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Submission + - KDE3 Fork In The Works

Submitted by nicodoggie
nicodoggie writes: A little over two years after Linux desktop users all over the world wailed in disappointment over the sub par KDE 4.0 release, a KDE3 fork, Trinity KDE is coming into being.

Apparently, there is a Live CD of Trinity KDE working on Ubuntu 10.04, but as of today, the Trinity KDE website is still recovering from hardware failure.

Will this project take off? Will KDE3 be back in the mainstream? Or have people moved on?

Submission + - "Install Other OS" Feature removed from the PS3 (playstation.com) 4

Submitted by Hann1bal
Hann1bal writes: The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update.
Google

Submission + - Sprint Intros the Game Changer, 4G HTC EVO (betanews.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Sprint Intros the game changer, 4G HTC EVO with Android 2.1

HTC and Sprint have spared nothing in this top-of-the-line device. It has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon (QSD8650) processor, a 4.3" (800x480) capacitive touchscreen, an 8 megapixel dual flash camera, and a 1.3 megapixel forward-facing camera. Add Android 2.1, 4G WiMAX/3G EV-DO Rev. A, the ability to act as an 8-device 4G hotspot, an FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1, digital compass, proximity, velocity, and light sensors, GPS and 3.5mm headphone and HDMI output. EVO is, simply stated, the most powerful smartphone to date.

BetaNews: http://www.betanews.com/article/Sprint-has-the-game-changer-The-first-4G-smartphone/1269383434

Engadget Picture Gallery: http://www.engadget.com/photos/htc-evo-4g-press-shots/#2826252

Comment I was much mor generous. (Score 0) 181

by javipas (#31185388) Attached to: Google Donates $2 Million To the Wikimedia Foundation

As I told on my Twitter account..., just a little quick math:

Google's revenues on Q409: $6,6 billion dollars. So $2 millions (0.000299% of that) wasted here and there don't seem much of a problem.

I was much more generous. My Q409 was well bellow that, and I donated $10. That's aprox 0.0024% of that revenues. 10 times more.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Zune Phone Rumored For MWC (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Blogs say Microsoft will launch a Zune-based phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The same rumour came up last year, and since then, troubles have continued with Windows Mobile. Most likely result is a slight tweak on Windows Mobile 6.5, adding Zune-branded media features. It's a shame Microsoft destroyed the credibility of Danger's Sidekick brand by losing customer data last year, or that might have been the way to go.
Idle

Submission + - And Now, The Animated News

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: 'You have a lot of missing images, in the TV, in the news reporting,' explains billionaire Jimmy Lai. It's a gap that Lai's Next Media intends to fill with its animated news service. Artists lift details from news photos while actors in motion sensor suits re-create action sequences of stories making headlines. Animators graft cartoon avatars to the live-motion action, and the stories hit the Web. When news agencies didn't have footage of scenes from the Tiger Woods car crash, Lai's team raced to put together animation dramatizing the incident that became a YouTube sensation. Thus far, Lai has been denied a television license, but with or without his own station, he thinks his animations are headed for televisions worldwide. His company is currently in talks with media organizations to churn out news animations on demand using Next Media's graphic artists and software tools.
Security

Submission + - OpenBSD - not so secure afterall (wordpress.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: OpenBSD is considered by many to be the most secure operating system — bar none. The linked article provides an argument to dispell this myth, arguing that Linux and FreeBSD are intrinsically more secure because of their implementations of MAC technology. Furthermore the article is critical of the OpenBSD's team understanding of security concepts and examines the use of strlcpy, their choice to make sendmail the default MTA, and even points out that current versions of Windows are more secure in some instances. If nothing else, an interesting read, and hopefully good conversation fodder.
Hardware

