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Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. This year's c...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, scientists said on Wednesday.

Australia's Telstra is launching a new suite of software-as-a-service (SAAS) applications targeting small and medium businesses in partnership with vendor Jamcracker.

In light of today’s economic downturn and the plan by many consumers to reduce their cell phone upgrades and service plan costs, now may be as ripe a time as...

Internet browsing on your mobile phone today has definitely come along way from. Now you can enjoy visiting your favorite websites on your mobile phone as if you were seated right in front of your desktop PC. However, with a variety of different phones, mobile operating systems and mobile internet browsers out now, which phone has the best internet browsing experience? Gizmodo apparently had the same question when they conducted the great mobile phone internet browser face-off.

The following tables show some key figures regarding the different phones used in this showdown. Page rendering is rated as Fail to Excellent, while the color takes into account both page rendering accuracy and speed. Those in green are generally good scores, while those in red are failing marks.

This first table shows how the phones fared against each other using a 3G connection.

This second table, on the other hand, uses WiFi.

Based on their findings, despite lacking Flash support, the iPhone is still the best mobile phone/portable internet device in the market with a decent rating of A-. Coming in at number two is the Android-based G1 which merited a B+ while the Nokia E71 and BlackBerry Bold each got a B-. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer got the lowest mark with an F-. Interestingly, some phones such as the E71 managed to load some pages (Hubble on Wikipedia) better on a 3G connection as compared to WiFi.

Anyhow, this may be a limited comparison, but I guess it’s safe to assume that if mobile internet browsing is your cup of tea, you can’t go wrong with the iPhone, HTC G1, Nokia E71 or BlackBerry Bold. For more details on this great showdown, check out Gizmodo for their complete methodology and results.

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Asus is laying claim to the title for the fastest smartphone in the world, and there's little reason to doubt them. The news, though, is hollow: P565 with its 800MHz Marvell processor is objectively impressive, but underneath the oppressive, unflattering veil of Windows Mobile 6.1 it's not likely to blow anyone away. Carrying a dense 480x640 touchscreen to complement a solid range of specs — HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and 24fps video recording to name a few — the P565 is nonetheless fighting a software war with hardware improvements. On the other hand, if you're one of those odd folks for whom any superlative is an automatic selling point, then this may be your ultimate handset. [Reg Hardware]

Casual mobile game developer Corelane has released it's latest mobile game Clonyk on Apple's App Store. The game is a creative mix of both Space Invaders and an upside-down Dr. Mario. "We are very...

"Since I got my HTC Mogul from Sprint last spring, I had been syncing with two PCs, one at home and one at work. Life was good - I was where I was supposed to be on time, and remembering everyone's birthday and anniversary. "

Then the problem began. She upgraded her Mogul to Windows Mobile 6.1 and was no longer able to sync with two PCs. Instead, ActiveSync throws back error 86000107. It works fine with the first PC, but not the second. Microsoft Connect has a more detailed thread about this issue. I don't use ActiveSync (I'm on Vista now with WMDC) and I don't sync with two PCs, so I've not seen this issue. In the Connect thread, the resolution is given as it being an OEM issue that needs to be fixed.

If you use ActiveSync and sync with two PCs, have you seen this issue after upgrading to WM6.1? I am wondering if this affects all 6.1 devices or just a few.

AP - A Siberian appeal court is scheduled Tuesday to consider a ruling that could lead to the temporary seizure of Norwegian Telenor’s ownership in Vimpelcom, Russia’s second largest mobile phone company.

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We've chanced upon several kinds of novelty USB file storage devices already, but this is something that you may want to get your hands - or a couple of fingers - on. Imation has recently released the Atom Flash Drive, which could be the smallest USB flash drive ever to grace the market, and it's beefed up with features you'd expect from its bigger cousins like password protection, among others.

About the size of a standard paperclip and weighing less than an ounce, the Atom Flash Drive is also packed with partitioning software and support for Vista's ReadyBoost feature aside from the aforementioned password protection.

The Atom Flash Drive also comes in four flavors - 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, all of them encased in a sturdy aluminum shell. Depending on the storage size, the tiny USB file bins ranges between US 17.99 to US 99.99, just about right price for tiny powerhouses that pack a lot of punch.

Timothy wrote: I saw this post Saturday titled "Vodafone And Orange Fight For The iPhone - InformationWeek"

"While we're still waiting for the June launch of the iPhone on this side of the pond, UK carriers Orange and Vodafone are fighting it out for exclusive ..."

