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Submission + - GMail caves to user pressure and supports IMAP (informationweek.com)

Submitted by Anaerin on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @04:00PM

Anaerin writes: As reported in InformationWeek today, Google has finally added IMAP support to GMail. Good news for the thousands of people who signed the petition, as well as iPhone-wielding IT warriors and GMail users the world over.

Submission + - Transmeta wins patent lawsuit agains Intel (2112.net)

Submitted by

funkboy

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:35PM

funkboy writes: "Transmeta has finally won their longstanding patent Litigation with Intel, resulting in Intel licensing their LongRun technology and significant financial benefits for Transmeta, as well as sending their stock price through the roof."

Submission + - New Hydrogen Engine Test Shows Future of Aviation (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Boeing has successfully completed tests for the engine that will power HALE, the extreme endurance plane that will be able to fly for seven days non-stop in the stratosphere. The wünderengine, developed by the Ford Motor Company, went for three days under the simulated conditions of a 65,000-feet flight, which is definitely better than a Taurus and apparently exceeded their expectations on fuel economy. Chris Haddox at Boeing's Advanced Systems said that while it will be several years before HALE flies, the key to this aircraft is the propulsion system and this recent test was very promising.

Submission + - Outraged at Verizon? Send a letter to the FCC (wordpress.com)

Submitted by

sbrown3820

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:29PM

sbrown3820 writes: "Verizon Wireless' impending disclosure of subscriber call information (CPNI) struck a raw nerve with many. Want to respond? Here's a letter you can copy and paste into an email to the FCC Commissioners."

Submission + - Gimp 2.4 Release

Submitted by

Maestro485

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:24PM

Maestro485 writes: "Gimp 2.4 has been released with a ton of new features. I haven't used it in a while, but it might be time to give it another try."

Submission + - NetApp v. Sun, take two

Submitted by segfaultcoredump on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:20PM

segfaultcoredump writes: A few weeks back, Network Appliance filed suit against Sun for ZFS. Jonathan Schwartz has responded in his recent blog.

Of interest is the statement that "As a part of this suit, we are requesting a permanent injunction to remove all of their filer products from the marketplace, and are examining the original NFS license — on which Network Appliance was started. "

Sun is basically using its patent arsenal to take out NetApp.

Jonathan also stated that he is "committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform."

This could get interesting. Grab your popcorn and get ready to watch.

Submission + - Source of "optimism" found in the brain

Submitted by

mcgrew (sm62704)

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @02:13PM

mcgrew (sm62704) writes: "The optimist says "the glass is half full", the pessimist says "the glass is half empty," the scientist says there's .327084436 liters, and the realist says "we need to find another .0025 lters". New Scientist says "Two regions of the brain linked to optimism have been discovered by researchers. The identification of the sites that signal positive thinking could shed light on the causes of depression.""

Submission + - Compromised ad server spreading malware (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Monday October 22, 2007 @05:59PM

jfruhlinger writes: "Even if you're careful about the sites you visit, you can't control the servers those sites use to host their ads. Symantec security researchers have traced a recent rash of malware back to a compromised ad server run by 24/7 Real Media Inc."

Submission + - Yahoo launches its first world: Star Wars (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

Nin Swift

on Monday October 22, 2007 @05:53PM

Nin Swift writes: "Yahoo! Inc. launched their first world this afternoon, the World of Star Wars. It looks like it pulls all the Star Wars media into the site, including data directly from Lucas. It's pretty interesting and the potential as far as Yahoo going the route of "branded" websites is huge."

Submission + - Serious Gaming Starting at Age 6? (adage.com)

Submitted by

SailorSpork

on Thursday October 18, 2007 @04:41PM

SailorSpork writes: "This article from Advertising Age presents data saying that 6-8 year olds are gaming much more than the previous year's research (75% more), and that an increase in easily accessible casual games is helping this growth. Marketers are calling this young demographic a "critical age at which to capture the future gamers of the world." The article also states that the results are troubling for those concerned about the link between video game marketing and the increasing trend in obese children (when I was that age, we — err, they were called "fat kids"), but says that more research is called for."

Submission + - Louisiana student financial aid data stolen (la.gov)

Submitted by

kyle6477

on Thursday October 18, 2007 @02:07PM

kyle6477 writes: "Louisiana Universities were notified Monday of a possible data breach affecting student's personal information held by the Louisiana Office for Student Financial Assistance (LOSFA). Apparently, a company that was handling the backups of the data reported the data stolen almost a month after the data went missing on Sept. 19. Why did they wait a month to tell us that our data was affected? I am a Louisiana college student affected by this issue and would have liked to know well before hand!!!!! A link to the notice can be found here. Names and social security were confirmed to have been comprised for thousands of students...though no financial records have appeared to be compromised."

Submission + - Use of mobile phones over Europe is on the way (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by szlwzl on Thursday October 18, 2007 @02:04PM

szlwzl writes: Mobile phones will soon be available to be used in planes when travelling above 3000 metres — as previously discussed here there will be a base station on the plane which will then connect via satellite to the caller. I think this is an awful idea which means that we will have to now put up with idiots wittering about "low hanging fruit", "pushing the noodle" or other such ridiculous comments while I'm trying to either get some sleep, work quietly or watching some movies. Maybe there will be a quiet area of the plane like there are on trains in the UK.

Submission + - BBC bends over for the penguin (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

leftcase

on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @10:24AM

leftcase writes: "Steady on folks, Doctor Who will be coming onto your penguin soon....

"The BBC and Adobe® Systems Incorporated, today (Tuesday 16 October) announced a strategic relationship around the delivery of web video.

By adopting the Adobe Flash® Player software, the BBC will make its free catch-up TV service — BBC iPlayer — available as a streaming service across Macintosh and Linux®, as well as Microsoft Windows®, by the end of the year.""

Submission + - Generating power from turbulence

Submitted by

Simonite

on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @10:49AM

Simonite writes: "Wind turbines are great with steady flows, but they can't cope with turbulence. That's why CalTech researchers are building devices modelled on the way fish harvest energy from turbulent vortices in the wakes of other fish and objects like stones in streams. The goal is to deploy them in on top of urban buildings, where air flow is rarely steady."

AOL Cutting 2000 Additional Jobs 139

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 15, 2007 @05:15PM from the never-saw-the-dialup-collapse-coming dept.

butterwise writes "AOL plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its worldwide workforce, as the Internet division focuses on advertising sales to make up for subscriber losses. 'The latest cuts will pare AOL's staff to 8,000, down from about 18,000 employees in 2001, when the company bought New-York based Time Warner for $124 billion. The combination led to $100 billion in losses and a more than 60 percent drop in Time Warner's stock as customers dropped dial-up Web access.'"

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