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Comment Google and OpenOffice.org already happened (Score 4, Informative) 277

by ikeleib (#23661013) Attached to: Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org
Google hired developers to work on OpenOffice.org, but found it difficult to fill all the vacancies. They seemed unwilling to work on the project understaffed and the people they hired now work on other things.

You can see a C|Net article about their hiring from a while back:
http://news.cnet.com/Google-throws-bodies-at-OpenOffice/2100-7344_3-5920762.html
Power

Submission + - Thin Clients: Eco-Friendly Alternative to PCs (linuxdevices.com)

Submitted by
mrcgran
mrcgran writes: "This report is month-old, but still interesting: 'Using thin clients instead of conventional PCs would lower energy consumption by 51 percent and reduce CO2 emissions, concludes a recent study by the Fraunhofer Institute. The study compared thin clients to conventional business PCs. "The financial savings are significant but the impact on cutting CO2 emissions is what's really impressive. Saving 2.45 billion pounds of CO2 emissions would remove the equivalent impact of 106,521 average U.S. households each year."' Lots of Linux thin clients are springing up. Would you replace your conventional PC for one of them?"
Databases

Submission + - LiquiBase Database Refactoring 1.0 (liquibase.org)

Submitted by
nvoxland
nvoxland writes: "After over a year of active development, LiquiBase 1.0 has been released. LiquiBase is a java-based, LGPL, DBMS-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database changes. It is similar to Rail's Active Migrations, but doesn't suffer from the same problems with multiple developers and branches. It also has many unique features such as 30 refactorings, rollback support, and upgrade script SQL-generation."

Feed Protein Accelerates Breast Cancer Progression In Animal Models (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
Scientists have shown for the first time that a cytokine called pleiotrophin stimulates the progression of breast cancer in both animal and cell culture models. The study, which tested three separate models to determine the role of inappropriate expression of pleiotrophin, found that it produced striking increases in aggressiveness of the breast cancer cells themselves.
Spam

Submission + - Spam: now available in PDF (carroll.org.uk)

Submitted by
choongiri
choongiri writes: "If my inbox is anything to go by, there's a new breed of spam on the loose. Last year saw the rise of the image-based penny stock spam — that got around our filters for a while until tools like the FuzzyOCR plugin for SpamAssassin came along. Now it looks like the spammers are taking it to the next level, attaching their spam content as a PDF file. No doubt if this persists we'll see PDF scanning becoming standard practice, although the cost — both in bandwidth and CPU cycles required to do the filtering — will certainly be non-trivial."

Feed A Faster Way To Recover From Chemotherapy And Marrow Transplant (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
Researchers have found a practical way to increase stem cells in blood, suggesting a possible treatment to help patients recover from chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant for cancer, regaining immune function more quickly. The discovery marks the first time stem-cell production has been induced by a small-molecule drug.
Programming

Submission + - No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by iPhoneLover/Hater
iPhoneLover/Hater writes: Gizmodo is running an article analyzing the potential failure of the iPhone as a truly revolutionary platform. The reason: no SDK to harness the true power of Mac OS X and the frameworks contained in Apple's smart cell. From the article: "According to Apple, "no software developer kit is required for the iPhone." However, the truth is that the lack of an SDK means that there won't be a killer application for the iPhone. It also means the iPhone's potential as an amazing computing and communication platform will never be realized. And because of this and no matter how Apple tries to sell it, the iPhone won't make a revolution happen."
Portables

Submission + - Asus Eee PC Hands-On, Competition For The OLPC

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Asus made quite a splash at the Computex show last week with the introduction of their Eee PC, a low cost, highly portable machine slated to compete with the OLPC project. At price points of $199 and $299 for 4GB and 8GB Solid State Flash drive equipped models, the Asus Eee PC looks to be formidable. This exclusive first-ever hands-on showcase of the machine shows the two interfaces of its Linux-based operating system as well as its modes of operation, pre-installed open source Office software and other applications like Skype. The ASUS Eee PC will be available world wide, in full production quantities in Q3 this year. It is rumored to have a street date of mid August.
Bug

Apple Safari On Windows Broken On First Day 595

Posted by kdawson from the bigger-they-come dept.
An anonymous reader writes "David Maynor, infamous for the Apple Wi-Fi hack, has discovered bugs in the Windows version of Safari mere hours after it was released. He notes in the blog that his company does not report vulnerabilities to Apple. His claimed catch for 'an afternoon of idle futzing': 4 DoS bugs and 2 remote execution vulnerabilities." Separately, within 2 hours Thor Larholm found a URL protocol handler command injection vulnerability that allows remote command execution.
Yahoo!

Submission + - Create You Master Feed with Yahoo Pipes

Submitted by LinucksGirl
LinucksGirl writes: Explore the steps and benefits of using Yahoo Pipes, a content feed filtering utility to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the environment.
United States

Submission + - Lifting H-1B Caps Heralds 'In-Sourcing' Surge

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 'In-Sourcing' is the name for new scourge of the American high-tech worker, argues InformationWeek blogger Alexander Wolfe. He's coined that term in response to the call from Google, Bill Gates, and other captains of tech industry to lift the current cap of 65,000 H-1B visas, which allow foreign nationals to fill U.S. tech jobs when companies claim they can't find qualified domestic workers. Writes Wolfe:"Having winnowed the domestic pool of highly experienced IT and engineering talent by hounding thousands out of the business through years of layoffs and false complaints about the math-smarts of American students, big business has hit on the latest tack for controlling high-tech labor costs: In-source the jobs it was previously outsourcing, by getting the government to lift the cap on H1-B visas." But he says he doesn't blame Google; he blames Bill Gates, and NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, who claims there's been a steady erosion of science education in U.S. schools. "What engineering school did Friedman attend?" Wolfe asks. Do you agree that this "crisis" is hurting the U.S. tech community, or is there a legitimate shortage?
Portables

Submission + - Asus and Intel challenge OLPC with Eee PC (zdnet.com)

Submitted by
fl!ptop
fl!ptop writes: "George Ou at ZDNet says, "The user interface of the OLPC doesn't even feel worth of a cheap fisher price toy" but raves about a new Asus/Intel super cheap UMPC. "The ASUS Eee computer will cost a mere $199 for the 7" LCD model whereas the so-called $100 OLPC costs $175. Given the fact that Eee can run Linux or Windows XP and it can boot off NAND flash memory in a mere 15 seconds, the Eee slaughters the OLPC with ease." C|Net has some more information on the Eee PC when it was introduced at Computex last month in Taiwan."

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