Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains

March 31st, 2009 by kdawson
Karate Sid writes "An Irish adult website has blogged about the Irish domain registry banning adult domain names, including porn.ie and pornography.ie. The IEDR's reasoning is that the words 'porn' and 'pornography' are offensive and immoral. Of interest is how Sex.ie took legal action against the IEDR — and proved that neither word is offensive — yet still lost the case, as the IEDR are the highest authority in Ireland when it comes to deciding what is and isn't an offensive domain."

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Hitachi exec indicted in LCD price-fixing scheme

March 31st, 2009 by CNET News.com
Sakae Someya is the eighth person charged in the scandal involving fixing the price of LCD screens sold to Dell.

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Mechanical heart built from Sony gear still pines for AIBO

March 31st, 2009 by Donald Melanson

As much as we'd like this to be a still from a new, secretly-in-development Cronenberg movie, it's actually an image of the nightmare-inducing mechanical heart that stars in a new series of Sony ads set to air during England's World Cup qualifying campaign on ITV. The hook, of course, is that the heart is apparently built (by special effects house Artem) almost entirely from Sony gear, including parts from BRAVIA TVs, Blu-ray players, VAIO laptops, Cybershot cameras, PS3s, and even the odd Walkman. No word of any public showings of the heart just yet, but you can check out one of the commercials after the break, and another by hitting up the read link below.

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GoGrid hit with DDoS attack, affects half its customers

March 31st, 2009 by CNET News.com
GoGrid's network became the target of a denial of service attack, affecting half of the hosting company's customers over the course of two days. GoGrid, while minimizing the affect of the attack, continues to resolve and investigate the issue.

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Lenovo’s Android-powered OPhone shows itself again. Launch imminent?

March 31st, 2009 by Donald Melanson

Lenovo's KIRF-tastic OPhone hasn't exactly been all that camera shy since it first dipped its toes into the Android waters in December, but it's now proudly showing itself yet again, and giving everyone their best glimpse yet at its China Mobile branding. What's more, while we've already heard that the phone is on track for a launch this quarter, the talk now seems to be that a release could be just around the corner, with some speculating that it'll roll out immediately after China Mobile's other Android handset, the Dopod G2 (a.k.a. HTC Magic). Hit up the link below for a few more pics, including a closer look at the phone's slightly familiar-looking UI in action.

[Via ModMyGphone, thanks Neerhaj]

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Lenovo's Android-powered OPhone shows itself again. Launch imminent? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Countdown to Conficker–a bust so far

March 31st, 2009 by CNET News.com
We're well into April 1 across the world, and though researchers say the worm is awake on computers in Asia and elsewhere, it hasn't taken much action. We'll keep you updated here.

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