The Pirate Bay is literally taking digital piracy to the next dimension, and the process has already begun. The online downloading company told users last month that in addition to the requisite slate of movies, music, and TV show content it offered through means of copyright infringement, it wanted to add files that could be [...]
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The Pirate Bay makes good on 3D pirated content
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How would you change the Motorola Droid RAZR?
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Phones, phones, phones: the burden of autumnal launches for a raft of handsets is that it makes our post-mortem strand a little repetitive. This week’s cellular telephone du-jour is Motorola’s Droid RAZR, a “7.1mm thick” slab that hopes you neither notice nor mention that 10.6mm hump on the top end. Ludicrous claims about its waistline aside, it oozes materials quality, built from Gorilla Glass, Kevlar and diamond-cut aluminum. It wasn’t the most comfortable to hold in our fleshy palm, but it compensated for that with great performance and LTE. Of course, that battery could have been bigger, but where would you stick it? What would you sacrifice (and you do have to sacrifice something) in order to improve this handset? Ladies and gentlemen, it’s over to you.
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Sony’s ModNation Racers on PS Vita already on sale at Walmart
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You won’t be able to do anything with it for nearly three weeks, but if you feel so inclined you might be able to go down to your local Walmart and pick up a PlayStation Vita game. There are reports of the launch title ModNation Racers: Road Trip already being stocked on the shelves of [...]
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: electric taxis, paper robots and a cathedral of 55,000 LEDs
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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.
This week Inhabitat saw the light as we reported on several spellbinding new projects around the world — including an incredible cathedral made from 55,000 LEDs and a glowing prefab pod building modeled after the genetic structure of plankton. We also showcased a luminous forest of thousands of “Frozen Trees” and a high-flying F-Light made from a recycled airplane, and also reported on Toshiba expanding its line of LEDs. Meanwhile, as the lights fire up Lucas Oil Stadium we shared seven ways Super Bowl 46 is going green, took a look at the first organic concessions ever to offered at a Super Bowl, and got things cooking with six delicious recipes for game time snacks
Eco transportation also blasted off from the starting line as London’s first zero-emission electric taxis hit the streets, and Stanford unveiled plans for electrified roads that automatically charge EVs. We also saw Scotland launch the world’s first hybrid sea-going ferries, while Agence 360 did cyclists a favor by designing a nifty ultra-compact foldable bike helmet. Meanwhile, Chevrolet announced plans to put environmental impact stickers on all of their cars by 2013, the sun-powered solarGT car set off on a race across the United States, and we brought you a gorgeous set of long-exposure photos that make speeding trains look like laser beams.
In other news, renewable energy was a hot topic this week as researchers at MIT found a way to make solar panels from grass clippings, another team of scientists developed a hip-hop powered biomedical sensor and Britain mulled plans to install a new breed of radioactive waste-recycling nuclear reactors that could power the UK for 500 years. We also brought you several fun designs for aspiring little builders – a set of awesome paper robots and an industrial workbench for tots. Finally, since Valentine’s day is around the corner we shared 10 red-hot gifts, along with 14 sexy sustainable skivvies.
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iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst
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Sorry Steve, it’s not post-PC, it’s PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O’Donnell.
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The Super Bowl ads: Tech winners and losers (first half)
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Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here’s a detailed analysis, written as it happened.
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Ask Slashdot: How Is Online Engineering Coursework Viewed By Employers?
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New submitter KA.7210 writes “I am an employed mechanical engineer, having worked with the same company since graduation from college 5 years ago. I am looking to increase my credentials by taking more engineering courses, potentially towards a certificate or a full master’s degree. Going to school full time is not an option, and there is only one engineering school near me that offers a program that resembles what I wish to study, and also has the courses at night. Therefore, I have begun to look at online options, and it appears there are many legitimate, recognizable schools offering advanced courses in my area of interest. My question to Slashdot readers out there is: how do employers view degrees/advanced credentials obtained online, when compared to the more typical in-person education? Does anyone have specific experience with this situation? The eventual degree itself will have no indication that it was obtained online, but simple inference will show that it was not likely I maintained my employment on the east coast while attending school in-person on the west coast. I wish to invest my time wisely, and hope that some readers out there have experience with this issue!”
