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Submission + - How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus (silicon-news.com)

Submitted by Anthony_Cargile on Sunday June 17, 2012 @09:28AM

Anthony_Cargile writes: Everyone thinks of Google Plus as a social networking website competing with Facebook, but that is no longer the case — even Google recognizes its failure in that regard. But in a meeting with Sergey Brin and Larry Page shortly before his death, Steve Jobs gave key advice as to what direction to take their company with regards to Google Plus, as is evidenced by their controversial new "umbrella" privacy policy that went in effect this year. Privacy advocates beware, as the problem is almost certainly worse than ever anticipated.

Submission + - Microsoft's new programming language: 'M' (thecoffeedesk.com)

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Anthony_Cargile

on Saturday October 11, 2008 @04:21AM

Anthony_Cargile writes: "Microsoft announced Friday their new 'M' language, designed especially for building textual domain-specific languages and software models with XAML. Microsoft will also announce Quadrant, for building and viewing models visually, and a repository for storing and combining models using a SQL Server database. While some say the language is simply their 'D' language renamed to a further letter down the alphabet, the language is criticized for lack of a promised cross-platform function because of its ties to MS SQL server, which only runs on Windows."

Submission + - How the Asus scandal actually happened (thecoffeedesk.com)

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Anthony_Cargile

on Saturday September 20, 2008 @11:36PM

Anthony_Cargile writes: "We all now know about Asus shipping illegal software cracks and confidential documents/source code on their recovery DVD (and in the system root), but this article tells exactly how it happened, and its even more careless than you think, and most likely an accident."

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