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Comment What about the power supply powering the wireless (Score 1) 221

by Fjan11 on Friday December 19, 2008 @05:16AM (#26170581) Attached to: Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard

The wireless pad they are using still needs to be supplied with power. Presumable with one of those non-standard bricks, they are not putting 110/220V on your desk for safety reasons. So the total inefficiency should be 40-80% multiplied by the transformer efficiency.
With todays technology it is perfectly possible to standardize on one plug, that has an extra 2 pins to communicate what power it needs. A transformer that uses that technology only sees a couple of dollars price increase. Everyone wants this but no one wants to be first in adding a few dollars cost to their devices.

Submission + - Drop in replacement for Exchange now Open Source (zarafa.com) 1

Submitted by Fjan11 on Thursday September 18, 2008 @03:03AM

Fjan11 writes: Over 150 man years of work were added to the Open Source community today when Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3. This is not just the typical mail-server-that-works-with-Outlook, it is the whole package including 100% MAPI, web access, tasks, iCal and Activesync. (The native syncing works great with my iPhone!.) Binaries and source are available for all major Linux distros from the link. So there goes one of the last reasons to run windows server; just reformat; put your favorite Linux flavour on with Zafara and you are now free of MS tax (and silly mailbox limits!). If you listen closely you can hear chairs flying in Redmond.

Submission + - Third Party Applications on the iPhone

Submitted by Savage-Rabbit on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @11:36AM

Savage-Rabbit writes: It seems we are getting native third party applications for the iPhone. The SDK will be available to developers in February.

Submission + - Sun CEO reveals ZFS will be OSX default filesystem

Submitted by Fjan11 on Thursday June 07, 2007 @04:43AM

Fjan11 writes: Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced that "Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard". It seems likely that Leopad's Time Machine feature will require ZFS to run, because ZFS has back-up and snapshots build right in to the filesystem as well as a host of other features, such as built in Raid. Jobs is probably not happy about his thunder being stolen right before for the June 11th keynote...

Microsoft Set to Unlock EMI Songs, Too 171

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 06, 2007 @09:43AM from the very-brave-new-world dept.

linumax writes "Microsoft has stated that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell songs without anti-piracy protection via the Zune platform. This, from comments made by head of marketing for Zune Jason Reindorp. They come hard on the heels of EMI's announcement that a deal with Apple to sell songs without DRM protection through the iTunes Music Store has been struck. Mr Reindorp said: 'We've been saying for a while that we are aware that consumers want to have unprotected content. This does open things up a little bit. It potentially makes the competition more of a device-to-device or service-to-service basis, and will force the various services to really innovate.'"

Submission + - Microsoft to offer DRM-free music too

Submitted by Fjan11 on Friday April 06, 2007 @07:48AM

Fjan11 writes: According to a Dutch Microsoft spokesman the company is planning to offer DRM-free music on Zune marketplace. No indication is given on when this will happen however. This is an embarassing 180 because Microsoft claimed DRM was "necessary for the business model" only a few weeks ago when Steve Jobs published his letter.

Submission + - Steve Jobs announces DRM-free iTunes

Submitted by Fjan11 on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:47AM

Fjan11 writes: Steve jobs just announced that starting next month on you can buy higher quality 256Kbps AAC encoded DRM-free versions of iTunes songs for $1.29. Upgrades to songs you've already bought will be available at the $0.30 price difference. Currently EMI is the only publisher participating, accounting for about 20% of the songs available.

Journal Journal: The D Programming Language - version 1.0 570

Journal by penguinblotter on Monday January 01, 2007 @02:33PM

Soon, Walter Bright is scheduled to release version 1.0 of the D Programming Language. D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. Special attention is given to the needs of quality assurance, documentation, management, portability and reliability.

Submission + - Web 2.0 comes to World of Warcraft

Submitted by

Fjan11

on Monday January 01, 2007 @12:05PM

Fjan11 writes: "PlayRate is an interesting mod for WoW that let's you rate the playing style of other players. The cool thing is that your ratings get shared with all the other users of the mod. You can synchronise the database with ratings on the PlayRate website and while you are inside the game it uses a P2P protocol via a hidden chat channel to keep the database up to date. The idea is that you can check out another player's rating before you decide to group with him. This should, for example, ensure that players are less likely to jump ship half way through a dungeon if they know there actions will not go unnoticed."

The End of Minitel 39

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 01, 2007 @11:17AM

ZeldorBlat writes "The French Minitel service is closing it's doors at the end of today. Started in 1982, Minitel provides several services now widely available on the web including phone listings, train ticketing, and many other third-party content. Many prefered it to the web for it's simplicity and perceived security. The system is to be replaced with Le Compte Achats, available to businesses only. The notice can be found here."

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