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Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections
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An anonymous reader writes “The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is sponsoring an online, open innovation challenge to search for creative answers to the question: ‘How might we design an accessible election experience for everyone?’ The goal is to develop ideas for how to make elections more accessible to everyone, especially people with disabilities.”
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Philatelists Push Petition For Pluto Probe Postage
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Hugh Pickens writes “Space.com reports that an online petition directed at the USPS and its Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) hopes to collect 100,000 signatures or more by March 13, the 82nd anniversary of the announcement of Pluto’s discovery as the New Horizons robotic spacecraft gets closer to flyby Pluto and its moons in 2015. ‘This is a chance for us all to celebrate what American space exploration can achieve though hard work, technical excellence, the spirit of scientific inquiry, and the uniquely human drive to explore,’ reads the petition. Whether or not the New Horizons team is successful in getting the USPS to honor their spacecraft’s mission, the probe will have delivered a stamp to Pluto. New Horizons includes nine stowaways including one of the 1991 ‘Not Yet Explored’ Pluto stamps together with other mementos including a Florida quarter, a small container with an ounce of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, and a small segment of 2004 Ansari X Prize winner SpaceShipOne, the first privately-funded crewed spacecraft. ‘Why nine mementos? I bet you can guess,’ says Dr. Alan Stern, New Horizons’ Principal Investigator adding why he wanted to send one of the Pluto stamps on the mission. ‘Pluto may not have been explored when that stamp set came out, but we were going to conquer that,’ says Stern. ‘I wanted to fly it as a sort of ‘in your face’ thing.’”
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Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Enterprise Version
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Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid,‘ which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consumer tech space. A few days ago, Greylock Partner John Lilly echoed MG’s thoughts, explaining that simplicity is quite simply very hard to beat. While this doctrine has been applied tonconsumer technology products like Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter and most famously, Apple; reinforcing simplicity in the product thought process is becoming an ever-present part of enterprise technology as well.
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Ahead Of Its IPO On The NYSE, Yelp Shows Growing Losses
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It may now be obscured by all the hoopla surrounding Facebook’s going public, but back in November the popular user-generated review site, Yelp, filed to go public and planned to raise $ 100 million ahead of its IPO (at an expected $ 1 to $ 2 billion valuation). On Friday, Yelp filed an amended S-1 that shows that the company plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “YELP.”
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Remembering Sealab
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An anonymous reader writes “‘Some people remember Sealab as being a classified program, but it was trying not to be,’ says Ben Hellwarth, author of the new book Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor, which aims to ‘bring some long overdue attention to the marine version of the space program.’ In the 1960s, the media largely ignored the efforts of America’s aquanauts, who revolutionized deep-sea diving and paved the way for the underwater construction work being done today on offshore oil platforms. It didn’t help that the public didn’t understand the challenges of saturation diving; in a comical exchange a telephone operator initially refuses to connect a call between President Johnson and Aquanaut Scott Carpenter, (who sounded like a cartoon character, thanks to the helium atmosphere in his pressurized living quarters). But in spite of being remembered as a failure, the final incarnation of Sealab did provide cover for a very successful Cold War spy program.”
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Switching between Android 4.0 ICS and iPhone 4S
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When you switch from an Android phone over to the iPhone or vice versa, there are a few adjustments you’ll have to make. The difference between the two, no matter which versions of the software you’re dealing with, are much smaller than the difference between either and any other software. Windows Phone, Symbian, any number [...]
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Micron appoints COO Durcan as CEO after Appleton’s death
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Memory company Micron Technology has appointed Mark Durcan as its new CEO, quickly replacing the former CEO Steve Appleton who died in a plane crash on Friday.
