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News Round-up: FBI Billboards, Radiohead Webcast, and Patents, Patents, Patents
Posted by Benny Goldman at 8:00 AM on December 28, 2007
• The FBI wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 US cities in the next few weeks to show fugitives, missing people and gadget bloggers. [Network World]
• Oft-discussed Radiohead will have a live webcast concert at midnight on January 1. It's almost cool to stay home on New Year's Eve now. [Pitchfork]
• Google is stuck in patent troll hell with Hyperphase Technologies, LLC. The company claims it holds patents on certain parts of AdSense technology. [The Register]
• Yahoo filed a patent for "smart drag-and-drop" technology, which means "displaying drop targets in proximity to a drag-able selected object." Too bad everything from MS Excel to Apple Mail to Adobe Flash all use similar technology already. [Ars Technica]
• Vonage finalised their settlement with AT&T over the former infringing on the latter's VoIP patents. The settlement is believed to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of $US39 million. [CRN]
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edleob
Posted 5:20 PM 27/12/07
Wasn't the legend of soltare(solitaire) was the first to use that smart drag and drop way back on Win 3.1?
edleob
DustyButt
Posted 5:16 PM 27/12/07
They're also wanted for questioning regarding a December 20th meat beating...
Noooo! Not the ban hammer!!!!!
DustyButt
DustyButt
Posted 5:13 PM 27/12/07
So, these are the suspects in the 6 state chicken choking spree!
DustyButt
strider_mt2k
Posted 5:00 PM 27/12/07
Unfound among the suspects remains Addy "Icepick" Dugsdale, who was last reported at a highway rest stop along the I-95 corridor...
Authorities wish to know the location of the 'Modo Mob and welcome any information that can be brought by citizens.
strider_mt2k
frndlybnny
Posted 4:56 PM 27/12/07
That lineup makes me feel like singing the orgy song Madeline Kahn sang in History of the World Part I: "Yes, yes, no, yes, no, yes, yes, YES, no!"
frndlybnny
nutbastard
Posted 4:47 PM 27/12/07
@zenpoet:
yeah, these are going to be ripe targets, especially if you can do it without having to tamper with the hardware.
nutbastard
zenpoet
Posted 4:40 PM 27/12/07
How long until the sign is hacked and goatse makes an appearance? Any bets?
zenpoet
Monty
Posted 4:39 PM 27/12/07
Interesting that Vonage keeps getting slapped everywhere, yet also keeps being heralded as the best VoIP option on the market. I love the product, but am concerned they may not make it. Oh well, phone'em if you got'em, I guess.
Monty
DJJS
Posted 9:59 PM 27/12/07
HA! cant wait.. till someone hooks up there Wii or Ps3 And Plays on this Screen that would be SWEET!
DJJS
discounteggroll
Posted 9:18 PM 27/12/07
"that's how they became the ********* family..."
discounteggroll