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YouTube is in hot water again as the Premier League want its cut from all those footie clips that find their way onto the service.

In a lawsuit filed in New York, the Premier League has claimed that YouTube has ‘knowingly’ lifted video of games and encouraged folk to come watch it on the site. Viacom is already suing Google-owned YouTube for a $1bn (£500m) for allegedly showing 160,000 clips of its TV shows without paying for the privilege. The lawsuit said:

“YouTube bills itself as “the leading destination on the Internet for video entertainment” and boasts millions of monthly visitors to its website. In the operation of its website, YouTube copies and electronically disseminates, on a massive and wide-ranging scale, content including the valuable intellectual property of the class.”

It’s hard to feel sorry for the Premier League though since its been practicing price gouging of its own through the clubs, on fans, for years.-Martin Lynch

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Internet law professor Michael Geist says countries should resist US bullying tactics over copyright and intellectual property.

Intel Corp. , the world’s largest chipmaker, had
been losing market share to rival AMD, but is now believed by
analysts to have stemmed losses or even gained share thanks to
a raft of new products.

US computer chip manufacturer Intel unveils plans to build a $2.5bn chip plant in China.

US computer chip manufacturer Intel unveils plans to build a $2.5bn chip plant in China.

US computer chip manufacturer Intel unveils plans to build a $2.5bn chip plant in China.

FRANKFURT/HANOVER (Reuters) - Intel and Infineon
Technologies AG announced partnerships with BMW
and Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday,
reflecting the growing importance of electronics in cars.

FRANKFURT/HANOVER (Reuters) - Intel and Infineon
Technologies AG announced partnerships with BMW and Hyundai
Motor Co. on Thursday, reflecting the growing importance of
electronics in cars.

Intel yesterday and now Sandisk today. We know that Flash drives will play an increasingly important roll in laptops as the year rolls on and we also know that they’ll cost you your first born child. Sandisk has just announced its 32GB solid state drive (SSD) for laptops and indications are that the drive could cost a lot less than previously thought.

The new 2.5in SSD which can be used as a drop-in replacement for hard drives in laptops will cost under £200, approximately. OK, this is helluva lot more than you’d pay for current hard drive technology [£6 per Flash Gb versus 40p per regualr Gb] but it’s less than originally thought. So what’s the big deal?

According to Sandisk the drive can boot Windows Vista Enterprise in about 30 seconds and read and write data to the drive 100 times faster than existing drives. It’s also nicer to your battery and runs silent.

The price rules it out for the majority of us but more of these Flash drives are coming this year [Cebit starts tomorrow, after all] and I expect that this technology will become affordable to a greater number of us laptop junkies in 2008. Hopefully.-Martin Lynch

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Intel has launched its first series of NAND-Flash disk drives, following in the steps of Samsung and SanDisk but, targeting the low-cost computer sector, to start. The Intel® Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive sports a USB connector will be integrated on the motherboards going into newer PCs, notebooks and servers, alongside other devices.

The drives come in 1Gb and 2Gb flavours right now but there are 4Gb and 8GB versions coming out in the coming months. By the end of the year, Intel is planning to have 20Gb and 40GB versions later in the year and by next year there will be 80Gb and 160Gb versions.

However, when it comes to these larger capacities, you can forget value for money since they will cost two or three times more than current HDDs. The Intel drive has a read rates of up to 28Mb per second and write speeds of 20Mb per second. The advantages of solid state drives (SSDs) over existing hard disk drives include faster boot-up and restore times, faster application loading, silent running, more rugged and power efficient. You will be hearing a lot about these drives and new notebooks using them in the coming year.-Martin Lynch

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