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Submission + - Why Google Doesn't Need to "Win" in Jan. (thestreet.com)

Submitted by

explosivejared

on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:47AM

explosivejared writes: "TheStreet.com discusses how Google is "shrewdly playing" their bid for the 700 mhz spectrum. The article points at that through getting the government to put an open access stipulation on the spectrum, Google has almost assured itself of meeting its goal without actually having to win the bid. From the article:

Indeed, as long as this goal is met, it's hard to see why Google would want to take on the costly task of building and running its own network. But given how much is at stake when it comes to the mobile market, Google's vigilance is shrewd, even if it never planned to own the spectrum."

Submission + - GIMP 2.4 Released

Submitted by

DNAtsol

on Thursday October 25, 2007 @12:20PM

DNAtsol writes: "Sure the news is a day old but I haven't seen /. mention it. The latest release of Gimp (2.4) is out and it has a whole new look and feel, impressive new features like perspective cloning, scalable brushes and filters that can fix those pesky messed up shots made by amateurs like myself. Frankly, there is at least one person drooling to dive in and play."

Feed Feature: Four ways to Windows (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:33PM

When Apple introduced its first Intel-powered Macs in early 2006, the company did more than just launch OS X on a new platform. It also gave Mac users a brand-new way to run Windows apps. In this first of a five-part series, we outline the options for Intel Mac owners who want to run Windows on their machines. We also look at security and give a brief overview of Windows Vista.

Feed Yahoo broadens newspaper ad deal (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:32PM

Blog: As expected, Yahoo said on Monday that it was expanding partnerships with a group of newspaper publishers. Since November, Yahoo...

Submission + - Firefox usage close to 25% in Europe.

Submitted by

donstenk72

on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:31PM

donstenk72 writes: "Firefox cannot be stopped: close to 25% of the Europeans use the open source browser, according to the Xiti monitor.

http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-baromete r/firefox-march-2007/index-1-2-3-77.html.

In Slovenia usage tops 40% whilst France, Germany and Finland show a percentage that is much higher than the world average.

Not really a surprise, many Europeans are open to alternatives, particularly when they work well!"

Java Generics and Collections

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:28PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

andrew cooke writes "Java 6 was recently released, but many programmers are still exploring the features introduced in Java 5 — probably the most significant changes in the language's twelve year history. Amongst those changes (enumerations, auto-boxing, foreach, varargs) generics was the most far-reaching, introducing generic programming in a simpler, safer way than C++ templates and, unlike generics in C#, maintaining backwards (and forwards) compatibility with existing Java code." Read on for the rest of Andrew's review.

Submission + - Imaging the US Tax Code as a Network Graph

Submitted by chaidawg on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:19PM

chaidawg writes: A plug for my own work, but I think the /. community will find it interesting. Apropos of tax day The Tax Map is a graph of the United States Tax Code, represented as a network. In the network each node represents a section of the tax code, while each edge represents a reference from one section to another. The images remind me most of the images of webs woven by drugged spiders.

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