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Submission + - Btrfs Plan For Fedora 16 Postponed (digitizor.com)

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on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @07:44PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "In June, the Fedora developers announced plan to switch to Btrfs as the default filesystem in Fedora 16. While Btrfs is no doubt a huge improvement, many questioned the decision because Btrfs is just not ready for production use — especially the lack of a fsck equivalent.
Today, Josef Bacik of Red Hat has announced that Btrfs will not be used as the default file system in Fedora 16. Fedora 17 is now the new target."

Submission + - Google Plans To Bring Web Intents Into Chrome (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Thursday August 04, 2011 @07:58PM

kai_hiwatari writes: Today Google has announced another major new feature that they are planning to bring to Chrome. The new feature, called Web Intents, will allow web apps to share information with each other without the need for each other to actually know the other web apps. This is kind of like the Intent in the Android operating system.

Submission + - Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME for Xfce (digitizor.com)

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on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @08:09PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "In Google+, Torvalds wrote criticized the direction that GNOME has taken with GNOME 3. He called GNOME 3 an "unholy mess" and said that the user experience in GNOME 3 is unacceptable. He said that because of GNOME 3, he has ditched GNOME for Xfce. He said that Xfce is a step down from GNOME 2 — but a huge step up from GNOME 3."

Submission + - Samsung stop sale of Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia (digitizor.com)

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on Monday August 01, 2011 @10:37AM

kai_hiwatari writes: "Apple sought an injunction in the Australian Federal Court in Sydney to ban the sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 until the lawsuit has been resolved. It is reported an agreement was reached between the Apple lawyers and the Samsung lawyers during a break in the hearing.

According to the agreement, Samsung has agreed to stop the advertisement and sales of the tablet until the lawsuit is over or the court gives them the approval. If Samsung wins the patent lawsuit, Apple has agreed to compensate for the lost sales."

Submission + - Personal Data Of 35 Million South Koreans Stoles (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Thursday July 28, 2011 @09:07PM

kai_hiwatari writes: More than 35 million South Korean had their personal data stolen after two popular South Korean websites were hacked. The two websites hacked are Nate, a web portal, and Cyworld, a social network. Considering the fact that South Korea has a population of around 49 million, that makes for around 70% of the entire population.

Submission + - Boot to Gecko – Mozilla's Web-Based OS (digitizor.com)

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on Monday July 25, 2011 @06:42PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "Mozilla has launched a new project called “Boot to Gecko”. The aim of this project is to develop a complete operating system for the open web. Unlike Google’s version of a web-based OS – the Chrome OS – Mozilla’s version is not aimed at netbooks. With Boot to Gecko, Mozilla is aiming for smartphones – and Android forms a part of their plan."

Submission + - Google+ Has A Huge Privacy Problem With Its Photo (digitizor.com)

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on Sunday July 24, 2011 @07:14PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "As one Google+ user has noticed, it seems like tagging someone on a photo means that he/she can see the whole album even if you have not shared it. This is not actually a bug – but rather a feature in Google+.
The person who was tagged can also share your private album to others. There is an option to turn off sharing but it is enabled by default."

Submission + - Oracle Removes Former Sun CEO's Blog Posts (digitizor.com) 1

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on Friday July 22, 2011 @08:01PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "When Google announced Android back in 2007, Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems at the time, wrote a blog post congratulating Google.
Until recently, Schwartz’s blog post published on November 5th, 2007 titled “Congratulations Google. Red Hat and the Java Community” could be found at http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/congratulations_google. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the URL was redirected to http://blogs.oracle.com/jonathan/entry/congratulations_google. However, if you check either of the links now, you will get a 404 page.
It is worth noting that Google included this blog post in its defense against Oracle's Android lawsuit."

Submission + - Google to discontinue Google Labs (digitizor.com)

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on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @04:16PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "Today, Google has announced that they are closing down Google Labs. They say that this will help them prioritize their product effort. Google says that closing Google Labs means ending many of their experiments. However, not every experiment will be gone. Google will be incorporating the Labs experiments they have decided to continue in other product areas. Android apps such as Google Goggles, Google Listen etc. will continue to be available in the Android Market."

Submission + - 8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information (digitizor.com) 1

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on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @03:42PM

kai_hiwatari writes: "Neil Daswani, who is also the CTO of security firm Dasient, says that they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server. Neil Daswani is scheduled to present the full findings at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas which starts on July 30th. The Dasient researchers also found out that 11 of the apps they have examined are sending unwanted SMS messages."

Submission + - Eric Schmidt: Apple's lawsuits because of jealousy (digitizor.com)

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on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @10:13AM

kai_hiwatari writes: "Today, at Google’s Mobile Revolution conference in Tokyo, Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt made an attack on Apple and its litigious way. He said that Apple’s lawsuits against Android are a result of their lack of innovation and jealousy because of Android’s success."

Submission + - Linus Torvalds: OS X file system is "utter crap" (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Friday July 15, 2011 @06:10PM

kai_hiwatari writes: Torvalds said that OS X Leopard is a much better system compared to Windows Vista but the HFS+ file system that OS X uses is “complete and utter crap”.

"I don't think they're equally flawed — I think Leopard is a much better system. (But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary."

Submission + - Microsoft Accused Of Stealing Kinect From Inventor (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Friday July 15, 2011 @10:57AM

kai_hiwatari writes: Allegations are surfacing that Microsoft the technology behind Kinect from Columbian inventor Carlos Anzola. Anzola is said to have developed a similar technology, which he called the Human interface Electronic Decice (HiE-D), in 2007.

The HiE-D works by projecting a pattern of dots on the user using infra-red. The infra-red patterns are invisible to the human eye but can be easily picked up by the an-infra red camera. When the user moves, the pattern changes and this is picked up by the camera and translated into functions which the computer can recognize. This is very similar to the technology that Microsoft’s Kinect uses.

Submission + - The massive mystery of Google's Finance (siliconvalleywatcher.com)

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on Friday July 15, 2011 @06:20AM

kai_hiwatari writes: "The partner sites are part of Google's AdSense network and include large media companies such as The New York Times.

Google's own sites, such as search, gmail, etc showed 39% growth in the most recent quarter compared with the year ago quarter, to $6.23 billion.

Google partner sites grew at nearly half the rate: just 20% compared with a year ago, to $2.48 billion.

This huge disparity between the growth rates of Google sites and partner sites is without precedent for most of its history. For example, in 2010, Google sites never exceeded the growth rate of partner sites"

Submission + - IBM Contributes Symphony To Apache OpenOffice.org (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari on Thursday July 14, 2011 @05:29PM

kai_hiwatari writes: IBM has surprisingly thrown its weight behind OpenOffice.org in the OpenOffice.org vs LibreOffice fight. Tomorrow IBM will announce the donation of the source code of their free office suite – IBM Lotus Symphony – to the Apache OpenOffice.org. Now, the ball is in Apache’s court. They will consider IBM’s offer and if they think that it will help OpenOffice.org, they will accept it. If they think otherwise, well, they continue as before.

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