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Submission + - Behind the "My Location" Errors in Google (xconomy.com)

Submitted by

waderoush

on Friday July 10, 2009 @11:10PM

waderoush writes: "Ever since Google added the "My Location" feature this week to the desktop and laptop version of Google Maps, allowing Firefox and Chrome users to see their current location on a map, people have been reporting bizarre location errors — Manhattanites, for example, are being told by Google that they're in Austin, TX. Ted Morgan, the CEO of Boston-based location software provider Skyhook Wireless, talked about the problems in an interview Friday. Skyhook's Wi-Fi-based location-finding technology was passed over when Mozilla adopted Google's own location services toolkit for Firefox 3.5 in April; Morgan says that was unfortunate for Web app developers, because Google's "crowdsourced" database of Wi-Fi access point locations is far less reliable than Skyhook's."

Comment Re:Easy (Score 2, Interesting) 310

by Anakron on Friday July 10, 2009 @01:21AM (#28646187) Attached to: I hold paper to vertical surfaces by preference with

Is that you, Joe?

Comment Re:Say what again? (Score 1) 221

by Anakron on Sunday May 24, 2009 @11:49PM (#28079953) Attached to: In Istanbul, Cameras To Recognize 15,000 Faces/sec.

IR cameras?

Comment Re:Bah (Score 1) 700

by Anakron on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @03:43PM (#27494397) Attached to: Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal

And you mean South Carolina. Yes, that's a South.

Comment Re:Blue Gene has government funding? (Score 3, Informative) 75

by Anakron on Saturday March 29, 2008 @03:32AM (#22903238) Attached to: Building the World's 4th Fastest Supercomputer

Blue Gene has government funding?

Err, yes? Blue Gene/L is situated *inside* the Lawrence Livermore national labs. I'm pretty sure the department of energy funds the entire project. IBM is the largest, but not the only technology partner in it.

Submission + - Open Source: Selling software that sells itself (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by

mrcgran

on Saturday August 18, 2007 @10:00AM

mrcgran writes: "LinuxWorld is running an insightful interview: "Open source is changing not just how companies make software, but how they sell it. Alfresco's Matt Asay explains the new sales cycle and the skills that today's software sales people need to close deals ... 'But you know what? We have worked with Microsoft on interop without doing any sort of a patent deal; as has Sugar and MySQL and Zend and these other companies. We work directly with Microsoft for a customer of ours to insure SQL Server integration with Alfresco. Didn't have to sign any patent deal with them to get that done. We both had a mutual customer. It was in our mutual interest. We both wanted to make money, therefore we did it. But the patent thing is a complete smoke and mirrors, I don't want to say trick, but it has nothing to do with interoperability. No matter how much Microsoft may repeat that, it has nothing to do with interoperability.' " Be sure also to check out their open source survey on 10000 enterprises with interesting insights and data."

Proving Creative Commons Licensing of a Work? 105

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 27, 2007 @07:11PM from the submarine-license-changes dept.

Q7U asks: "I recently posted a few Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr on one of my websites. I later noticed that one of the photographers had retroactively switched all of his photos from the Creative Commons license to an 'All Right Reserved' notice. When I saw this I went ahead and removed his photo (even though I understand that CC licenses are perpetual unless violated), but this begs the question: How does one prove one obtained a work under a Creative Commons license, should there ever be a dispute between a creator and the licensee? Is a simple screenshot of the webpage where it was offered proof enough? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated."

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