Court calls $222,000 RIAA sentence a farce, vacates verdict
Jammie Thomas, who was ordered to pay a $222,000 penalty for sharing 24
songs through the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network, is off the
hook, for now. The United District Court for the District of Minnesota
granted Thomas a new trial, based on the findings of a formal trial
error. While the grant does not impact the penalty amount by itself,
the court described the amount previously awarded to the RIAA excessive
and even called upon Congress to amend the Copyright Act to address the
liability…
Source:Court calls $222,000 RIAA sentence a farce, vacates verdict
BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up
Scientists at UC-Santa Barbara have engineered a new nano-construction process capable of assembling integrated circuits. Five companies helped fund the research, including giants Intel and IBM. A patent was also filed for their discovery. According to the researchers, this technology could be introduced into mainstream semiconductor manufacturing as early as 2011.
Source:BCP lithography, self-assembling nanotechnology to build IC circuits from the bottom up
VoodooPC not going away, just moving
Over the past days, we have heard some rumors that Hewlett-Packard (HP)
may be killing VoodooPC just before the Christmas season. It turns out
that changes are in fact being made, but they are less dramatic, at
least for the brand. For the company VoodooPC, the changes are
significant, as HP aims to leverage the brand much more than it has
done in the past.
G1 Android phone to launch for $179 on October 22
T-Mobile, HTC and Google this morning unveiled the G1 smartphone with a
distinct focus on openness as well as Google Maps and Search
applications. Device and plan pricing is just below the iPhone.
T-Mobile G1 – The Good, the bad and the ugly
Opinion Samantha Rose is the resident cellphone enthusiast here at TG
Daily. Having bought more than 15 cellphone over the last two years,
some might consider her a cellphone addict, but others, like us,
believe that she can compare the value of a cellphone to the user much
better than most of us and her opinion on a new cellphone certainly
carries weight. So we asked her to line up her impressions on
T-Mobiles Google phone, the G1.
Hospital workers fired after posting injury pics on MySpace
Two University of New Mexico hospital workers
have been fired after they posted patient pictures on MySpace. The
workers used their cell phone cameras to take close-up pictures of
injuries and then posted them to their private MySpace pages for their
friends and coworkers to see. So far no charges have been filed and
the photos have been deleted from MySpace and from the workers cell
phones.
Source:Hospital workers fired after posting injury pics on MySpace