A new application has been created for the iPhone which is designed to not only get all the latest Apple apps free of charge, but to teach a commercial iPhone pirate a lesson by opening his servers to all.
Two young entrepreneurs are focusing on sustainability and philanthropy with a new approach to convenience water. By thinking inside the box?
The boyfriend of a rape victim has set up a Facebook page to track down her attacker, in what is believed to be one of the first times the social networking site has been employed to identify a criminal.
A U.S. researcher says compulsive Facebook use may be a result of the fact that there’s always something new on the social networking site.
The world’s second largest social network, MySpace, has found a new partner that may make the relationship between MySpace and Google a little more rocky: Microsoft.
o you remember what came in between printed encyclopedias and Wikipedia? For many, the answer is Microsoft Encarta
Western Digital is buying its way into the flash drive market. What about Seagate?
Raul654 writes “In December, we discussed the German Federal Archive’s agreement, at the urging of Wikimedia Deutschland, to donate 100,000 pictures to Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. At the time that was the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and thought to be largest in the history of the free culture movement. Now Wikimedia Deutschland has reached a similar agreement with the Saxon State and University Library, which will donate 250,000 pictures to Wikipedia under CCA-ShareAlike. On a not-unrelated note: Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue its Encarta encyclopedia.”
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An anonymous reader writes “In a blog post, Patrick Galbraith, an ex-core engineer on the MySQL Server team, raises the question: “What is the official branch of MySQL?” With Monty Widenius having left Sun and forked off MySQL for MariaDB, and Brian Aker running the Drizzle fork inside of Sun, where is the official MySQL tree? Sun may own the trademark, but it looks like there is doubt as to whether they are still the maintainers of the actual codebase after their B acquisition of the code a year ago. Smugmug’s Don MacAskhill, who is the keynote at the upcoming MySQL Conference, has commented that he is now using the Percona version of MySQL, and is no longer relying on Sun’s.”
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Ian Lamont writes “IBM has filed a patent application that covers offshoring employees. Application 20090083107, dated March 26, 2009, is a ‘method and system for strategic global resource sourcing.’ Figure 2 gives a pretty good idea of what’s involved — it shows boxes labelled ‘Engineer,’ ‘HR,’ and ‘Programmer’ with crossing arrows pointing to cylinders labelled ‘India,’ ‘China,’ and ‘Hungary.’ The article speculates that IBM may apply the methodology to its own staff — it reportedly plans to lay off thousands of employees and has even started a program to have IBM workers transfer to other countries at local wages.”
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