Submission + - 100% Free software compatible PC launches (open-pc.com) 1

Submitted by crimperman
crimperman writes: The Open-PC project has announced that it's first PC is now available for 359 Euro. They claim the mini-ITX desktop machine is energy efficient, consumer ready, easy to upgrade and — significantly — uses only hardware which has free software drivers available. As you'd expect it comes with GNU/Linux which is running KDE (a 10 Euro donation to the KDE project in included in the price). Interestingly all the key decisions on design, pricing etc. have been made by the "community" via online polls. The spec of the machine is pretty reasonable for the price : Atom 1.6GHz Dual-Core Processor, 3GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Intel 950 Graphics
Security

Submission + - 10th anniversary of Y2K (lifeboat.com) 1

Submitted by Maria Williams
Maria Williams writes: The 2009 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Peter de Jager on the tenth anniversary of Y2K which he helped avert. This award is in recognition of his 1993 warning which alerted the world to the potential disaster that might have occurred on January 1, 2000 and his efforts in the following years to create global awareness of the problem, and the possible solutions. His presentations, articles, and more than 2,000 media interviews contributed significantly to the world's mobilization to avoid that fate.
Nintendo

Submission + - Is console gaming dying? (bit-tech.net) 1

Submitted by mr_sifter
mr_sifter writes: PC gamers love to obsess over whether PC gaming is dying, but bit-tech thinks it's time to look at the other side and examine if console gaming is really as secure as publishers would have us believe. All three console manufacturers suffered from the recession — this year, Sony announced its first net loss in 14 years; a stunning ¥989.9bn, which includes record losses of ¥58.5bn in its gaming sector. Microsoft also announced its first loss since it went public in 1986 in the second quarter of this financial year, with a $31 million US loss coming straight from the Entertainment and Devices division – i.e those responsible for the Xbox 360. Not even Nintendo has escaped the financial plague either, with sales of the Wii dropping by 67 percent in the US, 60 percent in Japan and 47 percent in the rest of the world. In addition to reduced profitability, casual games and the rise of the iPhone further suggest the current model is on its last legs.
Google

Submission + - Google Launches Dictionary; Drops Answers.com

Submitted by
ObsessiveMathsFreak
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes: "Google has expanded its remit once again with the quiet launch of Google Dictionary. Google word search definitions now redirect to Google Dictionary instead of to Google's long term thesaurus goto site, Answers.com, which is expected to take a serious hit in traffic as a result. Dictionary pages are noticeably more plain and faster loading than their Answers.com equivalents, and unusually feature web citations for the definitions of each word. This means that, unlike most dictionaries, Google considers ginormous a word. In related news just as Answers.com has been silently phased out, Google's web search page now silently phases in. Google works in mysterious ways."
Supercomputing

Submission + - CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer

Submitted by bennyboy64
bennyboy64 writes: The CSIRO will this week launch a new supercomputer which uses a cluster of GPUs [pictures] to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size. The supercomputer is one of the world's first to combine traditional CPUs with the more powerful GPUs. It features 100 Intel Xeon CPU chips and 50 Tesla GPU chips, connected to an 80 Terabyte Hitachi Data Systems network attached storage unit. CSIRO science applications have already seen 10-100x speedups on NVIDIA GPUs.

Submission + - Why Ubuntu Is Failing the Trade-Off (opensourcenerd.com)

Submitted by fsufitch
fsufitch writes: Kevin Maney wrote his new book "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't", and came to NYU-Poly to lecture the engineering students there of the basics of his book. His theory of the trade-off between convenience and fidelity of a product or idea casts a light on the open source movement, and what kind of innovation Ubuntu in particular needs in order to be known and be popular.

Submission + - OpenMoko inc announces Wikipedia WikiReader (thewikireader.com)

Submitted by ChristW
ChristW writes: OpenMoko inc, of FreeRunner fame, proudly presents its new product: The WikiReader. It's a small form factor device that needs no internet connection to show Wikipedia articles. The articles are stored on an internal, removable uSD card. Needs 2 AAA batteries to run. The company claims that it can run up to a year on one set of batteries.

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