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Novell and RedHat Linux vs IP Innovation LLC: Was Ballmer right?

A good read from Groklaw, it goes on about the the current filed Patent Infringement Claim put forth by IP Innovation LLC.
Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell – Just Like Ballmer Predicted IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas. Where else? The patent troll magnet state. The first ever patent infringement litigation involving Linux. Here’s the patent, for those who can look at it without risk. If in doubt, don’t. Here’s the complaint [PDF].
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Nissan’s Around View arrives in the US December

An interesting technology from Nissan. A car or van in this demonstration is outfitted with camera’s on the front, left side, right side and back of the vechile. The camera’s then provide video to a lcd screen on the vehicles dash, allowing you to see everything around your vehicle. The story includes a video demonstration of a vehicle parallel parking.
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Windows Live SkyDrive gets 1GB of storage

SkyDrive is an online storage service from Microsoft Windows Live. If you wish to sign up and use the SkyDrive service, you would need a Windows Live account as well as be within the United States to be able to use the service.
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Dell’s Latitude XT up close — a bit too close

The review and pictures of Dell’s first Tablet. The author sum it up stating that the tablet looks like an IBM Thinkpad with its boxiness design.
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Nokia and others launching “iphone-like” gear by Q2 2008?

This is what the cellphone industry needs, competitive! And you can thank Apple for this. More phones produced, with more functionality, and for a lower cost. This is what we need!
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iPhone v1.1.1 baseband downgrade released

The iPhone team has just released a method to downgrade the baseband firmware on the v1.1.1 iPhones. Which means that if you disabled/bricked this portion previously using anySIM or iUnlock during the upgrade, then you can restore the functionality.
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The Top 100 Fanboy Movies of All Time

Top 50 fanboy movies, number one was ‘The Godfather’ which is true in my books. Lots of other good movies were mentioned as well. If you’re looking to watch some classic movies as well, Casablanca and Citizen Kane are also within the top 20.
The Top 100 Fanboy Movies of All TimeEarlier this year AFI re-voted their top 100 American movies of all time. There was much discussion from bloggers and fanboys out there – some more passionate and angered than others. Therefore we spearheaded another vote. We can now put rest speculations of how the fans may have voted for their favorite films, in comparison to the AFI’s.
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Sailing To A New Island With The Pirate Bay

Just an update from the Pirate Bay in regards to what there current situation is, and a status update on everything that is going on.
Sailing To A New Island With The Pirate BayBeing in The Pirate Bay team means you have a very busy life. Running the world’s largest tracker and dealing with raids and court cases leaves little time for anything else. But as usual, the Pirate Bay guys still make the time to update their fans on their plans to buy an island.
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Intel Preps Dual-Core Celeron Microprocessors

I remember the first Celerons or ‘Cellys’ back in the day. Cheap and relatively good for someone who can only work on one task at a time. Not for an uber geek or insane multi-tasker as you would be able to tell whether or not you were using a Celeron by just sitting down and using the PC for 15 minutes. Either way, an affordable alternative to the current Intel Core Duos.
Intel Preps Dual-Core Celeron Microprocessors – Multi-core chips are sweeping the processor market and single cores are becoming harder and harder to find. This trend is about to go through the roof while prices plummet to the basement.
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iTouch/iPhone dev team decrypts ramdisks, gains access to secpacks!

A great step forward for the iTouch/iPhone Dev Team and owners of the iPhone and iTouch, hopefully something will be out this weekend or next week.
iTouch/iPhone dev team decrypts ramdisks, gains access to secpacks!In a sudden boost of inspiration, the decryption keys for all iPhone/iPod touch ramdisks were found by the iTouch/iPhone dev team. This paves the way to unlocking iPhones on 1.1.1. In the statement made, the team assures users that hope _is_ on the horizon.
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