After being given a class action lawsuit, the iPhone’s problems just keep rolling with another lawsuit by SP Technologies over the touch screen.
AppleInsider dug up the patent filed in 2000, allowing the owner a “method of providing a user interface for receiving information from a user using a user immutable graphical keyboard linked to an input area.
The suit was filed on last Thursday.
Sony Australia has announced that the PS3 “bonus” bundle, which was announced in E3, will end in August 31. The pack cost the same as the original 60GB PS3, but has two controllers and two games. It is unknown what will happen to the 60GB version after the US will no longer have it in production, as well what will happen after the bundle ends.
The New York Times has now revealed the identity of the blogger who is known for writing on Fake Steve Jobs Blog on BlogSpot as Daniel Lyons. Lyons is currently the senior editor of Forbes.com. In the past months, many people from Silicon Valley were reading, including by both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This also led to rumours that Gates was writing it, but he denied it.
He posted this on his blog…
Now you’ve ruined the mystery of Fake Steve, robbing thousands of people around the world of their sense of childlike wonder. Hope you feel good about yourself, you mangina. One bright side is that at least I was busted by the Times and not Valleywag.
He also goes on saying the blog will be back next week with a new sponser.
The people from the LonelyGirl 15 have now posted up 3 of the 12 episodes made for the season finale. The New season will air this week (Australian Time).
However, all twelve episodes are up on the LonelyGirl15 User profile on MySpaceTV. The link is http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.showvids&friendID=77542571
Telstra has posted a legal complaint against the Communication minister, Helen Coonan, because she wouldn’t reveal how the AU$1 billion WiMax funding was awarded to.
Coonan revealed in June that Optus and Elders won the tender, joint funding the project.
LonelyGirl15 ended it’s year long season with a huge shock. Aired on MySpaceTV with 12 episodes per hour starting at 8:00AM, the character LonelyGirl15, or known as Bree, was killed off at the hands of a religious cult that chased her for her ‘life-giving qualities’ of her rare blood type.
However, her death was not left in vain; with the character giving a post-mortem voice mail saying “The Order” is pursuing more girls, setting up the next season.
Next week, a brand new season starts, with the rest of the characters weighing on what to do with Bree’s warning.
The latest development in a pending antitrust suit by CPU manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) against its cheif rival, Intel, comes in the form of a glimpse at the case AMD will present in a Delaware federal court. According to a report by Michael Williams, director of ERS Group, an economist hired by AMD, Intel allegedly pocketed $60 billion in ill-gotten, or “monopoly,” profits from a decade of anti-competitive behavior. Naturally, Intel dismissed the claims as “wildly speculative and based on flawed assumptions about Intel and the market.” “The only thing one can conclude from the study is that if you pay someone enough money you can get them to say almost anything,” said Intel spokesman Chris Mulloy.
In the wake of antitrust charges filed by European Commission regulators, AMD hopes to revitalize its case against Intel in the US; the company plans to show the study to US regulators over the next several weeks, in an effort to encourage government action. The study itself bases the $60 billion calculation on the charges filed by the EU commission, as well as a Japanese antitrust case against Intel in 2005. In the report, Williams concludes that absent Intel’s market behavior, the average $1,000 computer would cost consumers nearly 1.5 percent, or $14.89, less.
However, doubts about the accuracy of the report come not only from Intel, but from other antitrust lawyers around the US; they point at that economists can differ significantly in their analyses of a market. Colin Underwood, an antitrust attorney with Proskauer Rose in New York, states “Economists are hired to offer opinions to support a case, not to question it. They are hired guns. They will only shoot at the target you want them to shoot at.”
Intel has continued to claim it has broken no antitrust laws in any country and vowed last week to persuade EU officials to drop the charges filed against the company.
Advertising in and around videogames is expected to grow exponentially over the next five years, becoming a $2 billion market by 2012, according to a new report released by digital market research specialist Parks Associates.
The report, Electronic Gaming in the Digital Home: Game Advertising, encompasses several forms of videogame related advertising, including product placement in games, banners in online games, dynamically inserted ads in console and PC games and even ads placed within mobile games. Overall, Parks Associates is bullish on the burgeoning ad medium, predicting that spending will climb from an estimated $370 million last year to more than $2 billion in 2012. Over that period of time, game advertising should achieve a compound annual growth rate of 33 percent, says the report – which should largely outpace the growth expected in other media, including the Internet.
Those estimates corroborates some of the more optimistic forecasts delivered in recent years by the industry’s biggest proponents, such as leading in-game ad firm Massive Inc., which is owned by Microsoft. And they’re based on the general notion that videogames are currently underutilized by marketers. “Advertisers are not using the gaming medium to its full potential,” said Yuanzhe Cai, director of broadband and gaming, Parks Associates. “If executed correctly, game advertising can provide a win-win solution for advertisers, developers and publishers, console manufacturers, game portals, and gamers.”
The publisher of Eminem’s music has filed a federal lawsuit against computer giant Apple Inc. for selling downloads of his songs without permission. Apple has an agreement with Universal Music Group, the record company that owns the recordings, but doesn’t deal directly with publishers, who own the rights to scores and lyrics. In the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, the rapper’s music publisher, Eight Mile Style, and copyright manager Martin Affiliated seek more than $75,000 for copyright infringement, unfair competition and a violation of the Michigan consumer protection act. The lawsuit also asks for damages of up to $150,000 per infringement - or each time a song is downloaded
Eight Mile Style administrator Joel Martin says the lawsuit involves 70 to 80 songs, including tracks from the Grammy Award-winning “The Eminem Show.” Apple had no comment Tuesday, spokesman Tom Neumayr said. Eight Mile Style attorney Norman Ankers contends that record companies need permission from copyright holders before downloads can be authorized. “This is a significant issue in the music industry,” Ankers said. “This occurs with many artists and many record labels.“
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