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Submission + - How Broken is Game Journalism? (vgchartz.com)

Submitted by SSDNINJA
SSDNINJA writes: Joseph Jackmovich of gamrFeed analyzes 161 articles from Kotaku, Joystiq, and Destructoid to discover how well they report gaming news. He looks to find out if the stereotypes of game journalism being poorly sourced and sexist are anecdotal or based in fact.
Google

Submission + - Who will win control of the web? (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: Control of the web is up for grabs. Each of the big three computing companies – Microsoft, Apple and Google – has its own radically different vision to promote, as does the world’s biggest creative software company, Adobe. And HTML itself is changing, too. PC Pro examines the case for each of the contenders in the war of the web and, with the help of industry experts, assess which – if any – is most likely to emerge as victor.

Submission + - What 2D GUI Foundation do you use? 2

Submitted by Zmee
Zmee writes: I am looking to build a 2D application for personal use and I will need to use a canvas to paint custom objects. I am trying to determine what foundation to use and have not located a good side-by-side comparison of the various flavors. For reference, I need the final application to work in Windows; Linux is preferred, but not required. I have looked at WPF, Qt, OpenGL, Tcl/Tk, Java's AWT, and others. I have little preference as to the language itself, but each of the tutorials appear to require significant time investment. As such, I am looking to see what the community uses and what seems to work for people prior to making that investment.
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a first look (everydaylht.com)

Submitted by dmbkiwi
dmbkiwi writes: The first beta release of KDE SC 4.6 was released yesterday. OpenSUSE had packages up almost immediately, so being curious as to what’s new, I’ve downloaded and upgraded to the new release. These are my impressions thus far.

Submission + - Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by philmarcracken
philmarcracken writes: The Senate recently passed a bill through the Lower House for the separation of Telstra's retail and wholesale arms and now that same bill has just scraped in the Upper House; 30 to 28. The deal is worth $11 billion AUD for Telstra and is welcomed by them despite Coalition opposition. This paves the way for the governmental body NBNco to use Telstra's existing assets and expedite laying fibre optic cables to the larger population densities.

Submission + - Quark-Gluon Plasma observed at LHC (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Canadian_Daemon
Canadian_Daemon writes: A phase of matter created moments after the Big Bang is thought to have been detected at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. "Striking" evidence of a quark-gluon plasma has been observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians, at the facility near Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced Friday.

Submission + - Acer Iconia: First look (engadget.com)

Submitted by iONiUM
iONiUM writes: Engaget has the first look of the acer iconia, a dual touchscreen device. According to the wikipedia article, it is slated for January 2011, and will sport Windows 7 along with a proprietary acer touch screen interface. Is anyone else reminded of the dead Microsoft Courier? I definitely would have loved that device, maybe this one will be what it never came to.
Hardware

Submission + - Stephen Fry and DVD Jon back USB Sniffer Project (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: bushing and pytey of the iPhone DevTeam and Team Twiizers have created a Kickstarter project to fund the build of an open-source/open-hardware high-speed USB protocol analyzer. The board features a high-speed USB 2.0 sniffer that will help with the reverse engineering of proprietary USB hardware, the project has gained the backing from two high-profile individuals Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) and Actor and Comedian Stephen Fry
Security

Submission + - Hackers sends out fake tsunami warning on Twitter (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Twitter account belonging to an official advisor of the Indonesian president has been broke into by a hacker who posted a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta.

Andi Arief is Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's disaster management adviser and a frequent user of Twitter, diligently posting disaster-related updates. But when he lost control of his account, a petrifying message was sent out to Twitter users.
Patents

Submission + - Tandberg attempts to patent open source code (multimedia.cx)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As if the current situation with software patents wasn't bad enough, it appears a new phenomenon is emerging: companies are watching the commit logs of open source projects for ideas to patent. In this case, Tandberg filed a patent that was step-by-step identical to an algorithm developed by the x264 project — a mere two months after the original commit. The particular algorithm is a useful performance optimization in a wide variety of video encoders, including Theora.
Databases

Submission + - CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by aesoteric
aesoteric writes: Software giant CA has filed suit against an Australian software developer over a program that allegedly enabled companies to migrate off CA database platforms onto IBM DB2. It claimed the software "reproduced" portions of confidential source and object codes without permission and deprived CA of license fees. CA also disputed claims that its database platform was "dying".
Google

Submission + - Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Founda (pcworld.com)

Submitted by MMacFadden
MMacFadden writes: The Google Wave team has officially submitted the open source version of Wave to the Apache Software Foundation as a candidate Incubator project. Google hopes that the wave technology will continue to grow, supported by the new open source community (which is made up of Google and non-Google employees alike). PC World has a good write up here. The proposal itself can be found here.
Canada

Submission + - Canada's highest court to rule on business methods (ippractice.ca) 3

Submitted by ciaran_o_riordan
ciaran_o_riordan writes: After last month's unfortunate ruling by Canada's Federal Court that Amazon's 1-click shopping idea could be patented, the Commissioner of Patents and the Attorney General of Canada have filed notice to Amazon.com inc (respondent) that an "appeal will be heard by the [Federal Court of Appeal] at a time and place fixed by the Judicial Administrator", probably Ottawa. This case, called Canada's Bilski, has been in the works since Amazon filed their patent application all the way back in 1998. Just like Bilski, the object of this case is what subject matter is and isn't patentable — a question which will create crucial case law, making participation in this case important. Anyone looking for more background, particularly those interested in helping to prepare an amicus brief for this case, is welcome at ESP's wiki page.
Science

Submission + - German scientists create 'super-photon'

Submitted by xt
xt writes: A team of physicists, lead by the University of Bonn's Martin Weitz, have managed to create a Bose-Einstein condensate (detailed explanation here) out of photons, previously thought to be impossible. The research was published in the journal Nature and has possible applications on solar energy technology and shortwave lasers, which would be well-suited to the manufacture of computer chips as the process uses lasers to etch logic circuits onto semiconductor materials. Seems like Moore's law is safe again!
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Every Day's a Tax Holiday at Amazon

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: With Black Friday approaching, Slate's Farhad Manjoo reminds readers of how Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else. Read his lips: no sales taxes. Unless you live in KS, KY, NY, ND, or WA, you'll pay no sales tax on many purchases from Amazon, giving Amazon a huge — and largely hidden — price advantage over most other national retailers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is certainly no fan of taxes — he explored founding Amazon on an Indian reservation, and recently ponied up $100,000 to defeat a proposed WA state income tax, a good investment for someone who's cashed in close to $800,000,000 in Amazon stock this year alone. So, is Amazon's tax-free status unfair? Of course it is, says Manjoo. Amazon has physical operations in 17 states in which the company and its employees enjoy the fruits of local taxes — police and fire protection, roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure that make its operations possible. Yet Amazon skirts tax collection in most of these places through clever legal tricks.

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