A federal judge in Boston has now given ConnectU two weeks to amend it’s copyright-infringement suit against Facebook after Facebook sought to have it dismissed.

The case goes that ConnectU founders had hired Facebook’s Zuckerberg to write code for their “Harvard Connection,” a social networking site for Harvard. They also alleged that Zuckerberg stole the idea and code and made Facebook.

There was no word if they would amend its case. Also no talks about settling it out of court.

… Well not us, but LiveSide can. They have a workaround for all the Windows Live Spaces that became unavailable after the upgrade. This problem, as reported, is due to the Windows Live Player gadget being set to invisible. Here is the workaround…

To get your Space back, follow these steps:

0. Sign in passport

1. Go to “http://<youralias>.spaces.live.com/?_c=WMP ” (no quotes, insert your spaces name)

2. Change “Display mode” as full — DO NOT Set “Display mode” as Invisible

3. Save

… and there. That was easy.

According to BoingBoing, Thailand has no longer banned YouTube. Speculation is that Thailand unblocked it as YouTube was willing to block specific access to some clips. The videos in question contained material offensive to the King, Bhumibol Adulyadej.

In Thailand, Insulting the monarchy is against the law.

MySpace.com has now found and deleted over 29,000 profiles of convicted sex offenders, more than 4 times the number of 7,000 initially reported by MySpace in May. The information has been turned over to law enforcement agencies.

Carrying out this recent purge in profiles was complicated, due to records of the 600,000 sex offenders in the US are held in various states.

Last year, MySpace made several changes to it service; including removing adult content for under 16 year old profiles, enabling private profiles by default and requiring members over 18 to type in the full name of a profile under 16. However, these restrictions can get be circumvented, as tech.geek saw at our own MySpace profile, with just a simple typing a false date of birth.

The BBC is reporting that Facebook, the second-largest social networking site, is now facing legal action by a rival site. The site, ConnectU, have claimed that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea while they were in Harvard.

The federal case also said that ConnectU should be given ownership of Facebook. Documents from the lawyers at Facebook said that ConnectU’s “broad brush allegations” had no evidence supporting this claim.

While we promise to keep this unbias, we can’t. We support Facebook all the way. Is this a way to acquire the site without the cash?

Australian airline Qantas has announced it plans to offer in-flight internet in all of it’s Airbus A380s and as well a power source for all laptops. Plans to retrofit the Boeing 747-400 were also announced.

However, people want to use the wi-fi have to share the 432 kb/s speed across the plane. No plans or pricing were made available.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has fined DC Marketing Europe for “serious breaches” in the 2003 Spam Act - where the maximum penalty is $149,600.

ACMA has said that DC Marketing Europe had breached the act 102 times, all in July & August last year. DC Marketing Europe had place short, small calls on mobile phone users, placing a missed call message. When users called up the number, they were given marketing messages from the company.

“The missed call marketing messages sent out by DC Marketing were unsolicited, did not identify the sender and did not contain an unsubscribe facility, each of which is a breach of the Spam Act,” ACMA said.

This is the largest fine imposed on the company within the Spam Act. The second largest was issued last month to Pitch Entertainment Group, trading as Splash Mobile, sent 1 million SMS messages to users without a unsubscribe feature. It was fine $11,000.

The maximum fine for multiple breaches is $1.1 million a day.

Despite a $1 billion repair charge for all faulty XBOX 360s, Windows and Office managed to raise Microsoft’s revenue to the $50 billion mark. Their fourth-quarter profit was a hefty $3.04 profit. Though the XBOX charge took 8c off every share, it left shareholders with 31c a share, compared to 28c last year.

Much of the good news came from the traditional profit areas; with it’s Business Division’s profit rose up to 19%, to $2.9 billion, thanks to Office 2007.

However, the huge loss was the Entertainment and Devices division; where it posted a $1.2 billion loss, nearly three times the expected $423 million loss last year. That was expected. As well, there was a 10% percent drop in revenue.

As well, it managed to sell 11.6 million XBOX 360s, 0.4 million short of it’s 12 million goal. The division, however, managed to sell 1 million of it’s Zune Player.

The Online Services division continues to go with the flow, with advertising sales up 33% and Windows Live’s market share is rising and managed to post a 19% revenue from last year. But, spending on data centres and employees made it’s profits dive to 28% to $239 million, compared to last year.

AMD has reported it’s 2nd quarter’s earnings report yesterday, according to Ars Technica, and it posted heavy losses. It only ended up with $600 million in profit, $130 million owing to it’s acquisition of ATI for $5.6 billion; along with severance costs, stock-compensation costs, and debt issuance charges.

However, it’s not all bad news. Revenues were up this time from it’s $1.22 billion last year, because it added both revenues from itself and ATI. As well, sales were up as well.

But, mostly this report brought it in a bad turn, with gross margins dropping 57% to 33%.

Techcrunch is reporting that a new report, from the News Agency of Nigeria, has said on Thursday that laptops in Abuja “have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials.”

This will be short lived, however, with a OLPC spokesperson saying that all laptops will be fitted with porn filters.