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EMC launches ‘Project Lightning’ PCIe cards
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EMC today announced the availability of its ‘Project Lightning’ PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to increase I/O performance.
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Apple Schooled Music Execs Then, Here Are The Lessons Online Video Should Learn Now
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Apple’s all-in-one physical flat-screen iTV is coming, make no mistake. And, when it does, it will represent Apple’s attempt to reinvent the television experience in much the same way it did for music. But, while media execs were hopelessly naive in Apple’s presence back then, they feel they are ready this time. They are determined not to let Apple rule the premium online video world like they did (and still do) for online music. The question is, do they have the will?
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Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers
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An anonymous reader writes “Google is at daggers end with a law firm it’s been using since 2008, after discovering that lawyers in the law firm, named Pepper Hamilton LLP, were representing a patent licensing business that sued Google’s Android partners last month. Google has claimed that Pepper Hamilton LLP never provided notice that it was hired by Digitude Innovations LLC, the firm that filed patent infringement complaints against Google’s business allies.”
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Kia offers 5 hours of Adriana Lima for Super Bowl
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How many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both?
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Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics
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Women around the world, fed up with Facebook’s policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.
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Bang!
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The Artist parades its conceit at every turn of its familiar romance. We’re doing this no sound thing for you because it’s good for you. Things will work out fine. The dog needs no dialogue. The music tells you what to feel. It’s already half over, and besides, it’s already better than the last five movies you’ve seen.
Google Search + parades its conceit at every turn. It’s free, so we can improve it any way we want. We’re already reading everything you write in Gmail, so now we’re blurring the metadata into one big data pool so we can better read your mind and sell the results back to marketers. It’s OK because Facebook already does this. We’d add all the other networks if they would just let us have their data too. And besides, we’re doing this.
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Micron appoints Mark Durcan as new CEO
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In the wake of last week’s fatal plane crash that took the life of its CEO, Micron Technology has appointed a successor, Mark Durcan. The former CTO has been with the company since 1984, and has — per company bylaws — been serving as interim chief since February 3rd. Robert Switz, the company’s previous Board Director, will assume the duties of Board Chairman and Mark Adams, formerly the VP of Worldwide Sales, has been named as the company’s President. In a press release announcing the appointments, the new CEO wrote that the company was “deeply saddened” to learn of the death of its top executive, and that the management team would work relentlessly to “continue to move the company forward.”
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White House Pushes Green Button To Liberate Your Energy Data
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The future of easy home energy monitoring may be a little bit closer, thanks to a government initiative designed to allow consumers direct access to their energy consumption data.
The White House’s new Green Button gives utilities a way to simplify and standardize sharing usage statistics with their customers via a one-click download. Two California providers, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric, already launched the feature, adding what is literally a green button to their websites. Utility companies in other regions are expected to implement it within the next year. Customers can click the button to download their personal usage information in one place.
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Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months In Prison
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wiredmikey writes “A hacker who tried to land an IT job at Marriott by hacking into the company’s computer systems, and then unwisely extorting the company into hiring him, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. The hacker started his malicious quest to land a job at Marriott by sending an email to Marriott containing documents taken after hacking into Marriott servers to prove his claim. He then threatened to reveal confidential information he obtained if Marriott did not give him a job in the company’s IT department. He was granted a job interview, but little did he know, Marriott worked with the U.S. Secret Service to create a fictitious Marriott employee for use by the Secret Service in an undercover operation to communicate with the hacker. He then was flown in for a face-to-face ‘interview’ where he admitted more and shared details of how he hacked in. He was then arrested and he pleaded guilty back in November 2011. Marriott claims the incident cost the company between $ 400,000 and $ 1 million in salaries, consultant expenses and other costs.”
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What if the Vita had an Apple logo instead of Sony’s?
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CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy looks at Sony’s Playstation Vita through Apple goggles.
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New York Giants Web site says they’ve already won Super Bowl
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In an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants’ Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners’ memorabilia for sale.
