing motion gaming to the masses.” |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/personal-tech/sony-unveils-new-motion-contoller/article1497433/ |
| Date Posted: Mar,11 2010 - 12:15 pm |
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| Energizer USB Charger Software Contains Malware |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: toptechnews.com |
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| A USB charger from Energizer uses software that contains a Trojan, according to US-CERT. The software was apparently developed outside the U.S. and may have been giving hackers access to PCs since 2007. An analyst said trust in the Energizer bunny may have led many consumers to install the DUO USB charger malware even with a warning. Some Windows PC users may hope the Energizer bunny didn't keep going and going. It turns out the Energizer DUO USB battery charger is a vehicle for attacks on PCs, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US-CERT researchers said Friday that the software that installs with the Energizer charger contains a Trojan horse that gives malicious hackers a back door into Windows machines. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023000SK09DN&full_skip=1 |
| Date Posted: Mar,11 2010 - 12:11 pm |
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| Airline Twitter promotion attracts huge crowds |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: cnet.com |
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| It was apparently one step short of a cattle stampede when low-cost airline JetBlue used its Twitter account to announce that as part of its 10th anniversary celebration it would be giving out about a thousand free round-trip tickets at three undisclosed locations in Manhattan on Wednesday. "One of the things we knew was that people were just going to follow us," JetBlue public relations representative Morgan Johnston told CNET, relating anecdotes about one woman who claimed she sprinted in heels from midtown to the Financial District (one of the giveaway spots), people chasing the JetBlue team in taxis as they left one location to head to the next, entire offices clearing out when they heard that one of the ticket giveaways was nearby, and a cab driver who left his passenger behind in order to get out and claim a ticket. "It was like the Pied Piper of Hamlin." |
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| Original URL (new window): http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20000289-36.html?tag=mncol |
| Date Posted: Mar,11 2010 - 12:09 pm |
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| Google Testing TV Internet Search |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: informationweek.com |
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| Google and Dish Network are testing a search service that would enable users to find video content on conventional TV and on the Internet, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The test, which uses Google's Android software, could determine whether TV viewers would favor Web-like searches over the use of remote control searches, which usually involve the use of menus and much clicking around via a TV's remote control. The test is said to be restricted to a small number of set-top boxes in the hands of Google employees. The experiment is another indication that a wide range of companies is seeking to take advantage of the emerging convergence of TV and Internet video offerings. Google and Dish Network officials have declined to discuss the test publically. Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, however, has suggested that Android technology could be used by TV hardware manufacturers. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/utility_ondemand/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223500057&subSection=All+Stories |
| Date Posted: Mar,11 2010 - 12:06 pm |
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| Microsoft Gives Rival Browsers a Lift |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: nytimes.com |
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| Paris - Rivals of Microsoft’s market-leading Web browser have attracted a flurry of interest since the company, fulfilling a regulatory requirement, started making it easier for European users of its Windows operating system to switch. Mozilla, whose Firefox browser is the strongest competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer worldwide, said that more than 50,000 people had downloaded Firefox via a “choice screen” that has been popping up on Windows-equipped computers in Europe since the end of last month. The screen displays links to a dozen browsers, including Explorer, Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Opera. Opera Software, based in Oslo, said downloads of its browser in Belgium, France, Britain, Poland and Spain had tripled since the screen began to appear. “It’s definitely being taken up, so consumers are paying attention and taking advantage of the choice being offered to them,” said Thomas Vinje, legal counsel to the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a lobbying group based in Brussels whose members include Opera. It was Opera’s complaint to the European Commission that gave rise to an antitrust case against Microsoft that resulted in the company’s agreement last year to promote greater browser choice. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/technology/08browser.html |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:06 am |
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| YouTube rolls out automatic video captioning |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: networkworld.com |
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| YouTube is rolling out automatic captions to millions of the clips hosted on the video-sharing site. The Google-owned site trialled automatic captions on a handful of videos from the University of California, Yale University and National Geographic last November in a bid to make the site more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. YouTube said it plans to add automatic captions to all of its nine million English-language videos, with other languages following in the coming months. It warned web users the service wasn't perfect and where necessary a transcript of the video will be made available for download to improve the experience. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030810-youtube-rolls-out-automatic-video.html |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:04 am |
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| Lawyers get cross over fake Intel CPU reports |
| Posted by: Shaun |
| Story Author: tgdaily.com |
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| Two tech sites have received 'cease and desist' letters after reporting that online retailer Newegg was inadvertently supplying counterfeit Intel chips to customers. HardOCP was contacted by a reader who said that he ordered a Core i7-920, but found it was a fake - and one certainly hopes that Intel can spell a little better than whoever made the packaging. The blank instruction booklet was a little unusual as well. |
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| Original URL (new window): http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/48734-lawyers-get-cross-over-fake-intel-cpu-reports |
| Date Posted: Mar,08 2010 - 09:03 am |
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