A court has ruled that a site providing links to P2P downloads is operating legally. The Provincial Court of Madrid ruled that Sharemula.com, a site offering eDonkey links to movies, music, software and games does not break the law. The court’s decision is final and cannot be appealed
Google and General Electric said on Wednesday that they would work together on technology and policy initiatives to promote the development of additional capacity in the electricity grid and of smart grid
technologies to enable plug-in hybrids and to manage energy more efficiently. The companies said their goal was to make renewable energy more accessible and useful
With the addition of enterprise instant messaging pioneer Jabber, Cisco Systems bolsters what it calls its presence
product portfolio and makes no bones about its overall goal: to become No. 1 in the unified communication/collaboration business
Researchers at Cern have confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider managed only a few hours of operation before being shut down. The multi-billion dollar apparatus went live on 10 September and beams were sent around the 27km underground acceleration ring successfully. However, a large transformer failed a few hours into testing and has had to be replaced
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance
Amazon is readying a Content Delivery Network to compete with the likes of industry veterans Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks. It’s another step toward cloud computing
Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called graphene
as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices, perhaps paving the way for the massive installation of renewable energies such as wind and solar power
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean consumer electronics giant, has made an unsolicited $5.85 billion cash offer for SanDisk, a Silicon Valley maker of flash memory cards that are critical components of popular devices like MP3 music players and digital cameras
Angus & Robertson today became the first Australian book chain to install the Espresso Book Machine, capable of printing, trimming and binding a paperback book on demand within minutes. Shoppers will initially be able to choose from several hundred out-of-print or difficult to get hold of books, but Angus & Robertson said the range would expand daily, reaching 10,000 within 18 months. They would cost the same as the current shelf price of paperbacks or less, the retailer said
Internet surfers will be able to walk through their favourite web sites as if they are characters in a computer game with the launch of one of the first 3D browsers in Australia today. Melbourne-based software developer ExitReality has created software that can be quickly downloaded to computers and that converts standard two-dimensional web pages into virtual rooms. Individual web users are then shown as avatars (virtual people) in the same way as people are featured in virtual games
aaNet and TPG have both tweaked their ADSL plans, offering more quota at most price points
T-Mobile USA plans to begin selling the first smart phone powered by Google’s new mobile software late next month, according to people familiar with the matter, facing off against Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry with a device that blends aspects of both. While some wireless companies working with Google’s Android mobile software have hit delays, the T-Mobile phone is coming out on schedule. Backers are optimistic Android-based handsets can take sales from rivals
In one more shock to a stunned Wall Street, Hewlett-Packard said it will cut more than 24,000 jobs over the next three years. The restructuring is expected to save about $1.8 billion a year
Can a city stop people from posting a link to its Web site? That’s the question at the centre of a federal lawsuit brought by a Sheboygan woman against the mayor and other officials there, in what appears to be a first-of-its-kind case, according to an Internet law expert
The website of popular magazine BusinessWeek has been attacked via SQL injection in an attempt to infect its readership with malware. Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek’s website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected — via Slashdot
The initiation of the World Wide Web Foundation has been launched with $5M of seed funding from the Knight Foundation. From the announcement: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, unveils the World Wide Web Foundation. It aims to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand its capability and robustness, and to extend its benefits to all people on the planet
— via Slashdot
Amazon’s subsidiary the Internet Movie Database will allow users to watch feature films and TV shows for no charge on its web site, www.imdb.com. Over 6,000 titles will be available, including recent episodes of popular television shows like 24 and Heroes and classic films like Some Like It Hot
The use of nonclassified information, whether news accounts or other publicly retrievable information, is gaining credibility within the intelligence community. And officials say there can be good reasons for putting some of that open-source information under the secrecy umbrella. The information might be unclassified but our interest in it is not,
General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, told the conference
Several industrialised countries, such as Great Britain, Spain, Australia and Italy, offer broadband speeds that on average are just below what is necessary to make good use of broadband applications, according to a study. These applications include watching videos on YouTube, video chatting and small file sharing. Sweden and The Netherlands have the best performing broadband internet connections in Europe, helped by investments in high-speed fiber-optic links and upgrades to cable TV networks, the study found
If you’re a web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the web, we have some bad news for you — you’re going to waiting a while. Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML 5 specification, recently outlined the time table for HTML 5 and, even assuming browser manufacturers embrace HTML 5 when it reaches the final draft stage, that puts HTML 5’s widespread adoption at 2012. Worse, the final proposed recommendation won’t be released until 2022
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