Month: November 2015

Die Aerion AS2 ist ein dreistrahliger Businessjet, der Mach 1,5 erreichen soll. Diese Geschwindigkeit schaffen derzeit nur militärische Flugzeuge, doch bald sollen auch Manager mit dem kleinen Flugzeug wieder so schnell um die Welt fliegen wie zur Zeit der Concorde. (Flugzeug, Technologie)

Die britische Sängerin Adele hat ihr neues Album 25 nicht für das Streaming auf Spotify, Apple Music oder ähnlichen Diensten freigegeben. Eine Erklärung gab es nicht, allerdings könnten die geringen Vergütungen für Streams der Grund sein. (Streaming, Cloud Computing)

Was Marcel Reif für Fußball ist, ist er für Dota: Toby "TobiWan" Dawson ist einer der bekanntesten Games-Kommentatoren. Hier erzählt er, wie es soweit kommen konnte. (E-Sport, Dota)

CA stellt Software für große Unternehmen her, deren Funktionen selten erklärt werden. Golem.de hat sich in Las Vegas mit Experten aus dem Unternehmen über die neuen Produkte und Features unterhalten. (CA, IBM)

Google recently rolled out an update to its smartwatch operating system to add support for new hardware, including watches with cellular capabilities and watches with speakers. The first watch to make use of both of those features was supposed to be the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, which was set to go on sale […]

The first Android Wear watch with cellular capabilities is canceled… at least for now is a post from: Liliputing

HP’s latest business-class Windows tablet is a 12.5 inch model with a fanless design, a built-in kickstand, and support for a wide range of accessories including keyboards that let you use the tablet like a notebook and docking stations that let you turn it into a desktop PC. The HP Elite x2 1012 is basically […]

HP launches fanless Elite x2 1012 tablet with Intel Core M Skylake for $899 and up is a post from: Liliputing

Have a smartphone? Then you probably already have a portable audio player that you can use to listen to MP3s or stream music from Spotify, Google, Apple, or YouTube, among other services. But some audio enthusiasts are less than satisfied with the sound quality offered by most smartphones, which why we’e seen fancy, expensive dedicated […]

EchoBox Explorer X1 is a HiFi audio streamer that looks like a flask (crowdfunding) is a post from: Liliputing

The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE may be the first smartwatch to ship with ship with a version of Android Wear based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, but Google says the new version of its smartwatch OS will begin rolling out to all Android Wear watches in the next few months. So what’s new? According to […]

Android Wear goes Marshmallow, gains support for new hardware, new permissions model is a post from: Liliputing

Last week video game developer and publisher Blizzard Entertainment went after the alleged developers of the popular “buddy” cheating bots.

The company filed a lawsuit against James Enright (aka “Apoc”) and several unnamed defendants who developed software which allows users to cheat in World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Heroes of Storm, among others.

While Apoc is described as the mastermind of the operation, his role appears to be less prominent. In fact, the websites of the “HonorBuddy,” “DemonBuddy” and “StormBuddy” bots clearly list Bossland GmbH as the owner.

TF spoke with Bossland’s CEO Zwetan Letschew who says that Apoc works for the company as a freelancer. This is something Blizzard should know, as they are already involved in several legal proceedings against the bot maker in Germany.

“Activision Blizzard is fully aware that Bossland GmbH, and not Apoc, is the owner of the intellectual property of Honorbuddy, Demonbuddy and Stormbuddy, considering that there are six cases that are still in progress […] in Germany,” Letschew says.

However, that didn’t stop Blizzard’s legal team from going after Apoc. The lawyers reportedly offered the freelancer a deal, under which he agreed to hand over the source code for the Stormbuddy software.

“Today Blizzard acted in a manner as shady as possible for a multi-billion-dollar corporation. We were informed that the deal compelled Apoc to submit the entire source code of Stormbuddy, which is actually the intellectual property of Bossland GmbH, to Blizzard,” Letschew notes.

Stormbuddy website

While the German bot maker doesn’t object to a deal, the company is outraged that Blizzard took its code. Turning the tables, the CEO now accuses the game publisher of copyright infringement.

“Blizzard now possesses the whole Stormbuddy source code. There was no permission given by Bossland GmbH, nor were we contacted by Activision Blizzard, nor had Apoc the rights to give out our intellectual property.”

Fearing that Blizzard may take action against the users of its software, Bossland has decided to stop sales of StormBuddy later today and discontinue its development. The company’s other bots will still be available.

Bossland, meanwhile, says it will sue Blizzard in Germany next week hoping to get a copy of the deal the company made with its freelancer, and under what terms the code was shared.

“We do not know the outcome of this, but we are sure that Stormbuddy can no longer be developed as it is, and that it can no longer be sold,” Letschew says.

Due to the nature of their products bot developers usually enjoy little sympathy, but if Blizzard did indeed obtain the entire source code without the proper rights, Bossland may have a case.

TorrentFreak contacted Blizzard’s legal representative for a comment but haven’t heard back at the time of publication.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

The Google Nexus 5 may have been released in 2013, but it’s still a pretty great phone that’s capable of running Android 6.0 software delivered straight from Google. It may not have a fingerprint sensor or a stellar camera, and the battery life isn’t anything to write home about… but after testing the 2015 Nexus […]

Deals of the Day (11-19-2015) is a post from: Liliputing