8th January 2012 Archive
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Undervalued TiVo wins yet another legal battle
Analysis Braces self for flood of investor cash
There is likely to (eventually) be a flurry of investment activity in TiVo over the coming weeks, as investors shake the tinsel and party poppers from their eyes and the depression on the markets that 2011 brought, and realize what an undervalued stock it has become. The shares spiked on January 3 as it announced that it had …
Music and Media 8 Jan 11:16
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Cupertino lawyers mull 'driPhone' name ban
Not a dry iTM in the house
The AppleTM branding police have swooped on a fledgling New Zealand based mobile phone accessory entrepreneur in a row that may yet end up in court. At issue is whether using the "eye" phoneme in a product brand is allowable when the product in question is a third-party iPhoneTM accessory. Fairfax reports that AppleTM has …
Business 8 Jan 21:30
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Black hole radiation could provide insight into quantum gravity
Now, all we need is to observe it
The evaporation of black holes could provide a way to what’s known as the “loop quantum gravity” theory. Loop gravity is one of the many theories proposed as a way to unite general relativity with quantum mechanics, but it’s not easy to test; as Aurélien Barrau of the French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics …
Physics 8 Jan 22:00
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Brisbane video start-up eyes US market
Raising $US3.2m to go global
Australian streaming video network start-up Kondoot is in the midst of finalising a $US3.2 million funding round led by US investors. The social-style video sharing site was set up by Brisbane-based university chums Mark Cracknell and Nathan Hoad, and launched in the US on December 12. The operation, until now privately …
Business 8 Jan 22:30
