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See Linux Running on the iPhone
Washington Post - I guess it was really just a matter of time until it happened, but thanks to PlanetBeing, an industrious member of the iPhone Dev Team, Linux is running on an iPhone. Brief: Hackers port Linux to Apple's iPhone Linux on the iPhone: penguin poop in Apple's walled garden |
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Reuters – Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is seeking as much as $30 billion from investors to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, boosting shares of the Web search engine by 7 percent.
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Nokia's mystery device? The Nokia N97
CNET News - Twenty-four hours after teasing us with news of a major product announcement, Nokia officially took the wraps off its mystery smartphone on Tuesday at the Nokia World 2008 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Nokia's new N97 vs. the iPhone: Latest smartphone showdown Nokia Takes On Touch-Screen Rivals With N97 Smartphone |
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Pownce Bounced: Twitter Competitor To Shut Doors
CRN - Despite having Digg's co-founder on board to generate media buzz and name recognition, microblogging service and Twitter competitor Pownce was purchased by Six Apart and will close its doors for good on Dec. 15. Pownce Deadpooled, Team Moves To Six Apart Twitter Competitor Pownce Falls Silent |
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Apple's antivirus advice 'big to-do about nothing,' says researcher
Computerworld - By Gregg Keizer December 2, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc. recently recommended that Mac users consider running antivirus software — a move some see as a change of heart by the computer maker, which has poked fun at Windows for being susceptible to … Apple Recommends Antivirus Software For Mac OS X Update to Apple's 18-Month-Old AV Doc Sparks Uproar |
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The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that competitors did not infringe chip-packaging patents owned by Tessera Technologies, sending the semiconductor vendor’s stock down nearly 10 percent at the end of trading on Monday.
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Server shipments grew in the third quarter of 2008 though revenue declined as companies tried to lower spending, according to Gartner.
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UTICA, NY—Art Schultz, better known as the Senpike Mall’s Santa Claus, carried out the management-issued directive to push fine china…
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Why won't Sony or Microsoft admit Nintendo is a competitor?
CNET News - Whenever I read a Sony or Microsoft press release or meet with company representatives, they're quick to point out that Nintendo's Wii console isn't a competitor. Xbox Marks The Spot, But Wii Makes The Money Microsoft spins 360 Black Friday figures |
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PC World – A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday.
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Swoolley writes “A month back this community discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two companies filed against each other in Virginia state court. For once, thanks to those suits, the public gets to see the details of a confidential peering agreement between two of the Internet’s largest autonomous systems, as well as the circumstances leading up to the depeering. (Which company is in the right? Read the facts and decide for yourself.) While some people have argued that the depeering is reason for more government regulation, the Forbes story makes the case that details of the recent Cogent vs. Sprint fight argue for exactly the opposite: keeping the Internet backbones free of government meddling.”
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Daengbo writes “While I live in S.Korea and have virtually unlimited bandwidth in and out of the country, not all my Asian friends are so lucky. Many of the SE Asian and African countries have small international pipes. Even when a user has a high-speed local connection, downloads from abroad will trickle in. Bittorrent clients apparently don’t prioritize other users on the same ISP or at least in the same country. Why is that? Is it difficult to manage? If I were to write a plug-in for, say, Deluge, what hurdles would I be likely to come across? If this functionality is available in other clients or through plug-ins, please chime in.”
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WatersOfOblivion writes “Twenty years ago today, Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer, hand wrote and distributed ‘On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science’ (PDF), discussing the then-current state of Computer Science education. Twenty years later, does what he said still hold true? I know it is not the case where I went to school, but have most schools corrected course and are now being necessarily cruel to their Computer Science students?” Bonus: Dijkstra’s handwriting.
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PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Venus, Jupiter, Moon Smile On Earth
National Geographic - December 2, 2008—The heavens smiled down on Earth Monday in a rare celestial trifecta of Venus, Jupiter, and the moon. The planets aligned—an event known as a conjunction—Sunday night, and were joined by a thin sliver of moon on Monday. A special night ! Jupiter, Venus and Moon in one place Moon, planets converge in Concord's sky |
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Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please
CNET News - With all the buzz about Facebook Connect this week, it's worth asking the question: Whatever happened to OpenID? The universal login standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was working at blog software company … Facebook Links Social Networks With Single Sign-On Privacy Advocates Wary of Facebook Connect |
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San Francisco Mayor Turns To YouTube For State Of The City Speech
InformationWeek - In the great tradition of the long-winded politician, Mayor Gavin Newsome's annual address exceeds seven hours of online video. Newsom's YouTube-athon: A one-man show, hold your applause Frisco mayor risks YouTube yawns |
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Microsoft is offering a new instant Cashback feature to Live Search after the service had problems on Friday.
