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Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Insight perspective Strip away all the bluster and jargon and you soon realize the end is nigh for proprietary software, argues open source expert.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Software licensing, Marginal Cost, IT Budget, Bubble, Open Source, Financial Company, software, theory
China blocking access to Facebook?
News Twitter messages and blog posts suggest that problems accessing Facebook in China may be more than just Internet service provider issues.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Twitter, China Netcom, social networking, China Telecom, Facebook, theory, network, China
LHC re-start delayed again until September
News Latest postponement puts the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, back on line a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown.
Tags: CERN, Malfunction, James Gillies, theory, director, April
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nanoscale transistors.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, NIST, Chip, Flaw, transistor, theory, researcher, scientist, IEEE
Tech innovations for tough times
News Companies like GE are using alternative techniques, such as a method pioneered back in Stalin's Soviet Union called "theory of solving inventor's problems", to make R&D more efficient.
Tags: Innovation, Business development/management, R&D, General Electric Co., Training, Tool, Innovation, Soviet Union, TRIZ, GEN3 Partners
Google Chrome gets HTML video support
News Chrome joins Firefox, Safari and Opera with the ability to display video without a plug-in such as Adobe's Flash. But the HTML standard is rough at best.
Tags: Video, Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, theory, Web Site, Web
Are language minutiae necessary?
Techguide Why clog a programming language spec with minutiae that don't offer any technical benefits? On the other hand, is an "anti-minutiae revolution" really necessary?
Tags: Programming languages, Ruby, Language, C, Justin James, Programming, network management, programming language, theory, Perl
Analyst: Infineon chipset possible cause of iPhone 3G issues
News The reception issues experienced by some iPhone 3G users might be the fault of an "immature" Infineon chipset that has trouble with weaker signals.
Tags: Smart phones, 3G (Third Generation), Mac OS, Apple iPhone 3G, Infineon Technologies AG, Europe, phone, 3G, theory, financial analyst
Where is the passion for extending Microsoft apps?
Techguide Here are some theories about why there isn't much coverage about Internet Explorer plug-ins in comparison to Firefox.
Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Plug-in, Eclipse, Internet Explorer plug-in, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, theory
Open source license victory in model-railway case
News A federal judge in the United States has ruled that an open source license should have the same legal enforceability as traditional copyright.
Tags: Copyright, Open source, Creative Commons, GPL, software, theory, professor, case law, SourceForge, U.S.
BPO, the unfulfilled promise
Blogs The adoption of larger-scale (i.e. total contract value of US$25 million or above) BPO (business process outsourcing) de...
Energy storage coming to a power grid near you
News Storage on the grid would allow use of more solar and wind power and avoid the need for new power plants. So what's holding up grid storage?
Tags: grid computing, Storage, Energy Storage, Storage, Grid, hard drive, lithium-ion, theory, financial, NSTAR
Garbage HTML: Five theories why developers write it
Techguide Garbage HTML appears to be alive and well. Is the situation hopeless?
Tags: Web 2.0, Authoring, Software engineering/development, Web sites, Tool, Alexa Internet Inc., Developer, CSS, font, Ctrl
UK authorities respond to Facebook criticism
News The U.K. authorities have given a response to Facebook's assertion that monitoring all communications on social-networking sites would be overkill.
Tags: Privacy, Database, network theory, Government, social networking, e-mail, Facebook, theory, U.K., network
Beware Olympic cybercrime chaos, urges former UK politician
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2009 conference, former U.K. home secretary David Blunkett says that attacks are taking place but not being talked about.
Tags: Network security, Home Secretary, Attack, Internet Attack, Accommodation, Infosecurity Europe, London, U.S. Government, theory, U.K.
