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Submission + - Controversy threatens 100G Ethernet work (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "A debate within the IEEE threatens to stall work on a 100Gbps Ethernet standard and the very existence of the working group defining it. Participants in the Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) within the IEEE are divided on whether to include 40G Ethernet as part of their charter or stay the course with 100G. Proponents for 40G argue that it is a necessary, simple and cost-effective step that has broad market potential; opponents say it will unnecessarily bog down progress on 100G which, they claim, also has broad market potential addressing different applications — aggregation and long-haul vs. server interconnect. Seven months ago, HSSG's focus seemed like a done deal. But in January, 40G proponents became more vocal. Now, the integrity of HSSG itself is threatened by the row. The group's future hinges on a meeting next month in San Francisco where HSSG leaders will attempt to build consensus among members on the 40G/100G issue. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/061407-100g- standards-work.html"
Patents

Submission + - eBay may Lose "Buy it Now" Button in Paten (lawbean.com)

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Spamicles
Spamicles writes: "A judge has delayed his ruling on the eBay patent infringement case. eBay has been involved in a legal dispute over the use of its popular "Buy it Now" button, which allows consumers to skip the bidding and purchase items on eBay directly. The patent suit was filed six years ago by MercExchange L.L.C. In May of 2003, a jury ruled in MercExchange's favor finding that eBay did in fact infringe on the patent, but in 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled that MercExchange was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking the offending service, essentially handing a victory down to patent reform advocates. However, the ruling by the Supreme Court does not affect the final judgment of the court."
Microsoft

Submission + - dotnetaddict called Silverlight "steamy pile&#

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borica77
borica77 writes: "dotnetaddict Blogger Kevin Hoffman famously referred to Silverlight 1.0 as a "steamy pile" in a post a few weeks ago. He reversed course somewhat when he saw 1.1. But he was just on a SYS-CON.TV broadcast, from the great studio the company uses in Times Square, and was induced to repeat the steamy pile comment. Fantastic! His comment comes about 10 minutes in, after another panelist, Yakov Fain, dishes out some serious dissing to JavaFX. Video is here: http://www.sys-con.tv/read/385147.htm "Steamy pile" blog entry is here: http://www.web2journal.com/read/363083.htm"
Nintendo

Submission + - Triumph of the Wii: How Fun Won Out (wired.com)

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vivin
vivin writes: "Wired is running an article on how the Wii has triumphed over the PS3 and Xbox 360. When Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's said that what consumers really wanted out of video games was simpler, more accessible entertainment (in 2003), Time Magazine called it "Thumb candy for dummies". But four years later, the results are out for all to see.

The article says: "In the United States, Nintendo's $250 Wii sold 360,000 units in April, while Sony's $600, graphically intense, Blu-ray-powered PlayStation 3 props up the bottom of the sales chart like a doorstop, with 82,000 units sold."

The main point of the article is that Nintendo managed to triumph because it made its platform a) more fun and b) targeted the casual gamers. The Wii's success is evident from the fact that game developers have been scrambling to release titles for the console. Against all expectations and derisions, the Wii won out."
Handhelds

Submission + - Walt Mossbert's First Thoughts on His New iPhone (chronicle.com)

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Michael Solomon
Michael Solomon writes: "The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg spoke to The Chronicle of Higher Education Presidents Forum this afternoon in Washington, D.C. He gave college leaders a sneak peak of his thoughts on the new Apple iPhone, which he had received for review earlier in the day. The details: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2144/walt -mossberg-shows-college-leaders-his-new-iphone"
Announcements

Submission + - Major QNX Upgrade in the Wings (trollaxor.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The 900 pound gorilla of embedded operating systems, QNX, is set to get a major upgrade early next year. QNX 8 (code-named "Axion") will bring newer non-embedded technologies like SSE, multi-core computing, and 64-bit computing into the embedded space. Real-time system operators take notice!
Operating Systems

Submission + - Hans Reiser trial update (cbs5.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "As the murder trial gets under way in the disappearance of Nina Reiser, a 31-year-old mother of two missing since September, defense lawyers are trying to sow doubt about whether she is dead at all. The son, Rory Reiser, told police that he never saw his mother leave the house after dropping him off, which fits the prosecution's theory that Nina Reiser was killed there."
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun Studio 12 Released. Free to Download

Submitted by kildurin
kildurin writes: Studio 12 Compiler has been released in much the same was as Studio 11 was released. This time, the actual compiler is available on Linux and Solaris. It features automatic parallelization much the same as Intel's compiler. It includes C, C++ and Fortran 95 compilers. Sun has taken steps with this compiler to work with multiprocessor systems and let the compiler do some of the work in optimizing the compiled binary for multiprocessor systems. Web site is: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio
The Courts

Submission + - Texas makes green computing mandatory (state.tx.us)

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athloi
athloi writes: "The Texas House and Senate have both passed an identical version of a bill that requires computer manufacturers to provide a "reasonably convenient" recycling plan that requires no additional payments from consumers. Dell and HP provided some model legislation that was used as the basis for the bill, which if signed, would join similar initiatives already passed in more liberal states like Minnesota and California.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070611-texa s-legislature-passes-dell-backed-computer-recyclin g-bill.html

Go Texas!"
The Courts

Submission + - Toyota sues porn site (radaronline.com)

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xirusmom
xirusmom writes: "What does the word Lexus make you think of? Fancy cars? Stepford wives cruising to Pottery Barn? Amateur porn? To ensure the word stays clear of this last connotation, Toyota's testing the limits of trademark law.

from radaronline.com"

Submission + - Databases for Small Recruiting Firms?

Submitted by Aeron65432
Aeron65432 writes: I'm the DBA of a small IT recruiting/consulting firm in the Northeast, hired a few months ago. The database program we use is awful, outdated, too expensive and quite buggy. We are looking for a database program that we can index thousands of resumes and then quickly and easily search them by keywords. (C++, java, oracle, University of Michigan, etc.) Because I have to train the rest of the employees in this database, it has to be fairly simple and an easy GUI. What kind of database do you use for small firms? Is there an open-source solution?
The Internet

Submission + - TorrentSpy's RAM data now considered as evidence (com.com)

Submitted by AncientPC
AncientPC writes: This past Friday TorrentSpy was ordered to start tracking visitors (/. discussion). Possibly setting a new legal precedent, TorrentSpy is now required to track visitor info that resides in RAM to turn over as legal evidence.

The courts have for the first time found that the electronic trail briefly left in a computer server's Random Access Memory (RAM) by each visitor to a site is "stored information," and must be turned over as evidence during litigation, according to documents obtained by CNET News.com.

...

This may be the first time that anyone has argued that information within RAM is electronically stored information and therefore subject to the rules of evidence, Chooljian said according to court records. Up to now, many Web sites that promised users anonymity, such as TorrentSpy, believed they need only to switch off their servers' logging function to avoid storing user data.

Should Chooljian's order stand, the decision could force Web sites to rethink privacy precautions.

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