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| Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 08:19 AM EST |
| BBC Now we know
who is behind the government's new policy on IT teaching in schools. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 08:25 AM EST |
| Apple boss Tim Cook in
massive pay cut (BBC) I can't say that I am surprised, although it is a
very much larger cut than I have ever imagined was possible. I can think of
another CEO who may be having a similar cut soon, if he manages to keep his job.
That will not be good for the furniture industry.... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 08:50 AM EST |
Cool idea! Link.
A lamp for $5 that does not require any
electrical
power source?
It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers
in
London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a
cheap way for
people in developing countries to light homes,
recharge batteries, or power a
radio. And they just exceeded
their Indiegogo fundraising goal by more than 500
percent
with 21 days left in their campaign, so they’ll have the
resources to
mass-produce the light for less than $5 a unit.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 12:02 PM EST |
| You didn't read the Form 20-F which Nokia Corporation filed with the USA
Securities and Exchanges Commission on 11 March, 2011? Tomi Ahonen did. At the
time he remarked how many of the possible problems that Nokia warned might come
true, he was in fact already convinced would also come true, and now we see
from the evidence, that they also have indeed come true.A lengthy blog writing [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: hAckz0r on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 04:03 PM EST |
| From EDN Electronics Magazine; Unified Extensible Firmware Interface boot option
problems when upgrading to
Win8.
Challenge #1 - Connecting your system disk to another MB port and
Windows is not available!
Windows will not boot until you connect the drive
back to the original port or change the device number record in the Windows Boot
Manager entry
Challenge #2 – You cannot boot Windows copy on EFI-based
computer
you will need to update this [UEFI GUID] record in order to get
Windows back on [its] rails.
Sounds like I'm missing all the fun.
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The Investors IP Law: The future health of a Corporation is
measured as the inverse of the number of IP lawsuits they are currently
litigating. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 04:34 PM EST |
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/01/how-do-
you-know-if-your-strategy-has-failed-the-nokia-form-20-f-
submitted-to-the-ny-stock-exchange-e.html
Start Quote:
MARKET SHARES OF NOKIA AND MICROSOFT IN SMARTPHONES
Year 2010 . Nokia 35% . . MS 4% . . Partnerhsip 39%
Q1 2011 . . Nokia 24% . . MS 3% . . Partnerhsip 27% *
Q2 2011 . . Nokia 15% . . MS 3% . . Partnerhsip 18% **
Q3 2011 . . Nokia 14% . . MS 2% . . Partnerhsip 16%
Q4 2011 . . Nokia 12% . . MS 2% . . Partnerhsip 14% ***
Q1 2012 . . . Nokia 8% . . MS 3% . . Partnerhsip 11%
Q2 2012 . . . Nokia 7% . . MS 3% . . Partnerhsip 10%
Q3 2012 . . . Nokia 4% . . MS 2% . . Partnerhsip 6%
Q4 2012 . . . Nokia 3% . . MS 1% . . Partnerhsip 4% ****
(est)
Notes:
* Nokia+Microsoft partnership announced
** Microsoft buys Skype
*** Nokia launches Lumia on Windows Phone
**** Microsoft released Windows Phone 8 including on two
Nokia Lumia phones
Note 2 the data for Q4 is estimate by TomiAhonen
Forecasting, based on preliminary analysis and data by
Kantar on November smartphone sales in selected markets
All the above data may be freely shared
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: albert on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 04:55 PM EST |
| They will be drawn and quoted. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Ouch! n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 06:40 PM EST
- Oy... - Authored by: red floyd on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 11:51 PM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 05:00 PM EST |
NY Times
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 05:33 PM EST |
Which is more likely to be a psychopath, a Chef, or a Beautician?
boingboing.com
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 06:20 PM EST |
"When Steven Vicinanza got a letter in the mail earlier
this year informing
him that he needed to pay $1,000 per
employee for a license to some
“distributed computer
architecture” patents, he didn’t quite believe it at
first".
"The letter seemed to be saying anyone using a modern
office scanner to scan documents to e-mail would have to pay
—which is to say,
just about any business, period." link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 06:50 PM EST |
My Raspberry Pi arrived today. Going to set it up, and play with it tonight.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: N_au on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 12:10 AM EST |
| Just read this article Apple patents method to
bend glass
How backward are the people who work for this mob. Haven't
they seen bent glass before? That is the way they have made windscreens for cars
for years for for example. And it has to be perfect with no distortions. I know
it is now different because, wait for it!! It is on a phone!!! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jsoulejr on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 09:35 AM EST |
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 11:10 AM EST |
Link.
Summary: The iPad's Web
usage share took a
battering during December as people unwrapped, and started
to use Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Nexus
tablets.
You will note in that report that some poor
suckers ended
up with a Surface tablet under the tree. They will be
returning
those shortly as they encounter defects, or simply
can't figure out the UI. The
Windows Phone, however, did not
even receive an honourable mention when it came
to phone
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 11:15 AM EST |
Charlie Osborne over at ZDNet tells us Samsung
will begin selling smartphones that
feature the Tizen
operating system this year.
Tizen is an
open-source operating system
which is based on Linux, coming into being after
the demise
of Nokia's MeeGo. After acquiring development partners
including
Microsoft, Samsung and Intel, the OS has become an
alternative solution to
operating systems such as Android or
Apple's iOS. Overseen by the Linux
Foundation, the operating
system was considered to be more open, although there
are a
number of restrictions in place to stop tampering with the
underlying
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| Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 03:48 AM EST |
MPLA patents are how Microsoft prevented Linux and other FOSS platforms from
challenging them in the '90s. In a multimedia world having a patent-encumbered
video codec implemented by every device meant that FOSS couldn't legally play.
This was worked around by distros that didn't provide the codecs, but downloaded
them on demand. It wasn't legal in the US, but it worked.
Now Google has given
us good codecs we can freely use without breaking the law. That's a good thing
as we like to comply when we can. It cost them many millions of dollars to do
that and I, for one, am thankful.
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