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The developers at Trion Worlds have labeled a number of their servers for the MMO Rift as Trial, telling the player base that they are planning to use them in order to try out a number of gameplay and content changes that might then be extended to the full game.The list of the new Trial servers includes: Belmont, Gal... |
16 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Sony, in its trial again George "GeoHot" Hotz, one of the main hackers involved in the recent security issues on the PlayStation 3, has just been given the right to subpoena IP addresses of those who visited the website of the hacker, as well as Google, YouTube and Twitter accounts of those who tried to get in contac... |
8 March 2011
17:21 GMT |
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If, by any chance, you're a World of Warcraft subscriber and have yet to purchase the newest expansion, Cataclysm, Blizzard is running a special deal, offering a 10-day free trial for any player that already purchased Wrath of the Lich King and The Burning Crusade, the previous expansions of the online game.
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20 December 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Along with free trials of Office 2010 RTM and SharePoint Server 2010 RTM, Microsoft is also offering customers the chance to test drive the latest iteration of Visio before making any decisions related to purchasing the product. The evaluation version of Visio Premium 2010 RTM is now up for grabs from the Redmond com... |
22 July 2010
07:54 GMT |
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The RTM bits of SharePoint Server 2010 are now available for download from Microsoft. The latest iteration of SharePoint was released to manufacturing in April 2010 along with Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010, but customers have had to test-drive the Beta release so far, as it was the only one that the softwa... |
24 May 2010
07:07 GMT |
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When it announced the availability of the free edition of Windows 7 for testing purposes, Microsoft noted that downloads would be live only as supplies last. It looks like the Redmond-based company just refreshed the stock of supplies, because according to Stephen L. Rose, Senior community manager, Windows IT Pro Cli... |
30 March 2010
13:19 GMT |
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AT&T has publicly announced the positive results of a live network environment field trial of 100 Gb backbone network technology. This trial will speed up the development of future backbone technology capable of supporting massive increases in wired Internet and wireless data volumes estimated for the following years... |
10 March 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Yesterday, a tape appearing to be the conversation between a worker for the Los Angeles Fire Department and the UCLA hospital, announcing the imminent arrival at the hospital of the ambulance carrying the body of Michael Jackson popped up online. The recording was believed to be true, which meant it could be used in ... |
25 February 2010
05:53 GMT |
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A tape appearing to contain the first time that Michael Jackson’s death was announced this summer has surfaced online, The Sun says. Whether the recording is genuine or a fake has not yet been determined, though, should it prove the former, it will weigh heavily in the trial against Jackson’s personal phy... |
24 February 2010
06:37 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay case was scheduled for an appeal next month but it now seems that this has been postponed at least until summer 2010. The case has always been surrounded by controversy and this time it was no different. Two of the judges supposed to preside the appeal were accused of bias, a recurring theme in the Pir... |
20 October 2009
04:40 GMT |
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It appears that the war against those who use the term “smartbook” has reached a new milestone in the approximately 24 hours that have passed since we initially reported on the story. The 'Smartbook AG' German company that holds the copyright and trademark rights to the term has now expanded its... |
1 September 2009
07:07 GMT |
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YouTube may be one of the largest sites on the planet and, by far, the most popular destination for online video, but it's still facing a lot of problems. For one, it's not making any money, though that may not be as bad as one might expect. However, it's also facing a number of legal threats and is in... |
8 July 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Another lawsuit was dismissed today, after MLB manager Tony La Russa dropped the suit against Twitter, as Yahoo has settled with the National Football League's (NFL) players union. Yahoo filed a suit last month claiming it shouldn't have to pay to use the player names and other data in its fantasy football ... |
8 July 2009
04:48 GMT |
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St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa finally dropped the suit against Twitter and, this time, it's for real. The suit was filed last month with La Russa accusing Twitter of copyright infringement after a fake account using his name was set up on the service. There will be no monetary compensation for the di... |
8 July 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Another chapter is about to begin in Jammie Thomas-Rasset's fight with the RIAA. A couple of weeks ago the 32 year-old woman was found guilty of willful copyright infringement and was ordered to pay a record $1.92 million in statutory damages to the recording industry. One of the lawyers representing Thomas-Rass... |
2 July 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Skype hasn't proven the success eBay was hoping for when it bought the company in 2005 for $2.6 billion. The idea at the time was to integrate the voice-chat capabilities in its auction site, offering users a way to communicate, but it since gave up on the thought and recently announced plans to spin off the com... |
27 June 2009
08:16 GMT |
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The Swedish Appeal Court has ruled in the appeal filed by the Pirate Bay defendants accusing judge Tomas Norström of bias in the Pirate Bay case, which he presided. The defendants asked the court for a retrial on account of bias based on the fact that the judge was part of several pro-copyright groups, which was... |
