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Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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A small networking services company was recently granted a patent covering the use of representational icons in an operating system. The company turned around and sued Microsoft, Apple, and even Google, just in time for the holidays.
The industry consortium behind the Google-developed mobile operating system, the Open Handset Alliance, just added 14 new members, including ARM, Garmin International, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. The other new members are AKM Semiconductor, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile, Teleca AB, and Toshiba.
AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smart phones as part of a 'dramatic consolidation' of its mobile platforms over the next few years, a company executive said Thursday.
Microsofts Windows operating system last month took its biggest market share dive in years, according to some new Net Applications statistics, with the number of Windows users surfing the web falling below 90 percent. Specifically, Windows secured 89.6% Of the global PC market in November, down from 92.4% A year before, 94.2% In November 2006, and 96.4% In October 2004.
A milestone has been reached in iPhone firmware modification on Friday with the first alternative operating system for the hardware, Linux, now running on the device.
Stolen and misplaced laptops can leave companies susceptible to costly data breaches, even more so if a notebook goes missing while the operating system is fully loaded, but Lenovo believes it has come up with a solution for that problem.
Slashdot reports that Apple has sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki, a public wiki site, demanding the removal of postings there by those who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Short answer: Apple doesn't have a DMCA leg to stand on. At the heart of this is the iTunesDB file, the index that the iPod operating system uses to keep track of what playable media is on the device.
Employees who use Vista at work are suing for overtime after their employers linked their hourly pay to the login and logout procedures of their computer. With Vista taking up to 15 minutes to boot, and 15 minutes to shut down, employees are getting shorted up to 30 minutes per day.
A programmer has released a tool that unlocks several still-unfinished features of Windows 7 that Microsoft hid from users who got an alpha build of the operating system at two recent developer conferences.
The pre-beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developers Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it.
Motorola has become the sick man of the Open Handset Alliance, the industry consortium backing the Google-created Android operating system. The third largest handset manufacturer in the world, Motorola saw sales shrink more than 30 percent from a year ago, according to its third-quarter report out today, leaving it with 8.4 percent market share. The company.
Ubuntu, the open source GNU/Linux based operating system, is about to release its next big update - Intrepid Ibex. In the past, the update servers would crash very quickly on a big release day, making it hard for people to get the latest update. With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided.
Microsoft is expected to be handing out alphas of Windows 7 to devs at WinHEC and PDC soon, and it has settled on the official name of Windows 7. The code name is the real name, which is a first for Windows
Google has announced plans to release an innovative new open source web browser. It will offer some revolutionary new features, including a process manager that will run each individual tab in an isolated process, much like a conventional operating system. There will also be integration with Google Gears (the engine for Google Docs).
Vista's death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP.
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