Weekend tech reading: RadioShack calls for DIY community's input

Speak your mind and help RadioShack suck less We can all agree that RadioShack isn?t exactly the DIY mecca it once was. What used to be a haven for amateur radio operators, tinkerers, and builders alike has devolved into a stripmall mainstay full of cell phones and overpriced junk. RadioShack knows that they have fallen out of your good graces, and since you are the demographic that put them on the map, they are appealing to the DIY community for input. Hack a Day

Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone A rough estimate of the number of HTC Android devices shipped is 30 million. If HTC paid $5 per unit to Microsoft, that adds up to $150 million Android revenues for Microsoft. Microsoft has admitted selling 2 million Windows Phone licenses (though not devices.) Estimating that the license fee is $15/WP phone, that makes Windows Phone revenues to date $30 million. Asymco

Computer de-evolution: Features that lost the evolutionary war Today's computers offer processing power, speed, storage, Internet connectivity, display size and quality, and other capabilities that few even dreamed of ten or more years ago, certainly not at prices affordable for any developer or even consumer. But there are some things they don't do that the old, slow, often command-line-intead-of-GUI-oriented applications did. ITworld

Make your mark by stopping hackers In reality, hacking is easy once you know what you're doing. Defending is hard. If you want to truly impress the world, develop systems and applications that will be used by a lot of people while being resistant to easy hacking. Anyone can knock down a garage. But build one that can't be taken down by a blockhead swinging a heavy sledgehammer, and you've done something. PCWorld

CEO Ballmer has support of Bill Gates, Microsoft board Microsoft?s Steve Ballmer appears to have the support of the company?s board of directors, despite the call from one major investor that the CEO should be fired. Greenlight Capital Inc. President David Einhorn causes a major stir by calling for Ballmer?s replacement, saying he is dragging down the company?s performance. TechFlash

Sony won't make massive investment in PS4 Sony's PS3 was pretty slow out of the gate with its $599 price tag, but Sony had little choice in terms of pricing due to the heavy costs surrounding Blu-ray and the Cell processor. The R&D and manufacturing took its toll on the company's bottom line and only now is the PlayStation division finally reaping some profits. IndustryGamers

Inner Moon as wet as Earth Contrary to popular belief, the early moon could have been as wet as Earth's mantle, new analysis from an Apollo lunar sample shows. The discovery stems from sophisticated analysis of tiny bits of ancient magma sealed inside solid crystals. The so-called "melt inclusions" are no bigger than the width of a human hair. Discovery

Contrast ratio (or how every TV manufacturer lies to you) Contrast ratio is the most important aspect of a TV's performance. More than any other single metric, a set's contrast ratio will be the most noticeable difference between two TVs. That is, if you could juxtapose them. Which you can't. Or if you could compare their claimed specs. Which you can't. CNET

Depixelizing pixel art We describe a novel algorithm for extracting a resolution-independent vector representation from pixel art images, which enables magnifying the results by an arbitrary amount without image degradation. Imgur

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An Unlikely Power Duo Emerges in the Global Fight Against Climate Change

But until now they have never joined forces on a project with global reach that could advance both of their legacies. They are taking on an issue ? climate change ? that may well shape the world?s economic and social future for decades to come.

Mr. Bloomberg?s billions of dollars and Mr. Clinton?s billions of friends are a potent combination, but can this unlikely power coupling make an impact in stemming rising seas or cooling the planet?

?This is enough to choke a horse, one of the two or three biggest challenges in the world,? Mr. Clinton said in an unusual joint telephone interview last week with Mr. Bloomberg. ?But if we can prove that this is good economics, good public health and fights the most calamitous consequences of climate change, then we will have done a world of good.?

Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bloomberg are men of considerable accomplishment and healthy self-regard. So, naturally, questions arose last month when they announced the merging of their climate-change initiatives into a single global effort focused on the world?s largest cities.

Who will be in charge and how will they share a stage, beginning this week when they appear together at a climate conference in São Paulo, Brazil?

?I have always thought that we should have a relationship based alphabetically on our last names,? Mr. Bloomberg said.

?I have a partnership with George W. Bush on Haiti, and I had a partnership with his dad on Katrina,? Mr. Clinton said. ?So you know, I don?t care who gets the credit.?

It was six years ago when Mr. Clinton, working with Ken Livingstone, the leftist and then-mayor of London, drew together officials from 40 of the world?s largest cities, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Yokohama, Japan, to share ideas for reducing carbon emissions and dealing with the inevitable impacts of a changing climate. The effort was ambitious but chronically underfinanced, with an annual budget of less than $500,000.

The group met periodically to discuss climate mitigation efforts like switching to LED streetlights, retrofitting public buildings and generating energy from landfills. The William J. Clinton Foundation provided technical assistance and financing for discrete projects, but the group of cities, known as the C40, lacked a steady financing stream, a database of emissions and mitigation programs, and a professional staff.

Enter Mr. Bloomberg, who campaigned for and won the chairmanship of the group last year. He pledged $6 million a year of his foundation money for each of the next three years to bolster the C40 and essentially muscled aside the Clinton staff members working on the project. Mr. Clinton, never one to reject a gift horse, happily acceded.

?I really don?t care how you characterize it,? Mr. Clinton said. ?The fact that he made a multiyear commitment coincident with his leadership means that we will be able to go in and help cities who are in trouble financially and can?t do these projects.?

An adviser to Mr. Clinton, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to elaborate more candidly on Mr. Clinton?s remark, was a bit less diplomatic about Mr. Bloomberg?s approach. ?He came to us,? the adviser said. ?What are we going to do, fight him? They have the money; the golden rule applies.? As in, he who has the gold, rules.

