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Submission + - Does Google Need To Close-Source Android? (computerworld.com)

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "A German court's ruling on Monday that bars distribution of Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in most of Europe shocked many. It also raises some long-term licensing worries for Android globally, some believe. Samsung is expected to appeal the preliminary injunction in Germany over what Apple called a design infringement — an imitation — by the Galaxy Tab of its iPad. Still, Samsung and other Android device makers face patent and design infringement lawsuits from Apple in the U.S., Australia, the Netherlands and elsewhere. Some analysts fear that the fallout over the Android intellectual property legal wrangling will have a chilling effect on thousands of Android developers, many of whom want to build apps that run on the most popular platforms and that bring in the biggest profit. But the fallout could mean that Google may have to license the Android mobile operating system in ways that better protect it from legal attacks, such as making it closed source software subject to license fees, rather than open source, said the intellectual property expert Florian Mueller."
Australia

Submission + - Both THQ Australian development studios to close (gamepron.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: With the news that THQ is “realigning” its internal studios, two Australian development studios have closed their doors.

THQ Brisbane was working on a video game adaptation of The Avengers, while Blue Tongue recently shipped popular sequel de Blob 2.
Technology

Submission + - Is Hacking Cities the Solution to Climate Change (ted.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Really cool new "TED talk" about using technology and design to make cities "carbon zero." Good visuals, interesting examples, some familiar (like augmented reality) some fresh (like "walkshed technologies" and "passivhaus" architecture). Lots to think about!
China

Submission + - China's Autonomous Car: Are Robot Cars Real? (greencarreports.com)

Submitted by thecarchik
thecarchik writes: The select global fleet of self-driving cars has a new Chinese addition, and the developers claim the intellectual property behind it was created entirely at a Chinese university.

After gaining early publicity five years ago, the robot-driven vehicle made the trip between the interior Chinese metropolises of Changsha and Wuhan in three hours and 20 minutes, the China Daily reported.

The state-run paper reported that the drive took place in inclement weather on July 14, but the vehicle nonetheless managed to overtake 67 other vehicles at an average speed of 54 miles per hour.

All in all, many of these road tests of autonomous vehicles look promising. Audi raced to the top of Pike's peak without incident; the only major kerfuffle involving Google's autonomous cars was while a lowly human was driving; and now, these developments from China.
China

Submission + - China "Vows Saftey Overhaul" (usatoday.com)

Submitted by Medevilae
Medevilae writes: A collision between two high-speed trains that killed at least 35 people has raised concerns about the government's ambitious plans to expand the service throughout the country and export the technology abroad.

Rescue operations continued Sunday, and emergency personnel hauled one toddler alive from the wreckage 21 hours after the crash.
The government moved quickly to reassure a nation heavily reliant upon rail transportation. An "urgent overhaul" of national rail safety has begun, and three railway officials already have been dismissed since the incident, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
"China's high-speed rail technology is advanced," railway ministry spokesman Wang Yongping said, according to the China News Service. "We still have confidence."
The accident occurred after lightning caused a power failure to stall one train, which was then rear-ended by a following train, Xinhua reported Sunday. Both trains were headed for Fuzhou in southeast China.
The crash was the latest in a series of incidents raising concerns about China's rail system.
Apple

Submission + - Adobe: Apple's Mac OS X Lion is Filled With Bugs (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by Medevilae
Medevilae writes: The Mac OS X 10.7 Lion upgrade is littered with bugs according to the firm, causing us to wonder whether we should just carry the office Mac over to the window and encourage it to defenestrate itself. Of course it is worth remembering that Apple and Adobe don't get on particularly well.
A blog post published by the firm is headed, "Lion tamers" and paints a rather unfortunate picture of IT administrators struggling with the upgrade.
"The cat is out of the bag! Mac OS X 10.7 aka Lion is roaming the streets and you brave Mac IT admins have been deemed Lion Tamers by the public at large. Or at least by me. I've managed a few OS compatibility assessments in my past and it is no easy task to gather up all the necessary info from the software publishers that are used in your environment, run/coordinate testing, etc," wrote the firm's Jody Rodgers.

There are a lot of problems with Adobe products it seems and anyone that fancies spending a lot of time working with them on the Mac should probably take a good hard look at the tasks at hand, before getting on with whatever they were doing in the first place.

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