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P2P services threatened by recording industry

News The Recording Industry Association of America has sent letters to seven peer-to-peer companies asking them to halt what the RIAA alleges is their practice of encouraging users to illegally distribute copyrighted material.

16 September 2005, 9:56

Barney says: I sue you, you sue me

News Barney's lawyers at the New York firm of Gibney, Anthony and Flaherty sent stiff warning letters last week to Web sites displaying less-than-flattering images of the plump saurian. In 2001, EFF took on Barney's lawyers after they sent out similar...

18 October 2005, 11:05

Santa goes all Wi-Fi at Bluewater

News The adoption of wireless Internet access throughout 2005 has been rapid and as the end of the year approaches even Santa Claus himself is getting in on the act, with a broadband grotto and a dedicated email address for children's 'wish-list' letters.

19 December 2005, 9:53

News.blog: Virgin Media to 'educate' illegal downloaders

News A joint release posted on the British Polyphonic Industry (BPI) Web site said Virgin Media broadband customers using their accounts to illegally share music will receive letters from Virgin Media and the BPI.

Tags: industry, downloading, customers, letters

9 June 2008, 9:55

Microsoft invents new mobile keyboard

News The letters (see photo) are arranged around the perimeter of a square screen divided into ten blocks. The more popular an item is, the less letters I can get away with," he said. It also turns up Tower Records and The Stinking Rose, a local...

4 May 2006, 10:11

High-tech keyboard takes cue from Etch-a-Sketch

News Users initially hunt for letters to write words, but the idea is that they fairly rapidly start to memorise the shape of common words and word components -- and therefore, their dependence on visual guidance decreases.

12 July 2005, 9:48

Qwerty could be knocked from top

News Instead of lining up the letters all the way across, he splits the keyboard in two, like most ergonomic keyboards. The Qwerty keyboard itself -- named after the position of the first six letters in the top left hand corner -- is mostly an accident...

23 December 2005, 9:36

Free speech under attack online, study says

News Research for the report, which began in late 2004, involved, among other tasks, surveying nearly 300 stakeholders and perusing letters dispatched to those accused of violating copyright law. A similar "chilling effect", the report said, is taking...

6 December 2005, 9:09

Devices help the blind cross the tech divide

News The pattern of the dots and various combinations of the cells are used in place of letters. The user reads the Braille letters with his or her fingers, and then, after a line is read, can refresh the display to read the next line.

6 October 2005, 11:53

Blending the human genome with art

News They typically submit 200 to 400 base pairs, or letters, of genetic code to be matched against the billions of letters for known genes. and "Who am I? are questions that cut across science, religion, art, philosophy and even computer science.

28 July 2005, 10:43

Apple gets protective over its 'pod'

News The Mac maker has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two companies that include the word 'pod' in their product titles. Mach5products.com, which sells a device for collecting data from vending machines called Profit Pod, received one of the...

16 August 2006, 10:40

News.blog: Email autocomplete causes $1bn oopsie

News That's the one that guesses who you want to send the email to by looking at the first few letters you type. I've always been leery of Microsoft Outlook's autocomplete feature. It's right most of the time.

Tags: bar, note, microsoft outlook, autocomplete

7 February 2008, 9:26

Nanocars ready to roll

News The university's nanocars, which will be described in an upcoming issue of the journal Nano Letters, are actually complex molecules that behave like vehicles. Rice University has concocted the ultimate in high-tech vehicles.

24 October 2005, 10:52

Users get more creative with passwords

News The average password is eight characters long and 81 per cent of those in the sampling consist of both letters and numbers, Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, wrote in an article published on Wired News on...

18 December 2006, 11:19

Facebook told to remove 'Scrabulous'

News The US and Canada rights to Scrabble are owned by Hasbro, the world's second-largest toy and game company, while the biggest, Mattel, has rights to the game in the rest of the world.Letters have been sent to Facebook in the United States regarding...

Tags: rights, states, copyright, canada

17 January 2008, 7:55