The Clinton-Bloomberg partnership comes at a tough time for those fighting climate change. Congress has made it clear that it is not going to enact a national program to address global warming any time soon and the 194-nation United Nations process has made little progress toward a binding international treaty.

Donors who have provided financing for climate programs are frustrated and fatigued, and many advocacy groups are turning their attention to issues on which they can have tangible impact. Organizations are consolidating and learning to make do with less.

Mr. Bloomberg refers to this as a ?maturing? approach to activist philanthropy. ?It?s not so much people getting bored with the whole thing or walking away,? he said. ?It?s that if you?re going to live through the tough times, this type of efficiency makes sense.?

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Obama Expected to Name Army?s Leader to Head Joint Chiefs

He will need all those skills if, as expected, President Obama nominates him to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a move that could come as early as Monday.

As the military?s highest-ranking officer and a crucial member of the president?s revamped national security team, General Dempsey would face a complex and consequential set of challenges against the backdrop of both rapid change abroad and intensive political pressures at home: how fast to withdraw from Afghanistan, how to reshape the military and how to cope with an era of fiscal austerity.

If confirmed by the Senate, General Dempsey, currently the Army chief, would become the president?s senior military adviser, working alongside Leon E. Panetta, the Central Intelligence Agency director, who is in line to become defense secretary when Robert M. Gates retires in late June, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, who will take over from Mr. Panetta at the C.I.A.

Officials said the high opinion Mr. Gates has of General Dempsey ? one shared by the departing chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen ? was a significant factor in shaping Mr. Obama?s decision. The president initially favored Gen. James E. Cartwright, the current vice chairman, before questions of personnel management and command style pushed him out of the running.

General Dempsey carries no visible political baggage and has no vocal critics across the armed forces. The only sour notes sounded at word of his nomination came from those who regret his departure from the post of Army chief. The exhausted ground force, they said, needs someone like General Dempsey who not only can employ the Army in combat, but also knows how to rebuild it.

Of the senior commanders to emerge from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, General Dempsey is known as among the least self-aggrandizing. That, too, was said to have been an attractive trait to a White House that is seeking to avoid public drama and that has felt cornered at times by strong egos within the war cabinet during policy battles, in particular over Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Military commanders and Mr. Obama ? who as a presidential candidate ran against the Bush administration?s war in Iraq ? have struggled to build strong ties. And in some ways, the decision to pass over General Cartwright in favor of General Dempsey exposed lingering fault lines in the administration, despite what White House, Pentagon and military officials agree is a smoother working relationship today than during the review of Afghanistan policy.

Both Mr. Gates and Admiral Mullen were frustrated, even angered, by General Cartwright?s consultations with the White House in which he offered alternative options for troop numbers in Afghanistan, according to Pentagon and military officials.

General Cartwright?s supporters say the vice chairman was only fulfilling his required duties of giving his best professional advice to the president. But some senior Pentagon and military officials said that General Cartwright had erred in not keeping Mr. Gates and Admiral Mullen fully aware of the separate options he had discussed with the commander in chief.

A West Point graduate of 1974, General Dempsey, 59, earned a master?s degree from Duke University ? in English, a subject he later taught West Point cadets.

And he can sing. Several thousand video scouts have found, seen and heard General Dempsey channel his inner Frank Sinatra in an acceptable rendition of ?New York, New York,? delivered in Army dress uniform.

As a one-star brigadier general, he was sent to Baghdad in 2003 to stabilize the Iraqi capital region in command of an Army division ? historically a task reserved for a two-star major general.

As a festering resistance exploded into full-fledged rebellion, he fashioned a complicated counteroffensive that mixed deadly attacks, political agility, media management and the infusion of cash into ravaged neighborhoods to suppress the Shiite revolt. And he did it so successfully that Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired general, labeled him the best combat division commander of the past decade. (Congress subsequently approved a second star.)

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The Witcher 2 patch 1.1 removes DRM, boosts framerate

CD Projekt has released the first patch for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings today, delivering new content and fixing game-breaking performance issues. According to various user reports, the DRM mechanism that ships with retail versions of the game drastically reduces frame rates and loading times. One user quoted by TorrentFreak claims the SecuROM-riddled copy of Witcher 2 takes 32 seconds longer to launch, 8 seconds longer to save, and runs nearly twice as slow.

That only occurs in physical copies of the game sold through stores such as Amazon. Digital copies sold through Steam version rely on Steamworks while GOG's version is completely DRM-free -- and such is the case for retail copies with today's update. By removing the copy protection, patch 1.1 reportedly improves the game's framerate by up to 30%. It also contains the first free DLC called "Troll Trouble," adds an inverted mouse option and more. The full release notes are below.

CD Projekt's Adam Badowski said DRM schemes mostly hurt paying customers. "Our approach to countering piracy is to incorporate superior value in the legal version. This means it has to be superior in every respect: less troublesome to use and install, with full support, and with access to additional content and services," he said. The developer was primarily concerned about preventing The Witcher 2 from being pirated before its release, so the DRM has already served its purpose.

Although the company may have a relaxed DRM policy, it doesn't plan to let pirates off scot-free. CD Projekt declared war against illegal file-sharers last November, collaborating with legal and tech firms to employ the "pay or else" tactics popularized by the US Copyright Group and small-time filmmakers. People caught downloading The Witcher 2 illegally might receive a letter demanding a settlement fee or run the risk of being sued, according to CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwinski.

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An Unlikely Power Duo Emerges in the Global Fight Against Climate Change

But until now they have never joined forces on a project with global reach that could advance both of their legacies. They are taking on an issue ? climate change ? that may well shape the world?s economic and social future for decades to come.

Mr. Bloomberg?s billions of dollars and Mr. Clinton?s billions of friends are a potent combination, but can this unlikely power coupling make an impact in stemming rising seas or cooling the planet?

