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Submission + - Google threatens French media ban (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by another random user
another random user writes: Google has threatened to exclude French media sites from search results if France goes ahead with plans to make search engines to pay for content.

In a letter sent to several ministerial offices, Google said such a law "would threaten its very existence".

French newspaper publishers have been pushing for the law, saying it is unfair that Google receives advertising revenue from searches for news. French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti also favours the idea. She told a parliamentary commission it was "a tool that it seems important to me to develop".
Intel

Submission + - Intel says Clover Trail won't work with Linux (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Intel's Clover Trail Atom processor can be seen in various non-descript laptops around IDF and the firm provided a lot of architectural details on the chip, confirming details such as dual-core and a number of power states. However Intel said Clover Trail "is a Windows 8 chip" and that "the chip cannot run Linux".

While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all it is an x86 instruction set so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons.

Submission + - Amazon Kindle HD (fastlanecommission.com)

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Pantherbear49
Pantherbear49 writes: "When it comes to HD displays, great resolution is just the start. Unlike other 7" tablets, Kindle Fire HD delivers rich color and deep contrast from every angle, with an advanced polarizing filter and custom anti-glare technology.
High Definition Touchscreen Display

Rich, HD video. Beautiful, vivid photos. Crisp, detailed text. Kindle Fire HD features a new 1280x800 high definition LCD display that brings your content to life.
Reduced Screen Glare

Most tablet displays are made up of two pieces of glass — an LCD on the bottom and a touch sensor on the top, separated by an air gap. With an air gap, light reflects off of every surface as it passes through from the front, creating multiple distracting reflections that reduce display contrast. Kindle Fire HD solves this air gap problem by laminating the touch sensor and the LCD together into a single layer of glass, creating a display that's easy to view, even in overhead light.

Richer Colors at Wider Angles

Like many tablets, Kindle Fire HD uses In-Plane Switching (IPS) to improve color reproduction. But displays that only use IPS still appear washed out at various angles, such as laid sideways when reading in bed, laid flat on a table, or held between you and a friend when sharing a movie. Kindle Fire HD addresses this issue by applying an advanced polarizing filter directly to the LCD panel. This results in a display that shows the same deep contrast and rich, detailed color when viewed at any angle."
Intel

Submission + - Intel Demos Fully Digital Radio and Smart Connect Sleep State Updates (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Intel recently made waves demonstrating new technologies it believed could drive the next-generation of lower power devices. In addition to its pioneering work with Near Threshold voltages, the company showed off Rosepoint — a prototype SoC that combines a dual-core 32nm Atom CPU with an all-digital radio. Current radios use a mixture of analog and digital circuitry, with the analog side of the equation consuming more power and board real estate in legacy discrete designs. At IDF this week, Intel demo'd the chip code named Rosepoint to prove that the hardware is functional and capable of transmitting and receiving data. Intel is also rolling out improvements to their Smart Connect Mobile Technology (sleep states with connect and pull data updates), codenamed Spring Meadow. Unlike Rosepoint, which is still an early phase product, Smart Connect is already baked into a number of Intel products and is expected to roll out with Haswell next year."
Patents

Submission + - Easy Fix For Software Patents Found In US Patent Act (infoworld.com)

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WebMink
WebMink writes: "What if there was an easy, inexpensive way to bring software patents under control, that did not involve Congress, which applied retrospectively to all patents and which was already part of the US Patent Act? Stanford law professor Mark Lemley thinks he's found it. He asserts that the current runaway destruction being caused by software patents is just like previous problems with US patent law, and that Congress included language in the Patent Act of 1952 that can be invoked over software patents just like it fixed the earlier problems. All it will take is a future defendant in a patent trial using his read of a crucial section of the Patent Act in their defence to establish case law. Can it really be that easy?"
Hardware

Submission + - Intel says Clover Trail Atom CPUs can't run Linux (geek.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Intel hopes to change its fortunes in the mobile sector and better compete with ARM with the introduction of the next Atom chip, codenamed Clover Trail. But even before the Clover Trail processors are available, Intel has limited the market for them by stating Clover Trail Atom chips will only work with Windows 8. In other words, they won’t run Linux and Intel wont support them running Linux.

That decision is a little confusing, not because the dominant OS using Atom chips in tablets and laptops will be Windows 8, but because Clover Trail is still an x86 chip so the use of Linux shouldn’t even be an issue or a talking point. The Inquirer even goes so far as to suggest Intel has created an “artificial barrier” to help boost/force the use of Microsoft’s operating system with Atom. Intel hasn’t got specific, but it’s thought to be a software problem that is at the heart of this lack of support.
Apple

Submission + - Favourite Steve Jobs quotes (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: To mark the resignation of Apple's CEO, the Inquirer has compiled some of Steve Jobs' best quotes. Words of wisdom include: "Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry", in response to a student asking for help with their thesis.
Government

Submission + - Private planes, private no more (chicagotribune.com) 3

Submitted by chill
chill writes: The Department of Transportation, which used to allow anyone with a private plane to choose not to have their flight plans made available for public consumption, has decided to eliminate that option. So if you want to snoop into someone else's travel itinerary, you can do it. [Note: The filing of general aviation flight plans with air traffic control is strictly voluntary, but strongly encouraged. Their primary use is if the pilot doesn't arrive within an hour of schedule, where to start looking for the wreckage.]
Idle

Submission + - The tech sector's best beards (expertreviews.co.uk)

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therenegade
therenegade writes: "What do some of the greatest tech minds of our generation have in common; intelligence? charisma? Not according to Expert Reviews — it's all in the beards. They list the top ten, ranking some of the most important men in the history of computing not by the huge contributions they made to the world, but by the magnificence of their face fur,"
Linux

Submission + - Linux turns 20 today (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: The kernel that is found running smartphones, desktops, laptops, servers and high performance clusters turns 20 years old today. The Inquirer looks back at the growing pains of what has undoubtedly become one of the most important contributions to the IT industry in the past 50 years. In just 20 years it has become hard not to find a system running Linux and that is something that the FOSS community should all be proud of.
Open Source

Submission + - Linux @ 20: The Swiss Army knife of OSes (v3.co.uk)

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jrepin
jrepin writes: "Linux, the poster child for open source software, was officially disclosed by Linus Torvalds in a Usenet newsgroup posting on 25 August 1991. The two decades since have seen it expand from a personal pet project to a platform capable of running on everything from mobile phones to web servers and even mainframes, with no sign of it running out of steam just yet. Thanks to its close similarity to Unix, Linux has developed into an excellent platform for users requiring Unix-like levels of reliability. Consequently, Linux distributions have gradually displaced many of the ageing proprietary Unix flavours for high-end workstation and server applications. At the same time, Linux now powers many of the world's supercomputers, and underpins a number of embedded and mobile platforms."

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