THE CASE OF JAMIE THOMAS-RASSET came to a close today as the jury returned a verdict that she had willingly and knowingly downloaded 24 different songs from KaZaA, violating the copyright of the companies represented by the RIAA.
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THE MORNING WAS SLOW at RIAA vs Thomas, and both jurors and spectators were assaulted multiple times by Richard Marx ballads before the plaintiffs finally rested. Three days and innumerable legal opinions later, the RIAA’s final arguments were made by a succession of copyright lawyers listening to Sarah MacGlachlan and sagely nodding their heads at dusty pieces of paper from the US copyright office.
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INTEL JUST TRANSITIONED their product naming schemes from annoying to downright stupid. The new branding schemes make no sense and will only add confusion to a line that is already almost impenetrable.
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IT’S A RARE TREAT for a member of the public to be able to walk into a regular, everyday federal courtroom and watch veteran attorneys make mistakes that would have Johnnie Cochran rolling over in his grave.
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IN THE CAPITOL RECORDS vs Thomas-Rasset media sharing trial, one thing became clear, the RIAA lawyers are down at least 100 IQ points on the defense. It shows too.
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PROMISE PROMISED US they would deliver SAS 6Gb/s RAID cards in short order, and at Computex, they did. There were two 8 channel SAS cards shown off, one internal and one external.
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INTEL LEFT THE most impressive parts of their Computex messaging for last, the so called ultra-mobility segment. This category encompasses handheld widgets, micro-laptops, phones and other gadgets.
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IT ALWAYS SEEMS to be the case that the quality of a slide deck is inversely proportional to the amount of interest it generates, and if my email is any indication, there are a lot of people interested in the Nvidia mobile 40nm deck. So, agonizingly boring as it is, we will share the notes we took on the presentation.
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NVIDIA IS STILL not talking to us, and competition in the graphics world means you the reader win. They have five new 40nm mobile parts launching tomorrow, luckily we can bring you the specs now at discount prices.
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INTEL TALKED MOSTLY about mobile solutions at Computex, but desktop and consumer electronics were far from neglected. New were two i7 CPUs, talk of Lynnfield, Pinetrail, and even flash based accelerators.
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FOR THE LAST year or two, Zalman has had some interesting products, but nothing that really made you stand up and say wow. The flair that redefined the look of fans and cases was absent, until the 2009 Computex.
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ACCORDING TO THE always accurate chip news site, AmmoLand, ATI is launching a line of ammunition. No, not the DX11 missiles heading at Nvidia in October, but real bang bang stuff.
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ONE OF THE rumors floating around Computex involves a pretty little Asus ‘Smartbook’ based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and it’s mid-show disappearance. The story, as we are told, is that one day it was there, the next it was not, and almost no one would say why.
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ONE OF THE rumors floating around Taipei was about an imminent price drop for ATI 48xx series cards. Less than a week later, the prices dropped by $10.
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LITE-ON USED TO be known for inexpensive optical drives, but they are now branching out into places where they have never gone before. Did you know they made photoframes, SSDs and cameras?
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