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Real Reason Why the White iPhone 4 Is Delayed 182

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @04:52PM from the no-phone-for-you dept.

tekgoblin writes "There have been numerous reasons why the White iPhone 4 may be delayed with one reason being the color mismatch between the home button and the body. Well this time there is another reason. A source has told CultofMac that the reason for the delay is a light leakage issue caused by the case being clear. Light from the case leaks into pictures taken by the back and front camera on the white iPhone 4, causing distorted pictures. This problem is non-existent on the black iPhone 4, because of its already black case, so Apple has been looking for a solution to this problem, thus the delay of the White iPhone 4 till spring of next year."

NASA Working On Solar Storm Shield 85

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @04:36PM from the spf-25-trillion dept.

Zothecula writes "The solar storms that cause the stunning aurora borealis and aurora australis (or northern and southern polar lights) also have the potential to knock out telecommunications equipment and navigational systems and cause blackouts of electrical grids. With the frequency of the sun's flares following an 11-year cycle of solar activity and the next solar maximum expected around 2013, scientists are bracing for an overdue, once-in-100 year event that could cause widespread power blackouts and cripple electricity grids around the world. It sounds like an insurmountable problem but a new NASA project called 'Solar Shield' is working to develop a forecasting system that can mitigate the impacts of such events and keep the electrons flowing."

Comment Apple is an Open Source company (Score 1) 487

by some0ne on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:02PM (#32537616) Attached to: Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?

With proprietary hardware model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

The Darwin code is licensed as open source and is used on a large percentage of the physical products sold by Apple.

RedHat could be a larger company by offering special purpose hardware for large database or indexing server clusters. Or create a cluster management that is a lot better than what is happening now in the open source world.

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