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Submission + - Google Buys Quickoffice (forbes.com)

Submitted by

x0d

on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @03:19PM

x0d writes: "Google this morning disclosed in a blog post that it has acquired Quickoffice, a Plano, Texas company which offers software for editing, viewing and creating Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on a mobile device.
Terms were not disclosed."

Submission + - Google Points Finger at Microsoft, Nokia (wsj.com)

Submitted by

x0d

on Friday June 01, 2012 @07:52AM

x0d writes: "Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe
arguing that Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.51% and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies
to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology.
The Internet-search giant alleges that Microsoft and Nokia have entered into agreements that enable entities such as Canada-based Mosaid Technologies Inc. to legally enforce their patent rights and share the resulting revenue."

Submission + - Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Friday June 01, 2012 @07:43AM

judgecorp writes: "Google has applied for the .lol domain in ICANN's sale of generic top level domains (gTLDs). Google also asked for .google, .docs, and .youtube at a cost of $185,000 each, in the round of applications which has finally closed. A glitch in the application system may have leaked some of applicants' data other applicants.."

Submission + - Is Facebook going to buy Opera? (latimes.com)

Submitted by

x0d

on Saturday May 26, 2012 @02:27AM

x0d writes: "The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and has been gobbling up various companies in recent months to increase its presence in the world of smartphones."

Comment wow (Score 1) 684

by x0d on Thursday May 03, 2012 @03:39PM (#39881411) Attached to: Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage

I knew it all along! My brain goes numb just by watching it.

Comment A bit late (Score 1) 182

by x0d on Thursday April 26, 2012 @02:47PM (#39810577) Attached to: Mozilla Considers H264 After WebM Fails To Gain Traction

They should have done that from the beginning.

Comment I smell (Score 1, Insightful) 366

by x0d on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:49PM (#39514391) Attached to: Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility

flamebait

Comment It's still pointless. (Score 1, Redundant) 617

by x0d on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:48PM (#39466947) Attached to: What's Not To Like About New iPad?

It doesn't even matter if it runs on iOS, Android or whatever. My brother actually bought into the hype and got himself a Galaxy Tab but had to sell it after about 3 months because he wasn't using it for anything other than occasional web browsing. The 'cool' factor wears off very quickly. Netbooks were better. At least those were still 'real' computers.

Comment Re:Damn. (Score 1) 115

by x0d on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:25PM (#39466737) Attached to: Javascript Game of Tron In 226 Bytes

oh, my mistake. I saw that chrome logo, tried it in opera and it didn't work. I'm also too lazy to open safari just for that.

Comment Damn. (Score 1) 115

by x0d on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:04PM (#39466557) Attached to: Javascript Game of Tron In 226 Bytes

It's Chrome-only.

Comment Re:Relation to possible revolution? (Score 1) 101

by x0d on Saturday March 24, 2012 @09:05PM (#39463581) Attached to: China Unblocks Sensitive Keywords

Maybe they're just upgrading their servers and something wrong..

Submission + - XBMC v11 Eden has been released (xbmc.org)

Submitted by

themib

on Saturday March 24, 2012 @07:22PM

themib writes: "After only two release candidates XBMC v11.0 Eden has been released. The latest version contains many updates and new features including: Addon Rollbacks, Confluence improvements, Dirty region rendering, a new JPEG decoder, movie scraping, better network support, a new upgraded Weather service. This announcement also heralds the new XBMCbuntu Final."

Submission + - Facebook: No Plans To Sue Employers Asking For Your Password

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24, 2012 @02:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Quoting ZDNet:

Facebook today stirred up quite the storm when it outlined how it wants to protect its users from employers demanding access to their accounts. The company said it is looking to create new laws as well as take legal action wherever necessary. Menlo Park contacted me to clarify one point though: it’s not suing any employers just yet.

Comment Re:1366x768 (Score 5, Informative) 382

by x0d on Saturday March 24, 2012 @02:06PM (#39461501) Attached to: Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular

That is correct. Older higher-end Thinkpads had like 1600x1200 or 1440x1050 even on smaller screens, like 14" and that was back in 2002-2003, so, by now everyone should have caught up as parts became cheaper(they did, right?). But it's 2012, and the standards haven't been raised by much. Maybe the arrival of the new iPad will improve things...

Submission + - DPI-awareness of Windows 8

Submitted by jones_supa on Saturday March 24, 2012 @12:03PM

jones_supa writes: The Building Windows 8 blog comes up with a detailed post explaining the improved support of Windows 8 regarding different screen sizes, resolutions and pixel densities. Early the Windows team explored an inch-based scaling system, but found out that bitmaps would look blurry when scaled to unpredictable sizes. They ended up choosing three predefined scale percentages: 100%/140%/180%. The article goes on pondering the best solutions to make each app look good on different screens. Also is shown the distribution of resolutions being used today with Windows 7, 1366x768 having a huge lead at 42%.

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