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walktalker · 08-04-02, 03:23 PM

Videndi sues over online game tool
Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal has sued a St. Louis Internet service provider, claiming online gaming software distributed by the company infringes on copyrights for Vivendi games. The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, claims that ISP Internet Gateway and company founder Tim Jung violated copyrights held by Blizzard Entertainment, a Vivendi subsidiary. The charges center on "bnetd," free software Jung helped develop and distribute to allow individuals to run servers for hosting online versions of popular Blizzard games such as "Diablo II" and "StarCraft."
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-878212.html?tag=cd_mh

DVD adds new dimension to storage
Las Vegas is no stranger to bright lights, but next week will see an entirely new laser show as breakthrough technology shows off 3D storage for digital video. InPhase Technologies, an offshoot of Bell Labs, will be showing the first commercial holographic video recorder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show on April 8. The device uses the company's Tapestry technology to hold 100GB of data on a single CD-sized write-once disc as a succession of 1.3MB holograms.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-876820.html?tag=cd_mh

'Crappy' WAP Bridging Gap
"The WAP protocol browsing experience was simply and is clearly not tuned for the phone," said Thomas Reardon, vice president of Openwave, the software company that pioneered WAP. "It set the expectation that people would get the Netscape-browsing Internet experience on their phones. 'WAP is crap,' in that sense, was fair." But Reardon hasn't given up on WAP altogether. His company, Openwave (OPWV) remains an active member of the WAP Forum. Openwave, whose WAP browser is embedded in 70 percent of all handsets on the market, is banking on the success of WAP 2.0 -- the latest version of the protocol that is a hybrid of XML (extensible markup language) and HTML.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,51516,00.html

IPod: Music to Hackers' Ears
Jean-Olivier Lanctôt-David is a 14-year-old hacker who has figured out a way to display online news headlines on Apple's iPod digital music player. Lanctôt-David, who has been using Macs since he was 4 and programming since he was 11, was given an iPod for Christmas and immediately wanted to make it do more than just play music. So he whipped up PodNews, a program that fetches headlines from the Web in XML format and displays them on the iPod's small screen.
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51586,00.html

Cure for South Africa's Ills
Call her an idealist or call her a geek, but the CEO of the only bioinformatics company in South Africa believes many of Africa's problems will be solved by scientists, hackers and open-source networks. Even over a phone line heavy with static from Cape Town, South Africa, Tania Broveak Hide's enthusiasm is apparent as she describes a recent event called the "biohackathon." Her company, Electric Genetics, sponsored the meeting of some of the top bioinformatics minds in the world. Bioinformatics -- a combination of biology, information technology and open source -- could help Africans address health problems and create jobs, she said.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51533,00.html

Microsoft Goes to the Movies
Microsoft is moving forward with its efforts to court entertainment industry companies as it tries to move into yet another new market: movie and television distribution. At the National Association of Broadcasters industry conference Monday in Las Vegas, the software company is announcing that several behind-the-scenes audio and video production companies, including Adobe, Avid Technology and Thomson Grass Valley Group, will make some of their products compatible with Microsoft's Windows Media Player format.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51621,00.html

Proposed copyright law raises controversy
Nearly a century ago, the music industry argued that its future was threatened by a new method of creating and distributing multiple copies of a performed song. The new technology? The player piano roll. Two decades ago, the movie industry fought against an innovative device that it claimed was as dangerous as the Boston Strangler: Sony's Betamax videocassette recorder. Now a bill introduced last month in Congress, which attempts to protect copyrights in the age of CD burners and online file sharing, could break significant new ground.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8/BU140716.DTL

Mars called key to quest for alien life
Chris McKay's album of family photos opens with a picture of fossilized bacteria, entombed within rock billions of years old. "This is one of (my family's) oldest, oldest, oldest ancestors," declares the NASA scientist, showing a slide of the photo and drawing a big laugh from his packed audience. But he's only half joking. The quest for "alien" life forms on the primeval Earth and their possible counterparts on Mars has consumed much of McKay's career at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, he said on the opening day of the space agency's biannual Astrobiology Science Conference.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8/MN115342.DTL

Your Cell Phone Is Watching You
Tracking devices were once a staple of old science fiction and action movies. One typical scene: The good guy slaps a tracer on the villain's getaway car and follows him -- at a safe distance -- to his lair for the final showdown. Or a team of leering, white-coated technicians forces a microchip-sized homing device into the hero's brain cavity. These days, such scenarios aren't so fantastical. For blanketing the United States are 140 million human-tracking devices: cellular phones.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12776

Local TV Station Tackles On-Demand Web Video
While it may not be unique on the Web, the local ABC affiliate in St. Paul, Minn., is offering an unusual news video-on-demand service its general manager hopes will lead his local TV station to the leading edge of Webcasting. KSTP-TV today debuted its 5Cast service, which allows Web site users to select video segments from archived TV newscasts in any order they choose, giving them, in some sense, the keys to the editor's desk.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175722.html

