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Submission + - Microsoft publishing APis for Windows, Office (electronista.com)

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on Thursday February 21, 2008 @12:50PM

JonathanF writes: "Looks like the European Union managed to back Microsoft into a corner — the company is going to post 30,000 pages of APIs and protocols for Windows Vista and Server 2008, Office 2007, and a whole bunch of server apps. Microsoft says it's to promote interoperability, but it's most likely to avoid lawsuits from the EU and other companies who haven't had an opportunity to make their apps 100 percent compatible with Microsoft's software and its Office document standards."

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Submission + - Verizon to allow "any app, any device" (electronista.com)

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on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @10:16AM

JonathanF writes: "Looks like Verizon decided it was better to go with the flow and is opening up its network so that 'any' device or program can run on its cellular and Internet services. Of course, this being a major US carrier, they're not going to unlock their own cellphones — you'll have to roll with something you've bought separately instead. But at least Verizon will test devices to make sure they hold up. Hopefully this means that phones running Google Android will work on Verizon's network."

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Bookmark Verizon to allow "any app, any device" on its network (electronista.com)

by JonathanF on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @10:10AM

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Submission + - ARM group teams up for Linux mobile standard (electronista.com)

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on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @05:05PM

JonathanF writes: "Looks like Mozilla, Samsung, and a few other companies have had a love-in and will be making a new Linux handheld standard that will find its way into mobile media and Internet devices, since they've found it will work better for them than proprietary operating systems when it comes to getting chips on the market. Naturally, it should have an open-source license (GPL?) and will use GNOME Mobile for its UI plus Firefox for the gadgetry that needs a web browser. The OS as a whole should be done in just a few months and will turn up in something you can pick up at the store by early 2009."

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Submission + - Judge: use P2P, you're stealing music (electronista.com) 1

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on Monday August 27, 2007 @02:12PM

JonathanF writes: "If you were hoping judges would see reason and realize that just using a program that could violate copyright law was about as illegal as leaving your back door unlocked, think again: an Arizona district judge has ruled that a couple who hosted files in KaZaA is liable for over $40K in damages just because they "made available" songs that could have been pirated by someone, somewhere. There's legal precedent, but how long do we have before the BitTorrent crew is sued?"

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Submission + - Lenovo intros ThinkPads with preloaded Linux (electronista.com)

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on Monday August 06, 2007 @09:21AM

JonathanF writes: "Sounds like an ideal mix for Linux geeks: Lenovo said today that they'll ship their rock-steady ThinkPads near the end of the year with Novell's SUSE Linux distro preloaded — and supported by Lenovo itself. No word on specs, but having a solid PC with an open-source OS sounds very appealing. Like the author of the article, though, I wonder whether Lenovo is offering Novell's distro because it's worried about that Microsoft Sword of Damocles hanging over its head if it chose an alternative like Red Hat or Ubuntu."

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Comment But it's not like the PS3! (Score 1) 1619

by JonathanF on Saturday January 13, 2007 @02:18PM (#17593126) Attached to: iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote

The difference is that Apple isn't trying to shoehorn a $500+ device into a market that expects much less. Ever look at a phone with 4GB or more of storage, even without a 3.5-inch touchscreen? They're expensive. It's the nature of including a lot of flash memory with fairly advanced Internet and cellular access. Apple couldn't very well do the kind of music phone people were expecting without paying the price.

Sony, on the other hand, likely included Blu-Ray because the corporate heads decided it could force Blu-Ray as the standard for movies by saddling the format with its console, even if it meant a $500 price in a market that it should have known wouldn't tolerate high prices at all. We're talking the price of idealism (Apple) versus detached corporate maneuvering (Sony).

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