Phone Maker HTC Sued By Apple
Apple has filed a lawsuit against HTC alleging the company is infringing on 20 patents related to the iPhone. We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it," Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said Tuesday in a statement. "We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours. Comments
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Join The [H] Folding Team!
This is our weekly shout out to all of you out there that aren't currently folding and could spare a bit of your PC's resources to help a wonderful cause. Although [H]ardOCP has the #1 Folding team on the planet, we still need your help to stay there. Folding is easy, all you have to do is download and install the Folding@Home program, set your team number to TEAM #33 and you are all set. If you still need help or have any questions, forum member "Xilikon" put all the Folding guides that a person could possibly need into one easy-to-find location. Hit the link, follow the directions and you'll be up and folding in no time at all.
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Topeka to be Google, Kansas
I have seen people change the name of their baby, get tattoos and other stunts to curry favor with a company but I have never seen a town the size of Topeka do it. Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten signed a proclamation Monday calling for Topeka to be known for the month of March as "Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics." Bunten told city council members about the proclamation prior to a special meeting of the council held at noon at City Hall to hear the first reading of a proposal that wasn't linked to local efforts to convince Google to make Topeka a test site for an ultrafast Internet connection. Comments
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Ranking the Top Game-Design Colleges
Whether you are looking for somewhere to send your kid or you are planning on attending yourself, a list of the top game-design colleges could really come in handy. The Princeton Review recently surveyed 50 game design programs at U.S. colleges in order to handpick the eight top schools to attend if you're interested in game development. It based its selections on a variety of criteria including: curriculum quality, school staff and infrastructure, scholarships and financial aid, and career opportunities. Comments
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Ex-Mozilla Security Chief Takes Job at Apple
Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has been hired by Apple. ButÂ…butÂ…butÂ…I thought Macs were so good that they didn't need security, right? Oh yeah, +1 bonus for having an employee at Apple named "Window" to give you better security. Apple is the third browser-maker in the past five years that has employed Snyder, who previously had worked as a security strategist at Microsoft where she managed the company's relationships with security consultants and had worked on the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Comments
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WD Introduces New My Passport Studio Portable Drives
WD, the world's leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new My Passport™ Studio™ portable drives featuring the super-fast FireWire® 800 interface and a customizable e-label that's always visible, even when the drive is unplugged. Sporting a sleek and stylish design, the new high-performance My Passport Studio drives are formatted for Mac® computers, compatible with Apple® TimeMachine® software, and feature automatic and continuous backup with WD SmartWare™ software, and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Available now at select retailers and shopwd.com, the new My Passport Studio drives are offered in capacities of 320 GB, 500 GB and 640 GB. Comments
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AMD Unveils Versatile AMD 890GX Chipset
AMD and its motherboard partners today unleashed ATI Radeon™ HD 4290 Graphics with the AMD 890GX Chipset, a versatile, affordable and exceptionally energy efficient solution for an incredible, high definition visual computing experience. The AMD 890GX chipset redefines the way you play with versatile graphics configurations, including DirectX® 10.1 graphics on the motherboard and support for up to two high-performance ATI Radeon™ Premium Graphics cards with ATI CrossFireX™ technology. The same AMD 890GX motherboard which can be used to build an efficient and slim home theater PC using the integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 Graphics, can be augmented with ATI Radeon™ HD 5450 Graphics for a dual-graphics performance preview, or upgraded to a gaming powerhouse with ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Graphics and the visual realism of DirectX® 11. Comments
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890GX / SB850 Chipset Motherboard Video Preview
Today AMD is announcing its newest generation motherboard chipset family on the Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H motherboard. It is comprised of the 890GX Northbridge, and SB850 Southbridge. If you are looking for a board with integrated graphics, you had better put the AMD 890GX on your short list. We are more excited about seeing native SATA 6Gb/s RAID than anything else, and we queue up a 4-disk RAID 0 array worthy of 4TB.
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Intel's Sean Maloney to Take Medical Leave
Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's Architecture Group is taking medical leave after suffering a stroke. According to the press release, Maloney's prognosis for a full recovery is excellent and he is "expected to resume all of his business responsibilities after a period of recuperation." Intel Corporation said today that Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager, Intel Architecture Group, is taking a medical leave of absence after suffering a stroke at his home. Maloney's prognosis for a full recovery is excellent and he is expected to resume all of his business responsibilities after a period of recuperation which is thought to be several months, the company said. His duties in the interim will be assumed by Dadi Perlmutter, also executive vice president and general manager (with Maloney) of the Intel Architecture Group. Comments
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Windows XP Downgrade Lawsuit Dismissed
The antitrust lawsuit filed against Microsoft last year over Windows XP downgrades has been dismissed. The courts said Microsoft in no way benefited from the fee to downgrade to XP from Vista. The judge in the case stated that the plaintiff should have filed suit against Lenovo, the company that charged her for the downgrade, not Microsoft. In the lawsuit, Alvarado claimed that she was being taken advantage of by Microsoft by having to pay additional money to downgrade. The problem with that assertion is that Microsoft did not charge, nor profit from, that fee. Alvarado should have filed her suit against Lenovo. Comments
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Another Study On Violent Video Games
Another study has been conducted on the impact of violent video games. The study not only found that video games turn you into killers, it also highlighted the fact that researchers get tons of funding to study subjects that have been proved-disproved-proved-disproved-proved-disproved ad nauseam. The new study notes that while violence in movies and TV shows has long been examined for its potential impact on viewers' proclivity for violence, video gaming, a much newer phenomenon, has not yet been so fully explored. Comments
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Buy A Real Law Degree On Craigslist
Some guy is selling his law degree on Craigslist. In related news, the ad is no longer posted and coincidentally I am now [H]ard|OCP's legal counsel. Thanks to D. Frisk for the image (and the laugh). Comments
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Hacker Hijacks Concert Ticket System
Get this, a company called "Wiseguy Tickets" turned out to be crooks that hired a Bulgarian hacker to help them get concert and event tickets illegally. A company named "wiseguys" committing crimesÂ…whoddathunkit? Federal authorities in New Jersey today charged four men with hacking into websites of online ticket sellers and illegally buying tickets to Hannah Montana, Bruce Springsteen and other shows around the nation. The massive conspiracy virtually hijacked the online ticketing systems and prevented average consumers from buying prime seats. Comments
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Intel Expands Atom Processor Line-up for Netbooks
Today Intel introduced the Intel® Atom™ processor N470. This new, faster Atom processor for netbooks has integrated graphics built directly into the CPU to help enable improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs for the popular netbook category. The single core Atom processor runs at 1.83GHz, with 512k of L2 cache and DDR2-667 support. Major OEMs are expected to introduce systems based on this processor over the coming months to further differentiate their netbook offerings with a higher frequency to deliver additional responsiveness for online and basic computing tasks. Comments
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TPB Torrents Remain Online Despite Court Order
Swoosh!!! Did you hear that? It was the sound of the Pirate Bay sails as its ship whooshes by the court imposed deadline to remove all torrents from the site. The next sound you might hear could be "clang" as the trio are tossed in the brig. This ultimatum passed today and thus far no changes have been made to The Pirate Bay. Dutch users can still access all parts of the site and from the looks of it no torrent files have been removed. To the three defendants this comes as no surprise because they always claimed that they have no control over the site anymore. Comments
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