Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:06:44 PM CET
Sony settles with Nintendo
"Console Talk has the story on a settlement between Sony and Nintendo over the rights to the "PlayStation" name, which was originally a joint owned copywrite, given to a CD and Cartridge based system to play SNES games. The settlement is for 10% of Sony's proceeds, past and present on the "PlayStation" name, currently amounting to approximately $2.3 billion. Nintendo is allowing Sony to pay it off in installments over the next 20 years.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:00:57 PM CET
Former lesbian partner must pay child support
The former lesbian partner of a woman who bore five children during their relationship must pay child support, a state Superior Court panel has ruled. The couple, identified only by initials in the three-judge panel's opinion, lived together in Carlisle from the mid-1980s until 1997 and agreed to have children together through artificial insemination.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 7:57:17 PM CET
Lollies kill man
A TURKISH man died after eating two kilograms of sweets following a bet with a friend, Anatolia news agency reported. Necati Ceylan, a 45-year-old father of five, died in hospital in the southern city of Gaziantep after spending three weeks in coma, the agency said.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 7:54:11 PM CET
The 4.1 GHz PC From Tom's Hardware
At the start of this ambitious project, our engineers asked themselves the question: how fast is fast? Or, how fast does a PC fitted with the most powerful hardware have to be in order to show a clean pair of heels to the world's best PC systems? Isn't the nondescript box of tricks on display in your local superstore fast enough already? Well, for most people the answer would be 'yes.'
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:08:09 AM CET
ac 130 auf ftp
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 7:11:47 AM CET
"Outsourcing Big Brother"
Aufbau des neuen, weltweiten US-Rasterfahndungssystems soll vor allem von Firmen übernommen werden. Das genauso ambitionierte wie umstrittene Vorhaben des US-Verteidigungsministeriums, die weltweiten Datennetze "komplett" zu überwachen, um mögliche Terror-Aktivitäten frühzeitig zu erkennen, ist erneut in die Kritik von Datenschützern geraten.
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