?This is enough to choke a horse, one of the two or three biggest challenges in the world,? Mr. Clinton said in an unusual joint telephone interview last week with Mr. Bloomberg. ?But if we can prove that this is good economics, good public health and fights the most calamitous consequences of climate change, then we will have done a world of good.?

Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bloomberg are men of considerable accomplishment and healthy self-regard. So, naturally, questions arose last month when they announced the merging of their climate-change initiatives into a single global effort focused on the world?s largest cities.

Who will be in charge and how will they share a stage, beginning this week when they appear together at a climate conference in São Paulo, Brazil?

?I have always thought that we should have a relationship based alphabetically on our last names,? Mr. Bloomberg said.

?I have a partnership with George W. Bush on Haiti, and I had a partnership with his dad on Katrina,? Mr. Clinton said. ?So you know, I don?t care who gets the credit.?

It was six years ago when Mr. Clinton, working with Ken Livingstone, the leftist and then-mayor of London, drew together officials from 40 of the world?s largest cities, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Yokohama, Japan, to share ideas for reducing carbon emissions and dealing with the inevitable impacts of a changing climate. The effort was ambitious but chronically underfinanced, with an annual budget of less than $500,000.

The group met periodically to discuss climate mitigation efforts like switching to LED streetlights, retrofitting public buildings and generating energy from landfills. The William J. Clinton Foundation provided technical assistance and financing for discrete projects, but the group of cities, known as the C40, lacked a steady financing stream, a database of emissions and mitigation programs, and a professional staff.

Enter Mr. Bloomberg, who campaigned for and won the chairmanship of the group last year. He pledged $6 million a year of his foundation money for each of the next three years to bolster the C40 and essentially muscled aside the Clinton staff members working on the project. Mr. Clinton, never one to reject a gift horse, happily acceded.

?I really don?t care how you characterize it,? Mr. Clinton said. ?The fact that he made a multiyear commitment coincident with his leadership means that we will be able to go in and help cities who are in trouble financially and can?t do these projects.?

An adviser to Mr. Clinton, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to elaborate more candidly on Mr. Clinton?s remark, was a bit less diplomatic about Mr. Bloomberg?s approach. ?He came to us,? the adviser said. ?What are we going to do, fight him? They have the money; the golden rule applies.? As in, he who has the gold, rules.

The Clinton-Bloomberg partnership comes at a tough time for those fighting climate change. Congress has made it clear that it is not going to enact a national program to address global warming any time soon and the 194-nation United Nations process has made little progress toward a binding international treaty.

Donors who have provided financing for climate programs are frustrated and fatigued, and many advocacy groups are turning their attention to issues on which they can have tangible impact. Organizations are consolidating and learning to make do with less.

Mr. Bloomberg refers to this as a ?maturing? approach to activist philanthropy. ?It?s not so much people getting bored with the whole thing or walking away,? he said. ?It?s that if you?re going to live through the tough times, this type of efficiency makes sense.?

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Why New York City?s tech scene is thriving

As spring melts into summer, there?s been much discussion around New York City?s blossoming tech scene and you can feel the energy in the air as you walk through Union Square. Coworking spaces like WeWork Labs, General Assembly and Dogpatch and incubators like TechStars, Gramercy Labs Collective and Prehype are experimenting with new ways to cultivate young companies in the city that never sleeps. As a friend of mine described it, the kids are launching startups the way they used to start rock bands.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes New York City?s startup center, dubbed ?Silicon Alley,? is superior to California?s Silicon Valley in a number of ways. Earlier this month, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his roadmap to make NYC the nation?s premiere digital city by increasing New Yorkers? access to new technologies, continuing to make government services more transparent and promoting the tech industry.

We?ve published several lists of NYC?s shining startups in the past but never fully paused to think about why this shift is happening and why it?s happening now. As summer officially kicks off in New York City, let?s dive into why New York City?s tech scene is so hot right now.

Thank you Silicon Valley, now everyone can play on the Internet

When I first moved to New York City a childhood friend of mine described it as combustible. No one moves to New York to relax and kick their feet up. Citizens pay a high price to live amongst the best and brightest because they seek inspiration through opportunities that thrive on intellectual collaboration.

Startups like Gilt Groupe and Etsy have proved their potential to attract mass markets, as have companies like MeetupTumblr and Foursquare; they are startups that have enabled and inspired connections within the tech community, spawning opportunities for entrepreneurs, engineers and tech enthusiasts to create and grow the city?s digital ecosystem. (In fact, there?s practically a secondary market for tickets to NYTM, New York?s largest technology Meetup.) This emerging ecosystem is quickly attracting talent from all industries like a bonfire might on a cool summer night.

?We are finally seeing the tech industry recruiting away from other industries in NYC, such as lawyering, banking, consulting, etc. And this is exciting because people who previously were taking the safer financial road, are instead going for their dreams, starting great companies and creating a new ecosystem,? says TechStars? David Tisch, a lifetime New Yorker.

For the past decade, the West Coast has focused on building the accessible, technical infrastructure that New York City?s wide-ranging talent is now molding into its own media-rich, socially-driven and design-focused startup culture. Overall, NYC is less ?hardcore tech? (with the exception of companies like MakerBot) than Silicon Valley. If you look at many of the great companies New York has birthed, such as Jetsetter or Lot18, they?ve innovated the most at the presentation layer, in the UI. Of all the interviews conducted for this piece, Henrik Werdelin, the Founder of Prehype, a local incubator we profiled last weekend said it best:

The East Coast tech-scene is booming because we are going through a phase where experience design, clever new business models and distribution is becoming as important as the technology itself. The new East Coast growth companies are standing on the shoulders of the tech platforms that the West Coast has built over the past decade such as easy-to-use infrastructures like Amazon, discovery tools like Google and Facebook?s social graph. While companies like Esty, Groupon and Gilt Groupe are considered technology companies, they are really just smart, new innovative companies ? built on top of technology. I imagine that New York?s access to talented designers, marketers and business developers will continue this trend.

