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Submission + - Apple cuts price of iPhone $200 - users irate (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

BotFodder

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @09:06AM

BotFodder writes: "Steve Jobs is reported as saying that users are happy with their shiny new (like, what, 3 months old?) iPhones. And he's so happy that they're happy, so he's dropping the price a whopping $200. Reaction to that has been less than "happy"."

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Feed The Register: Germany enacts controversial 'anti-hacker' law (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:32AM

Will the last security expert to leave Germany kindly turn off the lights

Germany has introduced draconian anti-hacker measures that criminalise the creation or possession of dual-use security tools.

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Submission + - SCO owes Novel 95 percent of UNIX royalties (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

unixguy56

on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:11AM

unixguy56 writes: "Its finally the end of SCO. A Federal Judge has ruled that SCO never owned Unix copyrights and will have to Pay 95 percent of UNIX Royalties."

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Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard? 369

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:22PM from the what's-wrong-with-jpeg dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft has submitted their HD Photo to the JPEG committee: 'Microsoft's ongoing attempt to establish its own photo format as a JPEG alternative (and potential successor) took another step forward today when the JPEG standards group agreed to consider HD Photo (originally named Windows Media Photo) as a standard. If successful, the new file standard will be known as JPEG XR.' Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the specification available without charge.' While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed). Is this a big of an issue as ODF/OOXML?"

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Submission + - Dell begins their largest layoff ever. 3

Submitted by cyphercell on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:59PM

cyphercell writes: Dell has begun their largest series of layoffs ever. This morning at about 10:00am more than two hundred employees at Dell's Roseburg Oregon Call center found out that they no longer had jobs. Sparking what appears to be the beginning of year long run of layoffs for the company. http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070802/NEWS/7 0802014

Refuting local suspicions of malice Dell spokesman David Frink states:

... the closure has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by employees of the Roseburg center in February, claiming Dell violated federal and state wage and hour laws.
http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070213/NEWS/7 0213020

and later says

...plans to reduce employment worldwide by 10 percent at the end of May.

Their plans to reduce employment can be found here:
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business /stories/technology/06/01/1dell.html

Here are some highlights:

Dell set to shed 8,800 workers...

Dell has 82,200 permanent workers, including 18,000 in Central Texas, and 5,300 temporary workers worldwide. The layoffs are expected to affect both groups...

In its last large-scale layoffs, Dell cut more than 5,000 jobs in Austin after the high-tech bust in 2001.

...many of the layoffs could come in Central Texas, where Dell is headquartered. In a March 29 report to clients, Goldman Sachs analysts said Dell might reduce the work force at its test and assembly facilities in the U.S. and Malaysia.

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LAIR Pushed To Next Month 50

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:42PM from the bad-news-for-the-station dept.

LAIR, the much-anticipated title featuring combat from dragon-back, is a very important title for Sony and the PlayStation 3. Its the first of the AAA slated for the end of the year for the trailing platform ... and so far things don't look good for the title. Now, the company has announced that LAIR has been delayed until early in September. "Due to an extra step in QA testing to enhance the community features in the game, the release of LAIR, originally set for August 14th, has changed to September 4, 2007. Natural challenges that arose while finalizing the offline game to include key online features - such as leaderboards and medal systems - have led to the difficult choice of pushing back the release date. We appreciate everyone's excitement and patience for the game and look forward to its release on September 4."

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Introducing the Slashdot Firehose 320

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:33PM from the who-wants-to-drink-from-the-firehose dept.

Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose. Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out. It's partially a collaborative news system, partially a redesigned & dynamic next-generation Slashdot index. It's got a lot of really cool features, and a lot of equally annoying new problems for us to find and fix for the next few weeks. I've attached a rough draft of the FAQ to the end of this article. A quick read of it will probably answer most questions from how it works, what all the color codes mean, to what we intend to do with it.

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