With the advancement of Information Technology, the Internet suddenly became an important aspect for local and global connectivity. Portal is defined as web site that provides a single point of access information and one of the many hosted within a single web portal server. As technology evolves alongside, the information revolution, the power of computer makes it easy to distribute and view information needed with just a few clicks.
With improvement of technology, the researchers decided to develop the News Portal Application. This project gives an efficient way of bringing information to internet users.
News Writer. It will be a great tool to use for the writers to be able to publish their work online. Their works will reach more audience compare to the traditional newspaper approach.
Researchers. It will be a challenge for the researchers to design and develop an online portal using their skills in programming and web development.
Future Researchers. It will guide them to their future study and research topic relating to news portal application.
The aim of the study is to develop and online platform wherein the users can upload and post their news and articles. It is also aimed to design an application that follows the need of the users through conducting evaluation that will make it user-friendly to the covered community.
Design a user-friendly interface for the writers to write their content and publish it online.
To provide moderation or control feature wherein administrators can review the articles before publishing online.
To provide search facility feature to easily navigate and look for a specific news and content.
The project entitled "News Portal Application". This section presents the methodology used to develop the system, the system's functionality, the suggested system content by the user's and the project in developing the said system. It also includes the software and hardware requirements, software developer and people ware recommendations.
Functional user requirements are formally defined and delineate the requirements in terms of data, system performance, security and maintainability requirements for the system. All requirements are defined to a level of sufficient for systems design to proceed. All requirements need to be measurable and testable and relate to the business need or opportunity identified in the initiation phase.
The researchers gathered all possible requirements for the system development the requirements gathered from the end users who are the benefactor of the system. The researcher conducted a survey questionnaire who validated by the experts. The questionnaires were used for gathering data to improve the performance of the proposed system.
The requirements are gathered from the end-user by consultation, wherein suggestions are given. We had also conducted a survey questionnaire which was validated by the three experts (IT Expert, English Grammarian, and Researcher). And these questionnaires were used as our data gathering tool that measures the performance of the manual system which serves as our basis for the development of our proposed system.
During this phase the System and Software Design was generated using the requirements captured in the requirements analysis. The design document is supposed to reference back to the requirements and satisfy each and every requirement. In this stage the researcher describes the technical details of the system and the researchers decided to used PHP, MySQL and Bootstrap.
In this phase, it stated the implementation and unit testing of the system. The recommendation and suggestion of the users were also included in this phase.
The system modification were installed and made operational in a production environment. The phase was initiated after the system has been tested and accepted by the user. This phase continued until the system is operating in production in accordance with the defined user requirements.
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Mary O'Flaherty '18 is a member of the United States Naval Academy Women's Glee Club. Both male and female USNA glee clubs had the privilege of honoring President George H.W. Bush during his casket arrival ceremony on Monday, December 3, 2018. Click here to listen to the glee club perform "America the Beautiful." May President George H.W. Bush rest in peace.


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Matthew Staton — Staff Assistant
When military personnel transition into the civilian workforce, their employers stand to benefit. The ability to adapt, learn quickly and get the job done exemplify the military experience. They also exemplify Matthew Staton, a veteran who today continues to serve his country in a civilian capacity, as staff assistant to the Secretary of the Army.
Like Matthew, many of today's service members return home from tours of duty with combat-related injuries that can interfere with everyday activities, including employment. Two such conditions are Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Matthew was exposed to multiple bomb blasts in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 and was medically discharged from the Army for TBI and PTSD, as well as complications from gunshot wounds.
Upon receiving his diagnoses, Matthew obtained needed medical assistance, but the non-medical help he also received has made just as significant of an impact in helping him resume a successful life and career, he says. Both on and off the job, Matthew struggles with short-term memory problems. To help him with this issue, he uses a variety of tools, including personal digital assistants, a digital voice recorder and other assistive technologies.
Matthew obtained these accommodations through the Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP), which provides assistive technology and services to employees with disabilities in the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies — free of charge. In 2004, CAP expanded to specifically target the needs of wounded warriors, due to the rise in injuries stemming from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, its "Support, Equip and Empower" program has fulfilled more than 14,000 requests. And once assistive technology is provided through the program, service members and veterans can keep it, even if they leave federal employment.
