Comment Re:The blame is Google's, not Oracle's (Score 1) 82
mod up insightful.
Comment Re:Maybe it's just me, but... (Score 1) 432
Mod up as funny as hell obvious.
Comment Re:Apple makes money either way... (Score 1) 348
mod up as insightful.
Comment Re:The solution is simple (Score 1) 637
Mod as insightful!
+5
Comment Re:Here is one thing that I do notice (Score 1) 289
GMail, Google Now, Chrome, all of these apps are either not available, or are only provided in downlevel versions. You have to be running 4.x to get the latest and greatest apps.
Meanwhile, Google produces versions of their apps to run on iOS 6, which is available on every iPhone back to the 3GS from 2009.
Quite ironic huh? I guess even Google knows where the app money (ad revenue) income is.
Submission + - The meeting in Jeff Bezos's boathouse (cnn.com)
jazzis writes: FORTUNE — "I'm not comfortable discussing the contents of that meeting."
That's what Russell Grandinetti, Amazon's (AMZN) vice president for Kindle content, said when asked in court Friday about a meeting he attended in Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Seattle boathouse on Sunday Jan. 24, 2010.
It was the only question in more than four hours of testimony that Grandinetti declined to answer.
Jan. 24 was a significant date in several respects. Amazon executives knew that Apple (AAPL) had scheduled a major product announcement for the following Wednesday. They suspected it was going to be a tablet that could read e-books — a market they currently dominated.
That's what Russell Grandinetti, Amazon's (AMZN) vice president for Kindle content, said when asked in court Friday about a meeting he attended in Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Seattle boathouse on Sunday Jan. 24, 2010.
It was the only question in more than four hours of testimony that Grandinetti declined to answer.
Jan. 24 was a significant date in several respects. Amazon executives knew that Apple (AAPL) had scheduled a major product announcement for the following Wednesday. They suspected it was going to be a tablet that could read e-books — a market they currently dominated.
Comment ultérieur motive? (Score 0) 94
quick and dirty...
Comment Re:multiple social providers on the desktop (Score 1) 246
Firefox just comes with the Social API, as with addon APIs, you have to install something, otherwise it's just potential.
There you go again, bringing logic and reason to an emotional argument. Won't somebody think of the delusional paranoids!
Too funny, and real true too! Please mod up!
Comment CUE the critics. (Score 1) 146
Oh well...
Comment Re:hmmm (Score 1) 490
All of the above.
Mod up as totally insightful "troll".
Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser 132
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Labs is working on an experimental add-on which enables video and audio recording in the browser. Anant Narayanan writes on the Mozilla Labs blog, 'The Rainbow add-on for Firefox is an early developer prototype that enables web developers to access local video and audio recording capabilities using just a few lines of JavaScript. The add-on generates files encoded in open formats: Theora (for video) and Vorbis (for audio) in an Ogg container. The resulting files are accessible in DOM using HTML5 File APIs, which may be used to upload them to a server.' Support for live streaming and WebM is planned for a future version of the add-on."
Beware the Garden of Steven 580
theodp writes "With its forthcoming Lion Mac OS and new Apple-curated Mac Apps Store, Apple will be locking down top tier applications on the Mac similar to the way apps are locked down on the iPad and iPhone. Only by submitting their apps to Apple's store and giving up 30% of their receipts will developers get to take advantage of two new OS features. The first is Apple's new 'Launchpad,' a tool for easily opening application; the second is the ability to update apps to new versions with one click. It will be a lot easier to use apps bought from the Mac App Store than ones downloaded in the wild. It didn't have to be that way, says Valleywag's Ryan Tate: 'Apple could have enabled its Launchpad and auto-update features for all applications, sold through the Apple Store or not. For example, an open system for updating applications has been in use for years on Ubuntu... Ubuntu's 'Apt' (Advanced Packaging Tool) lets users install, update, and remove software of their choosing with a single command. There's a central list of apps curated by Ubuntu's maintainers, but users are free to add and install from other lists... But Apple seems to have made a very clear choice not to take the open route.' Longtime Apple developer Dave Winer was also concerned, tweeting during Apple's presentation 'Is this the end of the Mac as an open platform?' The news also prompted developer Anil Dash to call for an open alternative to the Mac App Store."
Comment Re:Creator and Overseer of Android Responds (Score 1) 864
Too clueless.
Comment Re:Creator and Overseer of Android Responds (Score 1) 864
Mod node 3 up.
I use all OS's daily and I fail to believe the disconnect here with reality as regards to "open" as regards BSD/NeXT/MacOSX/UNIX and GNU-Linux (Google-Android-Apache).
Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons 260
MotorMachineMercenar writes "The Local reports that Julian Assange has been denied a residence permit in Sweden. The WikiLeaks spokesman and Australian citizen applied for residency in August, apparently to gain the freedom of speech protection offered by Swedish laws. When asked about the reasons for the denial, a Swedish official responsible replied, '...secrecy prevails in reference to the grounds for such a decision,' essentially meaning the reasons are confidential. Assange has been recently under investigation for sexual molestation charges, which were withdrawn and then re-instated. WikiLeaks is expected to release up to 400,000 confidential US military documents in the near future, which would be the largest such leak in US history."
