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Submission + - Apple to pay $60 Million over iPad trademark dispute (tekgoblin.com)

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on Monday July 02, 2012 @12:54AM

tekgoblin writes: "Today the Chinese court has stated Apple, Inc. has agreed to pay a local Chinese company $60 Million dollars to settle their infamous iPad name dispute.

In 2006 Apple purchased the Taiwanese rights to the name “iPad” from the company Proview Electronics. In China however, the trademarked name was still owned by Proview Technologies, a Shenzhen based subsidiary of Proview Electronics. Since 2011, Proview Technologies has battled Apple in the Xicheng district court and in 2012 the Santa Clara Superior Court. Both cases are still ongoing."

Submission + - Fredrik Neij fined for 'Continued Involvement' in Pirate Bay (tekgoblin.com)

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on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @05:47AM

tekgoblin writes: "The founders of The Pirate Bay have been hit with a bunch of punishments and other measures to prevent them from continuing. However Fredrik Neij was just fined by the Stockholm District court another 500,000 Swedish kronor's or ($70,690) USD. Fredrik Neij and Gorrfrid Scatholm both had been banned from operating the site but Neij had been recently found still involved with the site. Neij already owes around 10.6 million."

Submission + - Valve unveils Steam for Schools, Portal in the classroom (tekgoblin.com)

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on Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:04AM

tekgoblin writes: "Well this is pretty awesome, Valve has made an entrance into the education sector. They plan to release a new version of Steam for education uses in schools.

Valve will call this service Steam for Schools, an education version of the Steam client that allows administrators to limit what its users can access. The idea of Steam for Schools is to use the platform as a teaching aid. Valve has already put together a number of educational lesson plans for using Portal 2 and its level editor to teach math and physics."

Submission + - Xfinity 360 App Will Not Count Against Bandwidth Cap (tekgoblin.com)

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on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @04:41AM

tekgoblin writes: "Comcast internet subscribers can rejoice. Comcast has recently announced that they will not be counting content streamed via their Comcast Xfinity App on the Xbox 360 against their bandwidth caps. Comcast claims that since the data is only traversing their internal Comcast network that it will not count towards your 250 GB limit a month."

Submission + - Google is Planning to Penalize Overly Optimized Sites (tekgoblin.com)

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on Sunday March 18, 2012 @05:11AM

tekgoblin writes: "This is an interesting move by Google but not completely off the rocker for them. Last year they blocked search results from the co.cc domain because they believed they polluted the search results.
Google plans to penalize overly optimized sites because they want to level the playing field for other websites who do not concentrate on such efforts. Basically there are sites out there that completely focus their efforts on SEO and not content and those results would rank higher than sites that don’t focus on SEO."

Submission + - Man Calls 911 to fix Broken iPhone (tekgoblin.com)

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on Sunday November 13, 2011 @03:28AM

tekgoblin writes: "For some strange reason Michael Skopec of Illinois thought that by calling 911 they might help fix his broken iPhone."

Submission + - Star Trek Online to Become Free to Play (tekgoblin.com)

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on Friday November 11, 2011 @03:02PM

tekgoblin writes: "Cryptic Studios, the creator of Star Trek Online MMO announced that they are switching to a Free to Play model. Free subscribers to the game will be able to play but will not get the same benefits as paying subscribers still get. Free accounts will be Silver while paid accounts will be called Gold. Silver accounts will be able to pay for features that Gold members will already get as part of their paid subscription. These features include but not limited to respecs and extra character slots."

Submission + - Federated Media Lands WordPress.com Deal (tekgoblin.com) 1

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on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @03:43PM

tekgoblin writes: "Federated Media has just annouced a partnership with WordPress.com. This deal follows shortly after Federated Media acquired the advertising network Lijit. The deal will include all of the blogs that are hosted under the company which comes to around 25 million. WordPress.com users will now be able to choose to allow sponsored posts, and Federated Media ads on their blog."

Submission + - CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Everywhe (tekgoblin.com)

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on Monday October 17, 2011 @10:18PM

tekgoblin writes: "In a joint effort between Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute the creation of a new interface has been born. The new interface is usable on any surface, including notebooks, tables, walls and body parts. The UI is completely multitouch and worn on the shoulder, which will turn any surface you are pointing at into a usable workspace by the combination of a projector and a 3D modeling device similar to the Kinect."

Submission + - iOS 5 Update Available Now (tekgoblin.com)

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on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:00PM

tekgoblin writes: "Apple has released the iOS 5 update on time right at 10 AM PST. To update to iOS 5 just open iTunes with your iDevice connected to your computer and press update. I recommend doing a manual backup of your iDevice and make sure all your apps are transferred to."

Submission + - Rhapsody to Acquire Napster (tekgoblin.com)

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on Monday October 03, 2011 @04:17PM

tekgoblin writes: "Earlier today Rhapsody, the biggest premium on-demand music service in the U.S., announced that they would be acquiring Napster and finalizing the purchase of the company by the end of November. Best Buy, a huge global name in consumer electronics retail, is the current owner of Napster. Best Buy will only be keeping a minority stake after the sale of the company, while Rhapsody will acquire all Napster subscribers and additional assets."

Submission + - AT&T Starts Throttling Heavy Data Users (tekgoblin.com) 3

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on Friday September 30, 2011 @11:13AM

tekgoblin writes: "AT&T has started tossing out warnings for users that fall into that 5% area of top data users on their network. AT&T announced this change back in July and is now starting to actually enforce it."

Submission + - Netflix Signs Exclusive Deal With Dreamworks (tekgoblin.com)

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on Monday September 26, 2011 @01:29AM

tekgoblin writes: "Netflix has signed an exclusive deal with Dreamworks Animation which will allow them to stream content from the studio to Netflix. The deal will allow Netflix to stream content from Dreamworks which previously supplied content to HBO. The contract was negotiated at approximately $30 million per Dreamworks film title."

Submission + - Verizon Defends AT&T T-Mobile Merger (tekgoblin.com) 1

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on Thursday September 22, 2011 @09:19AM

tekgoblin writes: "Verizon Communications chief executive Lowell McAdam has announced that he is supporting the AT&T T-Mobile merger. He warned that the Government has no choice but to let the deal go though unless they want to fix the current spectrum problems. He went on to say “We need to be very thoughtful on what the impacts would be to the overall industry if this is a way to regulate the industry without actually passing regulation.” The current telcos need more wireless spectrum to continue expanding and operating efficiently so they have resorted to acquiring other companies."

Submission + - Walmart Goes Solar In California (tekgoblin.com)

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on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @05:45PM

tekgoblin writes: "Walmart today has announced a way to appeal to the mass of eco-friendly California Liberals by installing solar panels on more than 75 percent of its stores in the state, making California the first state in the nation where Walmart has devoted this level of commitment to renewable energy."

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