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From feed by macworldfeed on Friday December 28 2007, @04:32PM
The pressure's on for this year's Consumer Electronics Show not to get overshadowed by Macworld Expo, after the iPhone grabbed the spotlight from last year's event.
http://rss.macworld.com/~r/macworld/feeds/main/~3/207711914/ces08preview.html
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  UK Mac Ads - have we seen these before? 2007-01-29 09:18 ConfusedVorlon

Submitted by ConfusedVorlon on Monday January 29 2007, @09:18AM
ConfusedVorlon writes "Mitchell & Webb are cast as Mac and PC in the reworked mac ads for the UK. Mac looks bored to me..."
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  IT: Adobe To Release Full PDF Specification to ISO 2007-01-29 09:00

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 29 2007, @09:00AM
from the big-changes-in-the-text-world dept.
nickull writes "Adobe announced it will release the entire PDF specification (current version 1.7 ) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) via AIIM. PDF has reached a point in its maturity cycle where maintaining it in an open standards manner is the next logical step in evolution. Not only does this reinforce Adobe's commitment to open standards (see also my earlier blog on the release of flash runtime code to the Tamarin open source project at Sourceforge), but it demonstrates that open standards and open source strategies are really becoming a mainstream concept in the software industry. So what does this really mean? Most people know that PDF is already a standard so why do this now? This event is very subtle yet very significant. PDF will go from being an open standard/specification and de facto standard to a full blown de jure standard. The difference will not affect implementers much given PDF has been a published open standard for years. There are some important distinctions however. First — others will have a clearly documented process for contributing to the future of the PDF specification. That process also clearly documents the path for others to contribute their own Intellectual property for consideration in future versions of the standard. Perhaps Adobe could have set up some open standards process within the company but this would be merely duplicating the open standards process, which we felt was the proper home for PDF. Second, it helps cement the full PDF specification as the umbrella specification for all the other PDF standards under the ISO umbrella such as PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/E. The move also helps realize the dreams of a fully open web as the web evolves (what some are calling Web 2.0), built upon truly open standards, technologies and protocols."
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  Engineers stymied by management, yet again 2007-01-29 04:26 Jack Schitt

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Monday January 29 2007, @04:26AM
Jack Schitt writes "An engineer speaks out against Lockheed Martin, the Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security because various technical systems designed by co-workers didn't meet standards or even requirements, but were pushed ahead by management anyway. Didn't a similar thing happen to Challenger and Columbia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3VV8Za04g"
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  Verizon passed on Apple iPhone distribution 2007-01-29 02:03 Mrs. Grundy

Submitted by Mrs. Grundy on Monday January 29 2007, @02:03AM
Mrs. Grundy writes "The USA Today is reporting that Verizon was offered a chance to be the exclusive distributor of the Apple iPhone. The details from the failed negotiations shed some light on the business agreement Apple hopes to get from cell phone carriers. Verizon balked at giving Apple a percentage of monthly fees and over where the phone would be distributed — including cutting WalMart, a Verizon distributor, out of the loop. The article also reports that Apple wanted to play a more prominent role in customer service than Verizon was comfortable with."
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  DRM to end Ghetto Latte at Starbucks? 2007-01-28 21:19 AlHunt

Submitted by AlHunt on Sunday January 28 2007, @09:19PM
AlHunt writes "The University of Chicago Faculty Blog draws a parallel between DMCA, DRM and Ghetto-latte at Starbucks.
From the blog:

So now we have the natural question: what are the limits of free milk? That is, Starbucks provides free milk so that customers who want to add milk to their coffee can do so. (Is it fair to call this the permitted use or intended use?) Customers know their optimal coffee/milk ratio and can best achieve that by doing it on their own. Unlike the DMCA and DRM, which imposes technological limits on how content can be used, Starbucks has no simple way to control how "free" milk is used at Starbucks. But Starbucks obviously could take a number steps to limit the use of free milk, including posting signs or refusing to facilitate the arbitrage by selling drinks only in cups of the right size.
Apparently this is a hot topic over at Starbucks, too."
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  Latest PSP Firmware Now Downgradeable 2007-01-28 20:09 Croakyvoice

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Sunday January 28 2007, @08:09PM
Croakyvoice writes "PSP Hackers Fanjita and Ditlew have released a downgrader for the latest PSP firmware v3.03, all Sony PSP consoles can now be downgraded to Homebrew friendly firmware including the full speed hacked PSX custom firmware."
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