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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 07:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lime Wire strikes back in court against RIAA]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 07:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK--Free music is here to stay and punishing Lime Wire founder Mark Gorton for that fact is unjust and won't change a thing, Gorton's lawyers said in federal court today. Mark Gorton, Lime Wire founder(Credit:Screen shot by Greg Sandoval/CNET)A trial to determine the amount of damages Gorton must pay the top four record companies for infringing their copyrights got under way in a federal courtroom here today. Gorton has a possible $1 billion judgment hanging over his head after the major music labels accused him in a 2006 copyright suit of encouraging music fans to use his company's LimeWire software to illegally swap music files. Lime Wire's lawyers did not dispute that LimeWire was a peer-to-peer network that millions of people used over the past decade to obtain songs without paying artists or rights holders. For the companies that produce the vast majority of today's popular music, the case is about shutting down a major file-sharing operation and making an example of Gorton. At stake for Lime Wire's founder is a potential judgment that could be financially ruinous. A year ago, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood found Gorton liable for willful copyright infringement and last October ordered Lime Wire to shut down. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wants Gorton and Lime Wire to pay the maximum amount under the law: $150,000 for each of the 9,715 albums it seeks damages for, or a total of $1.4 billion. LimeWire as scapegoatBurdening Gorton with a judgment that's even close to that figure would be wrong, Joseph Baio, one of Gorton's attorneys, said during his opening statement to the jury. With Gorton sitting nearby, Baio tried to undermine the RIAA's assertions that the file-sharing service financially &quot;devastated&quot; the large record companies: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI Music. Earlier in the hearing, the RIAA suggested that LimeWire was largely to blame for the 52 percent decline in music sales during the past 10 years. Related links&amp;149' Lime Wire's day of reckoning is here&amp;149' Legal experts: LimeWire likely doomed&amp;149' LimeWire going legitBaio pointed out that music sales began dropping off in 2000, when Lime Wire was just starting out and its audience was insignificant. He used e-mails and public statements from executives of the record companies to show that even they blamed their shrinking business on such things as CD ripping and burning, the poor economy, and their own inability to adapt to changing technology. Baio showed the jury a note written by Doug Morris, the former CEO of Universal Music, that seemed to blame the record labels for not innovating quickly enough. Morris wrote that every time in the past that a new technology had come on the scene, the music industry was able to use it to make money. But in the Internet age &quot;the real problem is that there is no technology coming from the record companies,&quot; Morris wrote. Former Universal Music CEO Doug Morris(Credit:Greg Sandoval/CNET)Baio mocked the assertion that the labels were in financial shambles. He ticked off the other revenue streams the labels have built, such as Internet radio, royalties from video games, and ad dollars from YouTube. He said that the record companies were doing well enough for Warner Music to have paid three top executives $100 million in salary and bonuses since 2004. He told the jury that some experts have said sharing music online may increase sales. He ended is statement by telling jurors that anytime in the past that a file-sharing service had gone offline, the masses &quot;just funnel into the next-best service&quot; and nothing changes, the implication being that consumers have chosen to obtain music this way and it's not anyone's fault.&quot;Music that is free is here to stay,&quot; Baio said. He then quoted from an e-mail written to subordinates by Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chief of Warner Music. &quot;The consumer has won.&quot; Plausible deniabilityDuring the RIAA's opening statement, attorney Glenn Pomerantz reminded the jury that U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood had already concluded that he had known that his users infringed copyright and he had taken no action. Gorton schemed to not just make music available to anyone for free but to make himself rich doing it, Pomerantz said. The lawyer underscored the fact that Gorton lived in a home in Manhattan's affluent Upper West Side and had a retirement account over $100 million. Pomerantz said that what Gorton had done, most of us would call stealing. He presented charts to illustrate what he said were massive amounts of file-sharing LimeWire facilitated every day. He said Gorton tried to create a file-sharing system that was specially designed to offer him a way to claim he didn't know about the file-sharing that occurred there, what Pomerantz called &quot;plausible deniability.&quot; To protect his claim of ignorance, Gorton ordered employees never to respond to inquiries from users about the site's legality, Pomerantz said.  &quot;He knew what he was doing was wrong,&quot; Pomerantz said. &quot;He knew one day he could face you.