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Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word 2007 in US Telegraph
Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling certain versions of its Word programme after a US court ruled it had infringed a patent held by a Canadian software company. The information technology major was ordered to pay $290m (£180m) in damages to Toronto-based i4i Inc and told it will not be able to sell any more copies of Word 2007 unless alterations are made to the programme over the next three weeks. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld an earlier jury verdict and lower court ruling in the patent case filed nearly three years ago. The case was brought over Microsoft’s use of XML, or extensible markup language, in the 2007 versions of its word processor.

“Avatar” Doesn’t Set Record After All IMDb
Actual box-office receipts for Avatar turned out to be bigger than the studio’s original estimates but not as big as the first revision on Monday, which would have made it the top-grossing December movie ever. And while the film’s $77.03-million take — the final figure — overshadowed the first-weekend gross of any other James Cameron movie, including Titanic, it fell short of some of the biggest summer blockbusters — most especially last year’s The Dark Knight, which holds the opening-weekend record with $158 million. Overseas, the film collected $159 million, to bring its worldwide total to $236 million — far short of the $394 million amassed by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last July. Still, no one was complaining. [You wait. They'll blame it on file sharing ]

By Thought Alone: Mind Over Keyboard hplusmagazine
A brain wave study presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society shows that people with electrodes in their brains can “type” (input data into a computer) using just their minds. Neurologist Jerry Shih, M.D. Shih and other Mayo Clinic researchers worked with Dean Krusienski, Ph.D., from the University of North Florida in an experiment involving two patients with epilepsy. Both patients were already being monitored for seizure activity using electrocorticography (ECoG), in which a sheet of electrodes is laid directly on the surface of the brain. This procedure requires a craniotomy, a surgical incision into the skull.

15 sites that went kaput in 2009 CNet News
Apparently the whole “spring cleaning” thing does not apply to Google, which did its housekeeping two weeks into the new year. In one day. the search giant announced that it would soon be shuttering its Jaiku microblogging service, social network Dodgeball (which it had purchased four years prior), as well as its Notebook service. For the sake of simplicity, we’ve condensed them into one slide, and one product in our count up to 15. Other, less high-profile sites that were taken down as part of the sweep include Google’s video service, which became largely useless after the company bought YouTube in 2006, as well as Google Catalog Search and Google Mashup Editor.

OLPC unveils slimline tablet PC BBC
The group behind the $100 laptop has revealed the design for its latest computer aimed at connecting children in the developing world. The XO-3, as it is known, is a slim-line touchscreen tablet PC. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said it would be “available in 2012? and would cost “well below $100?. The new design replaces the proposed XO-2, a foldable e-book that was first shown off in 2008 but has since been scrapped by the organisation. The XO-3 will eventually replace the original XO laptop that first went into production in 2007.

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