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Submission + - Fake Steve Jobs Outed as Forbes Editor

Submitted by heeeraldo on Sunday August 05, 2007 @08:16PM

heeeraldo writes: Fake Steve Jobs, anonymous blogger writing in the unrestrained voice of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has had his real identity uncovered by the New York Times. Fake Steve is best known for his creative mockery of other high tech figureheads, including Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson. The race to discover his identity had run for nearly as long as he had been writing, and suspects included Leahnder Kahney and Andy Ihnatko, both well-known Mac columnists. Daniel Lyons, senior editor with Forbes Magazine has been writing in the satirical voice for just over a year, and has announced that Fake Steve will keep writing, sponsored by his current editors at Forbes.

Submission + - LG.Philips Develops World's First Color E-Paper

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @07:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: LG.Philips LCD developed the world's first 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper display, equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper.
The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.

Submission + - Mac OS X could be the next Windows?

Submitted by

Brett

on Sunday May 13, 2007 @03:22PM

Brett writes: "Mac OS X has been known for the almost complete lack of Malware, but as a CBC reporter points out, this trend could very soon end. Hopefully Apple is quietly preparing for this large scale attack, and I hope Mac OS X won't become the next Windows."

Submission + - Japanese Government to Move to OSS

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13, 2007 @02:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: linuxworld has an article on Japanese government's plan to reduce its reliance on a single IT vendor by moving to open source softwares.

Oracle, NEC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and Dell are among 10 IT equipment and software vendors that are forming a consortium to develop and sell Linux-based servers and computers for the Japanese market. The move by the vendors to collaborate on Linux in Japan comes from a edict from the country's government to make Linux and open source a priority for all IT procurements, starting this July.
Specifically, it looks to reduce Windows as the server OS.

The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform.

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