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The soap opera of would-be Mac cloner Psystar was already full of shady twists and turns, but there's a possibility Apple's legal team thinks there's some truth to a few of the wilder conspiracy theories out there -- a paragraph tacked on to an amended version of the complaint filed in California says that Apple believes people or corporations "other than Psystar are involved in Psystar's unlawful and improper activities." That could mean just about anything, of course -- we've always thought Psystar was being a little too cocky, and no one's ever figured out how a fledging company that couldn't even hold on to a credit card processor could retain such a hotshot law firm -- but chances are Apple's just covering its ass in case it wants to sue the major investors of Psystar individually or even the OSx86 hackers that unwillingly enabled the company's dubious business. Either way, with all of Psystar's antitrust counterclaims dismissed and Apple adding new DMCA claims to its lawsuit, we've got a feeling things are about to go boom in Florida pretty soon -- if machines really are still shipping, this is probably your last chance to grab a piece of (semi-functional) history.

[Via Daring Fireball]

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div align="center"a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081202230318899"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/07/7-16-08-apple-psystar.jpg" alt="" //abr //div The soap opera of would-be Mac cloner Psystar was already full of shady twists and turns, but there's a possibility Apple's legal team thinks there's some truth to a few of the wilder conspiracy theories out there -- a paragraph tacked on to an amended version of the complaint filed in California says that Apple believes people or corporations "other than Psystar are involved in Psystar's unlawful and improper activities." That could mean just about anything, of course -- we've always thought Psystar was being a little emtoo/em cocky, and no one's ever figured out how a fledging company that couldn't even a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/21/psystar-says-its-shipping-open-computers-anyone-get-a-tracking/"hold on to a credit card processor/a could retain such a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/14/psystar-says-it-is-definitely-still-shipping-its-mac-clones/"hotshot law firm/a -- but chances are Apple's just covering its ass in case it wants to sue the major investors of Psystar individually or even the OSx86 hackers that a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/16/osx86-project-not-too-happy-with-psystar-either/"unwillingly enabled/a the company's dubious business. Either way, with all of Psystar's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/psystars-antitrust-claims-against-apple-dismissed/"antitrust counterclaims dismissed/a and Apple adding new DMCA claims to its lawsuit, we've got a feeling things are about to go boom in Florida pretty soon -- if machines really are a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/28/psystar-slaps-apple-around-releases-mac-clones-with-blu-ray-g/"still shipping/a, this is probably your last chance to grab a piece of (a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/psystar-open-computer-notes-benchmarks-and-video/"semi-functional/a) history.br /br /[Via a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/12/03/psystar"Daring Fireball/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/apple-amends-psystar-complaint-says-someones-behind-the-curtai/"Apple amends Psystar complaint, says someone's behind the curtain/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:42:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081202230318899Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/apple-amends-psystar-complaint-says-someones-behind-the-curtai/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390132/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/apple-amends-psystar-complaint-says-someones-behind-the-curtai/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/F_f4a26g3rqDjApfUQ2FonfwG9Q/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/F_f4a26g3rqDjApfUQ2FonfwG9Q/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=hRbCdB19"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=hRbCdB19" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Geoqe9S6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Geoqe9S6" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/FUbS7e821cs" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4936aad614b9b9c000f345f7maxX=305maxY=400" border="0" alt="TimeOutJulia.jpg" title="TimeOutJulia.jpg" width="305" height="400" /Investors are forcing emTime Out/em founder Tony Elliot to sell the New York and Chicago editions of the magazine. Time Out New York's price tag is around $40 million./p p'We don't need to sell New York, this is entirely driven by the investors,' Eliot told the UK's emTimes/em. "If somebody offers a sensible sum of money - if somebody offers $10 million, it won't happen."/p pThe Times a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article5276000.ece"reports:/a/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The investors put in somewhere between $10 million and $30 million - the figure has not been made public - to set up the New York title in 1995. Several attempts have been made to find a new partner over the years and Mr Elliott has never been able to generate enough profit to afford to buy them out himself./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Also for sale is emTime Out New York's/em share of the Chicago title, meaning that any buyer would take control of the brand in the United States. The three New York shareholders own half that business, with Joe Mansueto, the founder of investment research group Morningstar, owning the rest. The most recent set of accounts for Time Out Group Ltd, the London-based holding company, show a loss of 465,000 before tax for the 11 months to December 2006, on turnover of 22.7 million. A note to the accounts says that the share of losses in New York and Chicago amounted to 81,000 in that period./p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/pc-magazine-goes-out-of-print"strongbr //strongPC Magazine Goes Out Of Print/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4UsxIYxQANi7omdwlZyQr5ZlAEg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4UsxIYxQANi7omdwlZyQr5ZlAEg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ycAqzHyh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=ycAqzHyh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=FnZRJTzi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=rzcdLwJj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=fGxfAHHD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=fGxfAHHD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BAAv8IdO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=rcARM3ma"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=NSpd8Sl1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=EYZn8Oxo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/Y4S_8C0c9Pw" height="1" width="1"/

