Tuesday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 18, 2006 at 1:50:56 PM
Burst files suit against Apple. Burst will win this one.
NASA readies redesigned fuel tank.
Early earth under attack.
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Burst.com is represented in the action against Apple by San Francisco law firm Hosie McArthur, who also represented Burst in its successful litigation against Microsoft Corporation. In March 2005, Microsoft settled that litigation by paying Burst $60 million for a non-exclusive license to Burst’s patents. Burst has also expanded its legal team in the Apple litigation to include attorneys from the Seattle office of Susman Godfrey, LLP, as well as Houston-based intellectual property firm Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP. Also representing Burst is Palo Alto-based intellectual property firm Carr & Ferrell, LLP.
NASA readies redesigned fuel tank.
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The chunk came from one of the tank's two protuberance air load (PAL) ramps, which run the length of the tank and are designed to smooth the air flow over a cable tray and pressurisation lines. Computer simulations suggested this air flow would not cause the underlying equipment to break free from the tank during take off, so in December, NASA announced its aim to fly future shuttles without the PAL ramps.
Early earth under attack.
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Known as the "Late Heavy Bombardment," or LHB, this period of heightened meteorite activity would have had important implications for life on Earth, since it coincides roughly with the time that scientists think the first primitive bacteria appeared on our planet.