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Submission + - Star Wars PowerBook Mod

Submitted by Descalzo on Sunday February 11, 2007 @02:49AM

Descalzo writes: Here's an original case mod. After seeing the laser-etched PowerBook and the rainbow Apple logo mod, and after a friend gave me a disassembled PowerBook, I decided to try something new. A different logo for my laptop: the Star Wars PowerBook!

Submission + - Samsug announces look-alike iphone killer

Submitted by goombah99 on Sunday February 11, 2007 @12:27AM

goombah99 writes: Samsung unveiled a prototype of their touchscreen phone. It's look, single button front, full-face touchscreen are the essentially identical to the iphone. The screen resolution is sufficiently worse that video viewing will be less of a pleasure, it's thicker, and it lacks Wi-Fi. But it has a slide-out full thumb-board, a 5 mega pixel camera, supports 3G (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access). Web connectivity however lacks the elegant full screen approach with a gestural interface of the iphone. Price, battery life and availability are not known. Read Here and here for first impressions. My impression is that hardware wise it's at the same level as the iphone so, as always, it's the apple polish of the interface that will be the deciding factor. Simultaneously, Microsoft revealed a workmanlike update of it's mobile version.

Submission + - Google Search goes AJAX!

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday February 10, 2007 @11:01PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "ReadWriteWeb reports that Google's main property, Google Search got AJAXified. This was Google's most conservative property, so this is a very interesting development and is signaling that Google may start implementing SearchMash innovations into its core product very soon. One more step towards semantic web..."

Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech 686

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 10, 2007 @09:32PM from the hang-up-or-takedown dept.

Two stories in the news offer contrasting approaches by Web companies to questions of free speech. First YouTube: reader skraps notes that the Google property has recently banned the popular atheist commentator Nick Gisburne. Gisburne had been posting videos with logical arguments against Christian beliefs; but when he turned his attention to Islam (mirror of Gisburne's video by another user), YouTube pulled the plug, saying: 'After being flagged by members of the YouTube community, and reviewed by YouTube staff, the video below has been removed due to its inappropriate nature. Due to your repeated attempts to upload inappropriate videos, your account now been permanently disabled, and your videos have been taken down.' Amazon.com provides a second example of how to react to questions of free speech. Reader theodp sends along a story in TheStreet.com about how Amazon hung up on customers wanting to comment on its continuing practice of selling animal-fighting magazines. The article notes that issues of free speech are rarely cut-and-dried, and that Amazon is doing itself no favors by going up against the Humane Society.
Update: 02/11 04:25 GMT by KD : updated Nick Gisburne link to new account.

Journal Journal: The Onion on Vista

Journal by P(0)(!P(k)+P(k+1)) on Saturday February 10, 2007 @09:15PM

Highlights from the article:

Microsoft Word's helpful paper-clip icon now blinks at rate of normal humans
Five new card-back designs for Solitaire
Something that Apple would never, ever dream up in a billion years

Submission + - Is Mandriva Near Financial Demise?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10, 2007 @09:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Distrowatch editorial poses the question, "Is Mandriva near financial demise?" From the editorial: "However, due to extraordinary items, the net loss for the 4th quarter 2006 at Mandriva has more than doubled from 400 thousand to 840 thousand, and the full year net result has gone from essentially break-even to a 2.84 million loss." It is fairly clear that Mandriva is in trouble. Can they manage to save themselves again from the financial hemorrhaging?

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