Posted on July 26, 2008 by Dan
Many Facebook users enjoy playing a game called Scrabulous, an online version of the popular word game Scrabble, but that might be changing soon if Hasbro gets their way.
Hasbro, owners of the rights to the original Scrabble game, have sued the makers of Scrabulous saying that it violates their copyright and trademarks on Scrabble. Hasbro [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Dan
While many consumers of data on cellular networks are having fun with 3G, others are looking forward to the next big thing, 4G.
Two different standards are battling it out for the one that gets adopted, LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and WiMAX.
AT&T has asked the FCC to deny requests by Sprint and Clearwire radio spectrum licenses.
Guess which [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Dan
According to developers poking around with the new firmware 2.1 Apple released yesterday, some new entries have been found in the iPhone WebKit framework that points to several commands not currently supported by the iPhone: cutting, copying and pasting.
The entries, in case you’re curious, were found in Localizable.strings under English.lproj.
The lack of cut, copy and [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Dan
After what seems like forever, the merger of satellite radio providers Sirius and XM has finally been approved by the last group that needed to bless it–the FCC.
By a vote of 3 to 2, the FCC agreed to the merger after Sirius and XM agreed to pay a $19.7 million fine for violating FCC regulations [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Dan
On July 16th software maker SAP announced that their Standard Support is being replaced by Enterprise Support, increasing the cost to Standard Support customers.
As you might expect, the move isn’t exactly popular and the SAP U.K. & Ireland Users Group and Germany’s DSAG are starting to make some noise about it.
Alan Bowling, the group’s chairman, [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Dan
The video game-based Gears of War movie has gotten some more traction. Variety is reporting that Legendary Pictures will be co-financing the film with New Line.
You might remember that the project also has a director–Len Wiseman, director of Live Free or Die Hard, has signed on to do the project.
[Via Kataku]
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