February 2009
8 posts
Rambus Wins Submarine Patent Case
Bloomberg The U.S. Supreme Court turned away the Federal Trade Commission’s bid to impose antitrust penalties that would have limited the royalties collected by memory-chip technology company Rambus Inc. The justices, without comment, left intact a federal appeals court decision favoring Rambus, which gets more than 80 percent of its revenue from royalties. The lower court threw out FTC findings...
Feb 27th
Website Number
Biden Forgets Recovery.gov’s “Website Number” This morning Vice President Biden went on the CBS early show to promote Recovery.gov, the website that will detail where all of the money in The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be going. Unfortunately, he forgot the actual address of the site during the interview, explaining that he was embarrassed that he didn’t have the “website number”....
Feb 25th
Chamomile Tea
I just LMAO with this: Chamomile Tea Chamomile Tea ACTUAL COLLEGE THEME PAPER - HEY I COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP Remember the book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”? Well, here’s a prime example offered by an English professor at an American University. “Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair...
Feb 21st
Asustek May Use Google's Android in Netbooks, in...
Asustek May Use Google’s Android in Netbooks, in Challenge for Microsoft (Tim Culpan/Bloomberg): “ Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: Asustek May Use Google’s Android in Netbooks, in Challenge for Microsoft’ —’ Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Asustek Computer Inc., which pioneered the market for sub-$500 laptops, may install Google Inc.’s free Android operating system on its...
Feb 21st
Starting A New Game Business - Presentation
Starting a new game business (via Pedro Santos)
Feb 20th
Media-Win7 Love Affair Ends Thanks To DRM?
Slashdot | Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 “A few days’ testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem...
Feb 19th
A Special Valentine's Day Gift...from Cisco!
(Youtube Video) - via gizmodo
Feb 14th
Third time...
I just migrated my blog for the 3rd time 1 - Blogger to wordpress @ neacm.fe.up.pt 2 - wordpress@neacm.fe.up.pt to wordpress.com 3 - wordpress.com to self-hosted More info soon.
Feb 11th