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Submission + - Cyanogenmod's answer to Android's permissions (androidpolice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Android Police reports that Cyanogenmod, a popular custom ROM for the Android platform, is soon to have a better permissions systems, allowing its users to deny certain permissions to the applications they install. Users are warned that enabling this feature on the nightly build may cause applications to crash or "force close", but a new dialog allows them to easily return the permissions to stock if they wish. Hopefully Google implements a system similar to this very soon.

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4055
IT

Submission + - Worldwide cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion (20adoptioncommunity.com)

Submitted by blognoggle
blognoggle writes: Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled, The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year.
Windows

Submission + - Chinese pirates launch Ubuntu that looks like XP (downloadsquad.com) 1

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Just as the title suggests: Ylmf, famous for pirating Windows XP, have just released a version of Ubuntu that looks JUST like Windows XP. Really, really similar. Apparently because Microsoft were cracking down on the actual Windows XP pirating — though, I think they will still suffer for ripping off the GUI _exactly_."

Submission + - GNU Emacs switches from CVS to Bazaar (gnu.org)

Submitted by kfogel
kfogel writes: GNU Emacs, one of the oldest continuously developed free software projects around, has switched from CVS to Bazaar. Emacs's first first recorded version-control commits date from August, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, it moved to CVS. Sixteen years later, it is switching to Bazaar, its first time in a decentralized version control system. If this pattern holds, GNU Emacs will be in Bazaar for at least thirty-two years...
Communications

Submission + - What's Happened In Mobile Over The Past Ten Years

Submitted by andylim
andylim writes: recombu.com has an article examining what's happened in mobile over the past ten years, including BlackBerry launching its first smart phone in 2002, Motorola launching the Razr in 2004 and Apple launching the iPhone in 2007. As a commenter points out, the first camera phone (Sharp J-SH04), which was released in 2000, featured a 110,000-pixel (0.11MP) CMOS image sensor, and a 256-colour (8 bit) display. "How things have come along!" Ten years is a relatively short amount of time and things have indeed "come along" so one can only imagine what the next ten years hold.
Security

Submission + - Security in the Ether

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Technology Review's David Talbot says IT's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud — and prove we can trust it. 'The focus of IT innovation has shifted from hardware to software applications,' says Harvard economist Dale Jorgenson. 'Many of these applications are going on at a blistering pace, and cloud computing is going to be a great facilitative technology for a lot of these people.' But there's one little catch. 'None of this can happen unless cloud services are kept secure,' notes Talbot. 'And they are not.' Fully ensuring the security of cloud computing, says Talbot, will inevitably fall to emerging encryption technologies.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Five ways micro-transactions will shake up iPhone (pocketgamer.co.uk)

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Spanner Spencer
Spanner Spencer writes: "Talk to iPhone games developers, and the feature they're most excited about in the new iPhone 3.0 software is the ability to do in-game micro-transactions. And while you might wonder if this is just an excuse to get iPhone gamers to dip into their wallets even more often, it's actually a hugely positive thing for several reasons. Downloadable content, virtual items, subscription billing and fast-track social advancement are some of them, so Pocket Gamer looks into a bit more depth about what you can expect on the micro-payments side once iPhone 3.0 debuts."

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