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San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook has won an 873-million-dollar damages award against a spammer who inundated users of the site with millions of unwanted messages, the company said Monday.
In a blog posting, the company's director of security Max Kelly said the award by the US District Court in San Jose was the largest judgment in history for an... |
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 Microsoft’s patent deals signed with Novell and Xandros were not enough: LG also joined the boat, on June 6.The patent-agreement frenzy at Redmond seems endless. Barely had they announced a deal with Linux vendor Xandros this week that another deal, this time with LG, was already on the table, ready to be served.Allegedly, Microsoft is...
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 Have you ever imagined your cellphone, laptop or PDA recharged without wires and without sockets? This is what scientists from MIT have dreamed of and the first step they’ve taken is represented by a simple light bulb.Their invention promises even more: slimmer, lighter devices that will work without ever needing a battery at all.A team...
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 Last week’s high definition battle has a winner: the Blu Ray. The much anticipated HD versions of the first two movies in The Pirates of the Caribbean series and the entire The Matrix series have been met with quite an enthusiasm.The Bly Ray versions of the first two PotC films were released on May 22, in the eve of “At World’s End”, the...
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 Despite the fact that their companies are fierce rivals on the apparently still flourishing PC market, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were quite cozy together last night at Wall Street’s D: All Things Digital.The two appeared to be overwhelmed by the importance of the moment and from their body postures one could deduce that both Microsoft’s...
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 The commercial availability (and possibly the viability) of SED TVs is again sitting under the sign of uncertainty, as two of its main promoters, Toshiba and Canon, have again delayed the first models.Canon invoked as a reason for the delay legal troubles it faces with Nano-Proprietary Inc. On May 3, Nano-Proprietary, Inc. had announced...
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 Toshiba, currently the world’s fourth largest laptop producer, decided to end the exclusive partnership signed with Intel 6 years ago and to offer laptops based on AMD’s processors.According to spokeswoman Junko Furuta, which spoke with Bloomberg, Toshiba will use Advanced Micro Devices' CPUs in about 20 percent of laptop models sold in...
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 Nokia hopes to have the first phone that warns its owner of the imminence of a lightning strike in the next decade.According to the patent filed by the IT&C Finish behemoth, the phone would use existing frequency receivers, like FM and GSM tuners, to detect abnormal waves caused by nearby lightning. Typical lightning bolts produce...
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 Joost, the disruptive Internet start-up of Skye and Kazaa founders Ianus Friis and Niklas Zellstrom, has signed an exclusive contract with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world’s leading talent and literary agency.The deal should “help” Joost choose the best TV content available out there. “Joost takes entertainment to the next level...
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 After unveiling this week its first true quad core platform for high-end PCs (codenamed Barcelona), AMD also announced its plans for the mobile platform during a press conference in Tokyo.Just as the quad core Barcelona is focused on improved performance in the ever-increasing and ever-demanding video domain, so is the newly announced...
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 Those tiny memory chips that fit into our phones, PDAs, digital cameras or even MP3 players just got larger than life: Samsung unveiled the first modules that reach no less than 8 GB in storage capacity.According to Samsung’s estimates, the new fingernail-sized card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or...
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