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+ - Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-installed 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22, 2012 @07:28AM

An anonymous reader writes "Scheduled to be released next month, Ubuntu 12.10 now includes both amazon ads in the user's dash and by default an amazon store in the user's launcher. The reason for these "features"? Affiliate revenue. Despite previous controversies with Banshee and Yahoo, Canonical is "confident it will be an interesting and useful feature for
our 12.10 users." But are the "users" becoming products?"

+ - Google Faces Heavy Antitrust Fines in the EU-> 0

Submitted by SquarePixel on Saturday September 22, 2012 @05:25AM

SquarePixel writes "Europe's competition watchdog is considering formal proceedings against Google over antitrust complaints about the way it promotes its own services in search results, potentially exposing the company to a fine of 10 percent of its global turnover. Google is accused of using its search service to direct users to its own services and to reduce the visibility of competing websites and services. If the Commission found Google guilty of breaking E.U. competition rules, it could restrict Google's business activities in Europe and fine the company up to 10 percent of its annual global revenue (US$37.9 billion last year)."
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+ - Intel talks Cloud Gaming-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22, 2012 @03:09AM

An anonymous reader writes "Intel researcher Daniel Pohl (also known from projects like Wolfenstein Ray Traced) talked at the Cloud Gaming USA conference about three challenges in cloud gaming today. First cloud games are just the same as their PC and console versions and don't make use of a potential, more powerful cloud to enable more features and higher quality rendering. Second the topic of latency, not only regarding internet, but along the full way from user input to the screen is analyzed in detail. Last an outlook discusses the huge increase in screen resolutions over the next years and therefore the challenge regarding bandwidth and compute. Both slides and a video of the talk are available."
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+ - Ask Slashdot: Any chance we might see Retina-like displays on desktop monitors? 1

Submitted by BadassFractal on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:22PM

BadassFractal writes "This is a follow up to a post from a few months ago on Slashdot: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0117208/where-are-all-the-high-resolution-desktop-displays

I was wondering if the situation has changed at all ever since Apple released the first high-ppi laptop. As as developer, being able to fit a lot of windows on the screen(s) is a great productivity boost and it's unfortunate that the best we can do so far is a measly 1920x1200 unless we go to 27" monitors.

I'd be surprised if someone out there wasn't already working on super-high-resolution desktop monitors. Any news?"

+ - Meet the Mozilla OS Developer Phone-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:48AM

An anonymous reader writes "It’s no secret that Mozilla has been working on a mobile OS. Previously codenmed Boot2Gecko, the project focused on a purely HTML5 based system that worked in many ways like current mobile devices. As the project grew into Mozilla OS, the company has laid out a partnership with ZTE that will have real world devices in certain markets early next year. Testing for this OS had previously consisted of a compiled ROM that would be flashed over a handful of Android devices. Now, Mozilla has moved into full fledged product evaluation mode with their own custom developer phone."
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