February 20, 2004
Wired News: Hollywood Wins DVD-Copying Case.
Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District Federal Court for California sided with the Motion Picture Association of America, which claimed that 321 Studios' DVD-X Copy and DVD Copy Plus software violate copyright law.
PC World: Mitsubishi Displays Reversible LCD.
Mitsubishi Electric is showing off a new LCD that can be viewed from both sides. The display, which the company says is a world first, was developed initially for use in clamshell-type cellular-telephone handsets and could help make such telephones thinner and lighter.
CIO: Death to Drivers.
Now the Palo Alto Research Center is proposing an alternative that would do away with traditional device drivers forever. The system, called Obje, is a software framework that allows devices to "teach" each other how to communicate.
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