Although Android 2.0 will not be officially released until Friday, it appears the Google team is already at work on Android 2.1, which should fix a number of bugs and streamline 2.0.
The report comes from Android and Me who says that the site’s analytics reports showed that someone using Android 2.1 had visited the site 24 times, accounting for 0.04 percent of the traffic since October 28th.
Result for: traffic
A deadline imposed by a court of law ordering that The Pirate Bay block all traffic coming from the Netherlands has passed quietly, AP reports. The order imposes fines for every day that The Pirate Bay does not comply, amounting to $42,000 per day. The deadline has passed, and there is no sign that The Pirate Bay has complied in any way with the order.
According to Stichting Brein, a Dutch group that is involved in a lot of anti-Internet piracy cases, said that the Pirate Bay founders are planning to challenge the Amsterdam District Court ruling, but Brein is confident that the challenge will ultimately fail.
In any case, Brein says that it won’t demand the $42,000 per day in damages unless the site continues to operate in the current form after it is due to be bought on August 27.
Result for: traffic
Gov. Pat Quinn of the state of Illinois will sign an amendment to the state’s Vehicle Code this week, making Illinois the 17th state in the US to have a ban on texting (text messaging) while driving.
The bill does have the exception however if the driver pulls over to park, or puts the car in neutral while stopped in traffic.
Since last year, 16 states have banned texting while driving including Oregon, New Hampshire, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Washington DC.
There are currently senators planning to push a bill that would make it federally illegal to text while driving. Recent studies have shown increased accident rates caused in part thanks to texting and show that texters are at substantially increased risk of getting into accidents.
“With drunk driving it was important to pass tough laws, but the laws won’t really have any effect unless they’re enforced and the public knows about it and it’s properly adjudicated,” says Barbara Harsha of the Governor’s Highway Safety Association. “So passing a law isn’t the solution, it’s only part of it.”
