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Why Google Isn't Pushing Android For Tablets
Slashdot - 9:45pm Fri Sep 10 10Brad Linder of Liliputing posted an interesting analysis today about Google's reluctance to endorse Android for tablets. Linder argues that while there may be legitimate concern that Android just isn't polished enough for devices without phone access (because some apps need it), it would be smart for Google to segregate the apps themselves, so users can simply know which apps will work on Wi-Fi-only tablets. But from Google's perspective, he observes, "pushing a version of Android that isn't exclusively for phones could be all it takes for Chrome OS to be dead on arrival." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
WATCH: 'Google Instant'
ABC News: Technology - 9:34pm Fri Sep 10 10Google unveils its latest search function that will save you time. Google - search - GoogleInstant - Search Engines - Companies
Earth's first all Klingon opera debuts
The Register - 7:52pm Fri Sep 10 10Klingon invitations running late Earth has witnessed its first Klingon opera.?
Archbishop Bans Pop Music At Funerals
Slashdot - 7:21pm Fri Sep 10 10pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne has announced a ban on the playing of pop music at funerals, which, he said, are not to be described as 'a celebration of the life of' the deceased. According to new guidelines published on Archbishop Denis Hart's Web site: 'Secular items are never to be sung or played at a Catholic funeral, such as romantic ballads, pop or rock music, political songs, football club songs.' According to a cemetery contacted by Melbourne's Herald Sun, a list of more unusual songs played at Australian funerals includes: 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' by Monty Python, 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen, 'Highway to Hell,' by AC/DC and 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' from The Wizard of Oz." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tap Tech Brings Touch To Dumb Phones
Slashdot - 7:04pm Fri Sep 10 10nk497 writes "A Cambridge-based firm has come up with a way to bring touch interfaces to phones without touchscreens. According to TouchDevice, the system uses the microphone to turn any surface on a handset into a touch-sensitive input panel by analysing sound signatures. 'For example, where icons are displayed on a non-touch screen display, you could tap on there and it would activate the application,' said founder Mike Bradley. TouchDevice believes there are two markets for the technology: firstly to augment input potential in touchcreen smartphones, and secondly as a way of adding touch to 'dumb' displays. The system should be making its way into devices by early next year." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OpenSolaris spork ready for Oracle challenge
The Register - 6:26pm Fri Sep 10 10'An exciting new distribution' A spork of the open-source edition of Solaris, OpenSolaris, is ready to start taking on Oracle's official Unix operating system.?Free Whitepaper - When legitimate sites threaten your network
'Here You Have' Virus E-Mail Spreads Online
ABC News: Technology - 6:13pm Fri Sep 10 10"Here you have" virus e-mail disrupts corporate e-mail. Security - Malicious Software - Viruses - Detection and Removal Tools - antivirus
Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off
Slashdot - 6:09pm Fri Sep 10 10coondoggie writes "Getting complicated systems onboard a single spacecraft to operate as one integrated unit can be hard enough, but some space agencies are trying to address the challenges of getting multiple spacecraft to fly in formation and operate together as one unit. Such challenges are exactly what a new European Space Agency lab in the Netherlands is set to address. The test bed addresses crucial operational factors for formation flying, including mission and vehicle management, guidance navigation, dealing with faults and communicating between satellites." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google Instant sinks raft of search controls
The Register - 6:07pm Fri Sep 10 10Suggest forever on, results locked at 10 In rolling out Google Instant ? a new incarnation of its search engine that serves up results in "real-time" as you type ? Mountain View has also made several peripheral changes to the way its engine traditionally operates.?
Wikileaks will soon post biggest military leak ever
The Register - 6:03pm Fri Sep 10 10Focus turns to Iraq Wikileaks is just weeks away from posting a huge cache of classified documents related to the US war in Iraq in what one journalist says will be history's biggest military leak.?
Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software
Slashdot - 5:36pm Fri Sep 10 10An anonymous reader wrote to tell us a federal appeals court ruled today that the first sale doctrine is "unavailable to those who are only licensed to use their copies of copyrighted works." This reverses a 2008 decision from the Autodesk case, in which a man was selling used copies of AutoCAD that were not currently installed on any computers. Autodesk objected to the sales because their license agreement did not permit the transfer of ownership. Today's ruling (PDF) upholds Autodesk's claims: "We hold today that a software user is a licensee rather than an owner of a copy where the copyright owner (1) specifies that the user is granted a license; (2) significantly restricts the user’s ability to transfer the software; and (3) imposes notable use restrictions. Applying our holding to Autodesk’s [software license agreement], we conclude that CTA was a licensee rather than an owner of copies of Release 14 and thus was not entitled to invoke the first sale doctrine or the essential step defense. " Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones
Slashdot - 4:45pm Fri Sep 10 10eldavojohn writes "Bloomberg Businessweek has an article of interest resulting from a three-hour interview with Foxconn founder Terry Gou (single page), whose company manufactures 137,000 iPhones a day. The article profiles Gou's rise to Foxconn but also offers some interesting tidbits you might not know. On why he is not opening factories in the United States, Gou frankly states, 'If I can automate in the US and ship to China, cost-wise it can still be competitive. But I worry America has too many lawyers. I don't want to spend time having people sue me every day.' If you're interested in how a modern day Henry Ford thinks, you can read the rest about the man steering the ship of the world's largest producer of electronics components and China's largest exporter. This unprecedented transparency was part of an agreement Gou made with his customers during his delayed response to an increasing number of Foxconn suicides." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Nokia's Canuck boss claims Arctic bond with Finland
The Register - 4:16pm Fri Sep 10 10'We play ice hockey too' Nokia held a press conference today to introduce its first ever non-Finnish CEO, Stephen Elop. We learned that the outgoing predecessor's cards were marked ages ago, and that Nokia looks set to give the newcomer the chance to shake things up at the bureaucracy-bound tech giant.?
How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim
Slashdot - 3:56pm Fri Sep 10 10An anonymous reader writes "Remember, about a month ago, when a researcher claimed he had a proof that P != NP? Well, the proof hasn't held up. But blogs and news sites helped spur a massive, open, collaborative effort on the Internet to understand the paper and to see if its ideas could be extended. This article explains what happened, how the proof was supposed to work, and why it failed." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
What Adobe could learn from The Flying Wallendas
The Register - 3:25pm Fri Sep 10 10Do security safety nets make Reader less safe? Analysis The Flying Wallendas were a legendary circus troupe that performed death-defying acts from a high wire without the use of nets or safety devices of any kind. Even when they performed their world-famous four-person, three-level pyramid act 50 feet in the air, patriarch Karl Wallenda steadfastly eschewed nets out of a belief they sapped the aerialists' concentration.?
Google Instant 'invented by Yahoo! in 2005'
The Register - 3:24pm Fri Sep 10 10Ex-Yahooligan rues death of LiveSearch A former Yahoo! product manager has claimed that Google Instant was invented by Yahoo! in 2005.?Reg Guide to Enterprise Virtualization - Free Download!
Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time
Slashdot - 3:15pm Fri Sep 10 10crimeandpunishment writes "When it comes to our time online, socializing beats searching. According to new data from researchers at comScore Inc., Facebook has moved ahead of Google for the first time in Web users' minutes. In August, people spent more than 41 million minutes on Facebook, compared to just under 40 million for all of Google's sites combined. Yahoo came in third, with 37.7 million minutes." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
'Professor Layton' is 'steampunk' puzzle fun
CNN.com - Technology - 3:12pm Fri Sep 10 10"Professor Layton and the Unwound Future" (LEVEL-5) is a mind-bending puzzle game with a story that will have you time-tripping all over London with your Nintendo DS.
Stunning Photos of Space Capture Top Honors
ABC News: Technology - 2:41pm Fri Sep 10 10Royal Observatory in England recognizes best astronomy photographs. Astronomy - Observatories - Amateur - Education - England
Mega-Volcanoes Might Be Detectable On Exoplanets
Slashdot - 2:33pm Fri Sep 10 10astroengine writes "Could we detect a huge volcanic eruption on an exoplanet 30 light-years from Earth? Possibly, say scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. What's more, there may be an opportunity for us to spot the ashy pollution ejected into the exoplanetary atmosphere when NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is launched in 2014. According to Discovery News, this would be a huge discovery if an Earth-like world was found to have active volcanoes: 'A geologically active terrestrial planet may be more suitable for life. It recycles crust, unleashes greenhouse gasses, opens new environmental niches, and generally provides a dynamic environment for advantageous life forms.'" According to a related story at the BBC, we should soon be able to detect the presence of oceans on distant worlds as well. The JWST will be able to resolve the reflection of light off an ocean's surface from 20-30 light-years away. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Apple to end iPhone 4 bumper case program
digg.com: Top News - 2:17pm Fri Sep 10 10Apple said it would end the iPhone 4 bumper case program on September 30th as the problem was smaller than expected
What Do White People Really Like?