26 June 2009
02:52 GMT |
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A second trial of RIAA's case against single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset has concluded today with the jury awarding record statutory damages of $1.92 million for 24 songs she made available over the file-sharing network Kazaa. The sum amounts to $80,000 per song and the woman has stated that she has no intention... |
19 June 2009
10:35 GMT |
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The request for a retrial in the Pirate Bay case, after allegations of bias on the judge's part, is being reviewed by the Svea Court of Appeal. The Stockholm District court, which handled the case, argued yesterday that the judge's affiliation with several pro-copyright groups didn't interfere with his... |
9 June 2009
04:44 GMT |
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After the reports of the St. Louis Cardinals' manager Tony La Russa's lawsuit against Twitter, and consequent settlement, the micro-blogging service's co-founder Biz Stone has decided to make an official statement on the Twitter blog to clarify their stance on the issue. The statement was surprising to... |
9 June 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Twitter has apparently settled out of court with Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, after he filed a suit earlier this week, on account of trademark violation. A Twitter user had made a fake account in La Russa's name and used it to post tweets that the latter fou... |
6 June 2009
07:14 GMT |
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Social networks help police officials once again, after just last week a bank robber was convicted because of his MySpace status. This time it was 20-year-old Erika Scoliere's turn to get busted because of a couple of Facebook photos. The girl from Campton Hills, Illinois was awaiting trial with accusations of... |
6 June 2009
05:58 GMT |
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It looks like everyone is trying to get some attention by using Twitter, but while most may be doing it the old-fashioned way, by actually using Twitter, others have decided that suing the service would prove much more successful. That seems to be the case with Tony La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Ma... |
5 June 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Yahoo has taken the NFL Players Association, which is the National Football League players' union, to court on the grounds that it shouldn't have to pay for player data such as names, statistics or photos it uses in its online fantasy football league game as all the information is already public.Yahoo claim... |
4 June 2009
11:33 GMT |
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With the whole Pirate Bay trial controversy not even close to settling down, here comes another case of copyright taking torrent sites to court. This time it was the Netherlands’ popular torrent indexing site Mininova's turn to go to court with the local anti-piracy group BREIN. BREIN is accusing Mininov... |
4 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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In what can be considered a surprising move, a Beijing Judge has sided with Chinese blogger Hu Xingdou in a case against his ISP Beijing Xin Net. The ISP had previously shut down his web site claiming it contained what they rated “illegal” content. The court found that the ISP could not prove that it was ... |
27 May 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Swedish courts have rejected the demand made by lawyers representing the entertainment business that The Pirate Bay be fined for every day the site stays up. The lawyers also called for a gag order, preventing The Pirate Bay's founders to speak publicly until the matter was settled in court but this too was reje... |
26 May 2009
05:53 GMT |
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The UK High Court has ruled in the favor of eBay in their case against L'Oreal. The court decided that the online auction site couldn't be held legally responsible for the sale of counterfeit L'Oreal products and that it wasn't in the position to verify if the items sold were legitimate. The Frenc... |
23 May 2009
06:54 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay trial isn't called the “spectrial” for nothing. Following latest developments, the judge assigned to review if his fellow public official in the first trial was biased was removed – and this is the best part – also for bias. The first judge, Tomas Norström, came under ... |
22 May 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Rights holders still aren't happy with the outcome of The Pirate Bay trial and have appealed the verdict asking for bigger fines and the charge for “infringing copyright” restored after being dropped in the early part of the first trial, which ended with Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svar... |
22 May 2009
02:31 GMT |
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A couple of hours ago, Chris Brown’s high-power attorney Mark Geragos was in court for the first hearing in the Rihanna assault case. As he was leaving, Geragos hinted that they might ask the judge to dismiss the entire case because of the media leaks that took place between the alleged assault, on February 8, ... |
30 April 2009
04:11 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest problems that has been plaguing both the gaming and software industry for quite some time. As such, a lot of organizations like the Entertainment Software Association have been created in order to militate against pirates and show people just what toll downloading a pirated copy of a vide... |
21 April 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Six years after the body of struggling actress Lana Clarkson was found in Spector’s 30-bedroom mansion, and only after a second trial, the once famous music producer was found guilty and convicted of second degree murder, the Los Angeles Times informs. In finding the 69-year-old Spector guilty, the jurors have ... |
14 April 2009
05:26 GMT |
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PC gaming is definitely not dying, as a lot of developers and publishers in the industry might say, largely due to the fact that MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), like World of Warcraft or Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, still make a lot of money from people who own a PC platform.Another ... |
