The FA is closer than ever to implementing goal-line technology in the Premier League and could have the technology in place by the start of the 2012-13 season. [......]
There's a loophole in the TV licensing system that means iPlayer users don't need TV licences. However, there's a fairly big caveat: the loophole applies only if your viewing is exclusively on-demand, and that you never, ever watch programmes that are live or "virtually live". In other words, pausing Strictly so you can make a cup of tea doesn't count[......]
Gamers living in Germany are finally able to purchase (legally) Doom and Doom II, a pair of software titles previously placed in an index of banned titles by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (Bundesprufstelle), the same index reserved for pornography. Pete Hines, VP of PR and Marketing for Betheseda Software, the publisher whose parent company scooped up id Software in 2009, explained to Joystiq.com that index appeals are permissible after 10 years[......]
The Supreme Court in the UK handed George Lucas a defeat, ruling that a prop designer can continue selling replica storm trooper helmets. Read More: BBC Read the comments on this post [......]
All web browsers now feature a search option at the top of the program window, and many have reduced the address bar and search box into a single entity. This is the case with Firefox, creating the unashamedly named AwesomeBar. [......]
We've seen intrepid PC hackers turn Kinect into a 3D radar , the world's most horrifically awkward Super Mario controller , and, er, this thing , so surely Microsoft's ready to match the demand with some form of supply, right? You'd think so, but for now, the software giant's not ready to let us at its latest goose that lays golden eggs. Speaking with the BBC , CEO Steve Ballmer plainly stated that Microsoft "will support [Kinect on PC] in a formal way in the right time." But hey, who needs a bunch of lightning-quick geniuses creating the all-purpose interface of tomorrow when you can have a range of wonky games spanning three whole genres [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews Using publicly available information on Facebook, a researcher has been able to gather personal details of nearly 170 million users of the service, or about a third of all users. The data includes names, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, and birthdays: essentially anything that was not marked as private is now part of this file. The file has now ended up on The Pirate Bay, and so far has seen over 10,000 downloads[......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Either the news media is convinced that Apple's forthcoming iPad is the vehicle for delivering news publishing out of its funk, or it's convinced that Apple is conspiring to circumvent the natural course of news with its own walled garden platform. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews In October 2009, leading mobile phone maker Nokia sued Apple over the iPhone, claiming the company never fairly compensated Nokia for using its patents. Two months later, Apple countersued , claiming that a number of Nokia products violated Apple's own patents[......]