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Designing for Mobile: 7 Guidelines for Startups to Follow
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As an investor, I’ve seen hundreds of mobile application pitches. And as a consumer, I’ve downloaded hundreds more – some out of curiosity and others in the hope that I’ll find something so useful and exciting that I’ll make room for it on my iPhone’s home screen.
From both perspectives, I am rarely excited by download numbers. What gets my attention is engagement: how frequently an application is used and how engaged users are. This ultimately is the barometer for an application’s utility and/or strength of community. And if either of those two factors are strong: growth will certainly come. Just ask Instagram, Evernote, LogMeIn and others.
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Refresh Roundup: week of January 30, 2012
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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
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U.S. researchers discover new species of crocodile dubbed ‘Shieldcroc’ dating back 95 million years
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Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success
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Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerberg in his early 20s as CEO, Facebook investor Peter Thiel said: “Well, we’ll wait until he’s over 25 to file”. Wise move, considering that Mark’s title on his business cards read “I’m CEO, bitch”.
This week Facebook filed its S-1 to go public. Mark is 27. How Mark managed to launch a social networking site after Friendster had crashed during MySpace’s zenith has been widely chronicled. What’s been less discussed is how Mark mastered the six requirements to succeed, namely Ambition, Vision, Determination, Execution, Luck and Timing.
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Will Monster’s new in-ear headphone dazzle audiophiles?
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Monster may have gone too far with the bling factor, but its new Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude in-ear headphones sound sweet.
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Ex-FCC Chair: Spectrum Plan “Single Worst Telecom Bill I’ve Seen”
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alphadogg writes “Former FCC chairman Reed Hundt made waves when he called the House spectrum auction legislation ‘the single worst telecom bill’ he’s seen. The legislation, which would severely restrict the FCC’s ability to place conditions on spectrum auctions, is seen as a non-starter in the Senate where a bipartisan group of senators including John Kerry (D — Mass.) and Jerry Moran (R — Kan.) have signaled strong opposition to the House approach to authorizing spectrum auctions. In this interview, Hundt outlines his major objections to the House bill and describes what he would do differently to make more spectrum available.”
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Microsoft’s ‘Xbox Live cop’ has resigned
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The man who was in charge of deciding who should live and who should die (in the world of Xbox Live gamertags, that is) has stepped down from his position after nearly 18 years at Microsoft. Stephen Toulouse will no longer be the Xbox Live policy and enforcement director. Toulouse was responsible for making sure [...]
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Website can find your exact location with your phone number
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Engadget Mobile Podcast 124 – 02.05.2012
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There are Samsung phones, there are Motorola phones. There are BlackBerry Phones, there are Nokia phones. But you know what really gets us excited? KDDI phones with ten keys and heart of Japanese Gold. It’s the Engadget Mobile Podcast.
Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen
Guests: Joseph Volpe, Dante Cesa
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Tycho – Coastal Brake (Ghostly International)
00:00:59 – Galaxy Nexus and other CDMA devices removed from Google Support pages
00:03:58 – Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx review
00:20:36 – LG Spectrum review
00:29:55 – BLU Studio 5.3 and Touch Book 7.0 hands-on
00:35:30 – Distro Issue 26: Smartwatch face-off, Ryan Block and more
00:36:40 – Samsung Galaxy S III to get separate launch event ‘in the first half of 2012′
00:36:40 – Samsung Galaxy S III to get separate launch event ‘in the first half of 2012′
01:06:38 – Samsung Galaxy Note available at AT&T February 19th for $ 300, pre-orders begin February 5th
01:14:00 – Sprint Galaxy Nexus registration page gets served up by Google
01:22:48 – Windows Phone 8 detailed: dual cores, Skype Integration and NFC are a go
01:44:37 – Google’s ‘Bouncer’ service scans the Android Market for malware, will judge you at the door
01:50:25 – HTC Ville gets hands-on en Francais, is presumably practicing its Spanish for MWC (video)
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PlayStation Network moniker sacked, falls under Sony Entertainment Network umbrella on Feb. 7
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Listen up, those of you with PlayStation Network IDs. Sony Computer Entertainment International has announced that, as of February 7th, the PSN will fold into its existing Sony Entertainment Network. The company has aimed the move at clearly unifying the services of PSN and SEN, such as Music Unlimited. Fret not, however, as Joystiq notes that the change is basically a looks-only affair, meaning your current account information and related services will remain the same. Notably, the moniker refresh won’t apply to the PSP, which will curiously remain under the PSN moniker for network services. The news comes as a part of SCEI’s updated Terms of Service and privacy policy, both of which take effect on the same day. Those changes, by the way, appear to mainly be regarding location-based services for PS Vita, and parental controls for sub-master accounts. After all of the bad times PSN has been through, its upcoming SEN identity might just be the new outlook on (online) life it needed all along — and hopefully with less downtime. Hit up the source link below for the full details.
