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Submission + - The Shortcomings of Google's Open Handset Alliance (moconews.net)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Former T-Mobile and Apple executive Leslie Grandy reports some pretty harsh words about Google's Open Handset Alliance. We've heard grumblings before about control in open source projects but now an unnamed former leader of an OHA member company is calling the OHA "oligarchical" and said, "The power is concentrated with the Google employees who manage the open source project. The Open Handset Alliance is another myth. Since Google managed to attract sufficient industry interest in 2008, the OHA is simply a set of signatures with membership serving only as a VIP Club badge." But what privileges do they have? Not much. The OHA's problems don't stop there, Grandy maintains that "many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into to Android--as is standard for open source projects--for fear of losing competitive advantage in the marketplace." She goes on to paint the OHA as toothless and directionless with a nearly abandoned message board. It's been around for almost three years and while Android has become more prevalent, the OHA's contributions seemingly have not. Do you agree that the OHA has amounted to nothing but a checkbox for manufacturers?
Iphone

Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser 853

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-meant-to-do-that dept.
Stoobalou writes "Not content with its iPhone scoop, Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple employee who had one German beer too many and left a prototype iPhone G4 in a California bar some 20 miles from Apple's Infinite Loop campus. Was that really necessary?" It also came out that they paid $5K for the leaked prototype and that Apple wants it back.
Iphone

Submission + - Gizmodo Blows Whistle on iPhone Loser (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Not content with its iPhone scoop, Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple employee who had one German beer too many and left a prototype iPhone G4 in a California bar some 20 miles from Apple's Infinite Loop campus. Was that really necessary?

Comment Re:Litigation Land (Score 2, Insightful) 558

by UnbelieverOz (#31855268) Attached to: Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome

Which goes right back to my point that even though they all say they do, the data shows they don't as much as religious people, even though they're much better off overall.

If you are making claims about something, back it up with something other than repetition of your own words. You appear to be claiming: a) atheists brag about their good deeds b) atheists help less than the religious c) atheists are 'better' off than the religious .... with no evidence whatsoever. Maybe you just have 'faith' that things are so?

Comment Re:Litigation Land (Score 2, Insightful) 558

by UnbelieverOz (#31855096) Attached to: Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome

If you look at modern society, for all the avaunted Atheist claims of being just as moral as the next guy, they give tremendously less of their time and money to helping others, even though they typically tend to be much better off than the average Christian.

Even if that's true - citation? - that could well be because Christians use their time and money to 'help' people see things their way...
Linux Business

Android's "Flea Market" Needs Urgent Attention 226

Posted by kdawson from the step-down-from-a-bazaar dept.
andylim writes "According to Barry O'Neil, ex-President of Namco Bandai Network Europe, Google needs to understand that a constantly evolving 'beta' product doesn't cut it. It has to learn from the mistakes of the Java business in order to save Android. 'If Google is to present a threat to the Apple App Store ecosystem, it needs to address discovery and purchasing as a matter of urgency, or abandon control and hand over the entire management of the Android Market to carriers, OEMs and trusted publishers.'"
Microsoft

Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test" 177

Posted by kdawson from the proof-of-the-pudding dept.
levell writes "Alex Brown, Convenor of the Ballot Resolution Meeting on OOXML, has written a blog post saying that Microsoft is failing the standards test. Mr. Brown notes: 'In its pre-release form Office 2010 supports not the approved Strict variant of OOXML, but the very format the global community rejected in September 2007, and subsequently marked as not for use in new documents — the Transitional variant. Microsoft are behaving as if the JTC 1 standardisation process never happened, and using technologies (like VML) in a new product which even the text of the Standard itself describes as "deprecated" and "included... for legacy reasons only"...' He also says that defects are being fixed very slowly and that 'Looking at the text, I reckon it is more like 95% that remains to be done, as it is still lousy with defects.' It's an insightful look at what has happened with OOXML since ISO approved it from someone who was not opposed to its becoming a standard."
Data Storage

Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? 805

Posted by kdawson from the thanks-for-the-memories dept.
An anonymous reader writes "My kid is now 1 year old and I already have 100G of digital video (stored on DVDs, DVD quality) and photos. How should I store it so that it's still readable 10 to 20 years from now? Will DVDs stil be around, and readable, 10 years from now? Should I plan for technology changes every 5 to 10 years (DVD->Blue-ray->whatever)? Is optical storage better, or should I try to use hard drives (making technology changes automatic)? And, if the answer is optical, how do you store optical disks so that they last?"

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