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Microsoft finalizes Skype acquisition-> 1

Submitted by suraj.sun on Friday October 14 2011, @03:12AM

suraj.sun writes "Well, it's finally happened — Microsoft's acquisition of Skype has just been finalized, a little more than five months after it was first announced. Under the $8.5 billion deal, Skype CEO Tony Bates will be named president of the new Skype Division of Microsoft, and will have to report directly to Steve Ballmer.

In a post on the Official Microsoft Blog today, Bates seemed unsurprisingly enthusiastic about the acquisition, describing it as a marriage of two "disruptive, innovative, software-oriented companies. Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience – communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus," Bates wrote. "And we've only scratched the surface."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/10/13/tony-bates-weighs-in-on-microsoft-s-acquisition-of-skype.aspx

Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/14/microsoft-finalizes-acquisition-of-skype-tony-bates-shares-his/"
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Free Linux FPS Alien Arena boosted to 7.56-> 0

Submitted by dotarray on Friday October 14 2011, @12:55AM

dotarray writes "Looking for a free game to play this weekend? Saving your pennies for the Big Names coming out in the next couple of months? Like a bit of old-school shooting? If the answer’s yes to any of those questions, then you may like to take a look at Alien Arena."
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Subversion 1.7 released this week-> 0

Submitted by

vinnyjames

on Thursday October 13 2011, @11:52PM

vinnyjames writes "The Apache Subversion (SVN) open source version control system is out with its 1.7 release today. The new SVN 1.7 release adds new features such as HTTPv2 and WC-NG that improve performance and make version control more efficient for developers.

Available on a variety of different platforms at http://www.wandisco.com/download/subversion"
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Help Cmdr Taco-> 3

Submitted by

mpawlo

on Thursday October 13 2011, @04:45PM

mpawlo writes "Slashdot founding editor Rob Malda aka Cmdr Taco just announced on Google Plus that he needs to figure out how to write a resume. "Since mine is only gonna have 1 line on it, I figure I need to pad it out." Why don't we help him?"
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Comment: Halliday, Resnick, and Walker (Score 1) 276

by BlenderFX on Sunday July 13 2008, @06:17AM (#24171193) Attached to: Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?

Fundamentals of Physics (Extended) by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker

Demonoid shut down by the CRIA...for good. 0

Submitted by

AnarchyAo

on Wednesday November 14 2007, @10:44AM

AnarchyAo writes "As early as this morning, upon loading http://www.demonoid.com/ you're presented with the following:

"The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding."

If there were any doubts of Demonoid and there problems with the CRIA, now it's impossible to see the kind of pressures they've been under since there site was last taken offline by the CRIA this past September 26th (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/26/132204)"

Firefox Memory Hogging Is Due to Fragmentation-> 0

Submitted by A beautiful mind on Tuesday November 13 2007, @10:19AM

A beautiful mind writes "It has been long claimed by users that Firefox leaks memory, and on the other hand the developers claimed the number of leaks are minimal. It turns out both groups were right. Stuart Parmenter, one of the authors of the RAMBack extension started investigating and found out that the issue is memory fragmentation. He discovered that while loading about:blank uses 12,589,696 bytes of memory in the test he performed (image), after exercising Firefox with different websites and then clearing the caches with the help of the RAMBack extension the picture is wholly different: "Our heap is now 29,999,872 bytes! 16,118,072 of that is used (up 4,634,208 bytes from before... which caches am I forgetting to clear?). The rest, a whopping 13,881,800 bytes, is in free blocks!""
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Apple issues warning on iPhone unlocking 0

Submitted by

daveschroeder

on Monday September 24 2007, @08:34PM

daveschroeder writes "Today Apple issued a statement which says, "Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed." This does not include "hacking" the phone to install third party applications or ringtones, only unlocking the phone. This is because unlocking changes the baseband radio firmware, which is expected to be updated along with the next iPhone update to address other issues. Apple adds, "This has nothing to do with proactively disabling a phone that is unlocked or hacked. It's unfortunate that some of these programs have caused damage to the iPhone software, but Apple cannot be responsible for...those consequences." While unlocking a phone is legal for an end user under a current DMCA exemption, the vendor is under no obligation to guarantee the phone will remain as such when official software updates are applied; many users of unlocked handsets simply never update the phone, but the iPhone is in a different category. It is likely that since the current unlocking mechanisms use a broader buffer overflow condition, this will also be fixed in the next software update.

Note to editors: the already-submitted story in the firehose is remarkably incorrect (has NOTHING to do with "hacking", just unlocking), so please don't accept it."

'$100 laptop' to be sold to public 0

Submitted by GiantHaystacks on Monday September 24 2007, @12:09PM

GiantHaystacks writes "The BBC reports that the XO '$100 laptop' is to be sold to the American public in November. The laptop in question is a waterproof machine which can be powered by solar, foot-pump or pull-string chargers. It will be sold under a scheme called G1G1, or "Get 1 Give 1". For $399 an American consumer will be able to buy two of the laptops, with one being sent to them and the other being donated to a needy child in the Third World. But don't blink, because the program will only be open for 2 weeks."

http://www.openoffice.org/ 0

Submitted by WibbleOnMars on Monday September 17 2007, @10:47AM

WibbleOnMars writes "Those fun people at OpenOffice.org have released version 2.3. Loads of new features to drool over.
From the OOo site:
OpenOffice.org 2.3
Available for download now, OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it.
Plus: It is only with 2.3 that users can make full use of our growing extensions library."