Whether public or private sector, America's employers have a great deal to gain from the skills and experience of veterans — and an important role to play in ensuring their success in the workplace. Often, a few simple adaptations are all that is needed to support a dedicated, skilled employee who, like Matthew, has sacrificed in service to others.
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Q: Переименовать заголовок окна Возможно ли силами C# отловить заголовок окна стороннего ПО и переименовать его на время сессии. Например найти процесс calculator.exe отловить заголовок "Калькулятор" и переименовать его в "Тест"?

A: Сначала находим окно и его значение hWnd по названию(отсюда):
  IntPtr hWnd = IntPtr.Zero;
foreach (Process pList in Process.GetProcesses())
{
   if (pList.MainWindowTitle.Contains(wName))
  {
      hWnd = pList.MainWindowHandle;
  }
}
return hWnd; //Should contain the handle but may be zero if the title doesn't match

Затем устанавливаем значение окна (отсюда):
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool SetWindowText(IntPtr hWnd, string text);

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EDITORS NOTE: This Tragic Event occurred in 2011 and IS NOT a Current Event.
Fort Campbell, KY – The Department of Defense announced today the death of six Soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died May 26th, 2011 of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
They were assigned to Fox Company, (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY.
(Left to Right) John Runkle, Jr., Edward Mills, Ergin Osman, Louis Ramosvelazquez, Thomas Bohall, and Adam Patton. All with the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY.
1st Lieutenant John Marshall Runkle Jr., 27, of West Salem, OH, was an Infantryman, who joined the Army in June 2006 and arrived at Fort Campbell in June 2010.
His awards and decorations include: Army Commendation Medal; Army Achievement Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Air Assault Badge; Parachutist Badge; Pathfinder Badge and Ranger Tab.
Runkle is survived by his father, John Runkle of Woster, OH and mother, Christine Runkle of Salem, OH.
Staff Sergeant Edward David Mills, of New Castle, PA, was an Infantryman, who joined the Army in January 2005 and arrived at Fort Campbell in November 2005.
His awards and decorations include: Air Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Army Achievement Medal; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Arrowhead Device; Iraq Campaign Medal; Global war on Terrorism Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal; Air Assault Badge; Parachutist Badge; Pathfinder Badge and Combat Infantryman Badge.
Mills is survived by his spouse, Amanda Brenner and mother, Kathie L. Greenawalt, both of New Castle, PA. He is also survived by his father, Edward Mills.
Staff Sergeant Ergin Vidot Osman, 35, of Harrison Township, MI, was an Infantryman, who joined the Army in March 1998 and arrived at Fort Campbell in April 2007.
His awards and decorations include: Air Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Navy Commendation with Combat Distinguishing Device; Army Achievement Medal; Navy Achievment Medal with Valor Device; Air Force Meritorious Unit Award Ribbon; Combat Action Ribbon; Joint Meritorious Unit Award; Navy Unit Commendation; Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation; Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Korean Defense Service Medal; Kosovo Campaign Medal with 2 Bronze Service Stars; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Iraq Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; Humanitarian Service Medal; Armed Forces Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal; Parachutist Badge; Air Assault Badge; Combat Infantryman Badge and Ranger Tab.
Osman is survived by his wife, Private 1st Class Kristin Osman of Hopkinsville, KY and sons, Aidan and Zeren Osman of Roseville, MI. He is also survived by his father, Mike Osman of Birmingham, AL and mother, Sarah Osman of Township, MI.
Sergeant Louie Ramosvelazquez 39, of Camy, Puerto Rico, was a Combat Medic, who joined the Army in December 2006 and arrived at Fort Campbell in September 2007.
His awards and decorations include: Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal; Air Assault Badge; Parachutist Badge and Pathfinder Badge.
Ramosvelazquez is survived by his wife, Yesina Ramos; daughter, Sheila Ramos Hernandez; sons, Louie Ramos Hernandez and Pedro Hernandez Hernandez, all of Fort Campbell, KY. He is also survived by mother Rosie Rolon of Ridgewood, NY, father, Louie Ramos of Camuy, Puerto Rico and step mother, Rosa Velasquez.
