Google's Gmail launches automatic email translation tool

Gmail, Google’s email service, has launched Message Translation, a service which automatically translates 41 languages. The feature integrates Google Translate technology into Gmail and will appear within Gmail Labs as an experiment called “Message Translation”. It will be available to Gmail users around the world. Message Translation will automatically translate email conversations between 41 languages, allowing people from different countries to conduct entire conversations in multiple languages. Each participant will be able to read the emails in whichever language they prefer. The service will go some way to solving age-old problems of communication barriers between different nationalities, such as a holiday romances or friendships made while travelling. Gmail is a free search-based email service that combines the features of email with Google’s search technology and supplies more than 7GB of free storage space.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5362227/Googles-Gmail-launches-automatic-email-translation-tool.html

Record Labels Increase Legal Pressure on Pirate Bay

As everyone is now aware, defeat in the Spectrial did not lead to the closure of The Pirate Bay. Now, after being able to download hundreds of their own albums via the site, the record company plaintiffs from the case want action, and have applied to the court to issue fines to the defendants for every day they continue to infringe copyright. Despite a resounding court defeat against the combined might of the music and movie industries, The Pirate Bay continues to operate - at any given moment there are in excess of 20 million peers connected to the tracker. In any event, the verdict is subject to appeal and could drag on for years yet. The music industry plaintiffs from the case, Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner, have had enough of this situation and through their lawyer Peter Danowsky, have applied to the court requesting it starts imposing additional fines on three of the defendants for as long as they continue to infringe their copyrights. Because of this, the record companies have demanded that the operators of The Pirate Bay - Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi - take steps to ensure that it is impossible for Internet users to download any of the works to which they own the copyright, using The Pirate Bay.

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-increase-legal-pressure-on-pirate-bay-090519/

Palm Pre, Coming to Stores on June 6

It's been touted as the iPhone killer, and could be Palm's last chance at rejuvenation. Palm, as a company, has struggled in recent years to stay relevant in the wake of the smart phone explosion. There's little doubt that Palm has made some great products over the years, such as the Palm Pilot, Palm Treo, Palm TX and so on, but at the end of the day, their products simply couldn't compete with the standard of smart phone technology, the iPhone. But the Palm Pre holds tremendous promise. During CES 2009, it was all the buzz and won high acclaim from those who managed to get a sneak peak at the product. Could the Palm Pre make inroads against the iPhone? The timing is excellent and in Palm’s favor. According to a Palm blog post this morning, the Palm Pre is scheduled to be released on June 6th. It will be available at Sprint stores, RadioShack, and select WalMart stores. The timing is critical because it will be released just prior to Apple's very important operating system upgrade to version 3.0.

Source: http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47253

Ethan Zohn Diagnosed with Cancer

During Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn outwitted, outplayed and outlasted the competition. Now, the reality TV champion has an even bigger fight on his hands: Last week, Zohn was disagnosed with a rare form cancer called CD20-positive Hodgkin's Lymphoma; he began chemotherapy on Friday. "This is the ultimate game of Survivor," Ethan told People, "and there's really only one outcome, and that's to win. There's no other option." The survival rate for those suffering from regular Hodgkin's disease is around 90 percent. For years, Zohn has been dating Survivor: The Amazon winner Jenna Morasca. She vows to remain by his side throughout this ordeal. "I will fight with every fabric of my being to get him through this," Morasca said.

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2009/05/ethan-zohn-diagnosed-with-cancer/