&quot; Notes: The judge told lawyers from both sides that she thought the trial could take as long as four weeks...The nine-person jury consisted of eight women and one man. Most of the jurors appear to be middle aged. Since the average techie and file sharer is male and since they typically are in their 20s or 30s, the jury pool didn't appear to favor Lime Wire. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Company turns Four Loko booze into car fuel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>agriceememsah</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Four Loko, we hardly knew thee. But our cars still have a chance.(Credit:Flickr user Mulling it Over)The rising popularity of Four Loko, a party beverage both beloved and reviled for its unique and sometimes dangerous mix of alcohol and caffeine, was finally quashed when several states banned it and the Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to its manufacturers. The FDA and other authorities were concerned about caffeine's potential to make the effects of alcohol less noticeable and ultimately worse--as well as the brand's popularity among underage drinkers.So what to do with all the leftover booze According to an Associated Press story, one company in Virginia is turning it into car fuel.MXI Enterprises, an ethanol recycling company based in Abingdon, Va., told the AP that it would be taking in &quot;a couple of hundred truckloads&quot; of cases of Four Loko that won't be sold now that its manufacturers have opted to pull it from shelves or reformulate it so that it doesn't include the monster caffeine jolt. MXI then distills the alcohol and sells it to companies that will mix it intocar fuel, the story explained. The cans are also recycled, as are the cardboard cases and water from the drinks.Cheers.Meanwhile, Four Loko parent company Phusion Products has said that it will be rejiggering the malt liquor beverage's recipe so that caffeine, guarana, and taurine are excluded. Which really means you might as well be drinking a Smirnoff Ice.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Salesforce-Oracle rivalry heats up with Database.com]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>agriceememsah</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[At the Oracle OpenWorld conference back in September, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff exchanged on-stage jabs as Ellison played up his company's push into Salesforce's territory: the cloud. Later today, as Benioff takes the stage to kick off his company's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, he'll announce his company's push into Oracle's territory: databases. Today, Salesforce is launching Database.com, pitching it as &quot;the world's first enterprise database built for the cloud.&quot; In a statement, Benioff said: We see cloud databases as a massive market opportunity that will power the shift to real-time enterprise applications that are natively cloud, mobile and social. For the first time, we are making Database.com, the database that is proven and trusted by our 87,000 customers, available as an open, stand-alone service to accelerate the creation of these new apps.Read more of &quot;Dreamforce: Salesforce-Oracle rivalry heats up with launch of Database.com&quot; at ZDNet's Between the Lines. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congressman wants WikiLeaks listed as terrorist org]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says WikiLeaks should be officially designated as a terrorist organization.Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the panel's next head, asked the Obama administration today to &quot;determine whether WikiLeaks could be designated a foreign terrorist organization,&quot; putting the group in the same company as Al Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway.&quot;WikiLeaks appears to meet the legal criteria&quot; of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, King wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reviewed by CNET. He added: &quot;WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.&quot;King's letter was prompted by a massive document dump totaling more than 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables, which WikiLeaks gave in advance to news organizations, including Germany's Der Spiegel and Spain's El Pais, that began appearing on the Internet this morning. The White House has condemned the release, which Der Spiegel called &quot;nothing short of a political meltdown for U.S. foreign policy.&quot;King also wrote separately to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him to &quot;criminally charge WikiLeaks activist Julian Assange under the Espionage Act&quot; for conspiracy to disclose classified information. The Espionage Act makes it illegal to disclose &quot;information relating to the national defense&quot; if that information could be used &quot;to the injury of the United States.&quot; (See previous CNET article.)If the State Department adds WikiLeaks to the terror list, one effect would be to prohibit U.S. banks from processing payments to the group. WikiLeaks currently takes donations through PayPal, bank transfers, and Visa and Mastercard payments.Another would be to trigger the punitive measures included in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which made it a federal felony to provide &quot;material support or resources&quot; to a terrorist organization. That would likely dry up support from U.S.