May 14 2009

Dell launches "Della:" A 50’s Version of Dell for the Ladies

“Sounds silly, just as silly as Della is. Netbooks and laptops are presented as fashion statements, and the site’s ‘tech tips’ includes a feature, ‘Seven Unexpected Ways a Netbook Can Change Your Life,” which starts out by saying, “Once you get beyond how cute they are, you’ll find that netbooks can do a lot more than check your e-mail.'”


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May 14 2009

NYTimes Twitter Account Hacked

Another day, another high-profile Twitter account gets hacked. This time, it’s one of (many) New York Times’ Twitter accounts, The Moment, which brings news from their fashion blog of the same name.


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May 14 2009

10 best iPhone games for hardcore gamers

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ve probably browsed or bought from the iTunes Store. With over 35,000 downloads currently available, finding the quality in all that quantity is growing increasingly difficult, frustrating and costly.


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May 14 2009

How to Make an Aluminum Laptop Stand for Only $8 [w/PICS]

We’ve always been keen on DIY laptop stands, but reader Aaron Kravitz—inspired by an attractive stand—went above and beyond, creating one of the most attractive DIY laptop stand we’ve featured to date. Here’s how he did it.


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May 14 2009

20 Insane Vectors: it takes a month to do each piece!

Totally insane Vector Graphics by Ahmed Alrefaie. He creates great vectors so full of details that it’s unbelievable. No wonder why he takes a month on each piece, check it out!


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May 14 2009

How Much Money Does a Billion iPhone Apps Get You? Not Much!

Recently, Apple proudly strutted its feathers, pointing at the one billion iPhone free and paid apps users have installed on their little bundles of electronic joy. Now, the folks at LSVP have done the math and calculated how much revenue, approximately, did that billion generate.Short version: not that much.


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May 14 2009

Steve Jobs Seen Returning Post-WWDC Brandishing New iPhones

While all eyes are on Apple’s annual developers conference as a likely forum for new iPhone hardware announcements, one Wall Street analyst is advising clients that better bets may be placed on an event a few weeks later that may also mark the return of Steve Jobs. In a note to clients, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said he believes a press…


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May 14 2009

Google Apps gains business cred with 30k-seat deal

Gmail may not yet have the same footprint as Microsoft Exchange, but megadeals such as a recently announced 30,000-seat installation at Valeo prove that large enterprises are comfortable running applications in the cloud.


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May 14 2009

MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring

Gary Pendergast writes “Monty Widenius, the ‘father’ of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following the news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun.” Related to this, an anonymous reader writes that “MySQL has announced a project to refactor MySQL to be a more Drizzle-like database.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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May 14 2009

Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess

Death Metal writes with an excerpt from the website of defense attorney Evan Levow: “After two years of attempting to get the computer based source code for the Alcotest 7110 MKIII-C, defense counsel in State v. Chun were successful in obtaining the code, and had it analyzed by Base One Technologies, Inc. By making itself a party to the litigation after the oral arguments in April, Draeger subjected itself to the Supreme Court’s directive that Draeger ultimately provide the source code to the defendants’ software analysis house, Base One. … Draeger reviewed the code, as well, through its software house, SysTest Labs, which agreed with Base One, that the patchwork code that makes up the 7110 is not written well, nor is it written to any defined coding standard. SysTest said, ‘The Alcotest NJ3.11 source code appears to have evolved over numerous transitions and versioning, which is responsible for cyclomatic complexity.'” Bruce Schneier comments on the same report and neatly summarizes the take-away lesson: “‘You can’t look at our code because we don’t want you to’ simply isn’t good enough.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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