Bizarro-World judge calls it
By Gavin Clarke, 4th December 2009
It's a Bizarro-World indeed when Microsoft is held up by a judge in Europe as a paragon of openness, but that's apparently what happened in a law suit brought by Nintendo. The games console and software maker has lost its case against Divineo Group in a Paris suit to block the sale of Nintendo DS Flash cartridges in France. The judge dismissing Nintendo's case is reported to have said that by blocking non-Nintendo carts, the company is purposely locking out developers from their consoles. Maxconsole, a site run by Max Louran of Divineo, wrote the judge said Nintendo: "Should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to." The ruling has been seized upon as a victory for those building homebrew games or who install non-Nintendo games on systems via the Flash carts, and were worried that Nintendo's lawyers would come after them. The carts allow non-Nintendo games to be run on systems like the popular DS. The carts do this because they bypass Nintendo's DRM.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
AT&T, Verizon Bury Legal Hatchet -- For Now
By Kevin McLaughli, Dec. 02, 2009
AT&T and Verizon Wireless on Wednesday agreed to drop their false advertising-related lawsuits against each other, bringing a halt to the reciprocal mudslinging that's been going on between the two over which has the best network coverage. AT&T dropped the lawsuit it filed in early November over Verizon's "There's a map for that" campaign, which ridicules Apple's iPhone/App Store slogan while also questioning the ubiquity of AT&T's nationwide 3G coverage. Verizon dropped the lawsuit it filed in July which took aim at AT&T's "more bars in more places" slogan, which transformed the two carriers' prior bickering into a full scale legal fight. The back-and-forth between Verizon and AT&T has been one of the more intriguing tech industry story lines of the year, as it effectively illustrates the intensifying competition in the mobile space. The Verizon-AT&T skirmish also contains many subplots, such as Verizon boldly taking shots at the iPhone despite the device's continued emergence as a cultural phenomenon.
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AT&T and Verizon Wireless on Wednesday agreed to drop their false advertising-related lawsuits against each other, bringing a halt to the reciprocal mudslinging that's been going on between the two over which has the best network coverage. AT&T dropped the lawsuit it filed in early November over Verizon's "There's a map for that" campaign, which ridicules Apple's iPhone/App Store slogan while also questioning the ubiquity of AT&T's nationwide 3G coverage. Verizon dropped the lawsuit it filed in July which took aim at AT&T's "more bars in more places" slogan, which transformed the two carriers' prior bickering into a full scale legal fight. The back-and-forth between Verizon and AT&T has been one of the more intriguing tech industry story lines of the year, as it effectively illustrates the intensifying competition in the mobile space. The Verizon-AT&T skirmish also contains many subplots, such as Verizon boldly taking shots at the iPhone despite the device's continued emergence as a cultural phenomenon.
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Google Public DNS and Your Privacy
By JR Raphael Dec.3, 2009
Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google's blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites. As with the launch of most Google services, people are starting to ask questions about what kind of data will be collected and how exactly it will be used. (Or, in more lay terms, "Is Google going to be evil?") Here are some straight-forward answers, straight from the source. First, a brief description of what exactly Google Public DNS is: In a nutshell, the DNS -- or domain name system -- is what actually finds and directs you to a Web site when you type in its URL. You input "pcworld.com," the system translates that into the matching numerical address of PC World's server, and you're taken to the page. That's the simple explanation, anyhow. For most users, DNS lookups are handled automatically through an Internet service provider; they're not tasks most of us see or devote much thought to. You do have the option, however, of using your own third-party DNS resolver. That's where Google Public DNS comes in.
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Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google's blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites. As with the launch of most Google services, people are starting to ask questions about what kind of data will be collected and how exactly it will be used. (Or, in more lay terms, "Is Google going to be evil?") Here are some straight-forward answers, straight from the source. First, a brief description of what exactly Google Public DNS is: In a nutshell, the DNS -- or domain name system -- is what actually finds and directs you to a Web site when you type in its URL. You input "pcworld.com," the system translates that into the matching numerical address of PC World's server, and you're taken to the page. That's the simple explanation, anyhow. For most users, DNS lookups are handled automatically through an Internet service provider; they're not tasks most of us see or devote much thought to. You do have the option, however, of using your own third-party DNS resolver. That's where Google Public DNS comes in.
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