Monday Morning Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 5, 2005 at 5:03:08 PM
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Australia goes insane. These people are worse than us with copyrights.
EU gives China clean coal tech. Clean coal... stick CO2 in the ground, that's clean...
Apple ready for iTunes phone.
Hubble goes to two gyros.
Australia goes insane. These people are worse than us with copyrights.
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An Australian court ruled on Monday that users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system, breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the software. "The respondents authorised users to infringe the applicants' copyright in their sound recordings," Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox said in his ruling. Australia's major record companies sued Kazaa's Australian owners and developers, Sharman Networks, claiming Kazaa had cost them millions of dollars in lost sales.
EU gives China clean coal tech. Clean coal... stick CO2 in the ground, that's clean...
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The European Union agreed on Monday to give China the technology for a coal-fired power station designed to combat global warming. The clean coal-power plant will employ carbon capture and storage technology through which the coal plant can capture its own emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), burying them in porous rock underground for long-term storage.
Apple ready for iTunes phone.
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The Apple rumor mill swung into overdrive this week when the company reported it would make a big digital music announcement on Wednesday (September 7). Most observers expect Apple Computer to unveil the iTunes-compatible mobile phone that has been in development with Motorola for more than a year. Several industry sources have identified Cingular as the wireless operator making the long-anticipated device available to subscribers.
Hubble goes to two gyros.
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The space agency announced August 31 that ground controllers have shut down one of the three operational gyros onboard the orbiting eye on the universe. Doing so is expected to preserve the overall health of that third gyro—thus extend the space observatory’s science gathering through mid-2008, an eight-month extension. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) gyroscopes are critical to running the Earth orbiting facility’s complex pointing control system. That system maintains precise pointing of the telescope during science observations.