As the next level of innovation occurs across the Internet, New York City?s wide skill set is well suited to reap its benefits. Unlike Silicon Valley, where tech is its own industry, New York City is the homebase for a myriad of industries including finance, fashion, media and real estate. That isn?t to say that Silicon Valley and the Bay Area don?t have a number of different industries, but in New York City the focus is less on tech for tech?s sake and much more about its complementary role and the cooperation between the different industries.

Traditionally, the big competition for startups trying to attract talent is high paying jobs, which New York has quite a few of in finance and media. But these are two industries that have been jolted in recent years. Smart people are discovering that instead of getting the next big paying cog-in-a-machine job that they are able to start their own company and they?re receiving a lot of satisfaction from doing so.

?Yesterday, I had an epiphany that for the first time in my life, who I am and who I want to be are virtually one in the same. It?s so much more effective to be yourself than to pretend to be something your not because doing the latter is so emotionally taxing, you?ll never be someone that is fully committed. Being yourself pays dividends,? says Brett Martin, a former banker and now the CEO and Founder of Sonar, a hot new social, location-based mobile application.

Dan Leahy, the Co-Founder of Village Vines points out that while disenchantment with banks led to some questions about the attractiveness of a Wall St. career, the real driver has been the fact that getting a company off the ground now requires significantly less capital and technical resources than it did 10 years ago, making launching a new idea as a ?business? type far more practical and attractive.

And it seems that New York City?s emerging entrepreneurs are impressing industry legends. According to SV Angels? Ron Conway, NYC?s startups today have real business models; they?re building a real audience and as Lerer Ventures? Eric Hippeau pointed out at Tech Crunch Disrupt last week, there?s real capital this time around.

?In 1999-2000, there were hardly any VC firms based in New York. People in San Francisco were not flying to NYC as they are today. They saw it as a pesky center of innovation. Today, you have the solid, well-integrated angel community? Even if there is a hiccup, the feeling is that this financial structure that supports entrepreneurs will stay.?

?Eric Hippeau

So, if there?s one New York City startup that defines the rest, which one is it?

Winner: Since New York City is all about digital collaboration, the winner is Kickstarter, a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers and other creative types that is not only an incredible start-up in its own right but it has the unique ability to spawn other start-ups. Founded in April 2009 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler, the site is undoubtedly one of the coolest growing businesses in New York City.

Artists create videos to outline their projects, set fundraising goals and users come to the site to pledge money in exchange for rewards like small tokens of art, CDs, concert tickets, etc. instead of equity. The trick is, no one is charged and no one gets any money unless the full goal is met. If the goal is met, Kickstarter takes a 5% cut of all successful funding drives. Projects funded on Kickstarter so far include Diaspora, which received over $200,000 to fund a ?privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network? and read our article on The Glif, an iPhone 4 tripod mount which raised $137,417 for production.

Runner-Up: Foursquare takes second place in the run because it?s truly emblematic of living in New York City, a naturally hyper-local, social, realtime, all the time place. As we constantly create connections on the web, living in a city such as New York complements this highly connected experience. Furthermore, Foursquare was able to achieve early success through key media partnerships with Bravo, Zagat, Showtime and Metromix, which is indicative of working in the media capital.

It?s hard to imagine a more perfect birthplace for socially driven, location-based mobile services than New York City. Maxim?s Senior Tech Editor Seth Porges points out, ?NYC is a hyper-social town, where people are packed close enough that the spontaneity afforded by apps like Foursquare just makes sense.?

Audience Choice: Tumblr is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It?s shareable, fast-paced and populated with fashion-centric images. In fact, Tumblr?s fashion and art content is what has allowed it to flourish. For example, Of A Kind, a popular limited edition fashion site has built its entire platform on both Tumblr and Shopify.

I asked Tech Stars? David Tisch if he could pick any company in New York City right now to be the CEO of, which one would it be? ?Tumblr. I think there is so much potential in the vision ? and the strength of community they have built is unparalleled,? he answered.

And he?s not the only one who loves Tumblr. Foodspotting?s Soraya Darabi says, ?Tumblr is basically the Pony Boy Curtis of NYC startups: totally cool, young, hip and a good narrative of everything cultural happening these days.?

What else makes New York?s tech scene so great? The Chicks.

More than a few New York City entrepreneurs were quick to point out that the babe situation in New York City trumps San Francisco?s any day. On this topic, one former New Yorker now happily married Silicon Valley VC said, ?If you?re moving to San Francisco, just make sure to pack a sandwich.? All light joking aside, I?d like to shed some light on NYC?s impressive roster of female founders.

?I definitely see there are more female founders, specifically more first time female founders. In the next few years, I expect to see more serial female entrepreneurs who will be able to get funding even more easily.?

?High Line Venture Partners? Shana Fisher

New York City wouldn?t be the city it is without its impressive roster of female entrepreneurs. Many of these women have been able to launch successful companies around their passions, be it fashion, food or saving the world. To name just a few: Mayor Michael Bloomberg?s new chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne; Birchbox founders Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna; Marissa Evans, the Founder, Go Try It On; Hilary Mason, the Chief Scientist, Bit.ly; Makery?s Elizabeth Stark;Foodspotting?s Amy Cao and Soraya Darabi; SpotOn Founder Gauri Manglik; Suzannie Xie of Lollihop;Fashism?s Brooke Moreland; Of A Kind?s Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo; Rent the Runwayfounders Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Carter Fleiss; Texts From Last Night?s Lauren Leto and Cindy Gallop of If We Ran The World.

