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Comment rctv wasn't shut down (Score 1) 387

by Rodong on Sunday June 17, 2007 @05:40AM (#19539401) Attached to: Venezula Producing Its Own Linux PCs

You know that, right? They just had their broadcasting permit revoked, which means they will be continuing on cable and satelite tv. They we're just not permitted to go on transmitting on the airwaves, and i would guess that any tv channel that propagated for a cloody coup in the US would quickly get stopped too. There are regulations you know.

Silicon Superconductors 141

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 22, 2006 @11:00PM from the old-dog-new-tricks dept.

Diana writes "Physicists at CNRS have demonstrated superconductivity in silicon, the element long known for its semiconducting properties. High doping is the key — by substituting 9% of the silicon atoms with boron atoms, it was found that the resistance of the material drops sharply when cooled below 0.35 K. A small increase in the transition temperature is likely with further work."

ODF Plugins and a Microsoft Promise of Cooperation 262

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday May 07, 2006 @03:25AM from the playing-nice-or-moth-to-the-candle-flame dept.

Andy Updegrove writes "Last week, the Massachusetts Information Technology Division (ITD) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on any plugins that might be under development to assist it in migrating from a MS Office environment to one based upon software that supports ODF. The RFI acknowledges the fact that it may be necessary or advantageous to see some of the code in Office in order to enable the types of features that the ITD is looking for. Conveniently, Jason Matusow, Microsoft's Director of Standards Affairs, had this to say on the occasion of ODF's approval by the members of ISO and the IEC: "The ODF format is limited to the features and performance of OpenOffice and StarOffice and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft Office customers today. Yet we will support interoperability with ODF documents as they start to appear and will not oppose its standardization or use by any organization. The richness of competitive choices in the market is good for our customers and for the industry as a whole." Presumably such support will include helping the plug-in developers that will assist Massachusetts migrate from a MS Office environment to one based upon ODF-compliant office productivity software."

Microsoft Unveils Online Advertising Service 180

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 04, 2006 @12:28PM from the yahoo-and-google-gulp dept.

jwb4273 writes "Microsoft has released another weapon in its battle against Google. Steve Ballmer has announced today that Microsoft's web properties (MSN, Live, etc.) will no longer use Yahoo!'s advertising services, and will instead use Microsoft's new advertising platform 'adCenter'. For wanting to go in together with Yahoo, this seems like the wrong start for a good relationship."

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