The Technology newsbucket: Chinese IP, the WePad, DEAct aftermath, cat + iPad and more

A WePad (not an iPad). Photo by der_rolli on Flickr. Some rights reserved A quick burst of links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Careful What You Wish For: Greater IP Enforcement In China Being Used Against Foreign Companies... >> Techdirt Unintended consequences: it's the law. "Various studies have shown that greater copyright, patent and trademark protections tend to follow a period of great innovation, when the companies that did that innovation look to protect their position from upstarts elsewhere. In other words, it acts in the exact opposite manner as it's supposed to. It's not an incentive to innovate, but a tool used to stop competition and innovation from others. The situation in China is playing out exactly according to that formula." WePad im Detail - Unfertig, undurchsichtig und doch vielversprechend - netbooknews.de The German netbooks site went to the WePad press conference to see its new Android-powered slate. The text is in German but the table and YouTube videos are informative. Digital Economy Act aftermath and designing for disabilities >> Tech Weekly podcast Worth it for the sparky discussion between Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group and Feargal Sharkey of UK Music. It's Official: Cats Love iPads (video) - Mashable iPads, cats, YouTube - an unbeatable combo? Tech Stocks Earnings Coming: Frothy Days Are Here Again? >> AllThingsD Everything's expected to come up roses. Even for Yahoo. First 1TB SSD announced >> Pocket-lint Only $4,000 to you. But it is drool-resistant. Court probe into internet poker site >> FT.com Full Tilt Poker is among the sites being probed, and some of the best known professionals are being investigated under online gambling and money-laundering laws in Manhattan. (May need registration.) Life at Google >> Tim Bray's Ongoing The former Sun guy is now a Googler. "Google routinely tries to boil five oceans before lunch, and here in my mobile-device corner we're locked in one of the most ferocious competitive head-to-head technology races I can remember in my decades in the biz. A normal business would be bulking up the headcount like crazy, and standards would slip. I'm in awe, and as with many other things I see here, wonder if it can be sustained." Apple's iPad Brings Easy Reading to the Blind >> Forbes.com's Booked A group which is too often overlooked. HTC Studying Whether to Have Own Smartphone Software - Bloomberg.com To be precise, whether to have its own phone operating system by buying Palm. Note: HTC used to be Windows Mobile's biggest customer. Then it was an Android fan - but Google released the Nexus. apache.org incident report for 04/09/2010 >> Simon Willison XSS - aka cross-site scripting attacks - are still some of the meanest, most subtle ones out there. What's not answered in the blogposts about it: why they targeted the Apache team. Ex-Infinity Ward heads, EA announce deal - News at GameSpot Silverlight 4 Launch Home - Microsoft Silverlight Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, "introduces Silverlight 4 and shows how Silverlight helps companies design, develop and deliver engaging, interactive applications for the Web, desktop and mobile devices". And you'll see it on the iPhone on the same day hell freezes over. You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious