Comment Re:If Canada is worried about this... (Score 5, Informative) 63
Canada requires all cars to have electronic immobilizers, so that isn't an issue.
Comment Re:Alternative that is available for moible now... (Score 1) 181
Yeah, Xtify doesn't have a browser dependency. It has a Blackberry dependency. And only three other phone types are in the release schedule.
Actually, Xtify's supported platforms: Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone make up only 90.3% of the smartphone market.
Comment Re:A Monopoly is Control of an Ecosystem (Score 1) 264
Oh no?
http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/
Seems as though thats exactly what is happening. Ironic that Apple is involved.... or not.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/
Seems as though thats exactly what is happening. Ironic that Apple is involved.... or not.
Original Marvel Comics Going Online 172
An anonymous reader writes "In a tentative move onto the internet, Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared. The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99 monthly with a year-long commitment. For that price, they'll be able to poke through, say, the first 100 issues of Stan Lee's 1963 creation "Amazing Spider-Man" at their leisure, along with more recent titles like "House of M" and "Young Avengers."
Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded, and new issues will only go online at least six months after they first appear in print.
Dark Horse Comics now puts its vibrant and large images of 'Dark Horse Presents' up for free viewing on its MySpace site.
DC Comics has also put issues up on MySpace, and recently launched the competition-based Zuda Comics, which encourages users to rank each other's work, as a way to tap into the expanding Web comic scene."
Submission + - Opera CTO hits back at Microsoft's standards push
Michael writes: "Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie hit back today at Microsoft's push to fast track Office Open XML into an ISO standard in a
blistering article on CNET. He also took a swipe at Open Document Format: "I'm no fan of either specification. Both are basically memory dumps with angle brackets around them. If forced to choose one, I'd pick the 700-page specification (ODF) over the 6,000-page specification (OOXML). But I think there is a better way.". The better way being the existing universally understood standards of HTML and CSS. Putting this to the test, Håkon has published a book using HTML and CSS."
