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Apple

Submission + - A Day After Launch, Apple's iCloud Already Having (apple.com)

Submitted by Urbndude
Urbndude writes: It seems that only one day after its official release, some users of Apple's iCloud are having issues connecting to their email. Apple has acknowledged the problem and is working on restoring service. The promise Apple made back in June was that it would be much more reliable then MobileMe, which suffered many outages in its almost 3 year lifespan. Does this mean that iCloud could share the same fate as its predecessor?
Chrome

Submission + - MS 'Impartial' Browser Test A Sham (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "yourbrowsermatters.org might sound like a nice grass-roots Web app for figuring out how secure your browser is, but it's really a test put out by Microsoft — and, not surprisingly, it consistently rates Firefox and Chrome lower than the latest version of IE. Perhaps the most obvious red flag that it's not performing any kind of objective or scientific test is that cross-platform browsers get the exact same score no matter what OS they're running on."
Cloud

Submission + - Microsoft Office365, Hotmail Blacks Out Worldwide (itnews.com.au)

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aesoteric
aesoteric writes: "Microsoft has suffered a major outage that is impacting services including Office365, Windows Live, Hotmail, Live@edu and MSN worldwide. The outage, which has been going for about an hour, has been confirmed by Microsoft who say they are working on a fix. Early speculation has linked it to a major blackout affecting Southern California although this has not been confirmed."
Games

Submission + - Linux 3D games run faster on PC-BSD (phoronix.com)

Submitted by koinu
koinu writes: Phoronix has published benchmarks comparing 3D games on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 and the FreeBSD Linux ABI emulation on the 8.2 release of PC-BSD, which is a desktop variant of FreeBSD. Most results show that the emulated Linux layer on FreeBSD performs better than Linux natively. It is pretty interesting, because most people would expect that an additional abstraction layer would generally slow down the execution of binaries.

Comment The Design and Evolution of C++ (Score 1) 624

by AddisonW (#37304962) Attached to: What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?

The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303

This is the book that turned me into a grown up in the world of computer languages. It is the book that brought unparalleled insight and wisdom into every other computer language book, discussion about computer languages, or actual real world use of computer languages since reading.
Censorship

Submission + - The U.S. Lawmakers Who Would Censor The Internet (activepolitic.com)

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: Coica, Acta, Protectip, Wikileaks, S.978, and H.R. 1981; many forms of censorship have been introduced to U.S. lawmakers. Using only response to constituent letters from U.S. lawmakers, a list of who might be in favor of internet censorship and a list of those opposed to it has been compiled. This is the largest list setup to date. If you like having a free-open internet, you might want to keep an eye on these people: John Cornyn on Protectip, Kay Hutchison on Protectip, Phil Gingrey on H.R. 1981, Richard Durbin on S.978, Richard Blumenthal on Protectip, John Cornyn on S.978, Scott Brown on S.978, Scott Brown on Protectip, Scott Brown on Coica and acta, Adam Smith on Protectip, Jim McGovern on Protectip, Jim McGovern on H.R. 1981, Dianne Feinstein on Protectip, Michael Bennet on Protectip, John Yarmuth on Protectip, Robert Mendez on Protectip, Michael C. Burgess on Protectip, Saxby Chambliss on Protectip, Al Franken on Protectip, Al Franken on Coica, Robert Menendez on Protectip, Patrick Leahy on Protectip, Richard Durbin on Coica, Tom Udall on Coica, Barbara Boxer on Coica.

In defense of your internet freedoms, only a few have spoken out: Joe Heck on S.978, Ron Johnson on Protectip, Bernie Sanders on Acta, Ron Paul on Wikileaks, Ron Wyden on Protectip, Ron Wyden on Coica.

And many more left neutral responses. The full report can be seen here.
Cellphones

Submission + - Lawsuit: Windows Phone 7 Spies On Users (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "Microsoft wants to emulate the success of the iPhone, but they probably didn't want to follow in Apple's footsteps this way: a class action lawsuit claims that Windows Phone 7 is collecting location data on users, even when they request that it stop. But a look at the internals shows that Microsoft might not be acting as Big Brother-ish as it appears."
Google

Submission + - Apple Claims Samsung and Motorola Patent Monopoly (dailytech.com)

Submitted by esocid
esocid writes: Apple lawyers are crying foul about Samsung, and the recent Google's acquisition of Motorola's allegedly "anticompetitive," use of patents. Apparently Apple is irate about these companies' countersuits, which rely largely on patents covering wireless communications, many of which are governed by the "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" (F/RAND) principle, as they were developed as part of industry standards. Apple takes issue with the fact that Motorola in its countersuit declines to differentiate the 7 F/RAND patents in its 18 patent collection. Regardless of what Florian Mueller says, it's hard to dispute that the "rules" of F/RAND are largely community dictated and ambiguous.
Florian Meuller also states that Motorola's patents won't help Android, and thinks Samsung is still a copycat.

Submission + - Slashdot Dead or Dying? (foxnews.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: OK, really? Who made this list up? Slashdot on the Dead or Dying list? So much for quality reporting.

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