Court grants Sony's temporary restraining order against Geohot, PS3 jailbreak still available everywhere

It looked for a moment like Geohot and fail0verflow might beat Sony's DMCA lawsuit over the PS3 jailbreak on a jurisdictional technicality, but things didn't go their way: the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted Sony's request for a temporary restraining order forbidding Mr. Hotz and his merry men from distributing or linking to the jailbreak, helping or encouraging others to jailbreak, hacking into the PS3 or PSN, or distributing any information they've found while hacking. What's more, they've been ordered to turn over any computers or storage media used to create the jailbreak to Sony's lawyers -- although we've got a feeling Geohot's attorneys will raise a bit of a fuss about that.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Sony's won anything substantive -- it's just proven to the court that the jailbreak will cause it ongoing harm while the case continues, and it still has to actually win its formal lawsuit to collect any damages or a permanent injunction. And let's not forget that forcing Geohot to stop distributing it won't stop anyone else -- in almost an exact mirror of the deCSS case, we're already seeing the jailbreak mirrored all over the internet. Way to learn from history, Sony.

[Thanks, Henry]

Court grants Sony's temporary restraining order against Geohot, PS3 jailbreak still available everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dwolla, the low-fee PayPal alternative, now for Windows Phone 7

A little while back, we told you about Dwolla -- a new payment service with its sights set on challenging PayPal. Dwolla's angle? A flat rate per transaction of $0.25 and no other fees of any kind. It's also integrated with Twitter and Facebook, which makes it easy to send money to (or receive from) the people you're interacting with most online.

Now, Dwolla is expanding its mobile offerings with a new Windows Phone 7 app -- which joins its Android and iOS offerings. Like the Dwolla apps for other mobile platforms, the app provides a simple, straightforward interface which allows you to send payments, check your balance, and view your contacts. Sending a payment is a breeze -- just choose a contact, enter the amount, your pin, and a comment (if any) and you're done. You can also opt to pay the 25-cent fee yourself, or let the recipient absorb it.

Dwolla is a free download and is available now in the Zune Marketplace. The service is currently U.S.-only.

Dwolla, the low-fee PayPal alternative, now for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Quora + CrunchBase + LinkedIn = Best Extension Ever?

A month ago, Polaris Ventures principal Ryan Spoon wrote up a quick blog post looking for a developer with Chrome extension/app experience. He had a pretty simple idea for something to help him with his job. Matt Basta saw the post and created the extension Spoon was looking for almost instantly. Now they're opening it up for all to use and calling it Polaris Insights. The straightforward app is very, very slick. You simply visit the website of a company you're interested in, hit the extension button, and you get an overlay of the CrunchBase, LinkedIn, and Quora data for the company. The CrunchBase column shows you the funding information, the LinkedIn column shows you your connections within the company, and the Quora column shows you some of the Q&A conversations going on about about company.

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This Clock Looks like the Wall of an Alien Spaceship [Video]

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Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/25/monster-iclarityhd-precision-micro-bluetooth-speaker-100-review/

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Cheezburger Network secures $30 million in first round of funding, LOL

No, seriously: Pet Holdings Inc, the company behind I Can Haz Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, Graph Jam and others, has just raised $30 million from a bunch of venture capital investment groups.

The company, owned by CEO Ben Huh, bought I Can Haz Cheezburger from its founders in 2007. Since then, it has gone from strength to strength, constantly adding new domains into the fold, and maintaining profitability "since its birth". This new round of funding, however, will let Cheezburger step up its hiring of new engineers, and enable the continued revitalization of its Web properties. Huh says a lot of the money will also be used "to experiment, to try to understand the market," a luxury the Network hasn't had for the last couple of years.

The Cheezburger Network, incidentally, attracts 16.5 million unique monthly visitors, which tally up a total of 375 million pageviews and 110 million video views.

Cheezburger Network secures $30 million in first round of funding, LOL originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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