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NASA instructors offer a firsthand look at the training astronauts endure before they can physically and mentally withstand an appearance on Larry King Live.
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Zordak writes “CNN has up a story about several Israeli firms that want to replace metal detectors at airports with biometric readings. For example, with funding from TSA and DHS, ‘WeCU ([creepily] pronounced “We See You”) Technologies, employs a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors and imagers, and flashing of subliminal images, such as a photo of Osama bin Laden. Developers say the combination of these technologies can detect a person’s reaction to certain stimuli by reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration — signals a terrorist unwittingly emits before he plans to commit an attack.’ Sensors may be embedded in the carpet, seats, and check-in screens. The stated goal is to read a passenger’s ‘intention’ in a manner that is ‘more fair, more effective and less expensive’ than traditional profiling. But not to worry! WeCU’s CEO says, ‘We don’t want you to feel that you are being interrogated.’ And you may get through security in 20 to 30 seconds.”
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FORTH WORTH, TX—”Watching television at home cost me $250 dollars last night,” said Michael Peterson, one of many Americans forced to pay high airline costs.
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The amount of spam sent and received dropped last week to 60 billion messages a day—a decrease of 66 percent—after a Web hosting company…
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A researcher says that users could save as much as 10 watts of power by turning off flashy Web animation on their PCs.
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Nokia completes Symbian acquisition
CNET News - Nokia's N97 runs the Symbian operating system, which will be released as an open-source project next year now that Symbian is part of Nokia. Nokia to complete Symbian acquisition and may change the mobile … Nokia closes its Symbian acquisition, seeding an open source … |
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 Washington Post |
As Endeavour Lands, NASA Preps For Next Shuttle Mission
InformationWeek - The space shuttle Endeavour touched down safely in California Sunday after a 16-day trip of more than 6.6 million miles. By KC Jones NASA's space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California Sunday. Video: Raw Video: Shuttle Endeavour Lands in Calif. NASA astronaut confirmed as Shorter's commencement speaker |
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 Aviation Week |
Rocket company sells discount rides to space
Reuters - By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The space tourism race heated up on Tuesday when a second company began offering tickets for suborbital rides at less than half the price of competitor Virgin Galactic's. California rocket firm has its first space tourist XCOR Announces Space Tourism Venture |
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bsk_cw writes “With the exception of Google’s Chrome (which got attention because it was, after all, Google), most of the alternative browsers out there tend to get lost in the shuffle. Computerworld asked three of their writers to take some lesser-known browsers out for a spin and see how they do. They looked at six candidates: Camino (for the Mac), Maxthon (for the PC), OmniWeb (for the Mac), Opera (both the Mac and the PC versions) and Shiira (for the Mac).” It would have been more interesting if they included some popular open source, Linux-friendly browsers like Konqueror or Epiphany, as well.
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AP – Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of cell phones, is launching a new phone next year that is designed to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerrys at the high end of the market.
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Yahoo shares climb on hopes for $30B takeover bid
The Associated Press - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Yahoo Inc.'s stock rallied Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much as $30 billion. Former AOL boss Jonathan Miller seeks funds for Yahoo! deal Ex-AOL boss looking to raise cash for Yahoo bid |
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paradox1x writes “Malcolm Tredinnick shares a terrific rant against the misunderstanding and misuse of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In particular he takes issue with the notion that Django should be considered an MVC framework. He says that ‘It’s as valid as saying it’s a “circus support mechanism,” since the statement is both true, in some contexts, and false in others (you can definitely use Django-based code to help run your circus; stop looking so skeptical).’ I’m not sure I agree with the entire piece, but it is a very good read.” We recently discussed another look at the bending and stretching of MVC patterns in the world of Web development.
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PC World – Sierra Wireless, a maker of networking cards for PCs and other devices, has agreed to acquire French M2M (machine-to-machine) wireless vendor Wavecom for €218 million (US$275 million).
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