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Facebook has launched a legal action against studiVZ, a German
social networking site which has 10 million users. Facebook lawyers have filed
a complaint in a California
court, accusing studiVz of copying the look and the features of Facebook.
According to Financial
Times, in the complaint Facebook noted that any differences between the two
sites were "nominal" and accused StudiVZ of merely "replacing
Facebook's blue colour scheme with a red one".
According to the complaint, Facebook seeks "to end
StudiVZ's illegal activity" and compensatory damages...
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Pennsylvania mom Stephanie Lenz, backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is fighting entertainment giant Universal Music over a YouTube-related takedown letter. Stephanie Lenz uploaded a blurry 30-second video clip of her toddler learning to walk with the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" being heard in the background in 2007 and received a takedown letter from Universal Music, demanding the clip removed under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Subsequently, YouTube removed her video, but put it back online after Stephanie Lenz complained. The Electronic...
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Facebook is ready to roll out its latest ideas in terms of design,
features and functionally, by inviting members of the Facebook community to try
out the new version of the site, in limited numbers at first. The new design
has been under development since early this year, with the involvement of over
100,000 users who offered suggestions regarding the layout and new features.
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointed out, the changes
were necessary in order to highlight the more relevant information that users
value, as well as to give users more control and ownership over their...
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At the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple's boss Steve Jobs said in San Francisco that the company's MobileMe service is allegedly "Exchange for the rest of us." Unfortunately, it has proved unreliable and I had myself problems getting through to its users, although most people are receiving some of the emails sent to them. The problems come after a botched launch, when numerous users could not login while others, after managing to get past the first bumps, could not get their gadgets to sync properly. New subscribers have to pay $99 for a twelve-month plan but,...
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The U.S. National Academies has published a study according to which mainstream introduction of fuel-cell cars is a necessary, but extremely expensive thing. And how much does extremely expensive mean? Well, about $200 billion, the report says. The money should come from both the government and the car manufacturing industry. In order to make the technology widely available and affordable, the government will have to pump about $55 billion in subsidies over the next 15 years, if a number of 2 million hydrogen powered cars are to be seen on the roads in the United States by 2023. The industry...
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For security administrators responsible to deploy the latest security patches June will be quite a...
IBM and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are testing a cooling solution for stacked CPUs which...
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Google has leased a large piece of land at Moffett Field, the former Naval air station near...
Consumers should be aware of a
number of things when surfing the net, and among them, domains such...
Apple prepares to let the cat
out of the bag at this year’s WWDC, rumors have it. Of course, we’re...
Firefox 3.0 gets one step closer
to its release, as Mozilla unveiled Released Candidate 2 for...
The game competition is as tough
as it gets, with Grand Theft Auto ruling the market, and breaking...
NASA’s Ames Research Center in
Mountain View, California will host a new high-technology campus...
Yahoo has taken, as promised, steps to open up the architecture of its popular website. The latest...
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