Submission + - Siri meets Eliza (jordanmechner.com)
martiniturbide writes: Jordan Mechner (Price of Persia game creator) paired iPhone's Siri with the program Eliza. The conversation is quite strange.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 37 declined, 16 accepted (53 total, 30.19% accepted)
Submission + - Suspended Animation Earns FDA Approval (allgov.com)
Submission + - Apple provides false evidence against Samsung (google.com)
martiniturbide writes: Seems like Apple resized the Samsung Galaxy Tab picture when delivered the information to the Germany Court, to make the Galaxy Tab more similar to the iPad.
Submission + - Software Patent Debate - Aug 24, 2011 (computerhistory.org)
martiniturbide writes: The Computer History Museum is organizing an Software Patent Debate this Aug 24. "THE MOTION: SOFTWARE PATENTS ENCOURAGE INNOVATION" in favor of the motion is Bob Zeidman,a gainst the motion is Edward A. Lee. The audience will serve as jurors.......Bob Zeidman will be signing copies of his most recent book after the debate...WTF?
Submission + - Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down. (iturbide.com)
martiniturbide writes: Last April I was on a Microsoft interoperability and Open Source conference in Ecuador (South America). On this conference Microsoft spread the word that they support Open Source Software and they do have an OSS strategy. But by checking their OSS Strategy I just felt something sour in my mouth, so I wrote this article to explain it.
Submission + - eComStation 2.0 is here ! (ecomstation.com)
martiniturbide writes: eComStation, the new evolution of IBM OS/2 Operating System, had been released as version 2.0. Now there are two versions available Home & Student and Business Edition. Also OpenOffice.org 3.1 comes inside the same package.
Submission + - eComStation 2.0 GA To Be Released May 14 (ecomstation.com)
martiniturbide writes: "After a long delay, eComStation 2.0 GA will finally become reality. It will be released in time to be presented at the Warpstock Europe 2010 event which is held in Trier, Germany, from May 14 to 16. We consider eComStation 2.0 to be the biggest overhaul of OS/2 so far. Together with a team of both hired and volunteer developers, we have extended the functionality, removed limitations, updated hardware support as far as possible, and resolved close to 1000 issues that had been reported since the release of eComStation 1.2R. The new eComStation 2.0 GA is the result of several years of combined efforts and investments."
Submission + - OpenOffice 3.1.1 GA for OS/2 and eComStation
martiniturbide writes: OpenOffice 3.1.1 is now available for eComStation subscribers. Check teh port feactures at the eComStation webpage.
Submission + - The Simpsons banned in Ecuador (idsnews.com)
martiniturbide writes: "The tv show "The Simpsons" had been banned in Ecuador and can not be aired from 6:00am to 21:00 since the local goverment considered not a family show. Teleamazonas, was notified about this yesterday and today removed "The Simpsons" from their common air time (12:30 from Monday to Friday). It had been replaced with "Futurama"."
Submission + - Lotus Symphony 1.3 Released (lotus.com)
martiniturbide writes: "IBM released the 1.3 version of Lotus Symphony. The free (free beer) office suite that provides you word processing, calc sheet and presentation. On the release notes it indicates this version supports OOXML support (I guess they have no other options since MS ownes this market). SmartSuite password protection support for spreadsheets.Widgets Catalog server support. Improved print performance. and other Usability enhancements."
Submission + - eComStation 2.0 RC5 (ecomstation.com)
martiniturbide writes: "Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV announced the availability of eComStation 2.0 RC5 operating system. This OS is an OEM version of IBM's OS/2. The list of features and updated can be read on this page."