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LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust
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New submitter someWebGeek writes “LibreOffice, the community-driven fork of OpenOffice, appears to have a very healthy and growing group of code contributors. The Document Foundation has published new stats that portray the climbing rates of developer involvement both in terms of numbers of people and numbers of code commits. One of the most encouraging aspects, as noted by Ryan Paul in an article at Ars, is that non-corporate code contributions by independent volunteers constitute the largest slice of the latest commit-pie.”
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Algorithms/Data vs. Analysts/Reports: Fight!
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Quick, what’s the second most traded commodity in the world, after oil? Sorry, no: it’s not coffee. In fact, while hard data is scant, it may well be — of all things — carbon. No, really. According to the World Bank (PDF) , the global carbon market was worth a whopping 1.42 Facebooks US$ 142 billion in 2010.
Mind you, it’s not like container ships weighed down to the gills with graphite are crossing and recrossing the Pacific every week. What we’re actually talking about here is the trade in carbon offsets, ie, the absence of carbon. Very Zen, no? Anyway, techies should be comfortable with this notion; I seem to recall spending less time studying electrons than I did “holes,” ie their absence, while acquiring my EE degree.
Anyway, where there’s a $ twelve-figures market, there are startups fighting for a share. In particular, there’s a bit of a war on to see who will be the primary aggregator of carbon-market data. On one side, dominating the market, I give you the Goliaths Point Carbon, a tentacle of the Thomson Reuters kraken, providing “independent news, analysis and consulting services for European and global power, gas and carbon markets,” and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, doing much the same. On the other, I give you plucky little David eCO2Market, a Paris-based startup with an algorithmic sling.
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Apple Overturns Motorola’s German iPad and iPhone Sales Bans
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SpuriousLogic sends this excerpt from a BBC article detailing the suspension of a sales ban on certain Apple products in Germany:
“Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store [yesterday] after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new license payment offer. However, Germany-based users may still face the loss of their push email iCloud service after a separate ruling. ‘A suspension like this is available only against a bond, but Apple is almost drowning in cash and obviously won’t have had a problem with obtaining and posting a bond.’ … A statement from Apple said: ‘All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly.’”
Reader DJRumpy points out that Motorola is seeking royalties of 2.25% for Apple’s wireless devices in exchange for a license to use Motorola’s patents.
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Gillmor Gang 02.04.12 (TCTV)
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The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — trembled in the face of Facebook’s IPO and all-out war on the open Web, also known as Google. Me, I go back to Bill Gates during the DOJ deposition when he basically said we don’t need no steenkin’ breakup when Google will come along and be invented.
@kevinmarks makes a good college (fitting) try of defending the open schmopen set, while none of us seem to notice Social Spring just keeps on rolling over conventional wisdom. Me, I’m pretty jacked up waiting for what this means for Twitter. Go Giants!
