Kelson writes “As the release of Internet Explorer 8 approaches, Microsoft’s IE Team has published a list of differences between IE7 and IE8, and how to fix code so that it will work on both. Most of the page focuses on IE8 Standards mode, but it also turns out that IE7 compatibility mode isn’t quite the same as IE7 itself.”
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Bell Canada threatens to yank its billions from the Canadian fiber market if the government insists on making it share those circuits with competing ISPs at regulated rates. In the UK, however, next-generation line-sharing is always the law of the land. Ars takes a look at line-sharing’s “Will it destroy investment?” debate.
It’s great to see twitter the way it is. Twitter is taking over the world.
As Apple gets ready to preview its new software developers’ kit and an updated iPhone operating system next week, there could be some changes to the company’s App Store too.
Uploading fakes to BitTorrent is a growing phenomenon, as unscrupulous individuals try to abuse the networks for their own ends.
For most, a joystick and Microsoft’s Flight Simulator PC software is sufficient, but, over the past 10 years, Sheil has built what Guinness describes as the “world’s most expensive home flight simulator”.
whitefox writes “The scoop from CNet is that ‘The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution introduced two days earlier that designates March 14, 2009 (3/14, get it?) as National Pi Day. It urges schools to take the opportunity to teach their students about Pi and “engage them about the study of mathematics.”‘ The resolution is available online. I doubt it’ll ever become a national holiday, but the Pi string in the article is pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way.”
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volume4 brings news that David Wood of the Symbian Foundation has made a post detailing their plans for a release schedule, with new versions due out every six months. We discussed Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian for the purpose of open sourcing the popular mobile OS last year. Quoting: “There’s a lot of activity underway, throughout the software development teams for all the different packages that make up the Symbian Platform. These packages are finding their way into platform releases. The plan is that there will be two platform releases each year. … Symbian^2, which is based on S60 5.1, reaches a functionally complete state at the middle of this year, and should be hardened by the end of the year. This means that the first devices based on Symbian^2 could be reaching the market any time around the end of this year — depending on the integration plans, the level of customisation, and the design choices made by manufacturers. Symbian^3 follows on six months later — reaching a functionally complete state at the end of this year, and should be hardened by the middle of 2010.”
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Eric Goldman writes “Earlier this month, we discussed HB 450, the Utah Legislature’s third attempt to regulate keyword advertising after the past two efforts failed miserably. The latest attempt barely passed the Utah House, aided in part by a ‘yes’ vote from Representative Jennifer Seelig, who also happens to be a lobbyist-employee of 1-800 Contacts, the principal advocate of HB 450. Nevertheless, HB 450 died in the Utah Senate without a vote when the Utah Legislature adjourned last night. Despite the seeming good news, it would be surprising if the Utah Legislature didn’t try a fourth time to regulate keyword advertising in a future session.”
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The repository system is a great strength of open-source operating systems, but some people want the latest-and-greatest of a particular application while keeping the core system unchanged. There is also the situation where non-free applications aren’t available from within the standard repositories. So you can add extra repositories…
