you too can try Dr Pepper even in Australia

you too can try Dr Pepper even in Australia

http://www.drpepper.com/

I have become infatuated with an old American Favourite Dr Pepper. I would love to tell you what it tastes like however you cannot tell anyone what Dr Pepper tastes like because it's so different. It's not an apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry, it's not a root beer, and it’s not even a cola. It's a different kind of drink with a unique taste all its own.

Dr Pepper is a soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton of Waco, Texas and first served around 1885.

Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904 and is now also sold in Europe, Asia,Australia (as an imported drink) and South America.

In Australia you can order supplies from http://www.usafoods.com.au/

Reddit benefits from Digg site revamp

from BBC

A revamp of the social-news site Digg has unexpectedly backfired on its owners.

Members of the site who wanted to express their dissatisfaction with a recent redesign hijacked the front page to redirect users to rival service Reddit.

Reddit said that it had received around 250,000 extra page views from the stunt.

Both sites allow users to submit links and rate news pages.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11153949

Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industry

By Matthew Lasar

It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry.

"With his beetle brows, long wispy hair, and beatific look, Edison might have seemed the addled inventor," writes the historian Neil Gabler, "but he was a shrewd businessman and a fearsome adversary who was never loath to take credit for any invention, whether he was responsible or not."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/thomas-edisons-plot-to-destroy-the-movies.ars

Apple TV: Still a hobby after all these years

by Erica Ogg

Apple dusted off its four-year-old Apple TV "hobby" on Wednesday and gave it some polish. But even with a lower price tag, a smaller, sleeker design, and a few more bells and whistles, the streaming set-top box is still likely to remain a side project.

Steve Jobs even referred to it as such when he introduced it at the annual fall event held in San Francisco Wednesday. In place of his famous "One more thing," he said, "One more hobby" when introducing the latest version of Apple TV.

There were some interesting new features: the new Apple TV is a quarter of the size of the old model, got a very attractive price cut (from $229 to $99), and added Netflix integration. But none of those things automatically put Apple in the driver's seat when it comes to this nascent category.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20015380-260.html?tag=topStories1#ixzz0yKzUunJK

Lawyer Offers Self Help To Sued BitTorrent Users

Written by Ernesto 

In recent months thousands of US BitTorrent users have been sued for allegedly having shared movies such as The Hurt Locker and Far Cry. Because the settlement amount proposed by the copyright holders is less than hiring a defense lawyer, many defendants have not sought legal representation. Acknowledging this injustice, attorney Graham Syfert is now offering a cheap solution to the problem.

The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The lawyer group sued thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly file-shared motion pictures belonging to their clients, including the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker and more obscure titles such as Far Cry and Call of the Wild.

On behalf of the copyright holders, USCG has already sent settlement offers to many affected BitTorrent users. To settle the case the alleged copyright infringers have to pay up to $2,500 or face the risk of higher penalties in a full-blown court case.

http://torrentfreak.com/lawyer-offers-self-help-to-sued-bittorrent-users-100829/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20Torrentfreak%20(Torrentfreak)

Vivendi, Time Warner Seek Arbitration in `Ellen' Show Music Copyright Case

By Don Jeffrey

Vivendi SA’s music labels and Time Warner Inc. are seeking arbitration in a copyright case in which the labels charged that “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” played its recordings without a license.

Lawyers for the two sides said they’d entered into an arbitration agreement and asked U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson to halt the case and transfer it to binding arbitration, according to a filing in federal court in Los Angeles yesterday.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-27/vivendi-time-warner-seek-arbitration-in-ellen-show-music-copyright-case.html

Rosetta Stone Appeals Loss to Google in Trademark Case Over Web Searches

By Don Jeffrey

Rosetta Stone Inc. appealed a judge’s ruling that Google Inc. didn’t infringe its trademarks by selling the language-software maker’s marks to rivals for use as search keywords.

Rosetta Stone asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia to review the summary judgment ruling by U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, according to a filing yesterday.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-01/rosetta-stone-appeals-loss-to-google-in-trademark-case-over-web-searches.html

Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse

By Emil Protalinski 

After a month of rumors and leaks, Microsoft has released the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale on Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and Buy.com for $69.95. It will ship in early December, and will officially be available online and in stores in January 2011.

Redmond is touting Arc Touch as "the first mouse designed to flatten for portability and pop up for comfort." It's all about portability: less than 15 millimeters thick at its widest point, it collapses to turn off and pops up to turn on. The mouse requires two AAA batteries that Microsoft says give it more than six months of battery life (the two-color battery life indicators will keep you informed).

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/microsoft-releases-arc-touch-mouse-ships-this-december.ars

Apple TV: You're a Glorified Roku

By Jason Perlow 

Apple’s updated Apple TV, while more streamlined and less expensive than the original, offers little more than what Roku already offers today.

 I think the device will probably sell a lot of units, especially at $99. But this is not the “iTV” many analysts were thinking that was going to be the cable and satellite TV and video game console killer.

Indeed, they got the $1 per show, with no commercials part right — but with only two networks to choose from, ABC and FOX, that’s not that much of a selection. I’m not betting on the rest of the big players on “Seeing the light”, as Jobs so eloquently put it.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/apple-tv-youre-a-glorified-roku/13904?tag=mantle_skin;content