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Lucasfilm In Copyright Fight Over Lightsabers

Lucasfilm, the company founded by movie director George Lucas, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Chinese company that makes high-powered lasers similar to the "lightsaber" seen in Star Wars movies.

China mobile phone subscribers 800 million strong

More than half of China's over one billion population use mobile phones as the Ministry of Information Industry reported Tuesday that the number of subscribers has reached to 795.92 million as of end of May 2010.

Class action suit in Canada only the latest of Facebook's woes

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsFacebook's privacy issues have come to a head as it has been sued over its handling of users' private information. The class action suit was filed on July 2 in the Queen's Bench Court in Winnepeg, Manitoba. Merchant Law Group LLP filed the action on behalf of Donald Woligroski,...
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Feds look to detect cyberattacks through new early warning system

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsThe National Security Agency is launching a new effort to detect cyberattacks on infrastructure and private companies, sources told the Wall Street Journal Thursday. Raytheon has been awarded the contract for the first phase valued at some $100 million."Perfect Citizen" is an a...

Did Microsoft hand you a pink slip this week?

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsIf the answer is "Yes," you were laid off, I'd like to tell your story. Please e-mail joewilcox at gmail dot com. I must confirm your identity, but your story will be anonymous to protect your severance package. I must reemphasize: All current or former employees' identities w...

Nanotechnology Site Opens in Melbourne

Victoria reveals the Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication, a $63 million site that would serve as the core research lab within the Australian National Fabrication Facility

Gillard supports new legislation on Internet filter

Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday expressed confidence that Communications Minister and Senator Stephen Conroy will come up with a new web filter legislation acceptable to ISPs and Internet freedom advocates.

Auckland Airport buys 25% in Queenstown

Auckland International Airport Ltd. will invest NZ$27.7 million ($19 million) buying a 25 percent stake in Queenstown Airport, which has the nation's fourth-largest number of international visitors.

The Mobile Web is NOW (tough luck PCs)

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsThe mobile Web isn't a future event. It's here today, at least in the United States, according to a 25-page report PEW Internet released this week. The study's findings are hugely significant to companies like Microsoft, which is largely invested in the PC, and Apple or Google...

Alcatel-Lucent admits software glitch is slowing 3G speeds on AT&T

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsAn issue with how the software on wireless equipment provided by Alcatel-Lucent handles advanced 3G data connections is responsible for slower upload speeds on AT&T's network, the two companies admitted on Wednesday.Speed issues have been reported in several cities including Ph...

Victoria houses broadband agreement

Victoria will host the collaboration between Huawei, the Chinese networking and telecommunications vendor, and RMIT University in training about 500 Australians in networking technologies over the next three years.

Developers get a crack at first complete Symbian^3 Product Development Kit

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsToday, just shy of a month after the first functionally complete version of Symbian^3 was released, the first complete Symbian^3 Product Development Kit (PDK 3.0.0) is available for download, including the full build of the platform and complete source code under the Eclips...

Borders launches e-book store, expects 17 percent share by 2011

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsBorders said Wednesday that it had launched its own branded e-book store, offering about 1.5 million titles in a variety of formats. The move follows the successful launch of the Kobo and Aluratek e-readers, which have surpassed sales expectations.The e-book store will be power...

Internode offers cheaper ADSL plan

Internode, the Australian ISP, reduces the price of its Easy Naked ADSL plan by $10 per month. In addition, the company is also extending its service coverage by more than 200 telephone exchanges.

Motorola announces Charm, the first BlackBerry-like Android device

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsGoogle's Android mobile operating system has been released on many different types of devices, but since it is a touch-based OS, pretty much every device has been a so-called "touchphone," a device built around its screen.But Motorola has been thinking outside of the box wi...

CounterPath significantly updates Bria softphone for Windows, Mac

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsVancouver-based telecommunications software company CounterPath today announced the availability of Bria 3.1 for both Windows and Mac OS, the latest edition of the company's desktop softphone capable of voice calling, high-definition (1280x720p) video calling, and instant- ...

Builders’ activity drops in June

A widely monitored construction activity private index takes a turn for the worse this June, ending three straight months of progress.

Airships may be the future of air travel

The Aircruise, an imposing kite-shaped airship that operates on the unique air travel premise of "slow is the fast," may herald a new era of luxury transport.

Telstra focuses on new revenue channels

After a year of NBN talks with the Government, Telstra chief executive David Thodey says he now has its sights set on diversifying the business and satisfying unhappy customers.

Mozilla releases Beta 1 of new, visually overhauled Firefox 4 browser

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsDownload Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Windows from Fileforum now.Mozilla's popular Firefox web browser has just been released in Beta 1, which introduces a new graphical design for Windows users, support for the HD HTML5 video tag using the WebM format, a new Add-ons manager for al...

Microsoft launches beta of free website development tool WebMatrix

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsToday, Microsoft has begun beta testing a free and lightweight development tool for the ASP.NET web application framework called WebMatrix.WebMatrix includes all of the essential tools for building, installing, and running a website in Windows for free and in a package less...

AT&T isn't capping 3G data uploads in my neighborhood

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsThere was a whole lot of buzz over the last couple days about AT&T capping uploads over its 3G network. I decided not to post on the topic, because I had a pretty good idea why AT&T subscribers were seeing slower data uploads: The Fourth of July.Let's use Occam's Razor for jus...

Sony releases camera updates

Sony, the consumer electronics company, releases a firmware for its new NEX-3 and NEX-5 interchangeable-lens cameras that would allow users to take 3D panorama shots.

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