Google is not leaving anything to chance, and according to an Australian newspaper is now planning to span the Pacific Ocean with its own undersea fiber optics cable to blast the world with its do-no-evil goodness. Owning a fat pipe like this will make Google the Big Dick of the high seas, making it cheaper for the company to move data and to dominate all those other weasels that are selling internet bandwidth.
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Catalogue giant Argos, has been caught with its pants down this week, after it emerged that some shoppers managed to get hold off the forthcoming Halo 3 game a full week early.
This is not the first leak of what will be Microsoft’s most important Xbox 360 games launch to date, but it’s the first one in the UK. Comet has already denied rumours that its online operation slipped out a few early Master Chiefs. Argos grovelled thus:
“Argos would like to make it clear that it does not endorse breaking street dates and continues to be committed to preventing pre-release sales through its stores and Web site. However, we are aware that a genuine administrative error has resulted in a small number of cases where Halo 3 has already been sold.
We are currently ensuring that there are no further sales of this product in-store until the official release date, Wednesday 26 September. We have already taken steps to ensure that Halo 3 is unavailable on the Argos Web site for reservation or purchase until the correct date.”
Microsoft has said it's unhappy but there will be no spankings - this time.
More importantly, Microsoft has backtracked on earlier, scary reports that it would ban the LIVE accounts of early purchasers of Halo 3, saying now that only those accounts of Microsoft employees trying to get in an early frag will be banned.
Somehow, I think having their accounts banned will be the least of their problems.-Martin Lynch
Google, like all big companies, spends quite a bit on maintaining a team of underfed, sharply dressed, legal rottweilers to fight off its detractors and rivals. Some of the writs run to hundreds of pages of typewritten legalise gobbledygook and some come handwritten - or really badly scrawled - on a few pages.
The winner of the weirdest and funniest Google lawsuit goes to Dylan Stephen Jayne [heads-up to Parker for the correction], who is suing Google because – wait for it –when you take his social security numbers, flip them upside down and jumble them about they spell out something that looks like ‘Google’. This in turn is proof that Google violated his civil liberties by using his social security number to come up with the name for its company.
And Dylan wants his cut. For just $5 billion in damages, he’ll let them off. Hell, his writ even throws in a bit about the War on Terror. $5 billion is a bargain Google – take the deal, you don’t stand a chance. Go Dylan Go.
Read the full and bizarre document here at Techdirt.-Martin Lynch
We have covered the growing shift on the projector front to create tiny projectors but now you can see the latest one from Texas Instruments [creators of DLP projection technology] in action. We covered the first sighting back in April but now a working model is starting to appear.
The folk over at PopSci were on hand last night at a quiet New York event to see this prototype in action and, if all goes to plan, this kind of technology will not be housed in some small black-box projector, but inside your mobile phone.
The Pico Projector is capable of throwing up a bright 15in wide image, even in rooms that are not completely dark. It uses LEDs to save power and money and, according to Texas, the first one will appear in a real mobile phone sometime next year. Roll on 2008. -Martin Lynch
This, my friends, National's Ferie facial shaver for ladies, available on Amazon Japan. It's got two interchangeable blades, one for trimming your eyebrows, the other for "downy hair" (as opposed to "uppy hair," I guess.) I don't see anything wrong with a quick pluck, so this is not one for me — although I can think of some alternative uses for it:
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