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1. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Opinion We heard the CEO of Nokia, Oli-Pekka Kallasvuo at a CEO conference in Paris just two weeks ago shrugging off the iPhone and the BlackBerry as competitors. We heard the CEO of Nokia, Oli-Pekka ...

2. Wesley Chan is the Google Voice Speedy Gonzalez

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   While the FCC was gazing at the navel of Google Voice last Thursday and last Friday, Wesley "Mr Google Voice" Chan was busy snapping the great and the good at Etre's Gala Night in Paris. While the ...

3. Meet Microsoft, the underdog

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog ...

4. Etre reaches a 20 year milestone

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... it's a tribute to the very well connected Alex Vieux that it's reached that landmark.The conference will be held from October 6 to October 9 in Paris, France, and the organisers, Red Herring Events, are ...

5. French authorities block illegal download law

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   France's highest legal authority has overturned a ruling that would have allowed a new state agency to cut off internet access for those who download music illegally. Paris, France - France's highest ...

6. First email virus turns 10

   (Security/Security Features)

   ... the first virus of this kind, was estimated to have infected more than one million PCs and caused damage in excess of $80 million. In comparison to the viruses we see today, as well as the possible threat ...

7. Review: Chrome 2.0 beta is speedy, still falling behind in features

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... from tab-dragging:  Great for research and comparison Chrome allows you to quickly realign your view by dragging tabs to five preset docking positions -- just like how Windows 7 lets you drag a window ...

8. ISOHunt search site lawsuit could make Google, Yahoo, others illegal

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   ... And while his site is used to find the files, his participation in the experience ends there. A similar comparison could be drawn from asking some guy down the street where to buy drugs. That person might ...

9. Updated Mac desktops arrive March 24, as does a "pleasant surprise"

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... on specs and prices when comparing Mac systems to PCs. With that in mind, moving from eight months to an annual upgrade cycle puts Macs in an even more difficult position for direct side-by-side comparison ...

10. The next Psystar: PearC sells Mac clones in Europe

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... out at about 2890 Euro (about $3700); Swiss customers can even deduct the German VAT (currently 19%) from the purchase price. Here is a brief comparison of comparable Mac and PearC systems with specs, ...

11. Appeals court to rule Wednesday on Orange iPhone exclusivity

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

      An appeals court in Paris will rule on Wednesday whether or not telecom company Orange should have exclusive rights to sell Apple's iPhone. Paris (France) - An appeals court in Paris will rule on Wednesday ...

12. Vudu's sleek and sexy set-top box: five years later

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... HD library in existence." For comparison, Apple's iTunes Store plus Apple TV combo offers 600 rentals in HD. Continued on the next page: Hollywood-dictated usage rights, Broadband speed and ISP capping ...

13. Firefox 3.1 beta 1: Damn, this thing is fast!

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... subjectively, sites like Facebook and Google Docs feel much snappier. Complex layouts render noticeably faster, courtesy of the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine. In a side-by-side comparison, Firefox 3.1 beta ...

14. Samsung Instinct: How bad marketing could cripple a great product

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... advantages obsolete. Samsung may have decided to launch the phone on the same day as the iPhone to take advantage of the very likely wave of media coverage of this segment and the comparisons that will ...

15. President Bush caught in a little iPod scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Pariser, testified: "When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song." She went even further by saying that copying a song you bought is "a nice way of saying ...

16. Square Enix wins plagiarism case over singer's music video

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... VII. "This judgment by the Seoul Central District Court is stringent in comparison to other copyright infringement cases in South Korea, and we appreciate that the maliciousness of this infringement ...

17. 20th Century-Fox will finally join Warner, releasing Blu-ray titles

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... solution: By waiting for full-scale BD-J, 20th now promises titles that use full MPEG-4 compression with DTS HD Lossless Master audio. Sony's first titles, by comparison, stick with the older MPEG-2 format, ...

18. How will the MySpace / Google deal affect Internet traffic?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... this back in the days when it was a Stanford University research project; MySpace, by comparison, would have the virtue of a pre-assembled audience. "What if you layered the social network of MySpace's ...

19. Sony Pictures to make first Blu-ray movies available today

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... to be able to test it with Blu-ray movies. Among them is Dan Bradley, who reports for DenGuru that, in comparisons of DVD upconversion capabilities between the BD-P1000 and the HD-A1, there were only negligible ...

20. Lucent in talks to be acquired by Alcatel :NYTimes

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... phone service providers. The prospect of a big trans-Atlantic deal comes at a time when foreign takeovers have been political flashpoints in both Washington and Paris. A Dubai company's acquisition of ...

21. Paris court fines Warner Music $6200 for DRM violation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The French online audiophile publication audionautes.net is reporting that, in a 10 January decision recently made public, the Paris District Court ruled against Warner Music. The ruling orders the company ...

22. IT forensic investigators peer into the minds of criminals

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to Spruill, increasing harddrive capacities have definitely changed the forensic landscape. "There is no comparison between cases today and three years ago. Back then a computer had about 40 GBytes, now ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... District Court. Sony BMG and First 4 Internet continue to maintain that their software is not a rootkit, which is a critical point in light of the damage that rootkits have been known to cause. By comparison, ...

24. BlackBerry 8700c premieres new Intel CPU, new deal with Cingular

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... from 60 to 100 kbps. By comparison, Verizon's next-generation EVDO network, which builds on the success of CDMA, touts a theoretical transfer speed of 2.4 Mbps (megabits per second), with a perceived speed ...

25. Paris Hilton sues over Internet sex tape

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Reality TV star Paris Hilton has sued a Panama-based Internet company for $30 million, claiming that it illegally distributed a now-infamous tape of her having sex with an ex-boyfriend. Reality ...

26. Intergraph Goes After PC Makers Now

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... software came to $379.2 million, with a total of $532 million expected for the year, according to the company. By comparison, its court-mandated payments from Intel alone this year come to $450 million ...