3 April 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Cornered Rat Software is encouraging Mac and PC users to download the free, 14-day trial version of its massively multiplayer PC game WWII Online: Battleground Europe for the chance to have their face added to an in-game character.According to Cornered Rat Software, anyone who creates a free trial account between Mar... |
23 March 2009
08:02 GMT |
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Even if Chris Brown and his attorney managed to postpone the arraignment for April 6 to answer to charges of felony assault and making criminal threats, they might have another thing coming at them. Rihanna will testify against Brown if she’s called as a witness in the case, her attorney, Donald Etra says, as q... |
7 March 2009
06:49 GMT |
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It was a case that made all the headlines in European newspapers: “Swiss gigolo” Helg Sgarbi romanced BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, taped their encounter and then threatened to sell the tape to the media if she did not pay him €14 million ($17.5 million). Now, Sgarbi will face the music and legally an... |
7 March 2009
06:00 GMT |
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As is the case with a range of its software products, including Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is offering a free copy of Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 with Service Pack 2, designed to streamline the evaluation process. In this context, in order to simplify the test driving of IAG 2007 SP2, t... |
21 January 2009
04:04 GMT |
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A new scientific study comes to contradict the long-term belief of legal scholars, who say that the actual number of people convicted of crimes while being innocent is unknowable. The new paper, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and authored by researchers at the University of M... |
7 January 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Microsoft is making consistent efforts to permit customers to test-drive its products, in order to catalyze a boost in adoption. An illustrative example in this context is the trial-version of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard. Labeled as for “evaluation and testing purposes,” the bits are o... |
12 November 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Electronic Arts doesn't have quite a decent reputation among gamers and those in the gaming industry largely due to the fact that it hides quite a lot of things from customers, especially when it comes to DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems introduced in the games the company publishes.Although not a lot of ... |
10 November 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is really stressing the importance of its fall update to the Xbox 360, especially the long awaited New Xbox Experience. Essentially a revamp of the old blade system which is currently employed in the Xbox 360 navigation menu, this promises to bring a much more user friendly experience and to take pers... |
30 September 2008
20:01 GMT |
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Piracy is a big thing nowadays – it's present in a lot of industries and despite the efforts of the producers, it will keep going for a long time. Most commonly it targets the music industry, with users downloading songs from various Internet websites or using different types of applications. But the gamin... |
22 September 2008
03:53 GMT |
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The lawsuit initiated against four individuals, all connected to the Pirate Bay, the Sweden-based biggest Bittorrent tracker, was delayed until the end of the year. Although the Stockholm District Court previously announced that the litigation would begin by the end of the summer, it seems that now it needs more time... |
29 August 2008
05:06 GMT |
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An American 49-year-old woman who pretended to be a 16-year-old boy caused, as prosecutors say, the death of a young girl. Now that she's been indicted, her aim is to avoid trial by all means, by having the charges dismissed. Her lawyer, as cited by the Washington Post, is trying to convince the judge that Lori ... |
24 July 2008
06:25 GMT |
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As we previously reported, Facebook has entered a legal action against what seems to be an exact copy of the American social network. Although the formal announcement of the lawsuit has not been made yet, studiVZ, the company that was accused of plagiarism, has released a quite intriguing statement regarding the matt... |
21 July 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Counterfeit products available on eBay and other purchasing sites cannot be totally shut out, unless the companies that fabricate the originals keep a keen eye on what is going on on these properties. This statement was underscored by the judge who exonerated eBay of any guilt in the process vs. jewelry giant Tiffany... |
15 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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The social networking site MySpace is indirectly involved in a trial against a Wisconsin teenager. Alex Phillips, a user of MySpace, faces jail after he was caught posting indecent photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. It appears that this was a vengeful act on behalf of the teenager, prompted ... |
22 May 2008
07:03 GMT |
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A former engineer at the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona faces serious charges for using a a piece of software he illegally took from the plant in Iran. The trial in which the former employee is involved has started this Tuesday and comes one year after the man's arrest, and two after he took the training so... |
14 May 2008
11:08 GMT |
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The legal action filed by AMD against Intel in 2006 got new evidence to support AMD's allegations claiming that it had been sabotaged by its arch-rival on the processor market. According to the latest information emerging from the trial, AMD gathered 200 million pages of documents that say Intel paid its partner... |
7 May 2008
06:59 GMT |
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