pMs Angie's list of investors keeps on growing: a href="http://www.angieslist.com" title="Angie's List"Angie's List/a, one of the original online review sites focused on local home-service companies and contractors, has added another $7 million in debt financing, after it announced $18 million in venture debt just last month. The latest money has come from Chicago-based Prism Mezzanine Fund, which invested $6 million in subordinated debt funding, as well as $1 million in equity investment. And this on top of $35 million in funding it announced in April, from Battery Ventures. This means, just this year, the Indianapolis-based company has raised $60 million, for a total of around $73 million since it was founded. The list/service was founded in 1995, and says it has 750,000 subscribers in all major cities in U.S. /p p The site tries to distinguish itself by marrying local search, user-gen content and subscription-based services, which it makes available only to its members. The site does not allow anonymous postings and service providers cannot add themselves to the list, which is vetted by the site's editors. More a href="http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=32816" title="details in release"details in release/a. br / /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-angies-list-gets-18-million-in-venture-debt" title="Local Listings Angie's List Gets Another Big One: $18 Million In Venture Debt"Local Listings Angie's List Gets Another Big One: $18 Million In Venture Debt/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-local-service-reviews-site-angies-list-raises-35-million-funding/"Local Service Reviews Site Angie's List Raises $35 Million Funding/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=dfGQoH"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=dfGQoH" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=LZAQO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=LZAQO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=IFMVO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=IFMVO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=rD5po"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=rD5po" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SPIKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SPIKO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ppPhO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ppPhO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/473741986" height="1" width="1"/

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The beleaguered Australian infrastructure investor secured an 11th-hour reprieve after a syndicate of 25 international banks agreed to extend it a A$150m emergency loan

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Resolution, Clive Cowdery's reinvented investment vehicle, is expecting a flurry of last-minute interest in its landmark flotation that could mean it raises as much as £600 million ahead of next week's listing.

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Nvidia officials on Tuesday reiterated the company#39;s interest in the mini-laptop space but said it would wait for the market to mature before jumping in./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Earlier this year, the company made#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/26/Nvidia-to-make-graphics-chipsets-for-Via-processors_1.html"a deal with Via Technologies/a #160;to make graphics chipsets to work with Via#39;s Nano processors, which are designed for laptops and mini-laptops. Mini-laptops, also called netbooks by Intel, are inexpensive laptops with screens of 10 inches or less./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ For more on products in the hot mini-notebook category, check out our hands-on looks at a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/03/Hands_on_with_Asuss_Eee_PC_901_and_1000_1.html?source=fssr"Asus#39; Eee PC 901 and 1000/a and the a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/14/Hands_on_with_the_Asustek_N10_netbook_1.html"N10 netbook/a, the a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/02/Hands_on_with_the_Cloudbook_Max_netbook_1.html?source=fssr"Cloudbook Max netbook/a, a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/30/Hands_on_with_Elitegroups_G10IL_minilaptop_1.html?source=fssr"Elitegroup#39;s G10IL mini-laptop/a, a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/19/Hands_on_with_MSIs_Wind_lowcost_laptop_1.html?source=fssr"MSI#39;s Wind low-cost laptop/a, a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/09/Hands_on_with_Gigabytes_M912X_minilaptop-IDGNS_1.html?source=fssr"Giga-byte#39;s M912X mini-laptop/a, a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/07/Hands_on_with_HPs_MiniNote_netbook_1.html?source=fssr"HP#39;s Mini-Note netbook/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/14/Hands_on_with_Acers_Aspire_one_netbook_1.html?source=fssr"Acer#39;s Aspire one/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The netbook market is growing, and it could branch out into product categories such as smartphones and multimedia netbooks that can handle graphics effectively, said Marv Burkett, the company#39;s chief financial officer, on a webcast from the Credit Suisse annual technology conference being held in Scottsdale, Arizona./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;We#39;re not saying we#39;re not interested; it#39;s a matter of how the market will evolve,quot; Burkett said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Most netbooks today contain Intel#39;s Atom processor and are not capable of handling video games or multimedia effectively, said Michael Hara, vice president of investor relations at Nvidia. Netbooks offer good battery life and are good for basic programs like Web applications, but they don#39;t have the graphics capabilities to effectively play video games or video files, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Netbooks could have integrated graphics in the future to better handle graphics, Hara said. Though they were tight-lipped about plans for the netbook space, Nvidia executives said the company prefers to watch the market evolve before getting involved./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The company#39;s most likely move in the netbook arena would be to provide integrated chipsets with better graphics than most netbooks offer now. The graphics giant already provides integrated chipsets for laptops and next year will ship the Tegra system-on-chip for smartphones. Tegra puts an Arm processor core, a GeForce graphics core and other components, including a high-definition video decoder, onto a single chip./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Integrated chipsets is just one focus of the company as it tries to grow in these tough economic times. Nvidia also is trying to push further into the supercomputing space through its Tesla platform, which includes graphics processing units (GPUs) with 240 cores as well as the CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming architecture, a set of development tools that allows programs to be executed on its graphics processors./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The company is now developing Tesla-based quot;personal supercomputersquot; in partnership with PC makers including Dell and Lenovo. It already offers such systems with Penguin Computing and Velocity Micro. 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A few months ago Sequoia Capital doused the ever ebullient Silicon Valley with a bucket of ice cold reality when it laid “good times” to rest. Today, one of Sequoia’s all time stars laid a big wreath on that grave in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Google. And while it didn’t implicitly state that it might face tough times next year, comments by its CEO amount to a proverbial bear call which could mean bad news now only for Google but also for rest of the media and advertising sector.