ABC News: Technology - 1:49pm Fri Sep 10 10Dating website OkCupid analyzes profiles to uncover interests of different races. OkCupid - Dating - Relationships - Personals - Online dating service
PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account
Slashdot - 1:43pm Fri Sep 10 10epee1221 writes "Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch, the developer of Minecraft, posted on his development blog today that PayPal limited his account with unspecified cause on August 25th. Since then, payments for the alpha version of Minecraft have continued accumulating while Notch has been unable to withdraw them, and the account now contains over €600,000. PayPal recently told him it may take up to two more weeks for things to get sorted out and that if they conclude that there is funny business involved, they will keep the money." This unfortunate news followed an announcement a few days ago that he and a friend would be starting a studio of their own to continue development on Minecraft and start working on a new project. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Facebook now web's biggest time hog
CNN.com - Technology - 1:34pm Fri Sep 10 10We already know that Facebook is the web's biggest time sink. If you look at the average amount of time (according to Nielsen) users spend on the social network, Facebook is a clear winner over sites such as Google or Yahoo.
World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia
Slashdot - 1:00pm Fri Sep 10 10An anonymous reader writes "Medical Daily reports: 'Video conferences may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patients undergoing thyroid gland surgery in Italy remotely from Montreal. The approach is part of new technological advancements, known as 'Teleanesthesia', and it involves a team of engineers, researchers and anesthesiologists who will ultimately apply the drugs intravenously which are then controlled remotely through an automated system.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV
Slashdot - 1:00pm Fri Sep 10 10Kozz writes "Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have closed a deal to turn Stephen King's mammoth novel series The Dark Tower into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series, both of which will be creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code. 'The plan is to start with the feature film, and then create a bridge to the second feature with a season of TV episodes. That means the feature cast — and the big star who’ll play Deschain — also has to appear in the TV series before returning to the second film. After that sequel is done, the TV series picks up again, this time focusing on Deschain as a young gunslinger.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tattoos That Demand One Question: What The Hell Were You Thinking?
digg.com: Top News - 12:46pm Fri Sep 10 10After you take a look at some of these beauties, you?ll probably agree that the art of tattooing is best left to those who have something really important to say and know how to do it properly.
Apple's Developer Tools Turnaround 'Great News' For Adobe
Slashdot - 12:25pm Fri Sep 10 10cgriffin21 writes "Apple is being praised for loosening of some of the restrictions in its Application Developer Program license agreement that open the door for app developers to work in Flash for the Apple iPhone, iPad and other devices. And no one is happier about the change than Flash-maker Adobe itself. They wrote, 'This is great news for developers and we're hearing from our developer community that Packager apps are already being approved for the App Store. We do want to point out that Apple's restriction on Flash content running in the browser on iOS devices remains in place.'" Apple also received praise from Google over their reversal, which may have been prompted by an FTC probe. Reader Stoubalou adds that Apple shed more light on the app review process by publishing a list of guidelines (PDF) the violation of which may get an app rejected from the App Store. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Webcams for the voyeur in all of us
CNN.com - Technology - 11:58am Fri Sep 10 10Webcams are everywhere. On the beach, the surf cam is broadcasting your bikini-ready (or not) body to the world. At the amusement park, the scream cam is proving you were, in fact, scared senseless. In the bar, the look-how-much-fun-we're-having cam is showing your ex exactly how many shots of tequila it took you to get over him.
15 Crazy Publicity Stunts
digg.com: Top News - 11:52am Fri Sep 10 10Any economist will tell you that the world runs on hard work, natural resources and ceaseless innovation. Crafty companies and individuals have discovered that 100% of economists are boring and liars.
Old Farts Singing the Bed Intruder Song
digg.com: Top News - 11:48am Fri Sep 10 10The lifecycle of a viral video goes something like this: Youtube sensation to Urlesque.com to remix to Autotune to the inevitable appearances on the
The 101 Best Mobile Apps
digg.com: Top News - 11:48am Fri Sep 10 10Wondering what to download for your smartphone? Trying to find high-quality apps among the many thousands available can be a challenge, no matter what phone you own. Start with this collection of the best productivity tools, utilities, reference apps, media helpers, timesavers, and games.
'Hyperbolic map' of the internet will save it from COLLAPSE
The Register - 11:45am Fri Sep 10 10Ark boffins say 'black hole' net events already common International computer boffins are warning that the internet may "collapse" at some point within the next decade. They propose the use of a new routing method based on hyperbolic geometry, and have devised what they call a "hyperbolic atlas" of the entire net to aid in this plan.?
Arms Regulations Damaging US Space Industry
Slashdot - 11:41am Fri Sep 10 10athe!st writes "International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) are a major headache for companies trying to put their satellites into space, so much so that some companies are using 'ITAR-free' (aka free of US technology) as a selling point. The European Space Agency is trying to reduce its dependence on ITAR components, and the regulations are also threatening the nascent space tourism industry." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
IBM wheels and deals on servers
The Register - 11:21am Fri Sep 10 10It's good to be your own bank The engineers and marketeers have got the servers out and polished up their sales pitches, and now it is time for Big Blue to bring in the bankers to close the deals.?