Sergeant Thomas Andrew Bohall, 25, of Bel Aire, KS, was an Infantryman, who joined the Army in August 2005 and arrived at Fort Campbell in October 2008.
His awards and decorations include: Air Medal; Army Achievement Medal; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Iraq Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon; Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal; Air Assault Badge; Parachutist Badge; Pathfinder Badge and Combat Infantryman Badge.
Bohall is survived by his wife, Jessica Bohall of Essington, PA; daughter, Annabelle Bohall of Essington, PA; father, Timothy Bohall of San Antonio, TX and mother, Lorna Geist.
Specialist Adam James Patton, 21, of Port Orchard, WA, was an Infantryman, who joined the Army in June 2008 and arrived at Fort Campbell in October 2008.
His awards and decorations include: Air Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Army Achievement Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge.
Patton is survived by his mother, Sandra Kottre, Port Orchard, WA.
A memorial service will be held for the Fallen in Afghanistan. Fort Campbell holds a monthly Eagle Remembrance Ceremony to honor fallen Screaming Eagles. The next ceremony will be held June 8th at 4:00pm.


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Hayim Leiter
Mohel, Activist, and Educator
International mohel of mystery
"You don't need to check your bag. It'll fit in the overhead compartment," the woman checking me in said.
"I can't."
Since this was my first international brit milah, I was afraid to answer honestly. "I'm a mohel," I said.
No further explanations were necessary. Israelis know: mohalim carry a lot of knifes. In Ukraine, where I was headed to do a bris, in addition to the language barriers, the cultural ones would prove even more daunting.
The coordination of this bris actually began about six months ago. A rabbi I've known for some time called me and said there was a family in Kiev expecting a boy and they were looking for a mohel and he asked if I was interested. As is my minhag (custom), I pass my international britot requests on to my teacher, whose goal in life is to do britot in as many locations in the world as possible. Since I have four young children at home and I owe my teacher almost my entire livelihood, I have no reservations in paying it forward. But something went wrong in the planning and my teacher wasn't able to go. So (thanks to my wife's compliance), I jumped at the chance.
My flight was at 6:30 a.m. from Ben-Gurion, and all went like clockwork. When I arrived in Ukraine, I was met by the father, who I instantly took a liking to. I could sense his warmth from the moment he smiled at me as we shook hands. But I really had no sense of this place yet.
As I walked out of the airport, the father assured me the car service was close by. But all things are relative. As we made our way along the half block to the car, I quickly learned an important lesson: when it's negative 15 C, and you're not wearing a hat, there's no such thing as a short walk.
During the drive to the Jewish Center, the father and I had much to talk about, from logistics to small talk. I reveled in each time his cell phone rang because it gave me a chance to look out the windows at an area I had never been to before. The most striking thing I noticed in the very limited ride were the statues. They are so different from anything I'm used to. Very dark and imposing and some of them tower above the street, almost as tall as buildings. One particular statue towered above a river; it was a huge female figure with her arms stretched out side to side. In one hand she held a shield and in the other a sword. I was fascinated. I asked the father, "What IS that?" He replied, "I believe the best translation is 'Mother Homeland'. Very fitting, I thought.
The brit itself was different from what I am used to, though I expected it to be so. I usually sing throughout the britot I do in order to fill the empty spaces and to calm the nerves of the group. The difference this time was the community barely recognized one tune I sang and could not join in with me. I called it my solo performance. My mother, who was a music teacher for many years, would have been proud. Because this community is Mesorti (Conservative), it helped emphasize one of the things I truly love about my work. Unlike other rabbinic endeavors, there is a great deal I can do with this community even though I wouldn't regularly daven with them. I was able to lead the brit milah service (which does not demand separate seating) and even the Grace after Meals.
Being a mohel is an amazing vocation because it allows you to meet people where they are as Jews, and I love that.
When my work was finished, I said goodbye to the three people I could converse with (and waved to everyone else) and made my way back. The father called me an Uber taxi (yes, they have Uber in Ukraine), and as I drove off, I realized I couldn't say a word to this man and I had no idea how to get to the airport. As my internal nervous Jewish mother came out of me, I thought, "This man could kill me if he wants. I wouldn't even know he wasn't driving the right way to the airport." Thankfully, I made it safely.
