Beijing court sides with Baidu in music piracy case
December 31, 2007
AFP - A Beijing appeals court has found top Chinese search engine Baidu.com not guilty of property rights infringement for posting links to websites offering illegal music downloads, state media said Monday.
RIAA Not Targeting CD Ripping After All
December 31, 2007
NewsFactor - On Sunday, the Washington Post ran a story entitled “Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use.” The story reported that in the case of Atlantic v. Howell, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) maintains that it is illegal for someone to transfer a CD’s music to a PC.
52-Inch Multi-Touch Display Unveiled
December 31, 2007
TechWeb - The maker, LG.Philips, will also show an 84-inch LCD screen at the Consumer Electronics Show next week.
Motorola and Metrologic settle patent disputes
December 31, 2007
Reuters - Cell phone maker Motorola Inc
and Metrologic Instruments Inc have settled all outstanding
patent infringement disputes, the two companies said in a joint
statement on Monday.
Lohan voted worst performance in online movie poll
December 31, 2007
Reuters - As if 2007 could get any worse for
Lindsay Lohan, now this: Moviegoers tagged her with the year’s
worst performance by an actress.
Windows Home Server Bug Could Lead To Data Loss
December 31, 2007
TechWeb - The issue was acknowledged in October, when Microsoft warned “not to copy data files that contain alternate data streams to Windows Home Server shared folders.”
Online Holiday Shopping Celebrates 21% Growth
December 31, 2007
TechWeb - Still, price cuts and coupons produce mixed results as shopping spending overall was lackluster, according to analysts with ComScore.
Gen Y Tops Internet Use at Libraries
December 31, 2007
NewsFactor - New research is turning traditional thinking about libraries on its head. More than half of U.S. residents visited a library in the past 12 months to use computers instead of search for books, according to a survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Mobile Video, Open Platforms To Shape Future Cell Phones
December 31, 2007
TechWeb - Analysts with MultiMedia Intelligence see a rise of new class of mobile devices — those that are application-centric and also contain voice functionality.
Pitfalls on the Road to Digital TV
December 31, 2007
NewsFactor - According to the Consumer Electronics Association, more than 50 percent of U.S. households now own a digital television — a milestone that the industry trade group’s president Gary Shapiro characterized as a “critical threshold” for the nation.