“We have to behave as though we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal. It seems like a prudent move. But I see it as a big red flag and I think Schmidt is preparing us for what could be a terrible 2009. The WSJ says that Google executives have been preparing for slower growth for a year but “the economic crisis is forcing them to step up their efforts.”

According to conventional wisdom (and investors) Google is the best positioned company to survive and perhaps thrive in the current advertising slump. If the leader of the pack is feigning ignorance about its chances, what can one say about mere mortals.

I find it hard to believe that a company that keeps world famous economist like Hal Varian (who muses on economy and Google’s prospects often on the investor calls), doesn’t know. As a company Google collects enough data on a daily basis that it can take a fair pulse of the broader economy. Remember, they could accurately track the spread of flu across America just based on searches, so why can’t the track the economic-sentiment? Additionally it sells ads to everyone from mom-and-pop shops to consumer durable giants and it has a fair idea on the degree of tightness people are holding their billfolds. They have enough intellectual horsepower on campus to put two-and-two together.

Beyond Schmidt’s statement, one has to look at their other moves such as plans to slash 10,000 or so of their contractors, slowing cap-ex investments and killing off projects. These point to tough times for the company that has lived a lush life so far.

Projects that are too pie-in-the-sky are going to be killed. Schmidt calls it the “dark matter.” Google Lively and Google SearchMash are two of the many projects, which will soon not matter. Google is contemplating killing of Google Notebook and Google Audio Indexing as well. Google Page Creator has given way to Google Sites. In that vein, Google is going to prune overlapping products. No more the 20-percent time for pet projects for engineers, though it might come back once the economic wheel churns. These are smart and prudent moves even if they are prompted by desperate need to control costs and meet their numbers.

I know it might sound hokey but rich don’t stop driving their Aston Martins just because the price of gas is going up. They do so when they are not as rich! The same analogy holds for Google and its cost cutting efforts. Just remember how much of PR they milked out of their 20-percent philosophy. They are essentially eating a cow-pie on that. They wouldn’t be doing this unless things are really really and REALLY tough.

Google needs to keep its sales machine going at a time when it is facing the same malaise as that of broader market – slowing spending on marketing and advertising. There is some argument that Google is going to win because of their performance-based advertising system.

While that is true to some extent but what happens when the economy goes into a deep freeze? If you don’t have money to splurge on a large screen Plasma TV, there is little chance you are going to search for that, and fewer the opportunities for Google to sell more ads against those searches. Of course, if there is no intent to buy amongst the searchers, then there is less inclination to click on those ads as well. And that is not good news for Google.

Google, of course is going to try and meet its targets by taking more out of the pocket of its “adsense” partners and undercutting competitors. WSJ points out that the company is focusing heavily on display, mobile and other ad-opportunities, which can only mean bad news for their rivals.

Related: Why Silicon Valley Should be Worried

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