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Viacom alleged in its lawsuit that Google is responsible for allowing clips of copyright protected videos on the YouTube Web site. The company is asking for more than US$1 billion in damages. The broadcaster is hoping that by getting its hands on YouTubeis detailed records, it can show that copyright-infringing content is more popular than…

Adobeis move should ultimately make it easier for end users to find more content online, and Flash-based Web site and rich Internet application developers will potentially find their content in front of a wider audience. David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe, commented “We are initially working with…

In his Intel blog on Monday, Anwar Ghuloum told developers he had some difficult news to deliver: developers should start to think about many, many more cores in the Intel CPUs — perhaps thousands in the long term. Apple may be anticipating this with the new Grand Central technology in Snow Leopard. Mr. Ghuloum commented…

. Safari spent most of 2007 grabbing a bigger piece of the Web browser market, but spent the first four months of 2008 on a plateau around the 5.8 percent mark. In comparison, Microsoftis Internet Explorer Web browser has been gradually declining compared to its position last year while Firefox has been slowly gaining market…

The Enterprise Desktop Alliance plans to offer a suite of tools that let IT departments maintain uniform client configuration, enforce the same security controls, make the same sharepoints and print queues available, deliver the same disaster recovery, and enforce the same compliance policies for both Mac OS X and Windows-based workstations. Atempo will be offering…

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has the authority to search, copy contents or seize a notebook computer or mobile phone when travelers re-enter the U.S. Various groups have sought scrutiny of the practice in order to protect corporate private data and are also concerned about the economic impact. The Senate Judiciary Committee is…

Mobi le phone plans give you more monthly minutes than you will ever use, at a very reasonable cost. For a bit more, you can get practically unlimited text messaging as well. Many land-line phone plans come with unlimited calling within the United States. With each month, Web-based storage sites are offering more gigabytes of…

You can always count on Crumpler to design great bags and give them unconventional names. The companyis Reginald Transfer comes through on both counts, and looks good, too. The Reginald Transfer is a simple bag designed to fit a 15-inch laptop, a power supply, some documents, and a few odds and ends. It has a…

NVIDA has unveiled its most powerful graphics processing units (GPU), the GeForce GTX 280 and 260. The GTX 280 has 240 multi-threaded cores and can process video 18 times faster than the latest CPUs. It has 1.4 billion transistors and is capable of nearly a teraflop. Rendering 3D images in realtime is just about the…

The Khronos Group announced on Monday that they will form a Compute Working Group to create open standards for parallel computing across multiple GPUs and CPUs. Members include AMD, Apple, Freescale, NVIDIA and IBM. Apple has presented its OpenCL specification to the group. The Compute Working Group will “create royalty-free, open standards for programming heterogeneous…

At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden Germany on Monday, AMD announced its FireStream 9250 graphics card which breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision computations. The card occupies a single PCI slot and draws 150 watts. Developers have reported up to a 55x performance increase on financial analysis codes compared to processing on…

Mr. Icahn launched a proxy battle to take over the Yahoo board and offer the Internet search company to Microsoft after an unsolicited buyout offer from Microsoft fell through. Mr. Icahn insisted that buying Yahoo was in the best interests of both companies, but Yahoo contended that the offer was undervalued and a bad move…

“At that meeting,” the company said in a statement, “Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that Microsoft is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo!, even at the price range it had previously suggested.” Microsoft had made an unsolicited buyout offer of some US$46 billion earlier in the year, a price that Microsoftis management…

According to MacPractice, DocPortMacro-U offers high image quality, a no focus design, and a one-touch macro close up feature that allows dentists to quickly zoom in problems areas in their patientis mouth. The DocPortMacro-U is priced at US$3,995, with additional docking station kits available at $795 each.

WWDC 08 keynote

It’s official. The iPhone 3G is here. Sort of here. Almost here. It’s a dizzying and exciting time for iPhone users. Heck, it’s a great day for all Mac users, indeed for all computer and mobile phone users. But there was more to today’s announcements than just the iPhone 3G. Much more. The information overload…

Serene Saver Pro lets users import their own movie clips, and string together clips that are up to two minutes long each. It also includes the ability to auto shut off or mute when certain events happen, like iTunes launching, or when other user defined apps open. Serene Saver Pro is priced at US$49.95 and…