Apple and five book publishers lost their bid to have a private antitrust suit over electronic book pricing dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied on Tuesday a request by the defendants to throw out the complaint by plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of consumers. They say Apple and the publishers violated federal and California state law by conspiring to raise the price of e-books.
Last month, the U.S. government sued Apple and the publishers, Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster, saying they broke the law in setting prices for e-books. Cote is overseeing the government suit and private antitrust suits filed in federal court.
SOFTWARE
Juror dismissed in Android case
A juror in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android software was dismissed by the trial judge, who said the case will proceed with 11 jurors.
The juror was dismissed after she said car trouble forced her to miss Tuesday's session in federal court in San Francisco.
TELEVISION
ESPN confers with AppleTV
Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN sports network is talking with Apple about including the WatchESPN application on the computer maker's television device, network executive Sean Bratches said.
ESPN subscribers with AppleTV would gain access to the network's Internet service on their sets. The sports network said a deal isn't imminent.
The most-watched U.S. sports network is making more programming available online and on mobile devices to reach viewers away from their TVs. ESPN already provides the app to subscribers with Microsoft's Xbox video-game console as part of some pay-TV plans, including those from Verizon Communications' FiOS and Comcast.
CLOUD
Nvidia advances remote access
Nvidia Corp. introduced a version of its processors that will work in cloud-computing centers, offering users the ability to stream advanced graphics through the Internet to remote devices such as Apple's iPad.
Nvidia collaborated with software maker Citrix Systems to make the technology work, Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang said at a company conference Tuesday in San Jose. Nvidia is one of the top three providers of graphics processing units, or GPUs.
Huang said his company is working on several applications of the
technology intended to improve the capabilities of electronics devices such as smart phones, tablets, televisions and personal computers. He demonstrated a new, high-end video game being played by two competitors via the Internet, one using a tablet and the other using a television.
"With the cloud we can literally put GPU computing in the hands of billions of mobile users around the world," he said.
In an another demonstration, Huang showed an iPad remotely accessing a PC running Microsoft's Windows operating system. The technology may be deployed by customers such as phone-service providers or Internet-access providers.
