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Comment Re:Isn't Chinese Law (Score 1) 812

by helarno on Saturday August 22, 2009 @09:09PM (#29159667) Attached to: IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US

that any factory or venture in China must be at least 51% domestically owned, such that they always will have the power?

No. That law was scrapped a while ago. There are now quite a few WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprises) in China. They do have some minor restrictions (e.g. some paperwork stuff that requires that they work through intermediaries instead of doing things themselves) but for the most part are free to operate normally.

China is actually more welcoming to foreign enterprises than the US. I've worked in both countries.

Submission + - Application development for the OLPC laptop

Submitted by desNotes on Sunday December 23, 2007 @07:52AM

desNotes writes: IBM DeveloperWorks (registration required) has a tutorial on developing Python activities for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers. It covers the XO laptop architecture, internals, and talks about its application environment with the Sugar UI written in Python , accessible to everyone (including kids). The tutorial explores the APIs and shows how to develop and debug a graphical activity using Python, and platform emulation with QEMU (for those /. ers who did not order their own). The G1G1 program is running through 31 December.

Submission + - MaxDB Taken Proprietary/Closed Source by SAP

Submitted by on Saturday November 17, 2007 @09:33PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB Specifically: "In October 2007, SAP assumed full sales and commercial support for MaxDB. MaxDB 7.6 is now closed source, available free-of-charge (without support, and with usage restrictions) for use with non-SAP applications. Commercial support models for using MaxDB outside of SAP environments are under consideration." No explanation/clarification from SAP is yet forthcoming as to why MaxDB was taken closed source.

Submission + - Iphone is now unlocked for free, as in free beer (fiveforty.net)

Submitted by

The_Angry_Canadian

on Thursday September 13, 2007 @12:56AM

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Submission + - Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @03:24AM

theodp writes: "Come Monday, no more Indiana University searches will be powered by computer-driven Google. Only by people-powered ChaCha. The move was announced by new IU President Michael McRobbie, who until recently sat on ChaCha's Board of Directors (5-29 SEC filing, PDF). IU will draft hundreds of librarians and IT employees to be ChaCha Guides for the university's websites, although a FAQ accompanying IU's press release tells librarians not to expect any checks for their efforts from ChaCha, which IU notes is backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Compaq founder Rod Canion."

Submission + - Plant grown insulin could be a diabetes cure. (ucf.edu) 2

Submitted by

MamaEri

on Monday July 30, 2007 @06:17PM

MamaEri writes: "In a study by UCF professor Henry Daniell, he found that by genetically splicing insulin into Tobacco and Lettuce plants, these produce an insulin laced plant. Then he gave a freeze-dried powder of these plants to mice with diabetes. After 8 weeks the mice had normal sugar levels and were producing their own insulin."

Submission + - Digg signs 'deal with the devil' (forbes.com)

Submitted by PhxBlue on Thursday July 26, 2007 @12:06AM

PhxBlue writes: Google is out, and Microsoft is in for advertising at SlashDot rival Digg, according to an Associated Press report published to Forbes Magazine's Web site:

"We at Digg couldn't think of a better partner to get to where we need to go," said Jay Adelson, the company's chief executive officer. "They're a young ad service, they're innovative, they're willing to work with us on the cutting edge."

Neither Microsoft nor Digg revealed the financial details. Google declined to comment for the report.

Submission + - Google's privacy chief says no more ties at work

Submitted by StonyandCher on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @11:08PM

StonyandCher writes: Google's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, wants to see t-shirts replace the tie as standard business attire, saying the tie "constricts circulation to the brain." In addition, the tie "acts as decorative camouflage for the business suit, designed to shield the middle-aged male physique, with its shrinking shoulders and protruding paunch, from feeling sufficiently self-conscious to hit the gym," Fleischer wrote in a recent letter to The Financial Times.

Submission + - Silicon Knights engages in Epic lawsuit (kotaku.com)

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seebs

on Friday July 20, 2007 @01:26AM

seebs writes: "According to various stories, Silicon Knights is suing Epic, the developers of Unreal Engine, alleging, well, all sorts of bad stuff. Gamasutra covers it too. This is a big deal for a lot of people, as UE3 has been licensed by lots of companies (some sources say 150!) for lots of games, and now there's allegations (which Epic denies) that it doesn't perform well, isn't usable on the PS3, and so on. Gamer drama! Bring popcorn."

Submission + - Neteller to forfeit $136M, redistribute U.S. funds

Submitted by Cody on Thursday July 19, 2007 @05:08PM

Cody writes: Neteller, perhaps best known as a payment service for online gambling, announced yesterday its settlement with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (USAO). Under the terms of the settlement, Neteller will forfeit US$136 million to the US government and will begin redistibuting funds to U.S. customers who had their accounts frozen earler this year. FAQs for US customers can be found here.

Submission + - An In Depth Look Into Chinese "Gold Farming

Submitted by Henry V .009 on Sunday June 17, 2007 @09:17AM

Henry V .009 writes: The The New York Times describes the life of a Chinese World of Warcraft "Gold Farmer": At the end of each shift, Li reports the night's haul to his supervisor, and at the end of the week, he, like his nine co-workers, will be paid in full. For every 100 gold coins he gathers, Li makes 10 yuan, or about $1.25, earning an effective wage of 30 cents an hour, more or less. The boss, in turn, receives $3 or more when he sells those same coins to an online retailer, who will sell them to the final customer (an American or European player) for as much as $20.

Submission + - Business Week shows offshoring bad for the economy (businessweek.com)

Submitted by

Obasan

on Sunday June 17, 2007 @01:00AM

Obasan writes: "A 'gaping flaw' in the way economic numbers are computed may be the cause of a disconnect between GDP growth claims and actual growth, especially in terms of real wages, a phenomenon many of us are at least anecdotally familiar with. Business week calls this gap "phantom-GDP", gains in reported GDP that cannot be correlated with domestic production."

Submission + - Lead Developer of Fortran Dead

Submitted by raydulany on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @12:48AM

raydulany writes: From the New York Times, "John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82. His daughter Karen Backus announced the death, saying the family did not know the cause, other than age. "

Submission + - Firefox closing in on Explorer in SMB market

Submitted by thefickler on Sunday March 11, 2007 @08:17AM

thefickler writes: Mozilla's Firefox browser is closing in on Internet Explorer's market leading position in the small-to-medium business (SMB) market, according to a survey by Toronto-based online time tracking and billing provider, FreshBooks, of 140,000 of its SMB customers. Firefox's browser market share was up by 1.35 percent in February 2007 to 38.95 percent while Internet Explorer's share dropped by 0.73 percent to 56.95 percent

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