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Submission + - George Lucas believes world will end next year (torontosun.com)

Submitted by andyring on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @01:25PM

andyring writes: Thankfully the Star Wars 6-pack will be available on Blu-Ray this year, just in time for next year's end of the world. Or at least that's what George Lucas believes.

Submission + - Software patents dead?

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andyring

on Monday March 02, 2009 @10:51AM

andyring writes: "According to the Los Angeles Times, a patent for a computerized method for using weather to predict commodities prices and energy costs was rejected by a federal appeals court. The court imposed a new standard — that the invention must involve a machine or a physical transformation. That would seem to exclude the whole concept of software patents. The case has been appealed to the Supreme Court."

Submission + - Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) delayed, iPhone the cause

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andyring

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @05:20PM

andyring writes: "Apple just issued a press release stating that the planned release of Mac OS X 10.5 will be pushed back to October instead of the planned June WWDC release. Although extremely rare for Apple to make a statement such as this, the say the iPhone is the cause. "iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned." according to the press release."

Submission + - Pumpkin computer for Halloween

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andyring

on Friday October 27, 2006 @09:57AM

andyring writes: "A group of students at the University of Arkansas took the time to create a computer case appropriate for Halloween, a computer built inside a pumpkin. It is indeed a fully functional computer, utilizing a Dell Latitude D410 laptop board, 1.6 ghz Pentium M, wireless networking, 60GB disk and more. I suppose this could be the ultimate in earth-friendly computer cases, although the case's longevity may be in doubt."

Submission + - Boeing to cancel Connexion in-flight Internet

Submitted by on Thursday August 17, 2006 @06:21PM

andyring writes: According to IHT, Boeing will cancel it's in-air high-speed wireless Internet service due to low usage and lack of demand. Currently, 156 aircraft on 12 airlines are outfitted with the service, and usage amounted to "low single digits" per flight despite expectations that the service would be a big hit. Airbus does plan to have it's own similar service when they deliver the first massive A380s to Singapore Airlines by the end of the year. What would it take for this service to be successful?

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