Viacom said it will appeal a federal judge’s order granting Google’s motion for summary judgment in their long-running YouTube copyright litigation. “We believe that the ruling by the lower court is fundamentally flawed and contrary to the language of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the intent of Congress and the views of the Supreme Court expressed in its most recent decisions,” Viacom said. “After years of delay, this decision gives us the opportunity to have the Appellate Court address these critical issues on an accelerated basis."

With states continuing to develop disparate e-waste programs, it’s going to be very difficult for industry to “work our way out of this complicated patchwork,” said Walter Alcorn, who took over the top environmental affairs job at CEA in May. States are building e-waste programs with “their own registration fees and their own registration systems,” he said, and “the way things are rolling out they are making it difficult for manufacturers to implement collection and recycling systems across state lines.”

Vizio will field active-shutter and passive polarized 3D TVs as a hedge against a market where a 3D system hasn’t emerged yet as a clear-cut winner, Vice President Ken Lowe told us Tuesday at CEA LineShows in New York. The 65-inch passive 3D LCD TV will ship late this year at $3,000-$3,500 as the first in what’s expected to be a line of sets, Lowe said. The TV uses an AU Optronics 1080p panel, though the 3D resolution will likely be lower because of the polarized film applied to the screen. The polarized film adds about $200 to the cost of the set, Vizio officials said. The passive 3D TVs will be packaged with Sensio glasses that sell separately for about $30, Vizio officials said.

Monster Cable used the CEA Line Shows conference in New York Tuesday to unveil a universal 3D glasses system that it said will work with any 3D TV. The $249 one-size-fits-all solution bundles a pair of glasses and an emitter and will ship to dealers in August, the company said.

The CE industry will face a “delicate handoff” in the third quarter when consumers’ spending dollars move from stimulus-based to private-sector-based, said Shaun DuBravac, CEA chief economist and director of research, at the CEA Line Shows conference in New York Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES -- Paris game developer DarkWorks plans to ship sturdier, plastic 3D glasses at $20 a pair “by the end of this year” for titles that use the TriOviz technology it licensed that allows 3D content to be viewed on existing 2D TVs as well as any 3D TV, DarkWorks said at E3 here last week. The technology was demonstrated using the Epic Games-developed Gears of War 2, a title that wasn’t released in 3D, at E3, behind closed doors in the booths of Epic and DarkWorks.

Children in Southern Africa could soon benefit from the U.K.’s plan to switch off mainstream terrestrial analog radio by 2015 and replace it with the European DAB terrestrial digital system. Over the last month, a “Radio Amnesty” promotion from the trade group Digital Radio U.K. (DRUK) has promised listeners a discount of 10 percent toward the purchase of a new DAB radio if they trade in their existing analog sets. The traded-in radios will then be sent to Southern African villages and hospitals by the U.S.-based charity, the Children’s Radio Foundation. But a question mark hangs over the ongoing provision of batteries needed to listen.

LOS ANGELES -- Stereoscopic 3D gaming could give accessories maker Mad Catz Interactive “an opportunity,” CEO Darren Richardson told Consumer Electronics Daily at E3 last week. The company may try to supply 3D glasses, “depending on how that whole market opens up,” and which 3D technology emerges as the dominant one in the home, he said.

British company Stereoscopic Optical Systems (SOS) is claiming to have developed a new 3D camera system that “removes” any concerns about audience members suffering headaches, nausea or other unwanted effects when viewing a 3D movie or TV. Samsung earlier warned that people in less than perfect health should avoid watching 3D TV.

A Silicon Valley firm says it wants to eliminate the promotional paper trail in retailing. MoBeam, a new Cupertino, Calif.-based division of technology company Ecrio, is trying to stir interest in a keychain-based device that it dubs “the first practical digital wallet.” The company will demonstrate its “numi” key at the “CEA Line Shows” conference this week in New York with the hope that its LED-based technology will find interest among CE manufacturers and retailers.