-based volunteers for WikiLeaks--one volunteer has been detained and released at the border already--and curb the group's options for Web hosting services. (Both Wikileaks.org and Cablegate.WikLleaks.org are currently hosted, in part, on Amazon.com servers in the United States.)The news organizations have released a small subset of the cables. WikiLeaks itself says it has published only 220 of 251,287 of them and promises to post the rest &quot;in stages over the next few months.&quot;That has, perhaps unintentionally, given critics in Washington's national security establishment a strong incentive to find a way to pull the plug on the document-leaking Web site as soon as possible, one way or another.Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement today: &quot;I also urge the Obama administration--both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world--to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.&quot;Australia said today it's investigating whether today's release violated its laws (Wikileaks editor Julian Assange has an Australian passport). And Sweden has issued an international warrant for Assange's arrest on sexual assault charges, which has been upheld by an appeals court. Assange denies the allegations.WikiLeaks has already been the target of often-strident denunciations from Washington officialdom after releasing confidential military dispatches from Afghanistan and Iraq. The Washington Times and a former Bush administration official suggested WikiLeaks as the first public target for a U.S. government cyberattack, and a Republican senator has proposed a law targeting WikiLeaks.The Patriot Act increased the maximum penalties for violating what has become known as the &quot;material support&quot; law to 15 years in federal prison. In a 6-3 ruling this year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that law as constitutional, saying the Draconian legal sanctions are reasonable &quot;even if the supporters meant to promote only the groups' nonviolent ends.&quot;If Wikileaks is added to the State Department list, one problem for its supporters might be the relative vagueness of the term &quot;material support.&quot; In a law review article, former UCLA chancellor Norman Abrams wrote that &quot;the janitor or the pizza delivery person or a taxi driver, or anyone who provides the most mundane 'services,' would seem to be at risk of prosecution&quot; if they could be said to know they're dealing with a designated terrorist group.Here are some excerpts from Rep. Peter King's letter to Secretary Hillary Clinton:I am writing to request that you undertake an immediate review to determine whether WikiLeaks could be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in accordance with Section 210 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). In addition, I urge you to work with the Swedish government to determine the means by which Mr. Julian Assange can be brought to justice for his actions while recognizing and respecting Swedish sovereign law.As Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff concluded, the &quot;irresponsible posting of stolen classified documents by WikiLeaks puts lives at risk and gives adversaries valuable information.&quot; I concur with Chairman Mullen's statement...From these acts, WikiLeaks appears to meet the legal criteria for FTO designation as a (1) a foreign organization' (2) engaging in terrorist activity or terrorism which (3) threatens the security of U.S. nationals or the national security of the United States. Specifically, pursuant to Section 212 (a)(3)(B) of INA (8 U.S.C.  1182(a)(3)(B)) WikiLeaks engaged in terrorist activity by committing acts that it knew, or reasonably should have known, would afford material support for the commission of terrorist activity.We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan documents for information to use against us and this Iraq leak is more than four times as large. By disclosing such sensitive information, WikiLeaks continues to put at risk the lives of our troops, their coalition partners and those Iraqis and Afghans working with us...WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. I strongly urge you to work within the Administration to use every offensive capability of the U.S. government to prevent further damaging releases by WikiLeaks.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Atlas of Birth: Mapping maternal health online]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>agriceememsah</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:The Atlas of Birth project)When social scientists at the University of Southampton began to map out global maternal health trends from United Nations and World Health Organization data, they were able to visualize several trends more clearly.Working with the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and the University of Aberdeen, the researchers are producing online maps, a book, a short film, and more. They call it The Atlas of Birth project.The Web site currently features 18 maps on topics ranging from literacy to genital mutilation to abortion' five case studies on women in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Senegal, and Yemen' and statistics on a wide range of issues.Some of the data is unsurprising. More than 99 percent of maternal deaths take place in developing countries, the majority in India and sub-Saharan Africa. (Most births by women ages 16 and under occur in these countries, as well, and two-thirds of these women deliver without a midwife or health worker.)Other figures might raise an eyebrow or two. While 40 percent of women of reproductive age live where abortion is highly restricted--and most of these women are in developing countries--in the United States, where abortion is legal, only 13 percent of counties have so-called safe abortion services.