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BlackBerry Maker To Buy QNX For RTOS & Dev. Suite 51

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 09, 2010 @03:58PM from the expanding-the-portfolio dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said on Friday it will buy QNX Software Systems, makers of Real-Time Operating Systems, for an undisclosed amount as it moves to boost integration of its devices with in-vehicle audio systems. QNX Neutrino is a Unix-like RTOS, and their Momentics development suite is for embedded applications for a wide variety of industries. While RIM has offered somewhat limited support of open source projects on its BlackBerry platform, the future of QNX's Foundry27 development project, which uses the Apache 2.0 license, has not yet been mentioned."

LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake" 183

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @12:04PM from the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it dept.

astroengine follows up to a story about the LHC shutting down that seems to have hit all the news replicators today. "It's to be expected when pushing the frontiers of physics, but the LHC's epic 'will it or won't it' saga continues. Due to an unforeseen construction mistake, the LHC will cease experiments for a year (starting around late-2011) so repairs and upgrades can be carried out. For now, accelerated particles will have a maximum energy of 7TeV (half the power of the LHC's design maximum), which is ample for at least 18 months of experiments before shutdown."

Comment Re:Jon Stewart Interview on NPR (Score 1) 1254

by btipling on Saturday October 16, 2004 @11:10AM (#10544363) Attached to: Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire

I listened to that while driving, he was really articulate. They guy is brilliant imo (and funny ofc). I remember seeing him in a movie where he played an alien infested high school teacher, he's seems more comfortable as satirist and media critic than an actor in a B flick.

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