OSU thought it already turned over defendants' IDs to RIAA
The unfortunate combination of an attachment error and a week-long sickness by the school's attorney gave the appearance that the school was ignoring a court order, according to an admission made by a university official to BetaNews.
Multiple press and Internet sources reported throughout the week that Oklahoma State University has been attempting to stonewall the Recording Industry Association of America by refusing to turn over a list of students' names suspected of trading in unlicensed files. Those students are currently listed as anonymous "John Does" in a federal court trial brought forth by RIAA members.
Struggling Alcatel-Lucent to handle AT&T's 3G expansion
Quickly following up the announcement made earlier this month that AT&T would be expanding its 3G network by 80 cities to nearly 350 US Markets, Alcatel-Lucent announced today that it will be in charge of supplying it.
To facilitate AT&T's network growth, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its UMTS/HSDPA Distributed Node B solution, which allows less intrusive 3G radio deployments to be placed in more locations.
Nintendo looks to address game piracy issues worldwide
Nintendo of America has asked the office of the US Trade Representative to begin pressuring foreign governments to crack down on counterfeit material.
Using an process called a "Special 301," Nintendo filed its complaint with the USTR. Through that method, the agency opens up the process to the public for comment in order to pinpoint areas of concern.
Google makes move into Chinese digital music
Although it is not confirmed, Google has entered into a joint venture with Top100.cn, which will allow Internet users to download licensed music for free.
Top100 already provides a for-pay music download service in China which also offers free streaming. It was founded with 20 million yuan in start-up capital from Chinese basketball star Yao ming, Yao's agent Zhang Mingji, and businessman Ge Chen. It is unclear what will happen to this service when Google steps in.
Yahoo's Yang holds firm on resisting Microsoft
Experimenting with capitalization (in more ways than one), Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wrote his company's shareholders to explain why he believes Microsoft isn't assessing Yahoo's value fairly.
Yahoo has one of the world's most recognized brands, it has partners whose contributions can't be matched, and it has a tremendously positive cash flow, and it has a world-class search engine infrastructure, argued CEO Jerry Yang in a widely distributed letter to Yahoo shareholders yesterday afternoon. All four of these factors would be diluted if the company were simply to be absorbed as another of Microsoft's brands, he directly implied, referring to Microsoft only in his opening paragraphs.
Microsoft: 'We misjudged demand' for Xbox 360
Microsoft admitted Wednesday that it sales for its flagship Xbox 360 game console were in fact so strong that it hasn't been able to maintain inventory levels.
Redmond may be playing the expectations game as NPD data listing monthly console sales is due shortly, and may show some weakness due to these supply problems. Microsoft's game marketing chief Jeff Bell said it could have an impact on its sales.
Google partners with calendaring tool for its online apps
In a move to draw small business users away from services such as Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Google today announced the TimeBridge collaborative calendar tool will be made compatible with Google Enterprise Professional.
Google Enterprise Professional program is a service designed to let business employees collaborate on projects together regardless of where they are. The TimeBridge partnership will also carry over to Google Apps, its online applications suite.
New legislation could lead to ISP throttling ban
Comcast's response yesterday to its public thrashing by the FCC may have had a second, more important, purpose: A prominent Congressman has introduced legislation paving the way for a ban on Internet throttling.
In the midst of an already overflowing legislative calendar, Rep. Ed Markey (D - Mass.), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, introduced a bill yesterday whose end result could be the illegalization of throttling of bandwidth to certain customers by Internet service providers.
RIM blames Monday's BlackBerry outage on a faulty upgrade
Monday's three-hour BlackBerry e-mail outage now has an official excuse from Research In Motion: a software upgrade in its main servers gone horribly wrong.
This explanation should be familiar, as it is the same one BlackBerry users received for a previous outage last April. Since RIM only issues public statements regarding outages upon specific request, according to the New York Times, details of this incident are characteristically vague.
Micron's next two-megapixel handset SoC has a 0.2" footprint
Boise-based Micron today introduced a .2" system-on-a-chip with 2-megapixel imaging capabilities at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The MT9D113 system-on-a-chip (SoC) utilizes a 1.75-micron pixel design, with Micron's trademarked DigitalClarity light sensor technology, and surface fit lens correction to allow a camera measuring only 6.5 x 6.5 millimeters to be built upon it. A device of that size would yield video of 15 frames per second (fps) at full resolution, and 30 fps in viewfinder mode.
iSuppli: Samsung leads LCD TV Sales in 4Q
Analysis of the LCD TV market by electronics analyst firm iSuppli confirms earlier findings that established brands have vaulted ahead of upstart Vizio, making a return to the top of the charts in the fourth quarter.
But two analysts' firms have differing opinions on the breakdown. In the results of a survey from DisplaySearch, Sony took number one at 12.8%, while Samsung followed closely behind at 12.3%. iSuppli's data showed a more substantial lead for Samsung at 14.2%, followed by Sony at 12.5%.
Yahoo's 1,000 layoffs begin, along with a possible rush to Google
Even before Microsoft offered its buyout bid, Yahoo acknowledged plans to lay off about 1,000 workers. Now, those layoffs are under way, regardless of Microsoft's acquisition hopes, with pink slips being handed to the leaders of Brickhouse and Yahoo Personals, among others.
The head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division, Bradley Horowitz, has accepted a job with Google, signaling the possible start of a rush of Yahoo employees to the company's main rival.
Mobile phone chipset gets DivX certification
Continuing its meandering process of certifying as many devices in the "three screens" market (PC, TV, mobile) that it can, DivX has announced a partnership with Korea's Mtekvision semiconductor company, certifying one of that company's processors for mobile devices.
The MtekVision MV8722, part of the company's "Maple" family of processors will allow playback of DivX video at resolutions up to 720x400 pixels.
Sprint, Motorola team on Nextel first responder interoperability
The two companies announced a solution Wednesday that lets safety personnel talk to each other through its public safety radios and Nextel phones.
Both are framing it in the context of September 11th, which showed how vulnerable the nation's emergency communications infrastructure was. By allowing those with Nextel walkie-talkie cellular phones to talk directly to those with public safety radios, an important hurdle is cleared.
XDepth aims to bring High Dynamic Range to JPG imagery
Although it is apparently not officially sanctioned by the JPEG Group, XDepth is touting its own platform as an extension to the commonly-used picture format.
The technology, developed by Costa Rica-based Trellis, is said to add high-depth and high dynamic range to JPEG. The technology can be used through a plug-in being made available for Adobe Photoshop at no charge.
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