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Submission + - HP to put WebOS on PCs in 2012

Submitted by Stenchwarrior on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @01:13PM

Stenchwarrior writes: Hewlett-Packard’s chief executive officer Leo Apotheker announced that WebOS will be on every PC that HP ships in 2012. A move to attract more developers and push the operating system from mobile devices onto desktops. Apotheker made the announcement during a presentation to HP’s staff in India, according to a report by Bloomberg.

It’s not likely that WebOS will supplant existing operating systems on PCs, but rather would run on top of Windows to be able to launch WebOS apps. HP had previously announced its plans to push WebOS on to PC’s last month, but, at the time, the company didn’t reveal the scope of its commitment to the operating system. We now know that HP means each and every PC it sells starting in 2012 will have WebOS installed.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving

Submitted by Stenchwarrior on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:01AM

Stenchwarrior writes: I was in the car with my wife and 15 year old daughter this morning talking about the future of Facebook and how it's likely that they will not be around forever (or at least not at the same capacity as now) and my daughter asked "Well, what's going to happen to all of my pictures?"...it never occurred to her to that Facebook might not be around someday and all of those thousands of photos that she's uploaded might someday be gone. So this is what I ask the good people at Slashdot: What's a good way to preserve all of those memories? Many devices nowadays have direct access to the Internet and even to Facebook and once the images are uploaded they are eventually deleted to make room for more. How do we make sure we can access or backup those files in case Zuckerberg decides to sell out to Google or Microsoft and they do away with everyone's profiles?

Submission + - Art Project Gone Awry (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Stenchwarrior on Thursday February 10, 2011 @02:50PM

Stenchwarrior writes: A New York University (NYU) professor temporarily removed the camera he had surgically installed in the back of his head to get rid one of the apparatus' parts after his body rejected it, myFOXny.com reported Wednesday.

Photography professor Wafaa Bilal, was in near constant pain after part of thumb-nail size camera implanted in December as part of an art project commissioned by a new museum in Qatar was rejected by his body.

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