This Man Makes 137,000 iPhones A Day
digg.com: Top News - 11:14am Fri Sep 10 10Foxconn's production rate is one of many revelations in a new profile of its chairman...
Why Facebook Geo-Targetting Could Mean The End Of The World
digg.com: Top News - 11:08am Fri Sep 10 10Checking in, location reporting, geo-status updating - call it what you like, but sharing your location with the world has become one of the most popular movements to hit social networking in recent times. Facebook is the latest application to join the party, allowing users to include their location with their status updates. "Places," as it is called, is nothing new (services like Foursquare have been allowing users to advertise where they are for quite some time now), but it does raise some interesting privacy concerns. Since users share everything about their identity and personal lives with Facebook, just how far could Places plunge us into an Orwellian dystopia where "Big Mark is always watching?"
Now SEC piles into HP bribery probe
The Register - 11:05am Fri Sep 10 10DoJ, SEC, OMG HP is facing a widened bribery investigation by the Department of Justice and US financial regulators, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals.?
Sony Breathes New Life Into Library Books
Slashdot - 10:51am Fri Sep 10 10Barence writes "Sony has launched a new range of touchscreen eBook readers — and is breathing new life into the concept of public library books. The readers offer support for free eBook loans from local authority libraries. If you're lucky enough to be a member of a local library supporting the service (50 have signed up so far in the UK) you'll be able to visit its website, tap your library card number in and borrow any book in the eBook catalog, for free, for a period of 14 or 21 days. The odd thing about this is it works in a very similar way to the good old bricks-and-mortar library. While a title is out on loan, it's unavailable to others to borrow (unless the library has purchased multiple copies); it only becomes available again once the loan period expires and the book removes itself from your reader." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Ranting Ohio Republican scares interwebs
The Register - 10:46am Fri Sep 10 10Shouty bloke SEEKS OFFICE Vid Ohio councilman Phil Davison made an unsuccessful pitch to become his local Republican Party's nominee to run for Stark County treasurer on Wednesday, in the process scaring the living daylights out of the interwebs.?
Come clean NetApp
The Register - 10:45am Fri Sep 10 10Put up or shut up Despite Oracle and NetApp dismissing their ZFS-based or related lawsuits against one another, NetApp is refusing to withdraw its threatening letter to Coraid and stop threatening "all appropriate remedies for any infringement" of NetApp's patents.?Free Whitepaper - When legitimate sites threaten your network
Bollywood 'recruits DDoS hired guns to fight movie pirates'
The Register - 10:37am Fri Sep 10 10There's totally a movie in that An Indian firm claims it was hired to carry out denial of service attacks against film download and torrent tracker websites at the behest of Bollywood movie distributors in India.?
Nokia Names Microsoft's Elop As New CEO
Slashdot - 10:16am Fri Sep 10 10itwbennett writes "Nokia has tapped Stephen Elop, former president of Microsoft's business software group, to become its new CEO effective Sept. 21. Elop will replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who loses his board seat immediately and will step down from the CEO position on Sept. 20. Microsoft said Elop will leave immediately, but the company doesn't seem to be rushing to fill the vacancy at the top of one of its largest divisions. 'I am writing to let you know that Stephen Elop has been offered and has accepted the job as CEO of Nokia and will be leaving Microsoft, effective immediately,' Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote in a letter to employees late Thursday." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Watch Megan Fox Spread Her Wings for Mickey Rourke in 'Passion Play'
digg.com: Top News - 10:15am Fri Sep 10 10Bummed you won't be in the audience for tonight's world premiere of Passion Play at the Toronto International Film Festival? Here's some consolation. The first clip of Mitch Glazer's Southern-set drama has appeared online...
BT preps nationwide TV network
The Register - 10:15am Fri Sep 10 10Signs Content Delivery System deal with Cisco BT is upgrading its national network to reliably deliver TV on-demand, partly in preparation for the launch of Project Canvas alongside the BBC and other broadcasters.?
Osborne plucks strange fruit from the loon tree
The Register - 10:03am Fri Sep 10 10UK.gov to use Spending Challenge website ideas HM Treasury has said it will implement three ideas submitted by the public to its Spending Challenge website which include a government e-auction site.?
Every tech market loves a monopoly
The Register - 9:59am Fri Sep 10 10Facebook. Google. Apple. Hurrah! Open...and Shut It may not be that "Every woman adores a Fascist," as the poet Sylvia Plath once caustically penned, but it certainly seems that every market appreciates a monopolist.?
