A dutch court has issued a preliminary injunction against Samsung on behalf of Apple, preventing Samsung from selling its Galaxy line of smartphones across Europe according toFOSS Patents: KG 11-0730 en 11-731 Apple – Samsung Samsung will have 7 weeks to stop the sale of the phones, but FOSS Patents asserts that the court seems to be a bit skeptical as to some of the claims that Apple has made....
We’re not a gossip blog but this was just too funny not to share. This morning, a Dutch politician accidentally tweeted (instead of DM’d) a tweet that may very well get you a little flustered. The tweet, posted below, translates into…wait for it… …sitting comfortably? …no one looking? …ok here you go: “As you throbbingly climax for the first time I feel your juices in my mouth as if they were the nectar of love”...
Every user of every online social network will pass away at some point. How should the networks themselves deal with this?Hyves, a social network highly popular in the Netherlands, has chosen to address the problem with a new ‘In Memoriam’ status which can be applied when its users die. AsDutch Daily Newsreports, the family of a deceased user can contact Hyves to have the status applied. Once added, “In memoriam” is added before the user’s name, turning their page into a ‘tribute’....
Dwarf planet Ceres is covered in deep salty oceans, spacecraft finds Are you Ceresius? First seen on January 1, 1801, Ceres was tracked for 41 days by an Italian monk named Giuseppe Piazzi, before he fell ill. Just at this time, Ceres moved into the halo of theSun, leaving other astronomers without the ability to confirm the discovery. [Read:Jupiter’s atmosphere is regulated by ammonia storms, research reveals] The famed astronomer Johannes Kepler had earlier predicted that a planet should orbit in between Mars and Jupiter....
Dwolla, the socially savvy P2P payment system, launched what its describing as the nation’s first location-based payment technology this week, called “Spots.” I wrote about Dwolla at the end of January, introducing our readers to its socially-fueled consumer banking platform. Now the Iowan based startup has jumped on the geo-location bandwagon, allowing consumers to pay merchants and friends with an easy to use map tool in the Dwolla app. “Dwolla is inspired by our current social behaviors and we’ve seen that creating new technologies, built on our own processing network, which cater to these new trends have helped lower the barrier for adoption....
