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Submission + - SPAM: Garmin Nuvifone: iPhone wannabee or breakthrough p

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WirePosted writes: "The airwaves are buzzing with news of yet another iPhone challenger, the Garmin Nuvifone, a touchscreen handheld that attempts to bring together the best of GPS navigation and phone functions, with web browsing and entertainment thrown in. The Nuvifone is not slated for release until Q3 but everything about it from its 3.5 inch touch screen menu based display to the way users place calls smacks of iPhone copy. That said, the Nuviphone does promise to deliver a number of things not available on the iPhone — yet."
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Windows

Submission + - Vista SP1 due Monday

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headkase
headkase writes: "Tech ARP brings word that the long awaited Service Pack 1 Final for Windows Vista is due to be released on Monday, February 4th, 2008. Initially it will only be available in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. Another version will be release one to two weeks later that supports all 36 basic languages."
Movies

HD DVD Group Cancels CES Meetings

Posted by Zonk from the lights-are-growing-dim dept.
The announcement that Warner Bros. is no longer backing the HD DVD format was bad enough. It appears speculation about the larger impact of the announcement has hit home with other backers of the medium. The HD-DVD group has cancelled their CES meetings as a result. "In a mass email to CES attendees, a representative for the group said they are 'currently discussing the potential impact of this announcement with the other HD DVD partner companies and evaluating next steps.' If these 'next steps' don't include lining the pockets of every remaining film publisher on the market to convince them your format's still viable, HD DVD could go the way of the Betamax with a quickness." Could we be seeing the end of this chapter in the format war already?
Microsoft

Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures 365

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-a-lot-of-cash dept.
Rogue Pat writes "Microsoft ended three years of resistance on Monday and finally agreed to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission. Competitors will be able to buy interface protocols for 10.000 Euro to make their software work better with Windows. Moreover, Microsoft won't appeal the 500 million Euro fine any further."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft finally bows to EU antitrust measures

Submitted by Rogue Pat
Rogue Pat writes: From the Reuters press article: "Microsoft ended three years of resistance on Monday and finally agreed to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission."

From other news sources: Competitors will be able to buy interface protocols for 10.000 Euro to make their software work better with Windows. Moreover, Microsoft won't appeal the 500 million Euro fine any further.
Displays

LG Phillips Patents Oil and Water Display 90

Posted by kdawson from the mixing-it-up dept.
jordanhh writes "Tech.co.uk reports that LG Phillips has filed a patent for a new type of thin, flexible display. 'The pixels are made from tiny plastic cells filled with minute amounts of oil and water. The oil floats on the surface of the water and shrouds the colored surface underneath it. When electricity is applied across the cell, the oil moves aside, changing the color of the pixel.'"
Handhelds

Submission + - Windows Mobile 6 release date for htc products?

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ratkid2271
ratkid2271 writes: "I recently read a slashdot article about windows mobile 6 being released in august for HTC products. I searched around on the at&t site and found them saying 3rd Quarter 07, i searched on the htc site and couldn't find anything. I was wondering if anyone was able to find release dates for WM6 and for which products they were specific to?"
Security

Submission + - One-liner to crash IE6 (blogspot.com)

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Kelly Yancey
Kelly Yancey writes: "A Japanese fellow going by the name Hamachiya2 has stumbled upon one line of HTML/CSS code that crashes IE6. The magic line is:
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input>< /table> You can try it yourself at: http://hamachiya.com/junk/ie_crash.html. Of course, if you are running IE6 or anything that embeds IE6 as a component, you can expect it to crash. All other browsers appear to render the code just fine. I think I may have just found a new signature. :)"
Mozilla

Submission + - Mozilla: 10 day patch guarantee 'not our policy' (itworld.com)

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narramissic
narramissic writes: "Mozilla has officially backpedaled from a pledge attributed to the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within 'Ten ****ing Days.' On Friday, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10 day pledge is not Mozilla's policy, saying 'We do not think security is a game, nor do we issue challenges or ultimatums.' And today, the open source browser maker was forced to issue a statement retracting the pledge."

Feed Techdirt: California Decertifies E-Voting Machines... Then Recertifies Them (With A Few Co (techdirt.com)

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Following the release of the various independent security reports last week on the e-voting machines used in Californa, the Secretary of State needed to decide by Friday night whether to keep the machines in use in the state. At 11:45pm, she decided to decertify the machines only to immediately recertify them if they made some security changes. Of course, it seems like the changes are simply patches, and as the original report noted, many of the security problems the machines have is because all of the security they've implemented was patched on as an afterthought. Until the machines are designed from the ground up with security in mind, it's not likely to really fix many of the vulnerabilities. But, in the meantime, there's an election coming up, and apparently a bunch of major security problems are no reason to get rid of the expensive e-voting machines the state has already purchased.
Space

Submission + - Has Earth been detected by an alien civilization? (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous
Anonymous writes: Science of Roundworld modifies the Drake equation: "Given that in the last tens years we have found roughly 250 planets outside our solar system, it is perhaps prudent to ask whether an alien civilization may have already detected our own planet and its biosphere during the approximately three billion years it has harboured photosynthesising life." The blog continues: "The Drake equation, the famous speculative tool to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact, was not intended to address this question but can be modified to do so." After a bit of math it ends up with 1 percent chance that Earth has not been detected by aliens — in other words with 99 percent probability that is has. Speculation is fun.
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Journal SPAM: Atomic Bomb 23

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62 years ago today one atomic bomb was dropped under the sky of Hiroshima. 400 thousand people were terminated at one second.

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