Litigious porn publisher lashes out at Google

Porn publisher Perfect 10 is seeking an injunction against Google to stop it showing thumbnails of its copyright images in search results. The company filed the request in an LA District Court on Wednesday, as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case first brought last November. Perfect 10 alleges the practice involves copying, displaying and distributing thousands of its images, with many of the results linking to third party sites that are also using the images without copyright permission. ...more

OLED screens brighten Sony handhelds

Sony may be puling its Clie handhelds out of the US and Europe, but that doesn't mean the company has lost all faith in the handheld market. The latest Palm-powered Clie PEG-VZ90 will feature the first of Sony's Organic LED screens (OLED) - as it drives the technology into mass production. An OLED display differs from conventional TFTs in that it uses an organic layer that emits light when voltage is applied. ...more

AMD ships desktop dual core Athlon 64

Although it seems dual core Athlons have been around for ages, AMD has announced it has finally begun to ship the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor. The new processor range designed for desktops and desktop-replacement notebooks. AMD expects to see the Athlon 64 X2 supported by most of the leading PC manufacturers including Acer, HP and Lenovo (nee IBM's PC division) and around 40 other OEMs worldwide. ...more

Sony blames manufacturing defect for Dell battery recall

Sony has blamed a manufacturing defect for the overheating problem that caused Dell to recall more than four million laptop batteries. The company explained that during manufacture tiny shards of metal were left in the battery cells, some of which caused a short-circuit leading to overheating. It said that shard deposits are not uncommon as they are caused when crimping the tiny rolls of metal that make up the cells. ...more

Meet the Titaniums - nVIDIA's new GPUs

Faster, better, more pixels, more bandwidth please, could be nVIDIA's motto if its Titanium range of graphics processors lives up to its promise. The GeForce3 Ti 500, GeForce Ti 200 and GeForce2 Ti is, according to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at nVIDIA, the company's "most aggressive product introduction ever. We are delivering twice the performance at every price point. ...more