gkunene writes “Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff from projects such as JavaFX, Project Looking Glass, and Project GlassFish.”
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nk497 writes “The UK government has further detailed plans to track all communications — mobile phone calls, text messages, email and browser sessions — in the fight against terrorism, pedophiles and organized crime. The government said it’s not looking to see what you’re saying, just to whom and when and how. Contrary to previous plans to keep it all in a massive database, it will now let ISPs and telecoms firms store the data themselves, and access it when it feels it needs it.” And to clarify this Barence writes “The UK Government has dropped plans to create a massive database of all internet communications, following stern criticism from privacy advocates. Instead the Government wants ISPs and mobile phone companies to retain details of mobile phone calls, emails and internet sites visited. As with the original scheme, the actual content of the phone calls and messages won’t be recorded, just the dates, duration and location/IP address of messages sent. The security services would then have to apply to the ISP or telecoms company to have the data released. The new proposals would also require ISPs to retain details of communications that originated in other countries but passed over the UK’s network, such as instant messages.”
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BillyG noted an RMS interview where he says “‘Software as a service’ means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that’s what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else’s server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server. It is like running binary-only software, only worse: it’s even harder for you to patch the program that’s running on someone else’s server than it is to patch a binary copy of a program running on your own computer. Just like non-free software, ‘software as a service’ is incompatible with your freedom.”
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GM to phase out Pontiac in 2010
CBC.ca A Pontiac Solstice Coupe is displayed at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles in November. (Fred Prouser/Reuters) General Motors Corp. said Monday it will phase out the Pontiac brand by the end of 2010 as the automaker unveiled another restructuring plan … GM to cut a further 21000 jobs BBC News Faster Cuts and More Loans Key to GM Survival Plan New York Times Los Angeles Times – The Associated Press – FOXNews – Washington Post all 1,507 news articles |
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Travel stocks likely to catch swine flu
Globe and Mail As global investors react to a swine flu outbreak, travel and related stocks are likely to be hit the hardest, says Andrew Busch, global foreign exchange strategist for BMO Nesbitt Burns. Video: Mexico swine flu: epidemic scare empties streets France 24 Swine flu spreads outside North America to Europe CTV.ca Calgary Herald – Bloomberg – The Canadian Press – New York Times all 22,031 news articles |
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Gordon Brown 'snubbed by Pakistan President'
Times Online Gordon Brown received an apparent snub today as he arrived in Pakistan for talks with President Zardari only to be told that he was not available to appear at a joint press conference afterwards. Video: Afghan civilian deaths help Taliban – 27 Apr 09 Al Jazeera Karzai confirms re-election bid BBC News CBC.ca – Reuters – Voice of America – AFP all 354 news articles Langue : Français |
If the program designed by I.B.M. can beat human contestants, the field of artificial intelligence will have made a leap forward.
“Microsoft’s model is not working anymore,” thundered trade journal InformationWeek. “Netbooks hammer Windows revenues for second straight quarter,” declared Greg Keizer of ComputerWorld, another respected trade weekly. – Also, trying to vendor-lock users to the IE browser by making web-apps that only work well with it, is a “Losing Strategy”.
We’ve been down this path countless times, but rumors are once again heating up that Apple and Verizon are actively discussing the possibility of creating an iPhone to work on Big Red’s airwaves, according to USA Today’s infamous “people familiar with the situation.” Could the iPhone come to Verizon Wireless next year?!
Because all of it seems pretty abstract to innitiates, many people experience difficulties at the start. Even those that would call themselves ‘advanced users’ often don’t know even half of what’s possible.
