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Bird-Like Robot Can Perch on Mobile Targets
Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 01:18 PM EDT
Re post as this is amazing:

Bird-Like Robot Can Perch on Mobile Targets

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who-falls-first-rim-or-nokia
Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 01:46 PM EDT
Quote:
The value of RIM’s shares has dropped by more than 70 percent in the past 12
months, with its market cap has tumbled from $78 billion to $6.3 billion in
three years.

Nokia, on the other hand, has seen its shares drop by 90 percent in five years,
and its market cap has dropped from $151 billion to $11.8 billion in four years.

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0 run the program for any purpose
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2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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If APIs cannot have copyright, the GPL is partially moot
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 05:31 PM EDT
I have not seen this discussed.

If APIs cannot have copyright, the GPL is partially moot; at least the copyright
protection of GPLv2, but not the patent part of GPLv3?

Is that right?



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Dell's Project Sputnik: Developer laptop
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 07 2012 @ 06:54 PM EDT
Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project Sputnik! In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is:
Made possible by an internal innovation fund, project Sputnik is a 6 month effort to explore the possibility of creating an open source laptop targeted directly at developers. It is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS13 laptop.
To put it in context, Sputnik is part of an effort by Dell to better understand and serve the needs of developers in Web companies. We want to finds ways to make the developer experience as powerful and simple as possible. And what better way to do that than beginning with a laptop that is both highly mobile and extremely stylish, running the 12.04 LTS release of Ubuntu Linux.
Barton George

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Meaanwhile "Java 7 arrives for (nearly) all"
Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 08:19 AM EDT
The H

I seriously doubt that there will be a stampede to download the latest version. I may be wrong, but I suspect that the focus of development of Java will now shift to the free and unencumbered versions, regardless of whether they can actually be called Java. And, this is end user stuff and they are understandably slow at upgrading, if what they already have seems to work ok.

Look what happened with Open Office/Libre Office, for an example. Most developers went with Libre Office, and their GPL code, which is rather prolific, can't be integrated with the Apache licensed Open Office. Another example of the Footgun®™ which Oracle acquired from SCO (unnoticed at the time, as we were more interested in the fork lifts and other things they were selling).

I found out today that some people have switched to Libre Office because of new features which they actually use every day. It would be hard to counteract that.

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RIP Maurice Sendak
Authored by: feldegast on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 10:09 AM EDT
A GIANT in childrens literature

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New Zealand ISP offers access to geo-blocked sites like Netflix
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT
A new internet service provider, offers a "Global Mode" that "offers greater access to the internet by circumventing geographical restrictions placed on the certain internet services."

FYX ("Fix"), launched on May 4 as a sub-brand of established ISP Maxnet, holds the tantalising promise that its users will be able to directly access US based-commercial download services such as Hulu and Netflix, and the likes of the BBC's iPlayer - all of which offer a motherlode of street-legal movies and TV shows for download, but are "geo-blocked" to stop people outside their parent countries accessing them.

Chris Keall, National Business Review

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Nokia, Rovio launch app partnership for Lumia
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT
linky.
--Nokia initiates a cooperation deal with Angry Birds publisher Rovio

--Rovio to bring all installments of Angry Birds to Windows Phone

--Nokia is also teaming up with Groupon, PayPal
Looks like Rovio continues to make lots of cash from WP7 without even selling that many Angry Birds.

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Microsoft to Support ODF 1.2 Open Document Standard in Office 15
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:14 PM EDT
Microsoft has demonstrated support for the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 standard in a technical preview of the forthcoming Office 15 productivity suite, and plans to release a beta version with the feature late this summer.

I wonder if it will work better than their previous attempt?

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