Definitely, UK has really strict rules regarding commercial ads. You remember that apple had to change the title of its commercial campaign when launching the PMG5 in UK.
today, it is Microsoft turn to be trapped. In this campaign, Ms was trying to present proofs that Linux is at middle/long term more expensive that Windows. The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) is simply accusing MS to have produced false proofs to perform this comparison, by setting up a computer supposed to be representing the OpenSource side with particularly low performance/price ratio.
Microsoft has been then forced to modify its campaign in order to have launched in UK news media.
The Motion Picture Association of America has started lawsuits against Sigma design and Media Tek. Both companies are manufacturing microchips able to decode the protection of DVD and allow the user to play it even once the DVD is "out of date".
Obviously, the MPAA plans to obtain the distribution of that kind of chip, to control their sales, and prevent some manufacturers from implementing it in their unlockable DVD-players.
PS: For all the people who haven't choose what kind of career they want to embrace, become a lawyer!! They are the only one to win whatever the outcome of the trial is... [trans.: at least, in France.]
Someone claimed to have posted stolen pics of the iMac G5 taken in an elevator at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. They were available on a .Mac account for about 90mins before they were taken down. (
http://homepage.mac.com/ihepworth/PhotoAlbum1.html)
We have no idea whether these are geniune or not. Frankly, the machine itself is looking quite thin, and the whole story a tad excentric. Nowadays airports are super secure areas where it is really difficult to do something weird without being immediately noticed. Since those are widely available on the web, here they are :
If you ask us, we think it's just a clever photoshop work of a LCD display...
We now know that Phil Schiller will do the Stev... ehhh Keynote and introduce the iMac G5 to the world, the biggest news being that we know that from Apple itself. Another big news is that in the first time in history since Apple introduced the iXXX machines to the world, one of them will be more powerful than a PowerXXX. Until now, Apple always made sure that the PowerXXX serie was clocked a notch higher than the highest iXXX machine.
The first side effect is that potential PowerBook buyers might want to wait for a G5 update of the Powerbook. Apple probably knows this as much as we do, should we expect a real blast of a surprise during the Apple Expo keynote ?
