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Submission + - MMS is Live on the Iphone! (associatedcontent.com)

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Calindae
Calindae writes: "It's finally here! The day we have all waited for (or at least iPhone owners have waited for)! You can now multi-media message with your Apple iPhone. Wow, was that a loooong "late summer"!"
Google

Submission + - Google barks back at Microsoft over Chrome Frame s (computerworld.com)

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "Google hit back at Microsoft on Friday, defending the security of its new Chrome Frame plug-in and claiming that the software actually makes Internet Explorer (IE) safer and more secure. "Accessing sites using Google Chrome Frame brings Google Chrome's security features to Internet Explorer users," said a Google spokesman today. "It provides strong phishing and malware protection, absent in IE6, robust sandboxing technology [in IE6 and on Windows XP], and defenses from emerging online threats that are available in days rather than months." On Thursday, Microsoft warned users that they would double their security problems by using Chrome Frame, the plug-in that provides better JavaScript performance and adds support for HTML 5 to Microsoft's browser."
IT

Submission + - Up To 9% Of A Company's Machines Are Bot-Infected (darkreading.com)

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ancientribe
ancientribe writes: "Bot infections are on the rise in businesses, and most come from botnets you've never heard of nor ever will. Botnet researchers at Damballa have found that nearly 60 percent of bot infections in organizations are from bot armies with only a handful to a few hundred bots built to target a particular organization. Only 5 percent of the bot infections were from big-name botnets, such as Zeus/ZDbot and Koobface. And more businesses are getting hit: 7 to 9 percent of an organization's machines are bot-infected, up from 5- to 7 percent last year, according to Damballa."
Programming

Submission + - The Duct Tape Programmer 1

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theodp
theodp writes: "Joel Spolsky sings the praises of The Duct Tape Programmer, who delivers programming teams from the evil of architecture astronauts who might otherwise derail a project with their faddish programming craziness. The say-no-to-overengineering attitude of the Duct Tape Programmer stems not from orneriness, but from the realization that even a 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it's in your lab where you're endlessly polishing the damn thing. Like Steve Jobs, Duct Tape Programmers firmly believe that Real Artists Ship."

Submission + - Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS Starts Windows 7 in 1 se (engadget.com) 1

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suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: "Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS, a highly optimized UEFI implementation that can start loading an OS in just under a second.

Combined with Windows 7's optimized startup procedure, that means you're looking at incredibly short boot times — we saw a retrofitted Dell Adamo hit the Windows desktop in 20 seconds, while a Lenovo T400s with a fast SSD got there in under 10.

Engadget article : http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/video-phoenix-instant-boot-bios-starts-loading-windows-in-under/

Video : http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/645/2.033/"

Submission + - Google Serves a Cease and Desist order to Android (androidandme.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google served a Cease and Desist order to a popular android developer for distributing closed source Google applications. I'm not any good at writing summary's so hopefully someone submitted it with a better one. Just thought i'd bring it up.

Comment Re:Uh huh. (Score 1) 1089

by Calindae (#28784159) Attached to: Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010
Entirely correct. And this proves completely that the naysayers over at Engadget are wrong about Chrome OS just being another player in the crowded Linux field. If Google is smart, and I have a feeling they are, then they will make this a new beast altogether, one that doesn't rely on the past (i.e. Microsoft's decades old tech, as the OP pointed out).
Google

Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development 948

Posted by timothy from the constructive-criticism dept.
jeevesbond writes "The alpha version of Google Chrome is now available for GNU/Linux. Google Chrome developer and former Firefox lead Ben Goodger has some problems with the platform though. His complaints range from the lack of a standardised UI toolkit, inconsistencies across applications, the lack of a unified and comprehensive HIG, to GTK not being a very compelling toolkit. With Adobe getting twitchy about the glibc fork and previously describing the various audio systems as welcome to the jungle, is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?"
Portables

Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu 165

Posted by kdawson from the source-code-soon dept.
An anonymous reader notes Ars Technica's report from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, where Canonical has unveiled a prototype Android execution environment that will allow Android applications to run on Ubuntu and "potentially other conventional Linux distributions." "Android uses the Linux kernel, but it isn't really a Linux platform. It offers its own totally unique environment that is built on Google's custom Java runtime. There is no glide path for porting conventional desktop Linux applications to Android. Similarly, Java applications that are written for Android can't run in regular Java virtual machine implementations or in standard Java ME environments. This makes Android a somewhat insular platform. Canonical is creating a specialized Android execution environment that could make it possible for Android applications to run on Ubuntu desktops in Xorg alongside regular Linux applications. The execution environment would function like a simulator, providing the infrastructure that is needed to make the applications run. Some technical details about the Android execution environment were presented by Canonical developer Michael Casadevall... They successfully compiled it against Ubuntu's libc instead of Android's custom libc and they are running it on a regular Ubuntu kernel."
Biotech

Submission + - Scientists start mapping the brain (plosjournals.org)

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Raindance
Raindance writes: "A team at the University of Utah has unveiled a system to map and digitize brain tissue, fulfilling one of the long-standing holy grails of neuroscience and enabling for the first time in-depth analysis of how mammalian neural networks function. So far maps for the entire retina and related neural networks have been released; no ETA on a full-brain digital reconstruction yet. And yes, one of the lead authors reads Slashdot."

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