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04/11/2010 12:06

With 240 million iPhone Speaker copies sold, Windows 7 has certainly been hugely successful. Windows XP, however, remains the most common version of Windows, and corporate customers are a big part of Windows XP's continued ubiquity. Earlier this week, Ars talked to Gavriella Schuster, general manager of Windows Product Management, about this corporate roll-out.

The first P2P case to come to trial in the US has lasted five years and now has three verdicts, this one coming after just two hours of deliberation. Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay $62,500 for each of the 24 songs at issue in the case, for total of $1.5 million.

"We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct," said the RIAA after the iPad replacement parts case wrapped up. "Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms. Thomas-Rasset’s willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions."

Testimony in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset file-sharing re-retrial concluded today as Thomas-Rasset took the stand and told the jury that she considers herself a big supporter of the music industry (read our coverage of day one). "I was buying my music," she said. "I wasn't getting it for free off KaZaA."

But the jury in this case was tasked apad with deciding damages, not liability, which has already been assumed from her previous trial. Could Thomas-Rasset convince them this time around to hand out a lower damage award than the last $1.92 million decision? Or would the RIAA win out with its argument that distributing music freely through the KaZaA peer-to-peer network causes more harm than charging for it?

Back in 2008, we covered what looked to be an interesting development: a rewritable holographic display with a reasonable refresh rate and decent durability. Well, the people behind that work are back, and they've clearly been pushing their technology closer to commercial applications. This time around, they've built a display that can accept input that's streamed R4i SDHC over an ethernet connection and reassembled into a hologram in near real time. The refresh rate is pretty slow, but it's a significant step forward from the static images they were displaying the last time around.

The paper itself reads (at least in part), like it was written with Ars readers in mind; the second sentence notes, "The concept of 3D telepresence, a real-time dynamic hologram depicting a scene occurring in a different location, has attracted considerable public interest since it was depicted in the original Star Wars film in 1977." In the intervening time, there have been a few stabs at what the authors call "holographic cinema," but these are just like regular films, in that they require heavy processing and can't be used to display R4i Red live images.

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