Star Trek campaign 'raises $3m'
Posted by donkey (3 Comments)	Wed Mar 2nd '05 07:11:30 PM
Some annonymous rich l00ns in the space industry (Richard Branson? Paul Allen?) have given $3m to a save enterprise fund. TrekUnited, which is trying to raise money to make another series of Enterprise, says it has a "legally binding pledge" from three donors. TrekUnited said the donors were "some of the main entrepreneurs in the commercial space flight industry". They did not want to be named but said they had been inspired by Star Trek.
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: Entertainment

Is the Mac Mini Apple's future 'smart' iPod Dock?
Posted by donkey (5 Comments)	Tue Mar 1st '05 07:24:59 PM
Quote Was the Mac Mini originally intended to sport an integrated iPod Dock? That's the suggestion made by one electronics specialist who's taken a closer look than most at the compact Mac's internal workings. The Apple machine's optical drive connects to the motherboard not by a cable but is attached directly to an Ultra ATA-100 riser card which itself fits into a slot toward the rear of the Mini's mobo. According to Leo Bodnar, the guy who figured out how to overclock the Mini's G4-class CPU, that's not all the riser does. Apparently, it's got a Firewire bus on there too, though there's no connection beyond the riser card itself. Certainly sounds possible that a next version of Mac mini might have a dock built in.
News Source: The Register	Genre: Apple

Happy Birthday to Yahoo!...
Posted by James (4 Comments)	Tue Mar 1st '05 12:26:08 PM
For many, it would be among the first websites they ever visited. In an era before Google, it was often seen as the place to search. And tomorrow, Yahoo! will turn 10 years old. The site's founders have been talking to AP about the growth of the company - from a college hobby to a multi-billion dollar firm employing more than 7,600 people. Jerry Yang and David Filo still own just over a tenth of the company between them - that alone makes them worth almost $5bn. While it wasn't the first commercial success of the internet, it was one of the earliest. Netscape was quicker off the mark, but Yahoo! is still around today. "People gave us no chance of success 10 years ago," Filo said. "We have a lot of competition as always, but now we have got ourselves in a leadership position where our future success is really up to us." Even the dot-com crash couldn't sink this site. The company's value slumped - to $4.6bn at one point - but a shake-up and the creation of new subscription services are credited with turning it around. Technology industry analyst Rob Enderle said: "Yahoo really defined an era. They are the ones who set the tone for the Internet." And it looks like they'll be continuing to play a part in its development for many years yet.
News Source: Yahoo	Genre: Intrawab

Loki puts donations toward $1m MPAA payoff
Posted by donkey (6 Comments)	Sun Feb 27th '05 02:20:03 AM
LokiTorrent gave in to the major movie studious. The ever-vigilant Jon Newton at P2Pnet discovered this week that Webber agreed to pay $1m to the MPAA, to never run a suspect BitTorrent hub again and to turn over all the data sitting on his servers. "All donations to this point have been spent on legal fees. Any future donations will be spent paying off remaining bills." It's easy to argue the use of 'fight' in that statement. Weber settled out of court. If you donated money to LokiTorrent, it was apparently used to craft document 3:04-CV-2642-N available in PDF format from P2Pnet here. If you traded on LokiTorrent, Muff Torrent or any other Webber owned site, you paid a lawyer to turn over your identity and evidence of your file-trading to the MPAA.
News Source: The Register	Genre: Intrawab

EU Investigates iTunes prices
Posted by donkey (5 Comments)	Sat Feb 26th '05 11:39:38 PM
Apple is under investigation by the European Commission for charging more in Britain for iTunes than it does in France or Germany. Basically they charge people in France and Germany 99 euro cents ($1.31) for each iTune they download whereas Britons pay 79 British pence ($1.51). Thanks to the good ol' EU , it's illegal to simply charge people different prices because they live in different countries. I think, they can often get away with this because the companies claim that their operating costs vary with different countries. I think the thing here is that this probably can't be true because the operating costs shouldn't vary between countries (or at least not much) with electronic downloads. Therefore they're simply charging Brits more because they can. The Inquirer also has the story here
News Source: Yahoo News	Genre: Apple

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