Gilt Groupe, the flash sale fashion company, which has become an iconic New York City startup was founded by two Harvard Business School grads, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank. ?I love Gilt, it?s a hometown hero and expertly pioneered by two fabulous female founders alongside NYC legend Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick. Beyond that, I?m addicted to it and probably have a guilt complex associated with my ongoing Gilt purchases,? says Foodspotting?s Soraya.

Speaking of food, The Daily?s Abigail Drachman Jones points out that Foodspotting (while technically with a fork on each coast) brings to life all of the reasons to love New York ? the food, the culture, the friendships, the delight in discovery and the ability to contribute to the crazy, exciting, hectic world that is New York City.

So with all these fabulous women in one city does it ever get catty? No, says Of A Kind?s Claire Mazur, ?Everyone seems to realize that if someone is doing well here the benefits reverberate throughout the whole community and you see it manifested in resources like General Assembly and Tech Stars coming to the city.?

To this point, I recently met with entrepreneur Christina Vuleta, who is in the midst of launching 4020Vision, a forum for women in their 40s to pass on what they have learned from their experiences and for 20-somethings to seek advice from women who lived with the choices we face in our 20s. Keep an eye out for our upcoming interview with Vuleta later this summer.

What does the future hold for New York City?

While every week in New York has started to feel like geek week, June 6th marks the official start of Internet Week in New York City, a festival of dozens of offbeat, visual events that will bring the Internet to life ? from Digital Archaeology, an exhibition of websites from the 90s that have been restored and exhibited on the software and hardware of the day to Speed Show in Williamsburg, where every computer in a public Internet café will be taken over by an Internet art exhibition to The ?Can You Draw the Internet?? Project, which challenges NYC kids and designers and to see who can best draw what the Internet really looks like to The 15th Annual Webby Award. This year, over 20,000 people will attend Internet Week, up from 15,000 last year. The celebration and community of tech is clearly here but in comparison to Silicon Valley?s engineering talent and mindset, we may have a little ways to go.

?The culture and logistics is all set up in California to nurture startups in a way that New York is not quite there yet. While I was hiring last year I used to joke to friends that the first thing people want in NYC is a 6-figure salary while in California the first thing people want is half your company,? says 4Chan?s Christopher Poole who moved his new startup Can.vas to NYC last year.

It?s clear NYC startups are hungry. As a city, we?re petrified to keep moving faster and keep doing better. We benefit from having a great commercial center, and we?ve witnessed a massive cadre of talented people migrate to startups.

In the end, it?s clear that there?s much room for collaboration between the two coasts. What the East Coast needs in terms of raw engineering talent, the West Coast needs in media partnerships and advertising savvy. Company wise, Google already has an impressive office across the street from Chelsea Market, home to Google?s Creative Lab. And Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Zygna have opened up offices in New York in the past year as well. Last week, ?Super Angel? investor Ron Conway announced that his West Coast based SV Angel and NY- based Lerer Ventures are entering into a formal partnership to invest in one another?s deals and share access to each other?s golden Rolodex. ?We?ll be each other?s eyes and ears on each coast so hopefully we don?t miss the next great company,? Huffington Post CEO and Lerer Ventures partner Eric Hippeau said at Tech Crunch Disrupt last week.

If innovation and startups are what?s going to create a brighter future and the jobs of tomorrow, it?s time to start racking up those miles on Virgin America.

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On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

As you can imagine, we get lots of natty little bits and pieces sent into the bit-tech offices. Annoyingly, though, much of it is just a little too small or a little too silly to write about in a full page review. As a result, I?m trying to resurrect the On Our Desk series of articles that we used to cover all these little bits of gadgetry.

So without further ado I?ll tell you about the Mionix Propus 380 mouse mat, on which my CM Storm Inferno has been happily sitting for the last few days.

The first feature that grabbed me about the Propus 380 is that it looks good. It was actually its unusual shape and sleek, unfussy design that prompted me to pick it out from the pile of gaming mouse mats we?ve got sitting in the labs in the first place; it certainly looks like it means business.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

Once out of the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on show. The edges of the Propus 380 are very precisely cut, with no rough edges in sight. The upper tracking surface is also very firmly bonded to the rubber base of the mat; it certainly doesn't feel like the Propus 380 would suffer from the kind of delaminating or edge-peeling you may have seen on older mouse mats.

The surface of the mat is made from extremely fine-grained plastic, results in some very quick mouse movements. In fact, I was actually able to move my mouse almost too quickly compared to the cloth covered mat that the Propus 380 replaced, with very little drag or friction between the mouse and mat. Once I was used to it, though, the lack of friction meant that my mouse movement felt very precise, and that fatigue was less of a problem during long gaming sessions.

Measuring 380 x 260mm, the mat is wider than it is tall, but this means there?s plenty of room for large sweeping movements if you run your mouse with low sensitivity. If you don?t need all that width, though, then you can rotate the mat through 90 degrees. What's more, in this orientation, the indents in the upper and lower edge of the mat help it to butt up nearly with your keyboard.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

If you?re into your LAN gaming, then the fact that the Propus 380 doesn?t roll up could be an issue. It does have a degree of bend in it, but it'll crease if you push it too far. For most people, though, this is unlikely to be a problem, and it also means the edges of the mat won?t curl with time.

Of course, a gaming orientated mouse mat is a luxury; most decent mice these days will track quite happily without any mouse mat at all. The Propus 380 is a great piece of kit, though. It feels well made, and has a surface that provides very smooth and quick tracking for a laser mouse. At £17 it couldn?t be called cheap, but at least you feel like you?re getting £17 worth of kit; it?ll definitely be staying on my desk for the foreseeable future.

