3M Owns The Colour Purple (But Not How You Might Think)

And here I was, ready to paint my bedroom purple. But if 3M owns it, I can’t, right? Wrong! Although under US law 3M strangely does have a valid claim to the the colour, it’s not as bad as it sounds.


September 1, 2010
Entertainment

Foxtel Shows Off Pay TV, Xbox 360 Style

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First full IP play for Foxtel, 30 channels and “fabulously affordable”.


December 23, 2009
Online

Botnet Baddies Setting Up Own ISPs For Unfettered Spamming

Well, this is equal parts frightening and annoying: Malware writers and their lot have been buying up data centres and getting approved for large blocks of IP space. What’s that mean? That they can pretty much run rampant.


October 17, 2009
Online

Lockheed Martin, Microsoft To Create Military-Friendly Internet

Lockheed Martin is getting a $US31 million contract from the US government to work on reinventing TCP/IP for a new Military Network Protocol. Also lending a hand in this effort to create a proper cyber-arsenal is Microsoft. What a team!


April 8, 2009

Samsung LED TVs To Offer Online Content From NineMSN

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One of the coolest features in all the top of the line home entertainment kit coming to market over the next year or so is the inbuilt IP connectivity for access to online service. In Samsung’s upcoming LED backlit TV range, that content will be coming directly from NineMSN.


April 7, 2009

Samsung LED Range Hitting Shelves Next Month, Look Spectacular

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This morning I had a chance to eyeball Samsung’s new 6000, 7000 annd 8000 Series LCD TVs with LED backlighting. And they looked fantastic.


March 26, 2009
Entertainment

Panasonic’s Viera Cast Isn’t As Awesome As It Can Be… Yet

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Along with its new range of Blu-ray recorders and players, Panasonic were also showing off their new Viera Cast IP technology, which is built into pretty much everything in the new range. It’s an IP entertainment solution, and while it’s no Netflix or TiVo yet, it has the potential for greatness, if only they can get the right partners on board.


February 12, 2009
Software

Gmail Offering Automatic Location-Based Signatures

If you’re a world traveller, or even if you’re travelling abroad for the first time and need absolutely everyone to know, Gmail now offers an option to include your location in the signature.


October 14, 2008

President Bush Signs Bill To Create Cabinet-Level Intellectual Property Czar

President Bush signed into law today a bill that will create a centralised position in the executive branch, appointed by the president, to head up the fight against piracy and intellectual property violations. The Prioritising Resources and Organisation for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP) is backed strongly by the usuals–MPAA, RIAA, etc.–and yet faced some pushback from the Justice Department and the Bush administration itself as it made its way through the House and Senate. So what does it all mean?