22374098
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kai_hiwatari writes:
IBM has surprisingly thrown its weight behind OpenOffice.org in the OpenOffice.org vs LibreOffice fight. Tomorrow IBM will announce the donation of the source code of their free office suite – IBM Lotus Symphony – to the Apache OpenOffice.org. Now, the ball is in Apache’s court. They will consider IBM’s offer and if they think that it will help OpenOffice.org, they will accept it. If they think otherwise, well, they continue as before.
22352264
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Adobe has been taking quite a bashing from Linux supporters of late. First, there was the issue of them dropping AIR for Linux and then came the bashing because of the lack of updates on the experimental 64-bit Flash for Linux.
Well, guess what! They have just released Flash 11 and it includes native 64-bit support for Linux as well. When they discontinued their experimental 64-bit Flash earlier this year, Adobe promised to release a 64-bit version of Flash for Linux when they release the next major version. They have kept that promise.
22287146
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Chris DiBona, who is the Open Source Manager at Google, has said that Android is the Linux dream come true. He described Android as “the ultimate success story of Linux”.
Do you agree?
22260278
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kai_hiwatari writes:
"A few days back, we reported that Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites. Today James Kim, the General Manager of CO.CC, has taken to the Google Webmaster Forum saying that Google made a mistake because 99.99% of the co.cc websites are clean. He also commented that Google ought to remove Blogspot and Facebook if they want to be fair."
22185080
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Yahoo! has updated its Additional Terms and Conditions and now they have got the right to scan user communications without any restriction. The change in the ATOS, noticed by Which?, is under Section c of Acceptance of Terms of Yahoo!’s Additional Terms of Services.
According to the ATOS, it is the responsibility of the Yahoo! user to warn his contacts that Yahoo! will scan their messages.
22123186
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kai_hiwatari writes:
In what might possibly be the largest websites ban ever in its history, Google has removed more than 11 million domains from its search result.
Google's decision to ban these websites is because of the huge number of spam and phishing websites hosted at this domain. According to a recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the .co.cc domain hosts around 5000 phishing websites.
22108900
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kai_hiwatari writes:
According to the ICE, they have jurisdiction over any website which has a .com and .net TLD. The DNS index for these websites are routed through Verisign, a company based in Virginia USA. According to the ICE, that naturally gives them jurisdiction over all the .com and .net websites.
If a website breaks some US law, the ICE wants to try the owner according to the US laws. To them, it does not matter if a website is hosted in the US or not, it does not even matter even if what the website owner is doing is legal in his country.
22082094
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kai_hiwatari writes:
In emails sent out to the private beta testers of Dolphin Browser 6, they have included the emails address of everyone who have signed up for the beta. According to those who have received the email, the number of email addresses included in the email numbers in the thousands.
21991128
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kai_hiwatari writes:
With the presence that Google has in the internet, it receives a lot of requests from governments around the world to remove certain offensive contents and hand over user information. Google keeps a record of these requests and publishes them, with certain limitations, every six months.
The report is a good source of information on things such as which Google product runs into problem the most, which country has the most problem with Google etc. To make it easier to interpret the data, we have represented in graphical form. Let us take a look.
21979428
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kai_hiwatari writes:
According to an email in the Ubuntu-Devel mailing list, this feature is now available for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” and Ubutnu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" as well — although it is in the testing phase for now. Developer Till Kamppeter sent an email to the mailing list inviting testers to test out his patch that enables AirPrint in Ubuntu.
21949090
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Google today silently launches a new internet service WDYL.com. WDYL stands for “What Do You Love?” The basic idea of the new service is to offer a single point search across different Google Products. The service is live, though seems it will take some time for it to work properly. You can notice "wdyl.com" does not work as it returns a 404 error, so use www.wdyl.com instead .
21854616
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Google has announced that Google Talk calls will now use the Jingle protocol as the primary signaling protocol. Right now, Google Talk calls from GMail, iGoogle and Orkut are already using Jingle. Google will release an update for the Google Talk Android app as well to support the protocol. However, Google has mentioned that they have no plan of updating the Google Talk desktop client for Windows.
21788094
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Last month, Google released an open-source project called WebRTC which aims to enables Real-Time Communications capabilities in the web browsers through simple JavaScript APIs. Now, they have taken the first step towards having WebRTC built into Chrome.
With WebRTC, developers will be able to build voice and video applications using nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology which can challenge services like Skype.
21775642
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kai_hiwatari writes:
Microsoft have rolled out the all new HTML5 version of SkyDrive today. The new SkyDrive, built using HTML5 technologies, has replaced the older version which was built using Silverlight.
Microsoft has put in a lot of work to make the new SkyDrive "faster, easier to navigate and look more beautiful to look at photos". Microsoft claims SkyDrive is much faster now and actions such as navigating into a folder now takes 100-300 milliseconds instead of 6-9 seconds which it usually takes.
