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Media (Apple)

Submission + - Cisco and Apple settle iPhone lawsuit

Submitted by andy1307
andy1307 writes: According to this article in the New York Times, Cisco and Apple have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit over the use of the iPhone. The companies said they had reached an agreement that would allow Apple to use the name for the multimedia device in exchange for exploring wide-ranging "interoperability" between the companies' products in the areas of security, consumer and business communications. Before this settlement was reached, the sticking point apparently was Cisco's demand that in return for permission to use the iPhone name, Apple would have to open up its products to communicate with some of Cisco's offerings.

Feed An iPhone Agreement (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed
Cisco Systems and Apple said they had settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit that threatened to derail Apple’s use of the name iPhone.

Feed High-Def DVD Crackers Lie Low (wired.com)

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A company that sells ripping software for high-definition disks operates through a corporate maze reaching from Ireland to Antigua. Good luck, MPAA. In 27B Stroke 6.


Programming

Submission + - Fast Regexes

Submitted by Watson Ladd
Watson Ladd writes: Perl, Python, and many other languages claim string processing, and in particular pattern matching, as an application they were designed for. But this article shows how slow most of the regex engines now used are due to the use of Henry Spencer's regex package as inspiration. How many more performance losses are due to historical accident.

Feed Not Lost in Translation (nytimes.com)

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Developing some fluency in foreign languages is getting to be as important as taking along a laptop on an overseas trip.
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - CoHEmu receives cease and desist from NCSoft

Submitted by
Malign
Malign writes: "The CoHEmu (now known as CoXemu) Project received a cease and desist order from NCSoft today. The cease and desist can be found here: http://www.tonster.com/ncsoftceasedesist.pdf The CoHEmu Project is an open source City of Heroes and Villains server emulator written in C++. The topic in their project IRC channel reads: "cohemu site shut down" Apparently, the webhost that powered the project forum was taken offline by the ISP and the server maintainer had to call them and explain what was going on to get it back on the net. The project source code was completely open, but NCSoft accused them of using copyrighted material. They also warned of possible outcomes if the content was not brought down such as court and heavy fines of approximately $100,000 USD. Another emulation project bites the dust to the will of corporations."
Programming

Submission + - How do you change careers into programming?

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An anonymous reader writes: I have worked in tech support for the last several years, but find myself wanting to move on to something else — programming. I've written some small programs in my limited spare time but nothing particularly impressive; just functional stuff to make my life easier. I've spent a lot of time recently working through programming books, and feel I'm ready to make the switch in my career. That said, I don't have a CS degree, and find that responses to my resume have been along the lines of "Thanks, but we aren't hiring for tech support positions." Surely someone from the slashdot crowd has been in the same position — what would you recommend?
Biotech

Submission + - How A "Superbaby" Is Leading To New Medic

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A baby boy with unusually big muscles — caused by a gene mutation — is leading to new muscular dystrophy drugs. Forbes has the story, from the gene's discovery in mice, then in cattle (lots of beefy breeds have a mutated copy) to the current quest for new medicines, which pits a tiny biotech against drug giant Wyeth.

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/074.ht ml?partner=yahoomag
Google

Submission + - Year of the pig Google Logo censured

Submitted by Staalorm
Staalorm writes: Using anon proxy you can see that many countries don't display the Chinese "year of the pig" logo from Google. USA has it and China too, but many European countries don't. What is the criteria Google uses not to display the piglet-logo? In previous years all countries could view the "year of the monkey" and the "year of the dog". Are Google afraid of an Islamic equivalent of the Danish cartoon-row?
Microsoft

Submission + - Has Microsoft Patented A Successor To Clippy?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: IWeek blogger Alex Wolfe theorizes that Microsoft might be searching for a successor to 'Clippy, the iconic paperclip which was featured in Office from 1997 until the folks at Redmond got tired of the ridicule and retired it in 2004. The most promising candidate may be an eye with a rotating iris. What's equally notable is that Microsoft seems to be taking a page from its attempt to trademark the English word "Windows," and has patented the icon for a camcorder. Do you think this is the typical patent work of a big company, or has Microsoft got something up its sleeve here?
Software

Submission + - Full featured version control system built on Mono

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems there is a new version control system in town: Plastic SCM. The system has been built using Mono (www.go-mono.org), and it claims to be as powerful as the good old Clearcase, but user-friendly and... with a very nice GUI.

It seems to be one of the first full-featured commercial applications developed using Mono.

One of the features I really liked is that Plastic provides version trees (yes, Team System miserably fail doing that, and the CVS and Subversion graphics are far from complete), and they are rendered in 3D... yes, you can rotate your tree, put it upside down and so on... Anyone implementing something similar for SVN?

The system also implements branch inheritance, true file renaming, merge tracking, repository level ACLs, and uses a SQL database as storage (Firebird, SQL Server or Postgres).

You can watch the screencast running on Mono/Linux at their blog: http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2007/02/plastic -scm-running-on-sled-mono.html. A VMWare image is also available to download.

Developers may be considering making it open source.

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