I guess you could call this One for the Books, or not. Facebook is being preemptively sued by Lamebook over trademark infringement. Lamebook is a parody website of Facebook.
Lamebook is a satirical site which allows Facebook users to submit funny status updates or events they’ve seen or been involved in. It’s from the same family of sites as Regretsy (which mocks Etsy listings) and People Of Walmart (which features photos of strange people who shop at Walmart)
Amazon just plopped down $500 million for the owners of Diaper.com. Expanding its online retail empire, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it is buying Quidsi, the owner of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $500 million in cash.
Don’t look at me, I’m not the one that said it, this guy did. Funny how the Kinect could have been owned by Apple though.
Yet the initial meetings hadn’t gone so well. Obsessed with secrecy, Apple had already asked Beracha to sign a stack of crippling legal agreements and NDAs. He shook his head. Why didn’t he want to do a deal with Apple? No need. The technology was hot. He could sell it to anyone. “Apple is a pain in the ass,” he said, smiling.
A Canadian couple who won $11.2million on the lottery have given it all away to friends, charities and hospitals. Allen and Violet Large, both in their 70s, said their good fortune earlier this year had been a ‘big headache’ and they had decided against going on a spending spree. ‘What you’ve never had, you never miss,’ Violet, 78, told the Toronto Star. She and Allen, 75, eventually decided it was better to give than receive and were totally at ease with handing over the money.
Today’s counterfeiters have it easy. Back in the day you had to be crafty and make, design them yourself. Now-a-days punk kids just print them off.
“There really is no craftsmanship or workmanship in this anymore,” Special Agent Scott Vogel, a 20-year veteran, told the Detroit Free Press. “If you’re able to put a piece of paper in a copy machine and push a button, that’s pretty much all it takes.”
Consumer Reports have put those rumors that Kinect can’t see darker skin tones to rest. Facial recognition, for all skin tones, is affected by low light conditions but it does not impact game play at all. The testers even played in a room with the lights completely off with no issues. Hit the link for the video.
Those rumors that the Microsoft Kinect has trouble with certain skin tones? No way, says Consumer Reports. Just stop playing in that dark basement rec room, and all will be well.