More news later on

08-04-02, 03:23 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Videndi sues over online game tool Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal has sued a St. Louis Internet service provider, claiming online gaming software distributed by the company infringes on copyrights for Vivendi games. The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, claims that ISP Internet Gateway and company founder Tim Jung violated copyrights held by Blizzard Entertainment, a Vivendi subsidiary. The charges center on "bnetd," free software Jung helped develop and distribute to allow individuals to run servers for hosting online versions of popular Blizzard games such as "Diablo II" and "StarCraft." http://news.com.com/2100-1040-878212.html?tag=cd_mh DVD adds new dimension to storage Las Vegas is no stranger to bright lights, but next week will see an entirely new laser show as breakthrough technology shows off 3D storage for digital video. InPhase Technologies, an offshoot of Bell Labs, will be showing the first commercial holographic video recorder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show on April 8. The device uses the company's Tapestry technology to hold 100GB of data on a single CD-sized write-once disc as a succession of 1.3MB holograms. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-876820.html?tag=cd_mh 'Crappy' WAP Bridging Gap "The WAP protocol browsing experience was simply and is clearly not tuned for the phone," said Thomas Reardon, vice president of Openwave, the software company that pioneered WAP. "It set the expectation that people would get the Netscape-browsing Internet experience on their phones. 'WAP is crap,' in that sense, was fair." But Reardon hasn't given up on WAP altogether. His company, Openwave (OPWV) remains an active member of the WAP Forum. Openwave, whose WAP browser is embedded in 70 percent of all handsets on the market, is banking on the success of WAP 2.0 -- the latest version of the protocol that is a hybrid of XML (extensible markup language) and HTML. http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,51516,00.html IPod: Music to Hackers' Ears Jean-Olivier Lanctôt-David is a 14-year-old hacker who has figured out a way to display online news headlines on Apple's iPod digital music player. Lanctôt-David, who has been using Macs since he was 4 and programming since he was 11, was given an iPod for Christmas and immediately wanted to make it do more than just play music. So he whipped up PodNews, a program that fetches headlines from the Web in XML format and displays them on the iPod's small screen. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51586,00.html Cure for South Africa's Ills Call her an idealist or call her a geek, but the CEO of the only bioinformatics company in South Africa believes many of Africa's problems will be solved by scientists, hackers and open-source networks. Even over a phone line heavy with static from Cape Town, South Africa, Tania Broveak Hide's enthusiasm is apparent as she describes a recent event called the "biohackathon." Her company, Electric Genetics, sponsored the meeting of some of the top bioinformatics minds in the world. Bioinformatics -- a combination of biology, information technology and open source -- could help Africans address health problems and create jobs, she said. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51533,00.html Microsoft Goes to the Movies Microsoft is moving forward with its efforts to court entertainment industry companies as it tries to move into yet another new market: movie and television distribution. At the National Association of Broadcasters industry conference Monday in Las Vegas, the software company is announcing that several behind-the-scenes audio and video production companies, including Adobe, Avid Technology and Thomson Grass Valley Group, will make some of their products compatible with Microsoft's Windows Media Player format. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51621,00.html Proposed copyright law raises controversy Nearly a century ago, the music industry argued that its future was threatened by a new method of creating and distributing multiple copies of a performed song. The new technology? The player piano roll. Two decades ago, the movie industry fought against an innovative device that it claimed was as dangerous as the Boston Strangler: Sony's Betamax videocassette recorder. Now a bill introduced last month in Congress, which attempts to protect copyrights in the age of CD burners and online file sharing, could break significant new ground. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8/BU140716.DTL Mars called key to quest for alien life Chris McKay's album of family photos opens with a picture of fossilized bacteria, entombed within rock billions of years old. "This is one of (my family's) oldest, oldest, oldest ancestors," declares the NASA scientist, showing a slide of the photo and drawing a big laugh from his packed audience. But he's only half joking. The quest for "alien" life forms on the primeval Earth and their possible counterparts on Mars has consumed much of McKay's career at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, he said on the opening day of the space agency's biannual Astrobiology Science Conference. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8/MN115342.DTL Your Cell Phone Is Watching You Tracking devices were once a staple of old science fiction and action movies. One typical scene: The good guy slaps a tracer on the villain's getaway car and follows him -- at a safe distance -- to his lair for the final showdown. Or a team of leering, white-coated technicians forces a microchip-sized homing device into the hero's brain cavity. These days, such scenarios aren't so fantastical. For blanketing the United States are 140 million human-tracking devices: cellular phones. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12776 Local TV Station Tackles On-Demand Web Video While it may not be unique on the Web, the local ABC affiliate in St. Paul, Minn., is offering an unusual news video-on-demand service its general manager hopes will lead his local TV station to the leading edge of Webcasting. KSTP-TV today debuted its 5Cast service, which allows Web site users to select video segments from archived TV newscasts in any order they choose, giving them, in some sense, the keys to the editor's desk. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175722.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies