With America’s status as a technological superpower comes a tendency to occasionally straight ignore the rest of the world. For better or for worse, here are technologies we’ve all but completely missed out on.
Netbooks will pave way for Google to squash Microsoft’s OS dominance in two to three years, thanks to its Linux-based Android platform, according to analyst.
Whether you’ve had a chance to play with the Windows 7 beta or not, you’ll know that it’s pretty darn close to the final article. However, Microsoft has posted news of a slew of updates on its Engineering Windows 7 blog that it’ll fix in Windows 7.
The official announcement comes out tomorrow, but SourceForge will be telling the world that it has sold Linux.com to the Linux Foundation
After two weeks of live broadcasted hearings on the Internet, the ‘Spectrial’ is coming to an end. This week both parties presented their closing statements to the court. Time for us to weigh up developments so far and look forward to the verdict.
Genachowski has been mentioned as a likely candidate for the Federal Communications Commission post, in part because he participated in the Obama campaign’s Internet efforts and previously worked as chief counsel to Democratic FCC chairman Reed Hundt.
Denim is a wonderful material that can be used in many designs. In this collection, you’ll find 20 free high resolution denim textures. Each one was professionally taken using a DSLR camera in RAW format, then converted to uncompressed JPG for ease of use.
I don’t know how you feel, but I think the world is ready for a new and improved iPhone. Yes, it was the best phone that 2008 brought out but with the likes of the Palm Pre, HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Magic about to hit town, the title for Best Phone of 2009 may just go elsewhere.
olddotter writes “A 24-page paper on a reverse brain drain from the US back to home countries (PDF) is getting news coverage. Quoting: ‘Our new paper, “America’s Loss Is the World’s Gain,” finds that the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese. They were highly educated, with degrees in management, technology, or science. Fifty-one percent of the Chinese held master’s degrees and 41% had PhDs. Sixty-six percent of the Indians held a master’s and 12.1% had PhDs. They were at very top of the educational distribution for these highly educated immigrant groups — precisely the kind of people who make the greatest contribution to the US economy and to business and job growth.” Adding to the brain drain is a problem with slow US visa processing, since last November or so, that has been driving desirable students and scientists out of the country.
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Jammie Thomas, the defendant in Duluth, Minnesota, RIAA case Capitol Records v. Thomas, has served her expert witness’s report. The 30-page document (PDF), prepared by Prof. Yongdae Kim of the Computer Science Department of the University of Minnesota, attacks the reports and testimony of Prof. Doug Jacobson, the RIAA’s expert, and the work of the RIAA’s investigator, Safenet (formerly known as MediaSentry). Among other things, Dr. Kim termed MediaSentry’s methods ‘highly suspect,’ debunked Dr. Jacobson’s ‘the internet is like a post office’ analogy, explained in detail how FastTrack works, explored a sampling of the types of attacks to which the defendant’s computer may have been subjected, accused Jacobson of making ‘numerous misstatements,’ and concluded that ‘there is not one but numerous possible explanations for the evidence presented during this trial. Throughout the report I demonstrate possibilities not considered by the plaintiff’s expert witness in his evaluation of the evidence…’ Additionally, he concluded, ‘MediaSentry has a strong record of mistakes when claiming that particular IP addresses were the origins of copyright infringement. Their lack of transparency, lack of external review, and evidence of inadequate error checking procedures [put] into question the authenticity and validity of the log files and screenshots they produced.'”
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