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Comment Apple's iOS took approach of dynamic tap zones (Score 1) 45

by crashcane on Monday July 25, 2011 @03:04PM (#36874222) Attached to: IBM's Morphing Touchscreen Keyboard Interface

According to this video, Apples uses a slightly different approach of just changing the size of the tap targets dynamically, but not changing the size or appearance of the keys.

I would guess Apple's approach is less distracting than changing the key size or highlighting the keys. Rather, it is just 'magic'.

Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce 168

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @11:06AM from the fear-monger-your-way-to-the-top dept.

patentpundit writes "Word has started to circulate that President Barack Obama may be close to appointing John W. Thompson, the outgoing chief executive of network security firm Symantec Corp., to be the next Secretary of Commerce. According to the LA Times, over the last several days Thompson has spoken on the telephone and met with key senators, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a member of the commerce committee that would hold confirmation hearings for any appointed Secretary of Commerce, is 'extremely supportive and hopeful he'll be the nominee.' The appointment of Thompson to head the Department of Commerce would be an exceptionally interesting choice given that only days ago President Obama asked Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to lead his open source charge and conduct a study and report back regarding the feasibility of the US government forgoing proprietary software and moving toward open source software solutions."

Gen Con Goes Up For Sale 34

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 28, 2008 @01:09AM from the i-bid-$5d20 dept.

Trask writes "LivingDice has documents indicating that Gen Con LLC is up for sale. Additionally, there is an offer pending which could close by the end of the year. This may finally put an end to the uncertainty caused by Gen Con's chapter 11 filing and the recently dismissed Lucasfilm lawsuit."

Comment O'Reilly DOES release books for free (Score 2, Informative) 287

by crashcane on Thursday September 29, 2005 @06:10PM (#13680287) Attached to: Tim O'Reilly on the Google Library Project

O'Reilly does release the content of some of its books for free through at least two channels:

The first is their Open Books project which includes out-dated, out-of-print, or community produced texts.

The second is their embracing of the Founder's copyright, under which they will release hundreds of books in decades to come, in collaboration with their authors.

It would be great if those books were released earlier, but at least they have taken a stance on releasing them earlier than necessary.

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