The U.S. Congress agreed to allocate an additional $ 30 million to curb digital piracy. $ 20 million will be spent on prevention of cyber crime in the state and local level, at $ 8 million will be hired by the new FBI agents to calculate the cybercriminals on IP-addresses, and another $ 2 million will receive the Ministry of Justice to prosecute hackers.

Not surprisingly, the American Association for the movie this decision was received with enthusiasm. According to AAK chairman Dan Glickman (Dan Glickman), «The Congress took a big step forward" that will "protect jobs and creativity.

Glickman also endorsed the recent operation to counterfeit media, when in raids in major American cities were confiscated nearly 80 thousand CD-and about the same DVD-ROM drive.

"From the piracy of intellectual property industry in the United States annually loses $ 25.6 billion, the U.S. economy lost 375 thousand jobs are directly or indirectly, and American workers – more than $ 16 billion of savings", – said Glickman.

Via TG Daily

Microsoft rarely admits mistakes and recognize the failures, but that is what she had done in the face of his British top manager, recognized the failure of Windows Mobile to compete with the iPhone.

Phil Moore (Phil Moore), head of the British unit, Microsoft's mobile devices, said at a conference in London: "It is true, Apple caught us by surprise. They released something a cult, a new, hitherto unseen, with an excellent user interface.

Comparing the iPhone with Windows Mobile, Moore said: "We are still catching up. When Apple entered the scene two years ago, she threw the book with the rules and invented it anew. Unfortunately, we have no such luxury.

According to Moore, WM 7 will be ready until the end of 2010, by which time market conditions may irreversibly change is not in favor of Microsoft. While the recent rumors, release a new version of WM will be held in early summer.

Also, recently one of the market analysts suggested that Microsoft should go to the arena of mobile platforms.

Via TechRadar

On Friday last week, the Paris court verdict of guilty on the suit of the French publisher La Martiniere-Le Seuil in Google. French Internet company accused of violating their copyrights. The court ordered Google to pay the plaintiffs a fine of $ 430 thousand, plus a small fine every day, while out on-line database will not be removed book publishers.

According to the President of the French Association of Book Publishing industry Eyrolla Serge (Serge Eyrolles), Google has been scanned and placed in a database 100 thousand French books, 80% of which are protected by copyright, not allowing scans and publish without permission. Eyroll added that the French publishers are willing to cooperate with Google, but only if it "ceases to play games with us" and would respect the French law on intellectual property.

Google's lawyers did not agree with the verdict and intend to appeal.

Google's plan to publish the scanned books criticized not only publisher. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo also expressed dissatisfaction with this initiative, because it can cause Google to monopolize the market of electronic books.

Via Electronista

Sony has long been engaged in three-dimensional technology, and now it came to photography. The Japanese company will create a digital reflex camera, shoot in 3D, and the resulting images can be viewed at any hardware Sony, supporting this feature: TV, PS3 consoles and laptops, VAIO, – as well as to publish a special web site. Stereofotoapparaty will be issued under the well-known brand name Alpha.

When exactly in the market will appear the first three-dimensional SLRs Sony, is still unknown. In Japanese companies reported only one year – 2010-th.

Via Electronista

Sony has released an update for e-book Reader and Reader Daily Edition, as well as the characteristics of similar software for Windows and Mac. Now all these tools can automatically download and display the latest edition of newspapers and magazines available by subscription. These are popular in the U.S. edition as the New York Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune and ten editions.

How to pay for the electronic versions of the press, Sony has not yet reported.

In the Japanese companies promised to release Reader Daily Edition with support for 3G in December. While this has not happened yet, and Sony are continuing to take pre-orders. Probably, the Japanese want to stretch up to the Christmas holidays, to make all the big surprise.

Via Electronista

LaCie announced the release of an external hard disk interface USB 3.0, it was named 2Big RAID. As the name implies, the equipment used RAID-array. Speed of data exchange with the disk is 275 MB / sec. Manufacturer claims that this speed is sufficient for simultaneous recording and editing of multiple video format HD. Price is still unknown, but a little it will not be accurate.

Via OhGizmo