Facebook Edges Past Google for Web Users' Time
ABC News: Technology - 9:39am Fri Sep 10 10U.S. Web surfers spent more time on Facebook than Google in August. Google - Facebook - Yahoo - YouTube - ComScore
WikiLeaks Set To Release Unpublished Iraq War Docs
Slashdot - 9:32am Fri Sep 10 10Tootech writes with this snippet from Wired: "A massive cache of previously unpublished classified US military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the 'biggest leak of military intelligence' that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents. The documents are expected to be published in several weeks. Overton, who discussed the project with Newsweek, didn't say how many documents were involved or disclose their origin, but they may be among the leaks that an imprisoned Army intelligence analyst claimed to have sent to WikiLeaks earlier this year." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Blast near San Francisco kills at least four people
digg.com: Top News - 9:11am Fri Sep 10 10At least four people have been killed in an explosion which tore through a town near San Francisco, officials say.
FML: My Boss is Younger than Me
digg.com: Top News - 8:53am Fri Sep 10 10Fresh graduates who are able to find jobs often start out in management positions and are very likely to have employees much older than themselves. A recent survey of people who work for younger bosses shows that the older a worker is, the less likely age difference is to be a problem.
Oracle, NetApp Drop ZFS Patent Suit
Slashdot - 8:50am Fri Sep 10 10An anonymous reader writes "It seems Oracle and NetApp have kissed and made up over the ZFS patent lawsuit. Before Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, NetApp sued Sun claiming ZFS infringed on its patents. Sun later sued NetApp back. From today, all is forgotten and Oracle and NetApp are friends. NetApp CEO Tom Georgens even said the two companies have shared a 'common vision' focused on providing solutions that reduce IT cost and complexity. Both companies now want collaboration between them to continue." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
How Much Does the Government Make Off of Gambling?
digg.com: Top News - 8:45am Fri Sep 10 10In the fourth installment of our ?Sin Tax? series, we explore the financial implications of gambling on Uncle Sam?s bottom line. It?s no secret that the government makes some income from gambling. But, many would be surprised to find that total gaming brings in nearly $100 billion in tax revenue each year. From legal bookmaking to card rooms, the graphic below illustrates where the money comes from. We also take a look at the various tax rates across the U.S., by state and by type of establishment.
US military builds laser backpack for 3D indoor mapping
The Register - 8:43am Fri Sep 10 10Only a matter of time until Google gets involved Military-funded researchers in the US have developed a backpack system containing cameras, lasers and inertial sensors which can be carried around indoors and generate a detailed, accurate 3D map of the spaces it moves through.?Reg Guide to Improving Systems Agility - Free Download!
Beeb creates new global iPlayer post
The Register - 8:42am Fri Sep 10 10DIY meat The Worldwide wing of the BBC has hired Mark Smith as its global iPlayer launch director, in its latest attempt to get its video-on-demand service off the ground outside the UK.?
Shock treatment! Nokia's radical break with the past
The Register - 8:26am Fri Sep 10 10Tackling the corporate bureaucracy Analysis So Nokia's board has decided the company needs shock treatment: it's brought in a non-Finn for the first time in its history, and someone who carries very little baggage to boot. This should be interesting.?
Microsoft boss waves goodbye to biz division wonder kid
The Register - 8:22am Fri Sep 10 10Stephen Elop elopes to Nokia Stephen Elop?s tenure at Microsoft proved to be short and sweet. He arrived in time for the Windows Vista death march, followed by the happy-clappy launch of Windows 7, and then ? as a last hurrah ? the retail release of Office 2010 in June.?
We're downloading more apps than songs
CNN.com - Technology - 8:14am Fri Sep 10 10We'll soon have downloaded more apps than songs from iTunes, according to app developer Asymco.
How Climate Change Could Impact Your Beer Consumption
digg.com: Top News - 8:13am Fri Sep 10 10SABMiller is concerned about climate change -- specificially about its impact on water in the production and consumption of beer. The company has released a study on the impact of its "water footprint" on breweries in four countries.
'Is this science, or literature?'
The Register - 8:11am Fri Sep 10 10MPs mull 'climate enquiries' that failed to enquire Might the University of East Anglia now rue its handling of the Climategate affair? An MP tells us that the University has ignored instructions given to it by the House of Commons Science Committee earlier this year, and MPs were given misleading impressions.?