&quot;We are using data from the United Nations and the World Health Organization to give a comprehensive picture of maternal health from around the world,&quot; Zo&amp;235' Matthews, a researcher at the university's Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy, said in a news release. &quot;Part of the project involves presenting the information in an easy-to-use online map, to help get key facts direct to policymakers.&quot;The project is funded by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, &amp; Child Health, in conjunction with the Norwegian government.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mac App Store dominated by games]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Mac App Store, Applea4a4s attempt to bring the iPhone and iPad app store model to its Mac computers, launched this morning, and mobile analytics firm Distimo has released a report outlining what apps are in the store.Distimo counts 1,604 apps in the store (Applea4a4s press release is not specific, only saying that the number is a4Amore than 1,000a4), and as with the iPad and the iPhone, games are the biggest category (more than 15 percent), as you can see in the chart at the end of this post. Gamesa4a4 dominance is also reflected in the top app charts &amp;8212' the most popular paid app is iPhone game sensation Angry Birds, and there are three other games in the top 10. (The most popular free app is Twitter for Mac.)However, productivity and utility apps make a much stronger showing on the Mac than they do on other devices, which makes sense, since people presumably do more work on their Macs than on their iPhones. Distimo says productivity apps make up nearly 15 percent of the Mac App Store, compared to less than 5 percent of iPhone and iPad apps.As for pricing, my own impression suggests that Mac apps are on average cheaper than the desktop software that youa4a4d buy in stores, but more expensive than apps for the iPhone and iPad. Distimo says that in cases where therea4a4s a Mac and iPad version of the app, the pricing is normally the same.The Unofficial Apple Weblog breaks down the prices into several buckets. (TUAW reports a lower app count, 959, than either Distimo or Apple, perhaps because it uses more complicated methodology for weeding out duplicate apps.) Nearly half the Mac apps fall into the cheapest bucket, between free and $5, but there are also a substantial number between $10 and $50.Of course, as the app store grows, we can expect these numbers to change. Oh, and if youa4a4re a Mac owner who hasna4a4t figured out how to install the Mac App Store, you can either check your computer&amp;'s available software updates and install the new version of the Mac OS, or you can go here.Next Story: Dell&amp;'s Streak 7 Android tablet coming to T-Mobile&amp;'s 4G network Previous Story: Tesla shows off alpha build of Model SPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Angry Birds, Mac App StoreCompanies: Apple, Twitter          Tags: Angry Birds, Mac App StoreCompanies: Apple, TwitterAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zynga dials Area/Code game studio for an acquisition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Zynga, creator of the hit games FarmVille and CityVille, has acquired the indie game studio Area/Code for an undisclosed price.The deal is Zynga&amp;'s ninth acquisition in eight months, and its second in the past three weeks. The deal gives Zynga a base of operations in New York City, where it can recruit talent from the many game makers in the area. The deal is one more example of how Zynga feels that it&amp;'s in a gold rush and has to lock up as much talent for making social games as it can.Area/Code has made games on both Facebook and mobile phones, including the recent CSI: Crime City for Ubisoft. It also made Parking Wars and Drop7 for the iPhone. The latter game is a cool and addictive puzzle.Area/Code will become Zynga New York, led by the studio&amp;'s executives Demetri Detsaridis and Frank Lantz, who will be general manager and creative director respectively.Zynga&amp;'s past acquisitions include XPD in Beijing, Challenge Games in Austin, Unoh Games in Tokyo, Conduit Labs in Boston, Dextrose AG in Frankfurt, Bonfire Studios in Dallas, Newtoy in McKinney, Texas' and the team from Flock. Zynga has well beyond 1,200 employees now.Zynga has more than 297 million monthly active users for its Facebook games alone. It gives away the games for free and charges players small amounts of real money for virtual goods, such as fuel for tractors in FarmVille. That has generated big revenues for the company, boosting its value and allowing it to raise a lot of money. Zynga thus has a huge arsenal of both cash and stock to acquire game developers.Next Story: Duke Nukem Forever finally gets a release date a4&quot; 14 years and 2 companies later Previous Story: Yes, folks, there will be a Modern Warfare 3 video game for ChristmasPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CSI: Crime CityCompanies: Area/Code, ZyngaPeople: emetri Detsaridis, Frank Lantz          Tags: CSI: Crime CityCompanies: Area/Code, ZyngaPeople: emetri Detsaridis, Frank LantzDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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