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Google Pulls Support For CDMA Devices
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An anonymous reader writes “Google has just made some interesting changes to their developer pages. As of today, all of the documentation, source code, and firmware images pertaining to CDMA Android devices (including the Verizon Galaxy Nexus) have been removed. A statement from Google explains that the proprietary software required to make these devices fully functional got in the way of Android’s open source nature, so CDMA devices are no longer supported as developer hardware. What does this mean for the Galaxy Nexus, which is only available as CDMA in the U.S.?”
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An Arab Spring For IT
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Change in the air. It’s palpable.
Those of us in the technology world are witnessing a transformation: a buyer-led revolution in how information technology is both produced and consumed. Smartphones and tablets are upsetting the PC order; social applications are impinging on traditional “workforce productivity” and communications applications.
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Are composite pickup trucks in our future?
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Transportation design firm Motive Industries released sketches of what a pickup made of composite material could look like.
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Roland’s iModela 3D milling machine: it’s a crafty tool
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3D printing. Sure, that’s pretty neat, but there are other ways to make three dimensional objects at home. Roland’s new iModela, for example, is an “affordable” ($ 899) digital hobby mill that can carve 3D shapes, jewelry, textures and prototypes out of balsa wood, foam, modelling wax and plastics. Projects definitely need to be more on the petite side, but the 3.39inch x 2.17inch x 1.02inch milling area should be good for a wide range of small craft creations. The iModela comes with all the cutting tools, software and materials you need to get started, but if you’ve already been tinkering with ideas, there’s also compatibility with other “popular” CAD software. Want to get making right away? Tap the source, or hit the PR after the break for more info.
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Apple’s week brings new hire, court rulings, iPod spy shots
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Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories (and then some) in this week’s Apple Talk Weekly.
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EMC ramps up flash game with VFCache, ‘Thunder’ appliance
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EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology.
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Vimeo app lands for Windows Phone, lets you upload your next student film over 3G
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Hello there Mango fans, is YouTube just a little too lowbrow for you? Well, fret not, Vimeo is here to stream all the HD student shorts your little Microsoft-loving heart desires. The official app doesn’t just let you browse, search and view clips on the site, though — it completely integrates with your account, allowing you to upload HD video, tweak the details of your uploads and even check stats. Basically, with this app in your pocket there’s almost no reason to visit the desktop site ever again. Of course, the prerequisite sharing features are also included, because, what good is capturing and uploading all this lovely video if you can’t tweet it out to all your friends. Check out the gallery below and hit up the source to download it for free from the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Gallery: Vimeo for Windows Phone
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Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s
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An anonymous reader writes “The NY Times recently ran a story on the discovery of a cache of wax cylinder records, recorded in Europe in the 1880s, of Otto von Bismarck, Helmuth von Moltke, and various musicians. ‘In June 1889, Edison sent Wangemann to Europe, initially to ensure that the phonograph at the Paris World’s Fair remained in working order. After Paris, Wangemann toured his native Germany, recording musical artists and often visiting the homes of prominent members of society who were fascinated with the talking machine. Until now, the only available recording from Wangemann’s European trip has been a well-known and well-worn cylinder of Brahms playing an excerpt from his first Hungarian Dance. That recording is so damaged “that many listeners can scarcely discern the sound of a piano, which has in turn tarnished the reputations of both Wangemann and the Edison phonograph of the late 1880s,” Dr. Feaster said. “These newly unearthed examples vindicate both.”‘”
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Netflix partners with eyeIO to reduce bandwidth pressure
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on February 5, 2012
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Netflix has become the first client of a new, ambitious startup that promises to offer streaming video content with a significantly reduced bandwidth requirement. In fact, eyeIO says it will cut the amount of bandwidth needed by Netflix streams by more than 50%. With this, the company could potentially further expand its scope on an [...]
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High-tech way to get enough orange juice
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on February 5, 2012
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The Commercial Juicer at Hammacher Schlemmer offers regular consumers the opportunity to upgrade their home juicing volume. For a price.
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Zuckerberg’s taxes on IPO? How about $2 billion
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on February 5, 2012
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The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $ 2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he’s not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.
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