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Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World
By admin on July 24, 2010 | No Comments
EvilAlphonso notes news of a “Texas” IP holding company suing 36 actual companies for violating its claimed patent on spam filtering. Techdirt deconstructs the patent itself, No. 6,018,761, which seems to amount to little more than a database lookup. It was filed in 1996 and issued in 2000 (despite the lawyers’ press release claiming that it “was awarded… nearly 15 years ago”). Among the companies being sued are 3Com, Apple, Google, AOL, Yahoo, (more…)
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Best Value Teams in The 2010 World Cup (Infographic)By admin on July 12, 2010 | No Comments
Statisticians and data freaks are already doing the World Cup number crunching – possibly the most interesting piece of statistical information that has surfaced from the torrent of World Cup data feeds comes from a study that recently carried out an analysis of the economic value of the players from some of the World Cup’s most successful teams.
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Blatter hails ‘special’ World CupBy admin on July 11, 2010 | No Comments
Fifa boss Sepp Blatter rejects criticism of the 2010 World Cup which has centred on the quality of football on offer and too many empty seats.
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Travelled the World for Free using only TwitterBy admin on July 11, 2010 | No Comments
It started in the bread aisle of Tesco and ended on an island off New Zealand. How Paul Smith got abandoned in America, lost in Paris, covered in cockroaches and saved by kindness.
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Refereeing Changes to be Made for Next World Cup by FIFABy admin on July 10, 2010 | No Comments
Goal-line technology is being discussed once again after several blunders occur at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa in 2010, such as England’s disallowed goal against Germany and several poor offside decisions.
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World Cup: Brave Ghana robbed by UruguayBy admin on July 7, 2010 | No Comments
A blatant handball in the final seconds robs the Black Stars of making history and becoming the first African team to make it to the semi-finals.
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Klose & Villa Close to Hitting Major FIFA World Cup RecordsBy admin on July 5, 2010 | No Comments
Klose is one goal away from tying Ronaldo’s record of 15 FIFA World Cup goals. Other interesting stats as well.
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The World Cup Needs Instant Replay… NowBy admin on July 1, 2010 | No Comments
Sunday’s blown goal call in the Germany and England match, the US shot that should have been a goal against Slovenia, Argentina’s offsides goal…these should all be telling FIFA something much be changed.
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Live – World CupBy admin on June 28, 2010 | No Comments
England arrive back in the UK after their second round World Cup exit, before Paraguay face Japan at 1500 BST.
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