Here is the link

The French music industry body Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) is suing four US based developers of P-to-P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus and Shareaza. (The latter is the one that is stimulating vitriol in the tech blogosphere as it is developed by open source development platform SourceForge.)

Under newly revised French law the US companies can be tried in the France as their applications have not implemented filtering mechanisms to block out copyrighted material.

A couple of arguments are being leveled at the SPPF. The first that these applications aren’t designed for copyright infringement. It’s not the fault of the developers that they are being used as such. This argument of course has been since the original Napster trial. I’m sorry, but it just doesn’t wash. However much there is legitimate usage, the vast majority of usage is not legitimate. All the developers need to do is support their claims off innocence by embedding filtering mechanisms into their apps. If they counter claim that this would restrict the liberty of their users, then they can’t any longer argue that they don’t support illegitimate usage of their technology.

Another argument being aired is that the music industry should stop being so hung up on trying to get paid online, indeed one story eve referred to "the Music Industry's obsession with copyright”. That’s like saying "the car industry's obsession with cars". Copyright is the oxygen of the music industry. Without it there is no industry. Sure there may be cases for changing some industry practices but copyright remains the essence of making money from music.

Music cannot just be ‘for free’ anymore than cars or houses can ‘just be for free’. If people aren’t paid they don’t make the product. Sure music will still exist, but you’ll swap nicely programmed download stores and well stocked high street stores for buskers and millions upon millions of artist pages, all clamouring for your attention. Perhaps that sounds appealing? The problem is, most of them would sound a fraction as good as they would if they’d been able to give up their day jobs and been given proper equipment, studio time, mentoring and artist development support. And even those that would still manage to sound ok, would struggle to find their way to your PC or mobile screen as they wouldn’t have any marketing support to help them get there.

I’ll close with an account of how we first ended up with music copyright collection, which says as much to today’s ‘music should be free’ argument as it did then, 150 years ago:

“In 1847, the composer Ernest Bourget visited the Paris Concert Café Ambassadeurs in the company of his colleague Victor Parizot. At the time, Bourget was a popular composer of chansons and chansonnettes comiques. Among other pieces, the orchestra played the music of Bourget. When the waiter presented the composer with the bill for the sugared water that he and his colleague had consumed as the fashionable luxury drink of the period, Bourget refused to pay claiming that the orchestra had repeatedly played his music - without paying anything: and so [took the] sugared water in return for playing his piece. The dispute between the composer and the owner was brought before the court. On 8th September 1847, the Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine prohibited the owner from playing works of the composer without his consent. The exclusive right of the author to public performances that had been anchored in the French law of 1791 was thus put into practice for the first time. And on 26th April 1849 the Cour d'Appel de Paris sentenced the owner of Ambassadeurs to pay compensation - i.e. in this case royalties - to Bourget.”

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Released for T-Mobile, Samsung Behold (T919) packs a large 3.0-inch LCD color touch screen with responsive feedback called haptics. A built-in accelerometer automatically switches the screen between portrait and landscape modes. With Samsung's innovative new TouchWiz UI, consumers can 'drag and drop' widgets to personalize their handset - functions such as the clock, music player, instant messaging and photos. They can blog, text and chat with the virtual QWERTY touchpad. Multiple messaging capabilities include text, multimedia messaging, instant messaging, email and Audio Postcard support. The integrated 5.0-megapixel camera with flash and auto-focus snaps high-resolution photos and videos. A GPS receiver uses TeleNav GPS Navigator for turn-by-turn driving directions with maps. It has high-speed connectivity and a full HTML web browser for faster access to the Internet. With stereo Bluetooth wireless technology, speakerphone and voice activated dialing, the Behold lets users go handsfree. A microSD memory card slot stores of videos, photos or music up to 16GB... [Continue reading Samsung Behold (SGH-T919) Specs]

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There’s a rumor circulating that Apple is about to launch a new version of their iPhone software in 10 days. Some of the new features that are supposed to come are the ability to turn auto-correction on and off, emoji icons, new language support and support for Google street view.

Rumor: iPhone 2.2 update coming November 21 [edibleapple.com]

If Dreamworks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is right, you'll soon be out shopping for the latest in designer glasses. 3-D glasses that is. Hollywood studios such as Dreamworks, Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox are betting 3-D will finally become the next big thing in film, luring moviegoers to the theater with advancements in a technology that first caught viewers' attention in the 1950s. "In five to seven years, all movies will be made in 3-D," Katzenberg said Wednesday at the start of an inaugural four-day 3-D festival in Singapore.

