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Submission + - AppleTV + Interest Lagging, Apple Offers Vaporware

Submitted by Webster Phreaky on Thursday April 26, 2007 @02:09PM

Webster Phreaky writes: "Apple will add new features and capabilities to its iPhone and Apple TV products through a series of future software updates, the company confirmed last night." http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS With reports from CREDIBLE Columnists or Analysts (not the usual Apple Media Whores) that the iPhone lacking " Analysts say the iPhone isn't smart enough" http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsI D=17058 and the sales of the much hyped "copycat" AppleTV STAGNENT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/20/targ et_stores_to_pick_up_apple_tv.html, it's time for Apple to make the Traditional Marketing fallback ... offer VAPORWARE. Ask anyone in marketing and sales, especially if they've been stuck with a slacker of a product, and they'll tel you that the number one resource to pull out of the closet of Bad Sales Tactics is promise "future undisclosed updates" and them pretend that you can't be specific right now for various reasons. Folks and Apple Kool Aid Drinkers, this is just the USUAL Apple and Stevie Gods, err Jobs, marketing B.S. that has been going on since 1984. You watch, you've been warned.

Submission + - Glitch has users fuming, Google "frantic"

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @02:06PM

netbuzz writes: "A problem with Google's Personalized Home Page feature has apparently cost a lot of users their carefully crafted doors to the Internet. And Google, which says it is frantically searching for a fix, also acknowledges that it is not sure if it will be able to recover the lost settings.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1456 5"

Submission + - Trolltech is opensourcing Qt for Java

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @02:05PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Trolltech released their second beta of their upcoming product, Qt Jambi, today. With this release they are dual licensing the product under a commercial and a GPL license. Being founded on a very solid framework, Qt, and now with an opensource license, they should be prepared to take on the other established toolkits, like Swing and SWT. For full details, see the press release: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/qt jambi-beta"

Submission + - Adobe to Open Source Flex

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26, 2007 @01:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex as open source. This initiative will let developers worldwide participate in the growth of the industry's most advanced framework for building cross-operating system rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web and enabling new Apollo applications for the desktop. The open source Flex SDK and documentation will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

Perens Counters Claim of GPL Legal Risk 145

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:42PM from the not-so-fast-my-friend dept.

Microsoft Delenda Est writes "After ACT, a Microsoft front group, started claiming that the GPLv3 was legally 'risky' and could give rise to anti-trust liability, eWeek has published a rebuttal by Bruce Perens. Aside from the fact that IBM, HP, Red Hat, and a couple dozen corporate lawyers are watching over the creation of the GPLv3, there is already precedent that shows the GPL is unlikely to give rise to any significant liability — Daniel Wallace v. FSF. In that case, pro se litigant Daniel Wallace was all but laughed out of the courtroom for alleging the GPLv2 violates anti-trust law, and the GPLv3 clauses in question are simply clarifications and extensions of clauses in the GPLv2. Presumably, that is why the ACT neglected to cite any precedent substantiating their allegations."

Submission + - Chips that Change

Submitted by MrYutz on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:38PM

MrYutz writes: If you use this computer chip — you may never have to upgrade. Need a toaster — no problem; need a tri-corder — no problem. Next up at Raytheon — matter to energy converters.

Submission + - Best business blogs - My preferred!

Submitted by

seibukan

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:29PM

seibukan writes: "Two blogs on the Internet that are worth thousands of dollars! Sure, there are millions of blogs out there, and I read a lot of them, but sometimes when I am busy working on some of my projects like today, I read only two."

Submission + - Apache battling Sun over Java License

Submitted by

nuages

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:06PM

nuages writes: "InfoWorld is reporting that the Apache Software Foundation is going public with a dispute it is having with Sun Microsystems over that company's Microsoft-like behavior regarding a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project, an open source implementation of Java Platform. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/10/HNsunap ache_1.html). In an open letter of protest to Sun, posted Tuesday, Apache says that the JCK [Java Compatibility Kit] license Sun is offering "imposes IP rights restrictions" that are unacceptable to Apache and that violate the terms of the Java Specification Participation Agreement (JSPA), to which Sun is bound. Sun's JCK license protects portions of Sun's commercial Java business at the expense of Apache's open software, Apache contends."

Submission + - Web 2.0 Expo - I'll Be There

Submitted by

kj_agot

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:03PM

kj_agot writes: "I'll be at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco April 15-18. It neatly coincides with a visit we have to make to catch up with family, show off the baby, etc., so I'll take an extra day and get drunk on Web 2.0 stuff."

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