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August 3rd, 2012Top Story This Week's Most Popular Posts: July 28th to August 3rd This week we discovered ten easy-to-miss new features in Mountain Lion, showed you how to stream the BBC's vastly superior Olympics coverage, met Microsoft's impressive new Gmail competitor, and more. Here's a look back. Top 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion OS X Mountain Lion was released this week and we've told you everything you need to know about Apple's new operating system-except one thing: the secret features. More » How an American Can Stream the BBC's Official Olympics Coverage and Overcome #NBCFail If you're outside of the United Kingdom then getting a good live feed of the Olympics isn't easy. NBC is streaming some video, but it's ugly, slow, and requires a cable subscription. More » Outlook Is a Completely New, Feature-Filled Webmail Service from Microsoft Microsoft has launched a completely new email service called Outlook, which brings a simplified, Metro-inspired interface and lots of useful features to your inbox. More » How I Lost 100 Pounds I've struggled with my weight for nearly my entire life. I went from being chubby in elementary school to overweight in high school to obese in university. More » I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. If you misuse a comma or mix up "your and you're," don't expect to get hired by iFixit's Kyle Wiens. He's not the only stickler-a growing number of employers are adopting a zero tolerance approach to grammar. More » Grab Over 80 Free Ebooks from Microsoft and Learn Something Tech-y Microsoft's MSDN blog has released a boatload of free ebooks on a range of technologies and programs, including a power users guide for Windows 7, programming Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone 7, SQL Server tutorials, and much more. More » "Why Are You Pulling Me Over?" and Other Things You Shouldn't Say to a Police Officer Interactions with a police officer can be tricky. You want to do whatever you can to get out of trouble-especially if you didn't do anything wrong-but that's not always a simple process. More » See the Actual Signal Strength on Your iPhone or Android iPhone: Ever feel tricked by your phone's signal bars into thinking you have a better reception that you actually do? This simple hack will transform those bars to show the actual signal in decibels (dBm). More » Why iTunes Shuffle Isn't Random (and How to Fix It) If you're still using iTunes, you've probably noticed that the Shuffle feature doesn't always seem the most random. In fact, at times Shuffle may have seemed completely set in stone (which, of course, would make no sense). More » Get a Job: The Craigslist Experiment Like so many other job-hunters, writer Eric K. Auld used Craigslist as a resource. Curious to know what he was up against and to gain a better understanding of the employment landscape, Eric posted a false job listing. More » Unleash the Power of Android with These Automated Apps If you've ever thought "I wish my Android phone would do [X] whenever [Y] happened"—for example, text your significant other whenever you leave work. Well you can, and it's easier than ever to set up. More »

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August 3rd, 2012Top Story EA Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Rips Off The Sims By Jason Schreier A week full of bad news just got way worse for the people who make FarmVille: EA is suing them for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit, EA says Zynga's The Ville "copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements" of their game The Sims Social. This isn't the first time someone has accused the FarmVille maker of stealing ideas. Earlier this year, the makers of Tiny Tower claimed Zynga's Dream Heights ripped their game off. Last May, the people who own the copyright to Oregon Trail sued Zynga for making a trailer that copped many of their ideas in a "deliberate theft of goodwill." Zynga is also dealing with a class-action lawsuit that says its executives knew that the company's stock would tank when they sold $500 million in stock this April. Here's a statement sent out by EA's Lucy Bradshaw: As outlined in our complaint, when The Ville was introduced in June 2012, the infringement of The Sims Social was unmistakable to those of us at Maxis as well as to players and the industry at large. The similarities go well beyond any superficial resemblance. Zynga's design choices, animations, visual arrangements and character motions and actions have been directly lifted from The Sims Social. The copying was so comprehensive that the two games are, to an uninitiated observer, largely indistinguishable. Scores of media and bloggers commented on the blatant mimicry. This is a case of principle. Maxis isn't the first studio to claim that Zynga copied its creative product. But we are the studio that has the financial and corporate resources to stand up and do something about it. Infringing a developer's copyright is not an acceptable practice in game development. By calling Zynga out on this illegal practice, we hope to have a secondary effect of protecting the rights of other creative studios who don't have the resources to protect themselves. Today, we hope to be taking a stand that helps the industry protect the value of original creative works and those that work tirelessly to create them. I've reached out to Zynga for comment and will update should they respond. Update: We got the following statement from Zynga: We are committed to creating the most fun, innovative, social and engaging games in every major genre that our players enjoy. The Ville is the newest game in our 'ville' franchise – it builds on every major innovation from our existing invest-and-express games dating back to YoVille and continuing through CityVille and CastleVille, and introduces a number of new social features and game mechanics not seen in social games today. It's unfortunate that EA thought that this was an appropriate response to our game, and clearly demonstrates a lack of understanding of basic copyright principles. It's also ironic that EA brings this suit shortly after launching SimCity Social which bears an uncanny resemblance to Zynga's CityVille game. Nonetheless, we plan to defend our rights to the fullest extent possible and intend to win with players. Here's the full text from EA's lawsuit: EA v Zynga Complaint (Final)

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