“It’s a big disappointment,” said Leander Kahney, the author of The Cult of Mac and Inside Steve’s Brain. “A lot of Mac fans will be royally bummed. It’s a huge part of being an Apple fan–looking forward to what Steve (Jobs) will unveil at Macworld. It’s like Christmas for grownups.”
“Jobs is hugely entertaining,” Kahney noted. “There’s nothing like it, in tech or anywhere else. It’s marketing theater at its best. And with concerns about Jobs’ health, people want to see him in t
Nearly every other big open-source acquisition, from JBoss ($350 million) to MySQL ($1 billion) to XenSource ($500 million), has involved the GPL. Even Zimbra ($350 million), while not GPL, fits the mold because it used an attribution clause with an MPL license that was designed to accomplish GPL-esque ambitions.
IBM already does this. So, frankly, does Microsoft (though still to a small degree). I think we’ll see a lot more.
IBM proved long ago that it’s possible to build
Amazon SimpleDB implements such a model. It “keeps multiple copies of each domain. When data is written or updated (using PutAttributes, DeleteAttributes, CreateDomain or DeleteDomain) and Success is returned, all copies of the data are updated. However, it takes time for the update to propagate to all storage locations. The data will eventually be consistent, but an immediate read might not show the change.”
“Database” has come to be largely synonymous with a relational databa
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Alleged spy photo of PS3 Slim's packaging.
A Belgian blog, RTLinfo, is reporting that Sony will soon be lowering the price on the European version of the PS3 from 399 euros to 299 euros (that bodes well for a $299 version of the U.S. PS3). At the same time, the site claims that Sony will introduce the PS3 Slim before the opening of Gamescom expo in Cologne, Germany, at a pre-event press conference on August 18.
In more concrete news, Amazon today shaved $50 off
Previously:
Post-launch frenzy: What can you actually use? (from 2008’s show)
TC50/Demo revisited: What’s alive, what’s dead? (seven months later)
Worth noting is that there are a few sites that are on the verge of being open but that were not ready to go in time of this article going live:
How important is being open?
Note: We considered sites that were listed as having “private” or “invite only” betas as closed. This is becaus
“This novel approach to drug delivery, using engineered ’smart’ nanoparticles, appears to overcome a number of limitations facing current methods of delivering medicines,” said Alison Cole, who oversees anesthesia grants at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is funding this research. “While some distance away from use in humans, this technology has the potential to provide precise, repeated, long-term, on-demand delivery of drugs for a nu
Catherine Novelli, Apple’s vice president of worldwide government affairs, informed the Chamber of Commerce in a letter on Monday that the company would be resigning its membership. Apple cited differences in environmental policies.
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Greenpeace even released its own iPhone app version of its “Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide.” The app allows users to compare brands to find the most environmentally friendly.
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Nokia X6
The company announced the new phones and services at its Nokia World Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
Nokia N97 Mini
The new N97 Mini also will have Nokia’s Comes With Music service integrated. This service increases the cost of the device, but provides users with a free download music service. And the device will be the first Nokia phone to have tighter integration with the popular social networking site Facebook. N
As ideal as it might have been to turn a profit on every sold console, Sony’s decision to reduce the price of the PlayStation 3 and offer a new console version was smart. It makes the company’s consoles more affordable. It ensures that it provides the best value proposition in the space. And as more consumers opt for the PlayStation 3 over its competitors, it could put Sony in a position to capture a larger share of the market, considering what it makes on royalties and licensing fees from t
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What’s worse than malaria? Malaria with a syphilis shooter. But seriously–a Canadian company has just introduced several “rapid tests” that can instantly detect various combinations of tropical and sexually transmitted diseases.
MedMira this week launched its expanded line of Multiplo rapid tests at the U.S. military’s Advanced Technology Applications for Casualty Combat Care Conference in St. Pete’s Beach, Fla.
Instant results for HIV and den
