Deutsche Telekom has sent a cease and desist letter to engadget for the use of magenta in a logo. Give me a break. If you want to split hairs, it’s not even the same shade of magenta! I wonder if the colour I painted my house is in breech of some Trademark or Copyright somewhere. http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/31/deutsche-telekom-t-mobile-demands-engadget-mobile-discontinue/
I just signed up for a Photoshop express account and I have to say it’s a great basic photo editor. It’s not too different then iPhoto really but to have a tool like this on-line is a great feature. Hmm. I wonder if it will work on my iPhone.
I was surprised that I was actually able to sign up for an account as it does clearly state on the sign up page that it’s US only. One I got logged in, I uploaded the first photo I could find to play around with. The tools that are available are pretty basic and I was disappointed that there wasn’t an eraser tool available. This seems to be a pretty basic tool that perhaps will be added later. Another tool that would have been nice is the rubber stamp tool but again – perhaps later.
I guess there are some things in the EULA that are causing some chit chat. Basically that Adobe reserves the right to use the photos that you upload there limitlessly though they do acknowledge that you still retain ownership of the photos. Meh. I guess it’s the same EULA that is used by all the social networking sites, so really users that are complaining should check all the other EULA’s that they agreed to.
Ouch, that payback, it can be a bitch -- Sony BMG, distributors of rootkit-installing CDs and litigious foe of P2P users worldwide, has just been busted in France for using pirated software on its servers. And it gets even worse: Windows admin tool developer PointDev says a Sony BMG was caught when an IT staffer actually called up for support and gave a pirated license number to the phone tech. That's some pretty shady behavior for a company that's rammed anti-piracy measures down its own customers' throats -- too bad it's probably not going to feel the hit of the €300,000 ($475,000) lawsuit nearly as hard as the college students it routinely sues for $5,000.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Today is a very sad day in our little world. It's been reported that Arthur C. Clarke, among the most influential visionaries in technology and a personal hero of Engadget readers and editors both, has died in hospital care at the age of 90. Along with his many written works (such as the infamous and immeasurably influential 2001: A Space Odyssey), Clarke was possibly best known for conceptualizing the geostationary communications satellite -- clearly one of the most important technological innovations in history.
Arthur, you'll be dearly missed.
Oh sure, we've seen alleged criminals wriggle out from under the strong arm of the law, but this one takes things to an entirely different platform. Reportedly, a truck driver in Germany was pulled over for yapping on his cellphone while cruising, but apparently, said trucker actually wasn't talking when the boys in blue saw his handset upside his melon. As the story goes, the 43-year old was actually using the freshly recharged mobile to "warm his ear" in an attempt to alleviate an earache. Astonishingly enough, he was even able to provide "an itemized telephone bill proving he had not been using the phone at the time he was stopped," thus, a court in Hamm accepted the excuse and let him go sans penalty. Something tells us this guy's got friends in low places.
