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1. Universal phone chargers won't save the planet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... some 13.6 million tonnes of greenhouse gases to be emitted. The new universal chargers will come with a mini USB connector, suitable for any phone equipped with the new socket. The GSMA argues that chargers ...

2. Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... explained Psystar. "The application automatically detects connected devices and downloads the appropriate drivers." According to Psystar, Rebel's Darwin Universal Boot Loader supports additional operating ...

3. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... electronics specialist. Some of the home electronics projects completed for less than $100 include: flat screen TV wall-mounting, universal remote programming, and training sessions on how to use a digital ...

4. Former military contractor accused of hacking for nude teen pics

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   ... to her grandmother, all at various times if the girls refused. He also allegedly contacted a 16 yr old girl wanting to take her to the Universal Studios theme park, though the girl refused. Connolly ...

5. Macworld 2009: iTunes now DRM-free, iPhone music purchases over 3G network are a go

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... in DRM-free format as Apple inked the deal with Universal Music Group, SonyBMG and Warner Music Group. The last three labels now join EMI who agreed to offer its music on iTunes in 256 kbps AAC encoding ...

6. Top 10 people in technology

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... backed by major video and media content providers (NBC Universal, News Corp.) avoids many headaches, but the progress Hulu made in 2008 is impressive. The site has become strong enough to force Google’s ...

7. Outmaneuvered: Real Networks hits Hollywood with preemptive suit

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Fox Film, NBC Universal, Warner Bros. Entertainment and Viacom in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. "RealNetworks took this legal action to protect consumers' ability ...

8. A new try of buy once, play anywhere – without Apple

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... music retailer in the U.S. – ahead of Wal-Mart. Part of the newly founded Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) are the content studios Fox Entertainment Group¸ NBC Universal and Warner Bros., ...

9. How the U.S. Olympic swimming relay team compares to Dell’s MP3 player

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... the first generation did (a new one is rumored to be coming) and the iPod touch feels like the poor sibling to the iPhone.  They have been at war with some of the content providers like Universal ...

10. Scaled-down Cell CPU beats Intel’s quad-core chip in video transcoding

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... as long on a SE1000 than on a 3 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad CPU. Keep in mind that this is a very specialized application, while the Core 2 Quad is a much more universal chip, but the simple performance potential ...

11. XM, Warner settle lawsuit over recording device

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... will cover all future devices with similar copying abilities. Less than a week prior, XM also struck a similar deal with Universal Music, which had also filed suit against the satellite radio provider. ...

12. HDNet wins first leg of legal battle against DirecTV

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and customers would need to pay yet another $5/month to get HDNet, HDNet Movies, and Universal HD.   Earlier this month, HDNet filed a lawsuit against the satellite provider, claiming the move would ...

13. HDNet sues DirecTV for charging customers more

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to a premium programming package that costs subscribers around an additional $5 per month. The package, called "HD Extra Pack", will also include Universal HD, MGM HD, Smithsonian HD, and MHD.  ...

14. Myspace, Sony hook up for streaming music deal

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Sony BMG music will become fair game for every Myspace user.  Account owners will be able to post Sony BMG music videos and music on their profile pages. Universal Music filed a lawsuit against News ...

15. Apple hit with $1+ billion lawsuit over iPhone bricking

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... a SIM card from another wireless carrier, it will not work.  A SIM card stores all the data about a customer, and is a universal medium used by AT&T, T-Mobile, and other carriers. Last month, ...

16. Allofmp3.com owner found not guilty of copyright infringement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of allofmp3.com's parent company MediaServices, was charged with copyright infringement.  After a trial, however, his name has been cleared. Entertainment strongholds including Universal, Time ...

17. Veoh seeks suit against Universal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In a legal turn from most online video disputes, Veoh has announced it will take legal action against Universal for unwarranted threats and a bogus lawsuit. San Diego (CA) - In a legal turn from most ...

18. Defcon 1, Dateline 0

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... Defcon security team started tracking Michelle Madigan, associate producer of NBC Universal, when she boarded her plane for Las Vegas from the east coast.  Other Defcon officials said the convention ...

19. Music publisher sues Apple over Eminem iTunes downloads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... put up songs for users to download without getting proper permission. Though Eminem's music is sold under Universal Music's record label, his publisher Eight Mile Style owns the copyrights or ...

20. Super Mario Galaxy shows promise

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... been seen in Super Mario 64, almost universally regarded as the iconic 3D Mario game. The most interesting part of the demo was getting to play around with Mario's latest power-up, the bee suit.  ...

21. Google Desktop swings onto Linux

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... PDF, PS, MAN, and INFO documents.  The open-source office suite OpenOffice.org is also part of Google Desktop's universal search. The PC tool first hit Windows-based computers at the beginning ...

22. NBC sides with Viacom in suit against YouTube

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    NBC Universal and Viacom have filed a friends-of-the-court brief in support of a pending lawsuit against Google’s YouTube, which is expected to come to a close soon and may have critical impact ...

23. NBC and Fox plan rival YouTube

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Television networks NBC Universal and Fox are to combine their TV shows into a single online video site which will counter the popularity of video-sharing sites such as YouTube. Culver City (CA) - Television ...

24. Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... as well as the ability to and gain access to information stored on Exchange Server, SharePoint and Universal Naming Convention (UNC) file shares. The software now also works with trusted platform modules ...

25. Prove who you are with Symantec's "Identity Client"

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... merchant's computers. Enrique Salem, Symantec's Group President of the Consumer Business Unit said, "Our goal is to create a universally accepted identity system across all web sites - from ...

