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Convicted File-Sharer Wants Third Trial

Convicted File-Sharer Wants Third Trial

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota mom who was convicted again of file-sharing in her second trial and given a $1.92 million fine, is seeking yet a third trial.

Calling her conviction for downloading and sharing a grand total of 24 songs through Kazaa "excessive, shocking, and monstrous," she had her lawyers argue a motion that the damages awarded to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) were “grossly excessive,” and that rather than pursue justice, they instead made an example of her.

The filing read:

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Now Pirate Bay Waits To See If It’s Sunk

Now Pirate Bay Waits To See If It

After a number of days in court, and plenty of heated testimony, the trial of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has ended, with lawyers for both sides delivering their closing arguments. Now it’s up to the judge to deliver a verdict, which is expected to take several weeks.

The four men behind The Pirate Bay – Frederik Neij, Carl Lundstom, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Warg – stand accused of promoting copyright infringement. Other charges were dropped early in the trial.

Prosecutor Haakan Roswall told the court:

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China Sentences Online Writer to Two Years

A court in the city of Bijie in China’s Ghizhou province has sentenced Chinese journalist Li Yuanlong of the Bijie Ribao daily newspaper ftwo two years imprisonment for “inciting subversion of the sate” in articles he wrote and distributed on the Internet. Li’s trial was held in May, although the verdict was not released until today.

Li wrote several online essays in which he criticized Chinese society and called for greater personal freedoms and democracy. Li’s work for the Bijie Ribao highlighted the conditions among China’s poor, and helped raise funds to send impoverished children back to school.  Read more...

Nextel to Launch Wireless Broadband Trial

Nextel Communications Inc. will deploy a wireless broadband trial based on UMTS TD-CDMA technology from IPWireless, the companies announced today. The field trial will begin during the third quarter in Washington, D.C.; Arlington, Va.; Alexandria, Va.; Reston, Va. and Bethesda, Md.

The trial will allow Nextel to test a range of subscriber services, including broadband access for laptops, desktops or PDAs.  Services will include video streaming, online gaming, document collaboration and video conferencing. The trial will allow Nextel to develop and test digital convergence concepts that target business users, consumers, public safety agencies, universities and multimedia content partners.  Read more...

Seiko Epson Develops Organic EL Panel

The new panel has 640 x 480 pixels with a resolution of 64ppi. The company built an organic EL panel that has a display area of larger than 10 inches for the first time. Before Seiko Epson, other manufacturers built EL panels larger than 10 inches on trial. For example, Sony Corp built a 24.2-inch model and International Display Technology Co, Ltd made a 20-inch model on trial, respectively.

Seiko Epson has been promoting an idea that TVs instead of mobile phones are the main application of organic EL panels. The 12.5-inch trial panel is a strategic move to build large TVs, the company said.  Read more...

NTT DoCoMo to Test Wireless LAN Roaming

The trial is aimed at verifying technologies and marketability under a plan to jointly launch a commercial international roaming service.

During the trial, DoCoMo and SingTel Mobile will share access to their respective Mzone

Nextel Begins Trials Of Wireless Network

The trial, which is free for selected consumers, is based on Nextel’s new “Wireless Broadband” network which uses technology based on FLASH-OFDM and offers secure, IP-based broadband access over a wireless connection.

FLASH-OFDM is a technology that originated in Bell Labs in early 1998. It is centered on FLASH (Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Handoff) OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), an innovative air interface technology designed for the delivery of advanced Internet services in the mobile environment. The technology is based on the OFDM airlink, a wireless access method that combines the attributes of its two predecessors – TDMA and CDMA – to address the unique demands posed by mobile users of broadband data and packetized voice applications. FLASH-OFDM enables the deployment of all-IP, packet-switched mobile broadband network.  Read more...

Japan’s DoCoMo Launches Smart Chip Phone

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced Monday that it will launch a trial of the “i-mode® FeliCa preview service,” using mobile phones equipped with FeliCa contactless IC chip technology developed by SonyCorporation.

The phones will be used for public transport tolls, electronic money, personal identification and other trial services between December 17, 2003 and the summer of 2004.

DoCoMo will supply 27 participating service providers with FeliCa-equipped mova® N504iC and SO504iC mobile phones (2,500 each) and each company will distribute the phones to its customers. Together with each company, DoCoMo encourage the customers to use the company’s trial services. The companies will represent business fields such as banking, convenience stores, television broadcasting, game software and retail ticketing. Users, services and service launch dates will vary depending on each company.

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