Second SMS Android Trojan targets smut-seeking Russians
The Register - 8:10am Fri Sep 10 10Someone's gonna be screwed alright A second SMS-sending Trojan targeting smartphones running on the Android operating system has appeared, being distributed via Russian-language sites offering pornographic video clips.?Free Whitepaper - When legitimate sites threaten your network
Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia
Slashdot - 8:08am Fri Sep 10 10Ponca City, We love you writes "If journalism is the first rough draft of history, what does that make Wikipedia? Time Magazine reports that technology writer James Bridle has created a 12-volume compendium of every edit made to the Wikipedia entry for the Iraq War between December 2004 and November 2009. 'It contains arguments over numbers, differences of opinion on relevance and political standpoints, and frequent moments when someone erases the whole thing and just writes "Saddam Hussein was a dickhead.,"' writes Bridle. 'This is historiography. This is what culture actually looks like: a process of argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual and not always correct codification.' The books presumably only exist in one copy, so they are not for sale." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
No Android PlayStation Phone This Year
digg.com: Top News - 7:56am Fri Sep 10 10A PlayStation phone? Don't hold your breath--not this year, at least. Last month we heard rumors that Sony Ericcson was working on an Android-based handset called the PlayView, which would be a Samsung Captivate-esque phone crossbred with a Sony PSPGo. The device was said to be do out by October.
BT's onshoring call centres scheme continues
The Register - 7:55am Fri Sep 10 10Bringing jobs back from India BT's aim of bringing call centres back to the UK continues to make progress.?
MEPs try again to force ACTA transparency
The Register - 7:53am Fri Sep 10 10Show us yer negotiation documents The European Parliament has repeated its call for greater transparency in negotiations over an international intellectual property agreement. A majority of MEPs has signed a declaration demanding the publication of negotiation documents.?
Grand Theft Auto to launch on the Mac
The Register - 7:35am Fri Sep 10 10iPads first... Rockstar Games is to release the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy on the Mac "most likely later this year", the publisher said in a Q&A posted on its website.?
NHS IT juggernaut rumbles on
The Register - 7:22am Fri Sep 10 10Coalition's conservative cuts Analysis The major casualty of an overhaul of NHS IT has been revealed. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is no more - up to a point.?
Smartbook done to death by Apple iPad
The Register - 7:21am Fri Sep 10 10Tablet frenzy claims victim Wondering what happened to all those ARM-based netbooks we were promised last year would be the Next Big Thing? According to the boss of chip maker Qualcomm, the iPad killed 'em.?
eBay wins partial victory over Craigslist
The Register - 7:15am Fri Sep 10 10This was never going to end well eBay has won a partial victory in its long-running court case against Craigslist - a Delaware court ruled in its favour over the dilution of its shares in the free ads firm but said it did not have a right to a seat on the board.?
WATCH: Spending Time on Facebook
ABC News: Technology - 7:12am Fri Sep 10 10New reports indicate that people spend more time on Facebook than Google. Google - Facebook - ComScore - Searching - Search Engines
Adobe reignites Flash on iOS
The Register - 7:11am Fri Sep 10 10But still not in Safari Adobe is steaming ahead with its Packager for iPhone that recompiles Flash applications as iOS apps, now that Apple has cleared the technology for distribution though iTunes.?Free Whitepaper - When legitimate sites threaten your network
Microsoft hangs head, makes apology for US cloud bust
The Register - 7:00am Fri Sep 10 10My BPOS bleeding heart Microsoft admitted yesterday what has been pretty clear to many of its US customers for the past few weeks ? it has recently failed to match its promise of reliably providing some of its business services via the cloud.?
10 Steps To Dominating Your Fantasy Football League This Season
digg.com: Top News - 6:58am Fri Sep 10 10Fantasy football is the sports nerd version of Dungeons and Dragons. Here's the scoop
iPhone finds its Google Voice
The Register - 6:36am Fri Sep 10 10AT&T won't be amused Apple has told a third-party developer that his Google Voice client will be approved when resubmitted, though fans may have to buy it for a third time.?
Does 'Prep' Mean Anything In 2010?
digg.com: Top News - 6:14am Fri Sep 10 10Debating the pseudo-sequel to The Official Preppy Handbook
Robots capable of 'deceiving humans' built by crazed boffins
The Register - 6:09am Fri Sep 10 10'We do understand there's a downside to this' Worrying news from Georgia, America, where boffins report that they have developed robots which are able to "deceive a human".?
US government recruits Paris Hilton
The Register - 6:03am Fri Sep 10 10Voice of America - now with added celebutardiness In what is evidently an attempt to mitigate the damage caused by Koran-burning pastors, the US government will attempt to dissuade outraged citizens of the Middle East from joining al-Qaeda by beaming Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears across the Voice of America's airwaves.?
ACPO defuses impending photo row with police forces
The Register - 6:01am Fri Sep 10 10Clarification clarified. Clear? Just two weeks since they clarified their position on the law regarding photography, the Association of Chief Police Officers last night issued a short note further clarifying its clarification.?Reg Guide to Enterprise Virtualization - Free Download!
