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Blizzard Entertainment’s victory over bnetd sealed in Appeals Court

Saturday, September 3, 2005 Blizzard Entertainment has won a federal ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals against the programmers of bnetd, a software package that emulates Blizzard’s Battle.net service. The court reaffirmed the original judgement, given in October, that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and click-through EULA’s prohibited the reverse engineering of Blizzard’s software …

Wales loses all BBC TV and Radio services

Sunday, September 28, 2008 Cardiff, Wales —The British Broadcasting Corporation‘s (BBC) entire analogue, DTT and Satellite service was taken swiftly off air today for over 7 hours following a massive power failure at Broadcasting House in Llandaff, Cardiff. The outage hit at 10:30UTC this morning, and was further compounded by the fact that the building’s …

Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. …

Firefighter Education: What Are Your Options

Read An Opinion On: Filmmaking Courses Sydney Submitted by: Nick Boothe If you are interested in becoming a firefighter, one factor you shouldn’t forget about is firefighter education. Firefighting is a fairly competitive field, and quite a few municipalities now are requiring firefighter candidates to get a college degree, or some number of college credits, …

Hackers crack Sony PSP to allow Internet chat, web surfing

Thursday, April 7, 2005 Sony’s recently introduced Playstation Portable has proved popular with curious geeks who discovered various talents hidden within the new handheld video console. The biggest ‘hack’ so far has been the manipulation of a web browser embedded within the PSP game ‘Wipeout Pure’, which can be easily coaxed into accessing the majority …

Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive

Monday, October 11, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as …

Advantages Of Hiring A Web Design Company Based In London

Read An Opinion On: Asheville Website Design Specialists Advantages of hiring a web design company based in London by Pixelwoo Web designing is an art that is used with the specific aim to draw visitors to your website and allow them to know about your business and your services. Web design companies based in London …

Greek parliament votes in favor of new Papandreou cabinet as debt crisis deepens

Thursday, June 23, 2011 Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote by the Greek parliament late Tuesday night, thus allowing Papandreou to form a new cabinet constituted to address Greece’s severe financial debt crisis. The vote’s outcome is viewed as a measure of confidence in the government’s ability to resolve the problems of …

Three rural councils in New South Wales, Australia enter 7-day lockdown

Wednesday, July 21, 2021 A week-long lockdown began at midnight yesterday in the City of Orange, Blayney Shire, and Cabonne Shire local government areas in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, after a local resident was infected with COVID-19 by a truck driver at the Nestlé Purina PetCare food factory in Blayney, which the driver had …

Freak wave rocks luxury liner–4 hurt

Sunday, April 17, 2005 The Norwegian Dawn, a 965-foot-long luxury vessel, was struck by “a freak wave that caused two windows to break in two different cabins,” the owners, Norwegian Cruise Line, said in a statement. It changed course, docking in Charleston late Saturday afternoon instead of completing its planned travel to New York. The …