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On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

As you can imagine, we get lots of natty little bits and pieces sent into the bit-tech offices. Annoyingly, though, much of it is just a little too small or a little too silly to write about in a full page review. As a result, I?m trying to resurrect the On Our Desk series of articles that we used to cover all these little bits of gadgetry.

So without further ado I?ll tell you about the Mionix Propus 380 mouse mat, on which my CM Storm Inferno has been happily sitting for the last few days.

The first feature that grabbed me about the Propus 380 is that it looks good. It was actually its unusual shape and sleek, unfussy design that prompted me to pick it out from the pile of gaming mouse mats we?ve got sitting in the labs in the first place; it certainly looks like it means business.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

Once out of the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on show. The edges of the Propus 380 are very precisely cut, with no rough edges in sight. The upper tracking surface is also very firmly bonded to the rubber base of the mat; it certainly doesn't feel like the Propus 380 would suffer from the kind of delaminating or edge-peeling you may have seen on older mouse mats.

The surface of the mat is made from extremely fine-grained plastic, results in some very quick mouse movements. In fact, I was actually able to move my mouse almost too quickly compared to the cloth covered mat that the Propus 380 replaced, with very little drag or friction between the mouse and mat. Once I was used to it, though, the lack of friction meant that my mouse movement felt very precise, and that fatigue was less of a problem during long gaming sessions.

Measuring 380 x 260mm, the mat is wider than it is tall, but this means there?s plenty of room for large sweeping movements if you run your mouse with low sensitivity. If you don?t need all that width, though, then you can rotate the mat through 90 degrees. What's more, in this orientation, the indents in the upper and lower edge of the mat help it to butt up nearly with your keyboard.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

If you?re into your LAN gaming, then the fact that the Propus 380 doesn?t roll up could be an issue. It does have a degree of bend in it, but it'll crease if you push it too far. For most people, though, this is unlikely to be a problem, and it also means the edges of the mat won?t curl with time.

Of course, a gaming orientated mouse mat is a luxury; most decent mice these days will track quite happily without any mouse mat at all. The Propus 380 is a great piece of kit, though. It feels well made, and has a surface that provides very smooth and quick tracking for a laser mouse. At £17 it couldn?t be called cheap, but at least you feel like you?re getting £17 worth of kit; it?ll definitely be staying on my desk for the foreseeable future.

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Welcome to the world of cybersquatting

When Welsh actor Huw Marshall registered WayneRooney.com and WayneRooney.co.uk back in 2002, he probably didn?t expect that it would end up costing him £6,000.

You see, when he registered the domain name, Wayne Rooney ? the future England and Manchester United football star ? was a young 16-year old, just breaking into the Everton senior team.

The official story goes that Marshall was a big Everton fan, so he registered the two domains with the long-term view of setting up non-commercial fan websites. He never quite got ?round to it, and when Wayne Rooney made his big-money move from Everton to rival club Manchester United, that idea was put on ice.

In 2002, before ?Wayne Rooney? had been registered as a trademark, Marshall had been contacted by Rooney?s agent asking to buy the .com domain. According to Marshall in 2006:

?I said if they wanted it they were more than welcome to have it, but then that fizzled out and they never got back to me.?

Fast forward four years and Marshall receives a large legal document from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, stating that Rooney had filed for ownership of WayneRooney.com. Marshall opts to defend the case but in October 2006 is told he must hand the domain name over and cover £6,000 in legal costs.

Similarly, the same month Marshall loses the rights to the .co.uk domain, when Nominet announces he must hand the domain name over.

Whilst it seems that Marshall wasn?t explicitly attempting to profit from the two Rooney domains, it was argued that he had procured the domains in bad faith, as he couldn?t prove that he was attempting to set-up fan sites. He had no prior knowledge of web design and it was evident that he hadn?t attempted to set-up a fan website.

And, it seems, there are many similar cases.

The world of cybersquatting

The practice of registering domain names with the intent of exploiting the ?rightful? owners has been fairly common over the years, and celebrities and businesses have often been required to go down legal avenues to secure the rights to domain names.

The practice is known as cybersquatting. But what constitutes ?cybersquatting? and how easy is it for trademark owners to secure domain names? Well, here?s a few other documented cases which will help illustrate what the powers that be look for when making their decisions.

Movie director Spike Lee won a case against a cybersquatter in 2004. Someone had procured spikelee.com and was using it to direct users to a pornographic website. WIPO ruled that the name had been registered in bad faith.

And then there is Jeff Burgar, who is perhaps one of the most notorious cybersquatters. Over the years, he has registered hundreds of famous people?s names, all of which redirected to his own website Celebrity1000.com. Those include CelineDion.com, MichaelCrichton.com and KevinSpacey.com. Burgar has attempted to defend himself at many WIPO judgements, and one of the most high profile ones was for TomCruise.com, back in 2006.

Burgar argued free speech and the first amendment in his defense, something that is actually legislated for in the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). But WIPO concluded that it had to weigh this up against trademark rights and the fact that Bulgar had been taking unfair commercial advantage of a trademark. Basically, on his re-direct website, there was third-party advertising.

Interestingly, Bulgar also argued that given it had taken Tom Cruise ten years to launch his claim for the domain, Cruise had implicitly agreed to Bulgar?s legitimate ownership. This, arguably, could have been a valid claim?but it was dismissed.

Then there are brands. Way back in 2000, the BBC took a cybersquatter to court who had been attempting to auction bbc1.com and bbc2.com, which are the names of the broadcaster?s two main terrestrial TV channels in the UK. The court ruled that the cybersquatter should hand over the domains and cover the BBC?s legal costs.

