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Submission + - Google X works an older guy until he's hospitalized and then they lay him off (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Julie188 on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:37AM

Julie188 writes: When Google shows up to buy your startup and trade out your relatively worthless startup stock for Google stock, and offers you a high paying job, too, it seems like a dream come true. But for a group of ex-military guys at a startup called Project Titan, it was more like a nightmare, according to this detailed article from Business Insider. After Google buys their company, it shuts it down, gets them to move across the country to California and then sets them up working long hours outdoors in 100-degree heat. One older guy, in his mid-50s, was even hospitalized, and when he returned to work, he was essentially pushed out. Some people claimed it was bias against older workers and veterans.

Submission + - Mandriva CEO: Employee lawsuits put us out of business (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Julie188 on Friday May 29, 2015 @02:07PM

Julie188 writes: As you probably heard by now, Linux company Mandriva has finally, officially gone out of business. The CEO has opened up, telling his side of the story. He blames employee lawsuits after a layoff in 2013, the French labor laws and the courts. "Those court decisions forced the company to announce bankruptcy," he said.

Submission + - PayPal yanks out 80,000 VMware servers for OpenStack (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by

Julie188

on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:06AM

Julie188 writes: "This should make VMware nervous. PayPal and eBay are yanking VMware software from some 80,000 servers and replacing it with OpenStack. Some 10,000 OpenStack servers will go live this summer."

Submission + - Apache CloudStack becomes a top-level project (apache.org)

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ke4qqq

on Monday March 25, 2013 @10:28AM

ke4qqq writes: "The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache CloudStack has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles."

Submission + - Dell Confirms and Details Rival Bids from Blackstone and Icahn (ibtimes.co.uk)

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DavidGilbert99

on Monday March 25, 2013 @09:01AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: "Dell has confirmed it has received "two alternative acquisition proposals" from billionaire investor Carl Icahn and the world's largest equity firm Blackstone. These bids rival the $24.4bn offer made by co-founder Michael Dell and equity firm Silver Lake last month, who want to take the company private.
Dell also confirmed details of the two offers, with both exceeding Michael Dell's original offer of $13.65 per share, with Blackstone offering $14.25 and Icahn offering $15 per share."

Submission + - Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by

Julie188

on Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:25AM

Julie188 writes: "A tiny San Francisco startup, Adamant Technologies, is trying to give your iPhone a sense of smell and taste.. The company has created a computer chip that works with a bunch of tiny sensors to digitize these senses. The first app planned is a consumer device that plugs into an iPhone and detects bad breath. (That way, you'll always be the first, not the last, to know!)"

Submission + - Is HP right? Autonomy salesperson shares internal emails (businessinsider.com)

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Julie188

on Saturday January 05, 2013 @12:33PM

Julie188 writes: "You know how HP said it uncovered $5 billion worth of "improper" revenue at Autonomy? One thing HP has accused Autonomy of doing is booking software-as-a-service contracts as software licensing deals. So how might that type of accounting work? A former Autonomy salesperson fighting a legal battle with HP says she's seen it happen firsthand. She's shared internal Autonomy emails and documents that show the details of one deal."

Comment HEY I GOT THIS STORY WRONG (Score 1) 1

by Julie188 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @06:22PM (#40226181) Attached to: Samsung just dumped $500M into the Linux Foundation

My apologies ... MAJOR typo. It's only $500,000 ... NOT $500 million. Not quite as exciting, huh, but still kinda interesting that Samsung is a platinum sponsor when Red Hat isn't.

Submission + - Scientists Discover Link Between Trees and Electricity (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: Everyone knows that trees give us all oxygen so we can breathe, but according to an Australian scientists they also affect the concentration of positive and negative ions in the air. A team from the Queensland University of Technology's International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH) ran experiments in six locations all over Brisbane and found that positive and negative ion concentrations in the air were two times higher in heavily wooded areas than in open grassy areas, such as parks.

Submission + - Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:30PM

snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister discusses the proliferation of programming languages and what separates the successful ones from obscurity. 'Some people say we don't need any more programming languages at all. I disagree. But it seems clear that the mainstream won't accept just any language. To be successful, a new language has to be both familiar and innovative — and it shouldn't try to bite off more than it can chew. ... At least part of the formula for success seems to be pure luck, like a band getting its big break. But it also seems much easier for a language to shoot itself in the foot than to skyrocket to stardom.'"

Submission + - Bill Gates Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by

Julie188

on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @03:56PM

Julie188 writes: "Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spread $3 million in grants among eight research teams in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, reports the Scientific American. This challenge is part of Gates' pledge last summer to spend $42 million to reinvent the toilet. The teams delivered a bunch of ways to turn human waste into energy."

Submission + - Paul Allen to Build Spaceships (reuters.com)

Submitted by smitty777 on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @02:43PM

smitty777 writes: "Where do you want to go today?" takes on a whole new meaning as Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and the world's 57th richest man in the world, looks to create a new spaceship company. Stratolaunch Systems plans to bring "airport like operations" to the world of private space travel. Partnering with Burt Rutan, the plan is to field a test within 5 years and commercially available flights within 10. Spacecraft will be air-launched from a giant six engined aircraft. There is more information available on the Stratolaunch homepage.

Submission + - US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for alie (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by

iComp

on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @06:20PM

iComp writes: "The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has announced that it is back in business checking out the new habitable exoplanets recently discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope to see if they might be home to alien civilisations. The cash needed to restart SETI's efforts has come in part from the US Air Force Space Command, who are interested in using the organisation's detection instruments for "space situational awareness"."

Submission + - Barnes & Noble names Microsoft's disputed Andr (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

Julie188

on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:35PM

Julie188 writes: "B&N is really blowing the lid off of what Microsoft is doing and how they are forcing money from Android. It has accused Microsoft of requiring overly restricted NDA agreements from those even entering into patent license talks. Because it is disputing Microsoft's claims, and the restrictions of its own NDA signed with Redmond, B&N has gone public. It has named in detail six patents that it says Microsoft is using to get Android device makers to pay up. Plus B&N is also trying to force open Microsoft's other plans for stomping out Android, including the agreement Redmond made with Nokia, and Nokia's patent-troll MOSAID."

Submission + - 3D Printed bones cut cost of surgery operations (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Tasha26 on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @07:11PM

Tasha26 writes: A trainee surgeon, Mark Frame, has figured out how to save UK's NHS thousands of pounds by taking advantage of 3D-printer technology. Success in orthopaedic operations relies on surgeons having an accurate 3D model of the area where the operation will take place. Such models take time to produce and cost upto £1200 ($1915). Mark, a self-confessed "technology geek," used open source OsiriX software to convert CT scans into files which are readable by the 3D printers at Shapeways, a company in the Netherlands. Within a week they produced & delivered the first plastic 3D model of a child's forearm at a cost of £77 ($123). Mark has written a free guide so that other surgeons can make their own bones which is being considered for publication by the World Journal of Science and Technology. He's also contactable via twitter: @3Dbones

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