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Submission + - MS attempts to challenge Adobe's Web design suite (computerworld.com)

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PetManimal
PetManimal writes: "Computerworld has published an analysis of Microsoft's challenge to Adobe's suite of Web-design and development software. The MS products are part of the $600 Expression Studio, which includes a bunch of different tools such as the successor to FrontPage (Expression Web) and a competitor to Adobe Illustrator (Expression Design). The reviewer found the functionality of the individual tools to be "not bad", and the price is great, but pointed to two major shortcomings: A lack of an image editing program and the failure of the Expression Studio products to really work together:

It's hard not to see Expression Studio as less a true 'suite' than a collection of products that have been co-branded after the fact — partly because Microsoft's other suite, Office, is so tightly knit in comparison. It's tough to see how the products in Expression Studio fit into a single integrated workflow or how they can all be used together, aside from creating XAML applications for Web sites.
The review also notes that these programs support Silverlight, the partially open-source technology that is meant to go up against Flash."
Google

Submission + - EBay pulls from Google AdWords (infoworld.com)

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InfoWorldMike
InfoWorldMike writes: "EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S in an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants. An eBay spokesman characterized the decision to pull the U.S. Google ads as an instance in a continued experiment eBay does to determine the best allocation of its advertising and marketing budget. But a source familiar with the situation said the move is an angry reaction by eBay's management to Google's decision to hold a protest party concurrent with the start of eBay Live, the company's annual conference for merchants."
Microsoft

Submission + - What the Microsoft/Xandros deal means for Linux (linux-watch.com)

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AlexGr
AlexGr writes: "In a Linux-Watch story, Steven Vaughan-Nichols compiles opinions of industry experts and analysts regarding the recent agreement between Microsoft and Xandros. One of the OSS insiders quoted in the article was Linspire's president, Kevin Carmony, who approved the deal. "It would be hypocritical of me to say Xandros shouldn't be able to work with Microsoft, when Linspire offers options from dozens of proprietary companies every day. Choice is rarely a bad thing. Bottom line, I think this was a smart move on their part, even though many in 'the community' won't understand that, at least not right away," Carmony added. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4862361523.html"

Feed Important Secret In Gene Replication Uncovered (sciencedaily.com)

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A team of geneticists has uncovered a major secret in the mystery of how the DNA helix replicates itself time after time. It turns out that it is not just the sequence of the bases -- building blocks -- in the DNA, but also how loosely or tightly the chromatin -- the material that makes up chromosomes -- is packed at different points of the chromosome that is critical.

Feed Astronomers Find Most Distant Black Hole (sciencedaily.com)

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A team of astronomers from Canada, France and the United States is announcing the discovery of a record-breaking black hole located nearly 13 billion light years from the Earth. Details of the discovery, made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, are being presented today by Dr Chris Willott, of the University of Ottawa, to astronomers and astrophysicists during the annual conference of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA 2007) in Kingston, Ontario. Future observations of this black hole will shed light on the early evolution of the Universe.
Software

Submission + - OSS becomes OSS - Too Late? (4front-tech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 4Front Technologies [http://www.opensound.com/] will finally license [http://www.4front-tech.com/hannublog/] their Open Sound System (the commercial version of the Linux kernel's old OSS audio drivers) under the GPL and CDDL. Maybe a little too late as ALSA has taken its place now. Developers may eventually change that again as OSS's API is much nicer to program for. The system setup is easier, too. But it will be a hard fight.

Official announcement tomorrow.
Displays

Submission + - A look at DisplayPort and CMOS photonics (beyond3d.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Beyond3D has taken a look at how CMOS photonics is shaping the future of hardware interconnects. Hybrid devices, which use CMOS photonics to transmit signals over fiber optic cable at a much lower cost than traditional methods, will make their mainstream debut next year as part of the DisplayPort standard. The net impact for consumers is that they will be 1/10 the size of traditional copper cables with none of the range problems associated with HDMI (where a 1080p signal won't travel more than 15 meters). And there's no reason why they should cost more than copper cables...

Feed The iPhone requires an iTunes Store account (com.com)

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Blog: Getting that new iPhone up and running will require an account with the iTunes Store, perhaps to reinforce the notion that Apple's the primary source of legal digital content.

Feed Bored? Curious? Check out Wis.dm (com.com)

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Blog: Wis.dm launches. Social network site where members ask and answer yes and no questions. Could be useful for market research and targeted advertising.
Operating Systems

Submission + - When is it appropriate to go Web-Based?

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Nightlyfe
Nightlyfe writes: "I work for a fair-sized resort that is currently exploring changing accounting systems. In our preliminary discussions, the controller asked us to look at web-based systems. I explained that this would seriously limit our options, and may have other drawbacks as well. Going to web-based applications has some serious advantages/disadvantages as I see it. Yes, all of your backup and security is someone else's responsibility, but on the other hand...*all of your backup and security is someone else's responsibility.* I've always felt that that's a pretty significant risk to take with corporate/business applications. We have the hardware and infrastructure in-house to handle an application suite for this, so what are the benefits to going web-based? What are the challenges we could expect to face? I'd really like to know if other slashdot readers have experienced similar situations and what they found out."
Software

Submission + - Bush names anti-open source lobbyist as counselor (pressesc.com)

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Citizen Pain
Citizen Pain writes: "President Bush today appointed as his counselor a man who received $820,000 from Microsoft to lobby during negotiations over its antitrust settlement as well as to oppose the use, especially within the government, of "open source" systems such as Linux. Enron also paid him $700,000 in 2001 alone to lobby on the "California energy crisis" and thwart efforts to re-regulate the Western electricity market through price controls."

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