26. AMD launches 4x4 platform Quad FX

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and not willing to shell out a boatload of your hard earned money, is Intel's Kentsfield processor or a dual-core FX system the better universal choice? AMD representatives indicated that, for pure gaming, ...

27. Universal Music Group sues MySpace over copyrights

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Universal Music Group late Friday sued News's MySpace unit, alleging the social networking site has allowed its users to post millions of Universal's songs and videos onto the Internet in violation ...

28. Zune zooms out to retailers across the country

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... have all signed on for the Zune Marketplace - the location where Zune owners will be able to buy music for their player. Universal Music Group has also pledged support for Microsoft's new platform, but ...

29. Universal gets a share of Zune sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    A deal struck by Microsoft and Universal Music Group gives the popular record label a cut of the sales of Microsoft's anticipated Zune media device, in a move that is possibly more about potential legal ...

30. Battle of the Tubes: uTube sues YouTube

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation, a maker of tube manufacturing machines, is suing video-sharing giant YouTube because of its similarly sounding web name. Universal Tube's website, utube.com, ...

31. Price/Performance Charts: U.S. retail still waiting for effect of AMD price cut

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... and want a more universal correlation between price and performance. Additionally, some readers requested that we add the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 to our chart. To give a more exact set of data for processor ...

32. Universal goes against another video sharing site

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In a bid to expand its position on copyright infringement, Universal Music Group announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to post videos to which Universal ...

33. Universal may sue YouTube, MySpace

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    According to a report from Market Watch, Universal Music Group may be suing YouTube and MySpace for copyright infringement. The sites, which allow users to share videos and music to millions of people, ...

34. Educating kids with video games - a laudable, but doomed, idea

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... - it's not considered an educational game, yet it is a great training tool for the mind in logic and problem solving. Bearing in mind that the objective of the near universally dreaded advanced maths taught ...

35. Microsoft to offer "bridge" to ODF in Office 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Novell and Sun see have a different view and traditionally promoted ODF as a format that would provide universal access to documents independent of the software that is running on computer system around ...

36. Warner, Universal experiment with HD DVD format variations in new releases

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Warner Home Video announced late yesterday its plans to release Rumor Has It on a "combo" format disc, featuring single-layer HD DVD and standard-resolution DVD on alternate sides. Meanwhile, Universal ...

37. How Intel expects Macintosh software to change

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... in the wake of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' plea to developers to continue building universal binaries. These are executable files that can run on both PowerPC and Core Duo processors. There's no magic to these ...

38. Analysis: Just how different are Intel-Macs from Intel PCs?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... If there's anything in the new Macs' hardware components that exclusively enables Mac OS X 10.4.4 - the version released yesterday that Jobs termed "universal" - then it would have to be in the parts Apple ...

39. NBC Universal acquires controlling stake in MSNBC from Microsoft

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Developing story New York (NY) - In a long anticipated move, NBC Universal today announced it has purchased an extra 32% stake in MSNBC, giving it an 82% controlling interest in the television ...

40. Sony BMG issues recall order for XCP-endowed CDs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... there are several known drivers which run "in the background" on many Windows' users operating systems - for instance, "launch assist" programs for media players and universal document format programs, ...

41. Sprint Nextel announces wireless music store with Sanyo, Samsung

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... customers with access to 250,000 songs from all four major US licensing bodies: EMI, Sony BMG, Warner, and Universal. Downloads will be made available for $2.50 per song, and playable through either phone's ...

42. Authors' Guild sues Google, claiming copyright infringement

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... the Authors Guild action, asked for more talks, and claimed its plans benefited writers. Google has a grand plan of "organizing the world's information and making it more universally accessible and useful". ...

43. Broadcom hits Qualcomm over 3G patents

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Code Division Multiple Access technology, which is implemented through the Universal Mobile Telephone Systems standard. Read the complete story. (internetnews.com)  ...

44. Valve and Vivendi Universal Games settle lawsuit

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

      Valve today said it settled a pending federal court lawsuit filed by Valve in August 2002 against Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games). Valve today said it settled a pending federal court lawsuit ...

45. Valve wins judgment against Sierra/VU in copyright infringement case

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ... and contractual limitation of liability in its copyright infringement suit with Sierra/Vivendi Universal Games. Valve Software, developer of the video game series Half-Life, today announced the US Federal ...

46. Law firm claims ownership of basic 3D techniques

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ... infringe on a 1988 patent. Electronic Arts, Activison, Take Two, Ubisoft, Atari, THQ, Vivendi Universal, Sega, Square Enix, Tecmo, Lucasarts and Namco are all named as defendants in the lawsuit, while ...

47. Just When we Thought We'd Seen the Recording Industry at its Lowest ...

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... this is not just a bad dream: EMI and Universal Music have filed a legal action against Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, the California venture capital firm that invested $13 million into the now-defunct ...

48. Listen4ever.com ISP Access Requested to be Shut Down by Recording Companies

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... four Internet service providers from providing access to Listen4ever.com, a China-based web site. The record labels, including Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and RCA Records, claim that ...

49. Analog Devices' Power Management Chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... amp LDOs. ADI thinks the chips are well suited for cable boxes, audio/entertainment systems, power sources for embedded DSP and microcontroller-based systems, wireless base stations, USB (Universal Serial ...

50. STM's PowerFLAT Chip-Scale Package

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... offers expansion via a Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard and Palm's Universal Connector for hardware accessories. In addition to the seven Palm cards already available - the PalmPak Travel Cards, ...