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Topfield Freeview HD set-top announced
Coming to UK under Icecrypt brand The latest in this spring’s crop of Freeview HD receivers, the Icecrypt T2200, has just been announced. A standard ‘zapper’ box, it supports the new DVB-T2 standard, and will receive both SD and HD terrestrial channels.… ?
Continue reading »2010: Top 10 Most Anticipated PC Games
10. Fallout: New Vegas Bethesda has announced for this year a new release into the Fallout franchise. Not many details have been revealed yet but the developer of the game is Obsidian Entertainment.
Continue reading »US Patent Office tightens the screws on software patents
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), a key panel within the Patent Office, has tightened the rules for American software patents. The recently-released decision builds on last year’s landmark ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case of In Re Bilski. In that case, the Federal Circuit focused on business method patents and had left key questions about the patentability of software-related inventions unanswered.
Continue reading »FBI Linguist Guilty of Leaking Classified Documents
An Israeli-American lawyer who worked as an FBI linguist pleaded guilty Thursday to providing an unidentified blogger with classified documents derived from U.S. communications intelligence. Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, 39, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded to one felony count of disclosing to an unauthorized party five documents that were classified “secret” that he obtained through his work with the FBI.
Continue reading »UK Govt Plans “2-Strikes” for File-Sharers Instead of 3
Will now only send one warning letter to those accused of illegal file-sharing before it implements technical measures that include Internet disconnection. UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has apparently been quite successful in lobbying for legislation to implement its “ evolved ” measures for tackling illegal file-sharing. So successful in fact, that a “three-strikes,” i.e.
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