Google Extends Honeycomb API to Combat Android Fragmentation

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Google Extends Honeycomb API to Combat Android Fragmentation

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The EFF Letter: Sony's subpoenas "impact the free speech interests of myriad third parties"

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Henry's Techno-Musings: "The Wit and Wisdom of Chairman John"

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Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal

 

Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal
Mar 8, 2011, 14 :05 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (1187 reads)
(Other stories by Dina Bass)

"Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.

"Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its own budget for software research and development, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the final contract hasn?t yet been signed. The agreement runs for more than five years, the people said."

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HP's way forward? Commoditize software, buy Red Hat

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Review: AUSTRUMI 2.2.9

The Freedom Box gets off the ground

Google Extends Honeycomb API to Combat Android Fragmentation

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The EFF Letter: Sony's subpoenas "impact the free speech interests of myriad third parties"

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The EFF Letter: Sony's subpoenas "impact the free speech interests of myriad third parties"

 

The EFF Letter: Sony's subpoenas "impact the free speech interests of myriad third parties"
Mar 8, 2011, 17 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (576 reads)
(Other stories by Pamela Jones)

"Wired's David Kravetz has published the EFF letter [PDF] it sent to the judge in SCEA v. Hotz, and I have it for you as text.

"George Hotz's lawyers agreed to the subpoenas issuing, so long as the information gleaned is kept attorneys' eyes only, according to the letter [PDF] Sony sent the Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero, and the judge merely signed off on it. I don't see Hotz's lawyer signing the letter too, which I'd normally expect. Why he'd agree to such a broad reach is disturbing. EFF noticed, telling the judge that the subpoenas implicate free speech interests of third parties not involved in the litigation, but nobody else seems to care. EFF is most concerned about the subpoena to YouTube, but the one I find overbroad is the subpoena to the company that hosts his web site, as I'll show you. No one else is looking out for the third parties in this picture, so if I were one of the third parties and I knew it, I'd be on the phone to my lawyer or EFF super pronto, asking him if I could block.

"Let me show you what I mean about overbroad, looking at just one piece of what Sony demands that Hotz's web host supply:

"3. Documents reproducing all records of IP addresses that have accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and associated with the www.geohot.com website, including but not limited to the "geohot.com/jailbreak.zip" file, from January 1, 2009 to the present,"

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Create a Cheap and Effective Monitoring System with Ubuntu Linux and webcam_server

 

Create a Cheap and Effective Monitoring System with Ubuntu Linux and webcam_server
Mar 8, 2011, 14 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1392 reads)
(Other stories by Jack Wallen)

"On a tight budget, but want to monitor your business, home, or maybe just your baby's room? Using Linux and the webcam_server project, you can set up a poor man's monitoring solution quickly and easily.

"Setting up a system to broadcast pics or video from a Webcam may sound like quite a challenge. Believe it or not, it's really fairly easy to get up and running. All you need is a Linux machine (In this case, Ubuntu), a Web server (Apache), a webcam, and a little tool called webcam_server. Once you are done, you can point that Webcam to your target and then view it from within a browser. If your machine housing the server is available to the outside world, you can share that link or view it from anywhere you have access to a Web browser, including your mobile device!

"Let's get this up and running."

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