Conversely, it later transpired that the BBC paid $375,000 for the BBC.com domain name. The owner, Boston Business Computing, had legitimately obtained the domain and hadn?t been trying to exploit the British Broadcaster?s brand or trademark, but it clearly felt it needed to be adequately recompensed for transferring its website to bosbc.com. But that is the value of having a global brand identity ? the BBC didn?t want its name being used by a third party on a .com domain.

Similarly, the BBC briefly attempted a legal challenge with the owners of BBC.org, which was ? and still is ? owned by a small Canadian computer club called ?Big Blue & Cousins?. As it states on its website:

?Our first web page was published in 1994. We suffered a temporary challenge when, in December 1999, the British Broadcasting Corporation complained about our use of ?BBC? in our domain name. However, we had a strong case and ultimately prevailed. The BBC just dropped their request.?

And Internet giant Microsoft took umbrage with Canadian teenager Mike Rowe, who set up a website at the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. The story made international headlines, when in early 2004 Rowe received a letter from Microsoft?s Canadian legal team asking him to hand the domain over, due to its phonetic resemblance to Microsoft. The company?s subsequent offer of $10 to cover his domain name registration costs was met with a request for a much more substantial compensation request of $10,000. This was thus deemed to amount to cybersquatting and Rowe was issued with a 25-page cease and desist order and a document from WIPO.

Needless to say, the negative publicity led to an out-of-court settlement and an acknowledgement that Microsoft had been a little too aggressive with its trademark defense.

But, this was a very interesting case to look at from a trademark perspective. On the one hand, Microsoft probably knew it would get negative publicity for targeting a teenager, but if it didn?t take action then it would weaken its rights in future trademark infringement cases. It may have set a precedent, so it had to pursue in this case.

So as you can see, there are many different scenarios in which a brand or a celebrity may or may not have a legitimate claim to win the rights to own a domain name. It?s actually a very complex area, and it?s far from black-and-white, but it essentially comes down to two key points.

If a trademark is already in place when a third party registers a domain name, it?s a relatively straight-forward case of proving that the trademark has been infringed. This can be through the courts ? the most expensive option ? or through lodging a complaint under the relevant domain name dispute resolution policy (e.g. UDRP), which is typically much cheaper.

WIPO is the most well-known UDRP service provider, but it is one of four. These services cover most of the generic top-level domains (gTLD), for example, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, and .mobi. Many country code top-level domains (ccTLD) registries have appointed WIPO to administer UDRP services for their domains ? .co (Colombia) is a relatively recent example. But many ccTLD disputes are managed by in-country organizations, such as Nominet in the UK.

If a trademark isn?t in place when a third-party registered a domain, it?s maybe not so straight-forward. I spoke with an IP practitioner, who has been involved in around fifty domain dispute cases, to explain the importance of a trademark:

?In court proceedings, one must have a trademark ? registered or unregistered ? to succeed in either a trademark infringement action or a passing-off action (pretending to represent a specific party when you don?t). In proceedings under the UDRP, one must also have a trademark ? registered or unregistered, but to succeed under the UDRP avenue, registration of the domain name must normally have post-dated the issuing of the trademark. So, the offending registrant must have had the trademark in mind when registering the domain name.?

So, how come Wayne Rooney was able to succeed in his case when the domains were registered before the trademark was issued? The key, it seems, lies in the ?unregistered? element of trademarks. In WIPO?s findings, it stated that Wayne Rooney had already gained sufficient reputation and ?goodwill? by the time Marshall had registered the domain names, which meant that by default Rooney?s name qualified as an unregistered trademark. The panel noted that he may not have had national fame at the time the domains were registered, but he was well known and revered in the Liverpool area. On top of this, WIPO concluded that the domain names had been procured in bad faith.

The IP practitioner I spoke with also noted:

?There are numerous variants. Under the UK DRS policy for example, a trademark right is not a necessary pre-requisite ? any legally enforceable right will do e.g. a contractual right. And under the South African policy a domain name can be cancelled if it is likely to cause offence to a section of the community.?

So, polices can vary from country to country. But trademarks aside, determining cybersquatting cases often comes down to establishing whether a domain has been bought in good or bad faith.

I put a hypothetical scenario to the IP expert, asking what if another man called Wayne Rooney had bought WayneRooney.com to use as a personal blog, and then the footballer Wayne Rooney trademarked his name. Would a cybersquatting case be thrown out?

?That would be the likely result. But it might not be under some of the policies (but not the UDRP) if he then used the domain name in a manner capitalizing on the trademark.?

So there are other rules and regulations in place to ensure that trademarked names ? irrespective of when they were registered ? are protected, and that unauthorized third parties can?t profit from pretending to be affiliated with a brand.

Simply using a trademarked name in a URL can lead to legal wranglings too, as we?re seeing with Facebook. It is currently attempting to secure the rights to 21 different domain names that have been registered, including joinusonfacebook.com, killfacebook.com, moneyfromfacebook.com and moneywithfacebook.com. And Facebook already owns domains such as IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com, LikeButtonSucks.com, LikesSucks.com and many more.

Gripe sites

And what about gripe sites? Many pissed-off people have taken to cyberspace in an attempt to tell the world how bad a corporation is, and this is moving into slightly different territory to that of cybersquatting. Though it is in the same ball park.

There?s Mitsubishi Sucks and Microsoft Sucks for starters, but there have been hundreds of gripe sites over the years. The legal position of these sites received some clarity last year, when a disgruntled customer of Career Agents Network (CAN), set up his own website using the exact same name, but on a .biz domain instead of the .com. CAN attempted to have the site removed, but it lost in court, because the .biz site wasn?t of a commercial nature ? it was merely warning other customers to avoid CAN. A major victory for the first amendment, and a clear sign that, in the US at least, it?s fine in some instances to take a trademarked term in its entirety and use it in a domain name.