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Google's Mobile App with Voice Search was pushed several days to hammer out some last minute kinks, but most problems seemed to have been smoothed out when AppScout took it for a test drive Tuesday.

Semiconductor manufacturer Quantance has raised $12 million in a second round of funding. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company develops technology that it says can improve the data speed and battery life of mobile devices using third- and fourth-generation cellular technology. It plans to use this latest cash infusion to make its patented technology commercially available for 3G devices, which is where the company is focusing its business interests. The latest round of funding was led by new investors TD Fund and DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) Capital contributed as well. Original investors Granite Ventures and InterWest Partners also participated in the round. The company expects to begin shipping its first commercial chipset in the second quarter of 2009. Release. 

Mark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon & Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. Register now!

The iPhone is more than a smart phone for some users -- it's a portable entertainment system. It's also become a gold mine for entrepreneurs like Steve Demeter, developer of the popular puzzle game "Trism," which earned him $250,000 in two months.

A couple months ago, we wrote about what may be one of the most bizarre and questionable trademark lawsuits we've seen. Huge corporate law firm Jones Day was suing a small website called BlockShopper for posting public info about various professionals (including some who worked at Jones Day) buying homes in certain neighborhoods. Jones Day claimed that BlockShopper violated trademark law by mentioning that Jones Day employees worked at Jones Day and linking to Jones Day's website. The firm claimed that naming the company and linking it was a violation of trademark since people would interpreted it as being sponsored by Jones Day. It's hard to see how anyone, let alone a moron in a hurry would come to that conclusion, but that's what Jones Day claimed. Plenty of legal advocacy groups quickly jumped up in protest. If Jones Day won, it would establish a horrible precedent, that a firm could claim trademark infringement just for linking to the company's website.

The case was such an incredible stretch of trademark law, and so obviously a situation of a big law firm bullying a small website that it seemed obvious that the judge should dismiss the case. However, there were some worrying signs at the beginning. Paul Levy from Public Citizen had reported that the judge apparently told the guy from BlockShopper that he should just settle, noting how much it would cost to defend himself -- suggesting that the judge was already siding with Jones Day, despite the highly questionable nature of the claims. So, while disturbing, perhaps it's not a surprise that the judge has refused to dismiss the case. This increases the likelihood that BlockShopper will simply settle, as the time and expense of going through a lawsuit is, indeed, quite large, as the judge allegedly noted originally. It's difficult to fathom how one could look at the facts of the case and see any merit in the trademark infringement claims. This is a very unfortunate ruling.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deteriorating U.S. economy and slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week.

… that I have heard on radio:

(she) “I would like to have more people paying attention to my presenting skills!”

(he) but you don’t have any, that’s why people look at your breasts.

Two recent patent battle lawsuits made news this week, and both highlighted one troubling aspect of patent lawsuits: patent holders trying to damage others beyond the company that infringed. Now, before the patent system defenders rush to post angry comments, this is not a new thing. It's been quite common for a while. Nor is it surprising. If you were a patent attorney representing one of these patent holders, you'd probably do the same thing: going after third parties is probably a good strategy to force the other company to settle. However, it does highlight how patent law is used in ways that clearly are outside of its intended purpose. That is, it's being used to punish plenty of innocent third parties by removing innovation from their grasps, rather than encouraging innovation.

The first case involves a patent lawsuit concerning Microsoft's Visual Studio. WebXchange claims it has patents that Visual Studio violates -- but rather than suing Microsoft, WebXchange sued three Microsoft customers, claiming that by using the software, they were violating the patent. This is clearly an attempt to scare Microsoft into settling, out of a fear that other customers won't use Visual Studio to avoid getting sued by WebXchange. Microsoft is fighting back, asking a judge to declare the patents invalid, but in the meantime, WebXchange has been able to drag Microsoft's customers into a patent battle, putting extra pressure on Microsoft to settle.

The second case involves Spansion suing Samsung for patent infringement concerning Samsung's memory chips. In this case, Spansion isn't just going after Samsung, but demanding an injunction that would block US sales of a variety of popular gadgets that use Samsung's memory chips -- including iPods and Blackberries. Once again, while it's unlikely that a court would order such a block, by dragging other companies such as Apple and RIM into the mess, Spansion is abusing the patent system's threat of an injunction to put extra pressure on Samsung to settle.

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