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Comment Re:The purpose? (Score 1) 276

by SickHumour (#23400648) Attached to: Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins
Won't postgrad students be encouraged to deal with issues affecting the country?

Usually incentives are provided for relevant topics in the form research grants. On the other hand, if the research is relevant to the international community it could attract international funding, which won't be a bad thing either.
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Submission + - Open-source Java could result in port to iPhone

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An anonymous reader writes: With the first anniversary of open-source Java coming up November 13, a Sun official believes the project could bear a sought-after fruit in the Java community: The porting of Java to the Apple iPhone. Apple has not made Java capable of running on the popular device. But Sun's Terrence Barr, technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community, believes Apple's plans to release an SDK for iPhone in early-2008 may result in the open-source phoneME version of Java ME winding up on iPhone.

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