NewsFactor – The legal battle by Novell and The SCO Group over Unix may have reached its conclusion. On Tuesday, a federal jury said the rights to the widely used open-source operating system do not belong to SCO.

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Jury Rules Novell Owns Open-Source Copyrights for Unix
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Ben Patterson – With the specter of an iPhone for Verizon Wireless looming on the horizon, AT&T is reportedly in the midst of a “100-day plan” to “dramatically improve” the performance of its much-criticized network, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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AT&T racing to shore up wireless network, Journal reports
(Ben Patterson)

For most amateur photographers, Leica’s legendary M System represents a virtually unobtainable holy grail, a line of cameras so unspeakably expensive, rare, and coveted that even having the opportunity to hold one — much less own one — is a somewhat unrealistic goal. Why is that, exactly? It’s a combination of things, really; sure, Leica’s brand cachet undoubtedly factors into it, but in reality, it’s much, much more than that. For our money, nothing demonstrates that better than a day or two with the M9, the company’s latest flagship rangefinder with an 18 megapixel CCD sensor sourced from Kodak.

And what, exactly, does it feel like to carry $11,695 worth of rangefinder body and lens around? Follow the break.

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Leica M9 hands-on; or, The Tao of Leica originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Macworld.com – MobileMe galleries are kind of like exclusive showcases, or fancy private Flickr pages. There’s no way to search, so unless you know someone’s MoblieMe username, it’s hard to figure out if your friends even have one. Thankfully, Apple is attempting to make users’ lives a tad easier by implementing a “Contacts” feature into the newest version of the MobileMe Gallery app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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MobileMe Gallery app updated, adds contacts feature
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We’ve been fortunate enough to spend a bit of time with an Eyefinity setup before, but up until now, it’s been somewhat of a hassle to get a fully functional six-screen setup into a consumer’s home. Today, AMD is taking the legwork out of the equation with the introduction of the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, a standalone GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and innate support for pushing a half-dozen panels at once. Outside of that, it’s essentially the same card that we saw last September, and based on the cadre of reviews that we rounded up, the doubled memory bank doesn’t do much to boost frame rates. What it does do, however, is enable six-screen gaming. Unfortunately (though understandably), this type of gaming scenario is only meant for a select segment of users, and many critics found the novelty wearing off exceptionally quick. In fact, it wasn’t long before NeoSeeker became fed up with the bezels ruining the experience, and just about everyone agreed that you needed to sit a good half-mile away to really enjoy it. Either way, we’d encourage you to hit up Hot Hardware’s collection of videos before biting the bullet, buying up an extra five LCDs and then regretting it for the rest of your Earthly life.

Read – Hot Hardware
Read – AnandTech
Read – NeoSeeker
Read – Rage3D
Read – PC Perspective
Read – TweakTown
Read – FiringSquad
Read – Tom’s Hardware
Read – ExtremeTech
Read – Hexus

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition review roundup: novel, but not for everyone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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