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Submission + - What the Demise of Google Gears Says About HTML5 (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister sees Google's discontinuation of Gears as a victory for open Web standards — and a significant challenge to the W3C's recent decision to treat HTML as a 'living standard.' 'It's tempting to interpret Gears' demise as a failure for Google, but that wouldn't be quite right. Rather, the decision to discontinue Gears ... offers telling insight into the ongoing HTML standardization process,' McAllister writes, adding that Google's transition from Gears to HTML5 'will be an important test of the most significant revision to Web standards since 2001. Recently YouTube — a Google subsidiary — experimented with transitioning its streaming video service from Flash to HTML5, but relented when it determined that the Web standards-based approach would not be compatible with a broad enough range of clients.'"
AMD

Submission + - Former AMD CEO 'Intimate' With Fund Manager (itworld.com)

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "Hector Ruiz, chief executive at AMD between 2002 and 2008, allegedly had an 'intimate relationship' with Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Danielle Chiesi who was feeding secret information to a billionaire now on trial for insider trading. Chiesi, once a beauty queen, has pleaded guilty in the case. Ruiz has not been charged with any involvement in insider trading, and has said the relationship with the Bear Stearns manager was not intimate."
The Military

Submission + - Gunshot Detectors Pinpoint Source of Enemy Fire (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: In the heat of battle I imagine things can get pretty hectic and pinpointing just where the shooting is coming from, as quickly as possible, could mean the difference between life and death. To give its soldiers an edge in this regard the U.S. Army will begin providing its forces in Afghanistan with the first of 13,000 gunshot detection systems later this month. The Individual Gunshot Detector (IGD) uses the sound waves generated by enemy gunfire to instantaneously determine the location and distance toward the enemy fire.
Spam

Submission + - Advertising Company VP wants Emails to Expire (circleid.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Josh Baer, former VP of Datran Media and current CEO of OtherInBox has been floating an idea at the DMA's Email Experience Council and a few other places, and recently got some traction in Ken Magill's Magill Report. What Josh is proposing is to create the technical means by which a Sender can decide when email 'expires' and is automatically removed from a recipient's inbox, either by deletion, or perhaps archiving (in the case of Gmail). This would supposedly help the end-user, by removing marketing offers that are no longer available."

Submission + - Gmail Quietly Adds 'Conversation View Off' Option (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by united_notions
united_notions writes: Loved by many, deeply loathed by some, Gmail's innovative 'conversation view' (grouping together email replies) was for six years stubbornly maintained as the only option. Well, Gmail have finally introduced a 'Conversation view off' option in the General tab of the Settings page. Luddites rejoice!

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