Cinema chain bans laptops, tablets
The Register - 5:50am Fri Sep 10 10Maybe mobile phones too, soon Cinema chain Vue is deciding whether to ban mobile phones from its venues, having already decided that laptop computers are a no-no.?
35 Magical Tutorials Of "How To Create Lighting Effect" On Photoshop
digg.com: Top News - 5:48am Fri Sep 10 10One of the commonly used effects in Photoshop is the lighting effect which is mainly used for creating the feeling of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy.
Microsoft hosts bring-a-bottle cloud trust code of practice party
The Register - 5:26am Fri Sep 10 10Show me the trade body Analysis Blighty?s cloud computing industry now has a trade body that wants to champion trust in data stored at a tech firm?s outhouse, by getting vendors to commit to certification that, by mid-2011, will be independently scrutinised. We just don't know by whom - yet.?
All CO2-spewing kit now in existence is OK for the planet
The Register - 5:00am Fri Sep 10 10That V8 Jag? Run it 'til it wears out, you're OK All the carbon-spewing machinery the human race now possesses - powerplants, transportation, boilers, the lot - can be kept running for its entire designed life without any significant ill effects on the planetary ecosystem, according to new analysis. It is the new machinery to replace what we now have which will either push atmospheric carbon over the UN's red line - or not.?
ARM Unveils Next-Gen Processor, Claims 5x Speedup
Slashdot - 4:59am Fri Sep 10 10unts writes "UK chip designer ARM [Note: check out this short history of ARM chips in mobile devices contributed by an anonymous reader] today released the first details of its latest project, codenamed 'Eagle.' It has branded the new design Cortex-A15, which ARM reckons demonstrates the jump in performance from its predecessors, the A8 and A9. ARM's new chip design can scale to 16 cores, clock up to 2.5GHz, and, the company claims, deliver a 5x performance increase over the A8: 'It's like taking a desktop and putting it in your pocket,' said [VP of processor marketing — Eric Schorn], and it was clear that he considers this new design to be a pretty major shot across the bows of Intel and AMD. In case we were in any doubt, he turned the knife further: 'The exciting place for software developer graduates to go and hunt for work is no longer the desktop.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google Earth gets its very own website
The Register - 4:55am Fri Sep 10 10'Lots of great content' Google Earth boasts, as of right now, its very own website, featuring "lots of great content including images, videos, tours, maps and tutorials".?
Dell resells Bridgehead software with DX6000
The Register - 4:52am Fri Sep 10 10Integrates Enterprise Vault Dell is reselling Bridgehead software with its DX6000 object storage array - the one using OEM'd Caringo software that competes with EMC's Centera. It's also integrating Enterprise Vault.?
$9m RBS WorldPay hack mastermind avoids jail
The Register - 4:29am Fri Sep 10 10Extradition unlikely The Russian hacker at the centre of a massive $9.4m fraud against RBS WorldPay has avoided jail after he agreed to turn informant on his fellow cybercriminals and pay compensation to the bank.?Reg Guide to Improving Systems Agility - Free Download!
Nokia's new boss is Microsoft man
The Register - 4:27am Fri Sep 10 10Big changes promised Nokia has brought in Microsoft's Stephen Elop to replace its CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who leaves the company with little more than ?4.6m in severance pay and 100,000 Nokia shares.?
MS preps 9 bulletins for September Patch Tuesday
The Register - 3:47am Fri Sep 10 10Four critical Microsoft is planning another busy Patch Tuesday this month - with nine bulletins that tackle a total of 13 vulnerabilities ready for delivery next Tuesday (14 September).?
Multi-touch iPod nano stripped bare
The Register - 2:59am Fri Sep 10 10Get your heat gun and come inside Photos Apple new sixth-generation iPod touch "is more like a Shuffle with a screen than a Nano with true multi-touch" says Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, the parts-and-repairs website that glories in dissecting electronic devices to discover what makes them tick.?
Budget DSLR Cameras
The Register - 2:59am Fri Sep 10 10Five sharp shooters for budding Baileys Group Test If we at Reg Hardware made DSLRs, we?d be looking nervously over our shoulders, as compact cameras have never been so good. The rise of APS-C EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) cameras, such as the Sony NEX models, promises DSLR-quality without the bulk to carry around. Size matters and Canon now appears to be considering a compact DSLR ? whether we?re headed for a new take on Pentax?s Auto 110 SLR film camera remains to be seen.?
EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party
Slashdot - 1:53am Fri Sep 10 10Spliffster writes "The German Pirate Party has disclosed some secret documents on how the EU is planning to monitor citizens. The so called INDECT Documents describe how a seamless surveillance could (or should) be implemented across Europe. The use of CCTV cameras, the internet (social networks) and even the use of UAVs are mentioned as data sources. Two of the nine documents can be downloaded from the German Pirate Party's website (PDFs in English)." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
8 Amazing Things Made With 3D Printers
digg.com: Top News - 1:04am Fri Sep 10 10Movie theaters and expensive LED TVs aren?t the only tech toys going 3D these days. Lately doctors, hackers, geeks, and architects are using design software and state-of-the art 3D printers to sculpt some truly awesome stuff. 3D printers squirt molten plastic, metal, and even human tissue into shapes previously only possible through hand craftsmanship, if at all!
Swedish Police Shoe Database May Tread On Copyright
Slashdot - 10:54pm Thu Sep 9 10An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish police, who have been instrumental in various raids against file-sharing sites, may have a bit of a piracy problem on their own hands. It seems they wanted to put together a database of shoe print information for matching crime scene shoe prints to particular shoe types. To do so, they used images found online, and some Swedish copyright experts have noted that this appears to violate Swedish copyright law. The police claim there's an exception for police investigations, but people (and some shoe companies) are pointing out that creating a database isn't about an investigation." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Australia's National Broadband Network To Go Ahead
Slashdot - 10:54pm Thu Sep 9 10angry tapir writes "After weeks of a hung parliament following the Australian federal election, the incumbent Labor Party has garnered enough support among independent MPs to form a minority government. Broadband was central to clinching the independents' support. Labor's victory means the $43 billion National Broadband Network will push ahead. The policy has generally been popular among ISPs and telcos — though some rebel operators preferred a policy that emphasized wireless technologies, similar to the proposals put forward by Labor's opponents. The primarily fiber-based NBN is set to offer Australians 1Gbps broadband." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Robots Taught to Deceive
Slashdot - 10:31pm Thu Sep 9 10An anonymous reader found a story that starts "'We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered,' said Ronald Arkin, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Apple Relaxes iOS Development Tool Restrictions
Slashdot - 10:23pm Thu Sep 9 10An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this year Apple caused major upset among developers by updating the iPhone developer program license with clause 3.3.1. It basically stopped the use of cross-platform compilers, meaning Adobe Flash could not be used to develop an app for the App Store. The move also put into doubt which other development platforms could be used and generally caused a lot of confusion. Apple has just significantly relaxed that policy and allowed for the use of development tools, as long as 'the resulting apps do not download any code.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Email worm wants to party like it's 1999 (almost)
The Register - 8:23pm Thu Sep 9 10'Here you go' A fast-moving email worm that began spreading on Thursday has been able to affect hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, anti-virus provider Symantec warned.?
Oracle sneaks out Solaris 10 refresh
The Register - 7:51pm Thu Sep 9 10Pre-OpenWorld goodies Rather than wait two weeks for its own OpenWorld extravaganza, Oracle has snuck out the long-awaited update to the Solaris 10 operating system. The related Solaris Cluster clustering software and Solaris Studio development tools were also tweaked.?Reg Guide to Enterprise Virtualization - Free Download!
Firefox 4 preview knocks back Jäger shot
The Register - 7:08pm Thu Sep 9 10Buzzed browser races rivals for JavaScript crown Mozilla has released preview builds of Firefox 4 that include JägerMonkey, the new JavaScript engine extension designed to outpace rival engines from the likes of Google and Opera.?
Google search index splits with MapReduce
The Register - 5:51pm Thu Sep 9 10Welds BigTable to file system 'Colossus' Exclusive Google Caffeine ? the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year ? is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpinned the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project, Google is moving on.?
Steve Jobs lectures devs, dodges antitrust action
The Register - 5:30pm Thu Sep 9 10Weeding the walled garden Comment Over two years after the debut of the iTunes App Store, Apple has finally provided developers with guidelines describing what apps are and aren't acceptable for inclusion in what Steve Jobs has called Cupertino's "curated platform."?
Ex-Sun CEO sees rosy future in health
The Register - 4:33pm Thu Sep 9 10Synergies Ahoy! Former Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has opted for the hard life of Silicon Valley startup rather than running another Fortune 500 mega corp into the ground.?
The Man Who Makes Your iPhone
digg.com: Top News - 3:08pm Thu Sep 9 10Foxconn founder Terry Gou might be regarded as Henry Ford reincarnated if only a dozen of his workers hadn't killed themselves this year. An exclusive look inside a postmodern industrial empire
Colleges Discover Foursquare
ABC News: Technology - 1:39pm Thu Sep 9 10Syracuse Univ. is latest college to become a Foursquare checkpoint. Religion and Spirituality - Pentecostalism - Denominations - International Church of the Foursquare Gospel - Christianity