I asked the IP practitioner about the issue of using trademarked terms in a domain name, he said:

?This is a highly complex area and difficult to deal with in short form. My personal view is that generally if the domain name telegraphs to the world that it is a gripe site, the trademark owner is likely to lose the case under a domain name dispute resolution policy. If however the content of the site is defamatory, the trademark owner might well succeed in a defamation case in court.?

Okay, so if someone is using a gripe site as a sort of aggregator for negative news stories, as is the case with sites such as Career Agents Network (.biz) and Mitsubishi Sucks, then you will ?probably? be fine. But if you use a site to post false claims about a service, company or product, then it?s possible that defamation or libel laws could be used to haul a website offline.

Typosquatting

Typosquatting has been a popular means for scammers and spammers to peddle off the good name of established brands. The act involves people registering domain names that are similar to real domain names, but are different by a letter or two. They are designed to capitalize on Internet users hitting the wrong key on their keyboard.  Back in 2005, Google won the rights to googkle.com, ghoogle.com and gooigle.com, sites that had been set up by a Russian man to spread malware on users? machines.

Even to this day, goggle.com is owned by a third party, and will attempt to infect your computer if you visit the website. So please don?t visit it.

Some gripe sites employ typosquatting techniques to spread their good word, and this may not be entirely illegal. In 2005, Jerry Falwell, a US evangelical fundamentalist pastor, attempted to get fallwell.com taken offline, given that the owner ? Christopher Lamperello ? was using it to rebute controversial homophobic claims made by the pastor.

The court ruled in Lamperello?s favor, stating that there was no trademark infringement based on ?initial interest confusion? for websites that were non-commercial and critical of the trademark holder. Given that Lamparello?s site was non-commercial, there was no ?bad faith intent to profit? and this did not amount to cybersquatting.

So in typosquatting cases, the complainant must demonstrate that the registered domain name is identical ? or confusingly similar ? to their trademark, that the registrant has no legitimate interest in the domain name, and that the domain name is being used in bad faith.

There are plenty of other examples of typosquatting. Nicrosoft.com isn?t owned by Microsoft, it?s a redirect for an affiliate marketing website. Why hasn?t Microsoft pursued this? Probably because it isn?t overly concerned and that it knows nobody will be confused between the two websites. The IP practitioner I spoke with says:

?If the typosquatter is clearly targeting the trademark owner, the typosquatter is likely to lose. However, many trademark owners don?t bother to pursue typosquatters unless there is a serious risk of damaging confusion.?

It seems that whilst many brands do vigorously protect their trademarks and intellectual property, it?s impractical for them to hunt down and pursue every single case. And unless a website does genuinely lead to confusion with a user ? for example if Nicrosoft.com led to a website that mimicked Microsoft?s homepage, then you can be sure it would be dealt with pretty swiftly.

Most cybersquatting cases dealt with by WIPO are actually publicly available, and you can view the outcome of these cases all the way back to 1999.

Meanwhile, we can expect to see many more cybersquatting, typosquatting and gripe site cases coming to the fore in the future. It?s only free speech after all?isn?t it?

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Thoughts on Jumping

It may seem an odd subject to focus on, as jumping doesn't seem to be very important on the face of it ? cut it out of a game, though, and it can make a huge difference. Games in which players can?t jump, or at the very least dodge or roll, can seem painfully slow, dull and static. Games in which players can jump around and use that movement to interact with the environment can seem immeasurably more fun because of it.

Take Half-Life 2, for example. It?s a game which nearly everyone would agree is well-made, decently written, fun and fast to play through. Now cast your mind back to the first scene in Kliener?s lab, where Gordon is first properly introduced to his allies, where the plot is given its first proper push and where you?re gifted with the HEV suit again. It?s a busy sequence; lots to do, lots to take in. You?d expect most players to pay close attention, at least the first time around.

Instead, every single player I know spends most of the time jumping around. Sometimes they try to jump on the scenery or knock over objects, other times they just leapfrog around the room when a simple stroll would suffice.


The same behaviour holds true in most other games too, I?ve found. When I played Beyond Good and Evil for the first time I hardly walked anywhere across the surface of Hillys; I rolled. In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, any hallway that involved walking for more than two seconds would be punctuated by periodic bounding. It seems like aberrant behaviour at first, yet it seems as though everyone does it. Why?

The reason, I think, is actually more to do with player speed than actually jumping. It?s not that people always like to move fast through games or that they enjoy spending time off the ground. Instead, it comes back to the original point ? games that don?t feature jumping can feel static and slow, so we use these features if they're present to help negate this effect. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a pretty fast-paced game, but running down a long corridor can still feel dull and empty; jumping as you run lets you vary the speed of the game. It creates tiny events of player agency and interaction, which stave off that staid feeling.

At the same time, adventure games that don?t feature anything so much as a sprint button? Don?t they seem increasingly slow and dated these days?


This isn?t the only reason why jumping is important, though. It helps you practice for later. It can be used to ward off boredom. It helps you to further explore the game space away from the key features. There's an abundance of smaller reasons; not least of which is possibly the fact that some people just have twitchy thumbs.

For the best games, though ? and this ties into a more overarching theory of mine about character speed ? the act of jumping can be a joy in itself. Master Chief?s jump, for example, is pleasantly floaty, while Dante?s can last for as long as you can hammer the attack buttons. Faith?s standing jump in Mirror?s Edge, however, is realistically awkward; she?s much better with running leaps.

Getting these nuances of player speed correct is one of the most subtle and important aspects of making a good game, especially for first person shooters. Trust me, I play a lot of really rubbish games and I can tell you that, if you throw all the cleverness away and boil it down to basic functionality, Half-Life 2 would still stand above Conspiracy Island 2 based solely on player speed. And the quality of the jumping.

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