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What Would A Post-Email World Look Like?-> 0

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jfruh

on Tuesday May 29, @02:21PM

jfruh writes "Pundits have been gleefully predicting the death of email for years, but nobody has really been able to explain what will replace email, especially for the medium's archiving capabilities that businesses and governments have come to rely on. It's possible that email won't vanish, but rather become insivible, one component of an integrated communication stream that will be transparent to users but still present — and useful — under the hood. It may turn out that Google's Wave, which was built on this idea, was just a bit ahead of its time."
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This Is the Way Facebook Ends -> 0

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pigrabbitbear

on Tuesday May 29, @11:39AM

pigrabbitbear writes "For the past eight years, Facebook has been the central neural network of the Internet’s link-sharing brain. But as the site has grown, so have our needs. Now that the company’s public, it’s crunch time, and the skeptics and haters are lining up to talk about how it might all end. One thing’s for certain: whether it’s a bang or a whimper, Facebook is not forever. How could it collapse? Let me count the ways."
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James Gosling Unhappy With Oracle Trial Outcome-> 0

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itwbennett

on Thursday May 24, @10:15AM

itwbennett writes "Reaction to the outcome of the Oracle vs. Google Trial has been generally postive, but Java creator James Gosling isn't so happy: 'For those of us at Sun who felt trampled-on and abused by Google's callous self-righteousness, I would have preferred a different outcome — not from the court case as much as from events of years past,' Gosling wrote on his personal blog."
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It Seems That Volcano-Triggered Mega Tsunamis Won't Obliterate New York-> 0

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MatthewVD

on Thursday May 24, @09:38AM

MatthewVD writes "In 2000, geologists told the BBC that the volcano Cumbre Vieja on the Canary Island of La Palma could eventually collapse into the Atlantic Ocean and unleash a tsunami, cinematic in scope, with 80-foot waves that would wipe out the U.S. East Coast. New models show that a smaller collapse , which is much more likely, would send waves only 16-18 feet to the U.S. — a much less catastrophic prospect."
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Mandriva SA Cedes Control To Mandriva Community-> 0

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jfruh

on Friday May 18, @08:02AM

jfruh writes "Mandriva SA, one of the oldest pure Linux companies still out there, was on the verge of shutting down earlier this year but escaped by the skin of its teeth. Now, however, the company is punting control of its flagship Linux distribution to its developer community, leavina Mandriva SA's future prospects up in the air."
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Graffiti artist David Choe to net $200m from 'Pointless and Ridiculous' Facebook-> 0

Submitted by AlistairCharlton on Friday May 18, @05:24AM

AlistairCharlton writes "Graffiti artist David Choe, 35, grew up rough on the streets of Los Angeles, had some run-ins with the law and spent some time in jail, but on 18 May he will make at least $200m (£126m).

Seven years ago Choe was approached by Sean Parker, then president of one-year-old Facebook, to paint some graffiti art in the company's offices.
In return for his work Choe was offered either cash or shares in the new company and, despite thinking that Facebook was "ridiculous and pointless", Choe chose the shares."
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Can Computers Spot Infection Before Clinicians?-> 0

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jfruh

on Wednesday April 25, @01:54PM

jfruh writes "Late onset neonatal sepsis (LONS) is an infection that can be deadly to premature babies who have to spend time in a NICU — and often babies don't show clear symptoms of LONS until the infection has gotten quite advanced. Currently the best nurses and doctors can do is rely on their instincts as to whether an infant is in the early stages of LONS — but can computers do better? A program called Project Artemis aims to find out. Artemis feeds data from the systems that already monitor NICU patients — which amount to 1,256 data points per patient to second — into IBM-built systems in an attempt to spot infections early."
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Can KDE Survive Without Ubuntu?-> 0

Submitted by sfcrazy on Thursday March 22, @02:56PM

sfcrazy writes "Jonathan Riddell, the KDE developer writes, "Since I had to announce that Canonical was dropping support for Kubuntu from 12.11 (and then had to announce two days later they were dropping support for 12.04) I've been getting lots of people asking "is this the end of KDE?"

I don't know if he meant the end of KDE or the end of Kubuntu because, in my opinion, KDE is a far bigger community outside of Kubuntu. There are many distributions such as Chakra, Mephis, Mandriva, Mageia, etc. So, I will be interested in learning how much of KDE's survival depends on Kubuntu."
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What Happened to the Windows 8 Critic?-> 3

Submitted by alphadogg on Thursday March 22, @02:37PM

alphadogg writes "Last week, a number of news outlets ran a story on a blog called Fixing Windows 8, a Tumblr site run by user interface designer and former Microsoft employee Michael Bibik. One week later, and the HTML page for fixingwindows8.com is blank except for one character, a period. If you view the source, it's also just one character, a period. Bibik did not respond to an email request for comment. His Twitter account has also disappeared. The fact that Bibik was an ex-Microsoftie was the main hook for writers who caught wind of the blog while it was active, since this was someone from the mothership issuing loud criticism of the upcoming operating system. Microsoft would not comment either way on the blog or what may have happened to it."
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Open Source Payday-> 0

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itwbennett

on Thursday March 22, @01:31PM

itwbennett writes "The recent Slashdot discussion on the open source community's attitude on profits neglected an important point: 'no profits' doesn't mean 'no money.' There are plenty of open source not-for-profit organizations that take in millions of dollars in order to pursue their public-minded missions, and some pay their employees handsomely. Brian Proffitt combed through the latest publicly available financial information on 18 top FLOSS organizations to bring you the cold, hard numbers."
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