Tag archive: trial

In a seemingly blink-and-you'll-miss-it experiment, Google has tried out an alternative way to gain secure access to its sites, without the need to enter a password. Here's how it worked: You point a web browser to accounts.google.com/sesame, where a QR code is be displayed. Using your smartphone, which should be logged into your Google account, and a QR reader, scanning the code prompts an authorization window to appear. When… Read More

According to a story posted by the Associated Press earlier today, the murder conviction of death row inmate Erickson Dimas-Martinez was tossed out by the Arkansas Supreme Court because juror number 2 Randy Franco posted several public Twitter updates during the trial. In addition, another juror was sleeping at the trial. Dimas-Martinez had received the death penalty for the murder of 17-year-old Derrick Jefferson as well as life in prison for… Read More

When Jonathan Hudson of Arlington, Texas sent a Facebook friend request to Courtney Downing, he probably didn't realize that it would eventually result in four charges of contempt of court. At the time of the friend request, Hudson was taking a break from delivering pizzas to serve on a Texas jury. Courtney Downing happened to be the defendant in the case that concerned a 2008 car wreck and Hudson thought it would be a brilliant idea to… Read More

The king of of pay-to-play massively multiplayer online RPGs is becoming a free-to-play game, kind of. Leaving behind the 14-day free trial promotion it has used to attract new users since its launch in 2004, Activision Blizzard is now allowing gamers play World of Warcraft until they reach level 20. World of Warcraft has always had a 14-day free trial for new users, but Activision Blizzard has, after seven years on the market, lifted the time… Read More

In her third round in court, Jammie Thomas-Rasset has once again been found guilty of downloading and sharing 24 songs on Kazaa. This time, she has been ordered to cough up $1.5 million for a couple dozen tunes, which allegedly included Green Day and Aerosmith. Earlier this year, when Thomas-Rasset was found guilty for the second time, she was ordered to pay nearly $2 million, but the judge in her case ruled that was “monstrous and shocking,”… Read More

Broadcom Corp.'s co-founder took the witness stand Tuesday in the fraud trial of the company's former chief financial officer. Henry Samueli won immunity from a federal judge last week and was ordered to testify. He was likely to testify through Tuesday afternoon as a defense witness for former CFO William Ruehle, who is accused of backdating stock options. Backdating occurs when a company retroactively sets the options'… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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

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),… Read More

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… Read More