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Media (Apple)

Submission + - The iPhone is July's biggest-selling smart phone

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twofish
twofish writes: "AppleInsider is reporting figures from market analyst iSuppli (no relation to Apple despite the name) that show the iPhone captured 1.8 per cent of US handset sales in July, outselling all other models of smartphone during its launch month. The article also notes that "one quarter of consumers who bought iPhones switched to AT&T service in order to do so". This is good news for Apple since when someone switches to AT&T then Apple's cut is $11 a month (versus $3/month for non-switchers)."
Movies

Submission + - Netflix Gets Hacked (tvsquad.com)

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Dragontologist
Dragontologist writes: "In an interestingly round-about way, a few hackers have posted publicly about how to get around the $17/month fee for Netflix streaming video. It's not particularly easy, you only get 17 hours of video a month, and you can't copy it onto your iPod (not without another hack, anyway), but it's free (assuming you don't mind the whole illegal thing). All I want to know is, who would think to exploit Windows Media Player?"
Businesses

Submission + - Brad Fitzpatrick headed for Google? (valleywag.com)

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sootzoo
sootzoo writes: "LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick, who sold his company, Danga Interactive, to Six Apart two years ago, has vested his shares, declared his boredom with Six Apart, and after weighing offers from Google and Facebook, has chosen to head to Google, a source close to Fitzpatrick says. The only reason that Six Apart management hasn't announced it, the source adds, is that they can't figure out how to spin it."
Censorship

Submission + - LiveJournal Users Fight Deletions (com.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: LiveJournal users who patronize sex-themed Harry Potter fan art and fiction communities are revolting a second time over account suspension notices that they say are unwarranted and trample on their free-expression rights.

The latest round of "permanent suspensions" involves two Harry Potter fanartists "ponderosa121" and "elaboration", who posted artwork featuring characters of indeterminate age, which LiveJournal staffers claim violates obscenity laws and is "material LiveJournal has chosen not to host."

No word if this has anything to do with the recent departure of LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick, or if it is simply coincidental timing.
Software

Submission + - Optaros Report Catalogs 250+ Open Source Projects

Submitted by
mvance
mvance writes: "The Creative Commons blog recently linked to an Open Source Catalogue 2007 report prepared by a company called Optaros. The report includes a fairly comprehensive catalog and evaluation of over 250 open source projects, with an eye toward enterprise deployment. For anyone needing to evaluate or compare open source software options, the report is a great starting point.
There are many guides and catalogs for open source business software online and doubtless there are things to quibble with about Optaros' take, but having a fairly comprehensive catalog in a nice looking 45 page PDF may come in handy at IT departments worldwide. Handier still, the CC license allows customization so long as credit is given to Optaros.
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Announcements

Submission + - Exxon to Cut Ties w/ Global Warming Skeptics

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems Exxon has finally pulled its head out of the sand. According to this article [msn.com], Exxon Mobil Corp. "...has stopped funding groups skeptical of global warming claims...", and has engaged in talks regarding the reduction of greenhouse gasses. I know the /. crowd feels that major corporations can do no good, especially big oil, but this does seem to be a step in the right direction. The article also mentions that Exxon is forced to follow the Kyoto treaty in nations that abide by those regulations, and it is inefficient to have differing environmental standards by region.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Jobs: No third party apps for iPhone

Submitted by walt-sjc
walt-sjc writes: In a New York Times article Steve Jobs says: "I don't want people to think of this as a computer," "These are devices that need to work, and you can't do that if you load any software on them." Quick — someone tell Palm, Motorola, and Samsung why their phones don't work!! But seriously, that seems like a major slap in the face to third party software developers, basically saying that they can't write reliable software. It also seems to decrease the utility / value of the most expensive smartphone (soon to be) on the market. Or does it matter?
Software

Submission + - Small Project Lockout Code to Ensure Dev Payment

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What do people use on small-scale projects (non contractual) such as web sites and data processing scripts to ensure payment? I work almost exclusively with scripting languages such as Perl and Python and wonder if there is any "standard" way to obfuscate self-destruct routines that render the software useless after a short period of time. The method needs to be simple, yet not "easily" broken by your average office IT worker by simply editing out the code or resetting a system clock. Ideally, there would be something that after so many uses would lock out the code, followed up by a MD5 sum checker that would further lock it out if any changes were made to the target script. Any ideas?
Businesses

Submission + - What business software do you use?

Submitted by
bardkerbie
bardkerbie writes: "I work as a webmaster and sysadmin for a small computer services shop (4 employees including the owner). We're to a point in the growth of our business where we need a system for tracking work orders as they come in and out of the shop, specifically inventory used and time spent. We use Quickbooks Pro 2006 for our accounting and payroll software. I've played around with a number of issue-tracking and CRM suites, including Bugzilla, Eventum, SugarCRM and vTiger, but all seem like they lack one critical piece to handle the workload we have. My question is: what do you use for tracking the work you do? Is it something you wrote yourself? Is there an open-source project that works well, or is there a Quickbooks plug-in we can purchase?"

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