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Submission + - Firefox 4.0 (Final) Now Available For Download (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It isn't officially announced yet, but the download link for Firefox 4 (final) is already live. If you have downloaded Firefox 4 RC2 (released last Friday), you already run the final code, according to Mozilla. The official launch of the new browser is still scheduled for tomorrow, March 22.
Books

Submission + - Age of the E-Book Upon is Upon Us (komonews.com)

Submitted by The Installer
The Installer writes: To no one's great surprise, January saw a huge spike in e-book sales. Undoubtedly due to all those lucky folks who got a Kindle(or other e-reader) for the holidays.

From the Article:

The e-book boom has reached new heights, but not high enough to boost book sales overall.

Helped by millions of Kindles, Nooks and other digital devices given for holiday gifts, e-book sales jumped in January and surpassed purchases of hardcovers and mass market paperbacks, according to a new survey. The Association of American Publishers reported Thursday that e-sales more than doubled from $32.4 million in January 2010 to $69.9 million in January 2011.

Hardcovers sales fell from $55.4 million to $49.1 million, and mass market paperbacks, a format that's declining as baby boomers seek books with larger print, fell from $56.4 million to $39 million.

Total sales, which include the education and professional markets, were $805.7 million in January, slightly below the $821.5 million reported last year.
Iphone

Submission + - What Does the iPhone 5 Look Like? (9to5mac.com)

Submitted by
srwellman
srwellman writes: "According to a report from an source at Foxconn, iPhone 5 looks remarkably similar to iPhone 4. One major change, the report claims, "Apple has decided to move away from the back-glass enclosure found on the fourth-generation device and move to something similar to the back of the first-generation iPhone from 2007.""

Comment Re:What the heck? (Score 1) 292

by fidget42 (#35520434) Attached to: Does Android Have a Linux Copyright Problem?
As a programmer, I have to disagree with this. The header files should be very interesting. They should provide all of the information that I need in order to properly use the C code or library. I really hate looking through an implementation in order to figure out how to use a function (and these functions do not have 'man' pages).

Some header files described in the articles contained inline function calls. This makes them a bit more than a standard header.
Japan

Submission + - Steve Jobs sends email to Apple employees in Japan (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In light of the ongoing crisis in Japan, Steve Job sent the following email to Apple employees in Japan offering the company’s support to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami.

"To Our Team in Japan,
We have all been following the unfolding disaster in Japan. Our hearts go out to you and your families, as well as all of your countrymen who have been touched by this tragedy.
If you need time or resources to visit or care for your families, please see HR and we will help you. If you are aware of any supplies that are needed, please also tell HR and we will do what we can to arrange delivery.
Again, our hearts go out to you during this unimaginable crisis.
Please stay safe.
Steve and the entire Executive Team"
Google

Submission + - What the Demise of Google Gears Says About HTML5 (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister sees Google's discontinuation of Gears as a victory for open Web standards — and a significant challenge to the W3C's recent decision to treat HTML as a 'living standard.' 'It's tempting to interpret Gears' demise as a failure for Google, but that wouldn't be quite right. Rather, the decision to discontinue Gears ... offers telling insight into the ongoing HTML standardization process,' McAllister writes, adding that Google's transition from Gears to HTML5 'will be an important test of the most significant revision to Web standards since 2001. Recently YouTube — a Google subsidiary — experimented with transitioning its streaming video service from Flash to HTML5, but relented when it determined that the Web standards-based approach would not be compatible with a broad enough range of clients.'"
Google

Submission + - Google Introduces Block Domain To Search

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Aimed at stripping search results of pages from 'low-quality' sites, a new Google Chrome extension was introduced to block specified websites from appearing in search results. Now, Google has introduced a new feature that hide results from unwanted domains. This is yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don’t want to see at all in search result. This was frequently requested by many slashdotters. The so-called "experts exchange" or "online eHow to guide" would be first on my blocked list.
 
Apple

Submission + - Apple iPhone 5 Engineering Drawings Leaked (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: A Chinese web site has posted a number of images of what it says are engineering drawings of Apple's forthcoming iPhone 5.

The CAD renders appear to show a design that's almost identical to the current iPhone 4 apart from a slightly elongated screen and slimmer bezel, in line with rumours that Apple's next smart phone offering will feature a four-inch screen.
Linux

Submission + - Miguel de Icaza tresses usability over openness (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "GNOME creator Miguel de Icaza says the open source community hasn't gotten its act together "when it comes to understanding the needs of end users on the desktop." De Icaza is still a devoted user of Linux, but says proprietary systems have advantages — such as video and audio systems that rarely break. "Once you have a Linux system set up, you don't want to touch it or you might spend some quality time on Google finding what you broke," he says. De Icaza is also excited about the iPad 2, and says he'll be "first in line" to buy one today."
Japan

Submission + - Quake-hit Japan declares atomic power emergency (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Japanese government has declared a state of atomic power emergency after a powerful 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast Friday, spawning a tsunami as high as 10 metres. Prime Minister Naoto Kan made the declaration so authorities can easily establish an emergency task force to deal with the situation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference."
GNOME

Submission + - Has GNOME rejected Canonical help? Shuttleworth Re (linuxpromagazine.com)

Submitted by akgraner
akgraner writes: Ubuntu Founder and former CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth responds to Dave Neary's post entitled "Has GNOME rejected Canonical help?"
When Canonical made the decision to make Unity the default desktop some questioned the GNOME/Canonical relationship. Adding fuel to this fire was the recent distribution split of revenue generated by Banshee. These decisions caused the Ubuntu, GNOME and even Fedora community members to ask why these things were done. In Neary's "Has GNOME rejected Canonical help?" post he states, I have repeatedly read Canonical & Ubuntu people say “We offered our help to GNOME, and they didn’t want it”."
Android

Submission + - Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations (linuxplanet.com)

Submitted by inkscapee
inkscapee writes: Android developers are paying little attention to Free/Open Source software licenses and have a 71% violation rate. Come on folks, FOSS licenses are easy to comply with, certainly easier than proprietary software licenses, and less punitive. But it seems even the tiny hoops that FOSS requires are too much for devs eager to cash in.

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