The flight home, though, wasn't as flawless as the way there. We were delayed in the plane for two hours. This made the day quite a bit longer.
But the greatest reward for the trip came on my drive home from Ben-Gurion. My father told me something I had not known until that moment. Three of my father's grandparents fled from Ukraine to the United States many moons ago.
As if it weren't enough of an honor to come to this community and perform a brit milah, knowing my familial connection to the place made it that much more meaningful. I felt like I was truly helping the Jewish people survive in a place which, at least in the past, did not fully embrace them.
I guess we each do our piece to advance the cause.
Hayim Leiter is a mohel for the greater Jerusalem area and he also teaches at The Pardes Institute. You can contact him at ravhayim@gmail.com
Hayim Leiter is a Rav and a Mohel in Israel , as well as an activist, and a Jewish Educator. He founded Magen HaBrit, an organization committed to protecting both our sacred ceremony of Brit Milah and the children who undergo it. He made Aliyah in 2009 and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.
Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years' more bailout payments to survive
Avner Hofstein


Starting your own small business is a bumpy road to success no matter how long you've lived in the town or city you're based in.
But what if you want to also start your own business outside of your home country, and be location independent?
How do you figure out all the details, like time zone differences, your local tax rules, and knowing absolutely no one local who works in your industry? That can be especially challenging if you're facing other challenges as well, like cultural differences and language barriers.
However, this week's guest found a way to overcome those challenges and start a location independent business ten years ago (and she is still in business)!
What is Jamie's company, Studio Aiuto?
Jamie's mission…to use design to make a small difference in society and how that ties into the bigger picture of her work.
Many of her clients are people who have lived with illnesses and have made their business out of something that could have been very negative but actually isn't. Here's what she likes about that aspect the most.
Jamie was responsible for my website's branding audit. Seriously though, can't recommend her enough! We chatted too about the important role she played in making my website much more suitable for my current goals of my business.
An important part of U.S history ten years ago was the mortgage crisis. We talked a little bit about how that lead to her decision to not get a job in what she majored in when she was in college, interior architecture, but to help businesses with their design instead.
How starting out by working for free and meeting people in person, formed the business relationships she still has today.
Jamie's advice on working for free when you're just starting out: "provide an invoice with the total slashed out, so that it's clear what dollar amount you're donating." And how she used that tactic when she was first starting out.
How she went from just general graphic design services that were based off "concept and feeling" to also considering things from a strategic business point of view.
Why she values the idea more of taking a business course of getting a mentor, or coach, or taking a business coach more than she did 10 years ago.
The very basic fact about running a business that I added in: not everyone is lucky enough to be connected to someone who can help you with your bookkeeping, has run a business before, or can help fill the gaps of aspects of your business you're still not great at.
Why you shouldn't let that stop you as a creative from being open to learning about the business or feel like there's no need to learn those skills if you know someone who can help you out.
Why Jamie doesn't necessarily work with local, Japanese businesses and what she does to make connections with businesses abroad more meaningful.
Why she sees being available by platforms like Skype and chat as so important for her business.
I added on some of my own examples of how only communicating by written messages can be misunderstood and why you need to reach out to people in more ways than just written communication is so important.
Jamie is a brand strategist, graphic designer, world dweller, and mamma. Jaime Di Dio Aoyama grew up knowing she would have a career in art or design and craved living in the world.
Jaime's exposure to French started as a toddler and continued into her university years. She then began studying Italian and took a semester abroad in Florence where she casually attended classes on interior architecture and Italian language emerging herself in the local scene. Returning to the US, she completed her degree in interior architecture while embarking upon her journey with the Japanese language.
Days after graduation, Jaime moved to Tokyo with her now husband, a native of the metropolis and began teaching English and doing freelance graphic design. Returning to the states 3 years later, the couple founded Studio Aiuto, a brand strategy and graphic design consultancy.
Passionate about using design for the greater good, Jaime works with well-living and heart-centered businesses. When she's not working, she's playing with her daughter or finding a few quiet minutes with her husband.
Jaime currently lives with her artist husband and toddler daughter in a coastal village outside Tokyo and is on the cusp of her 4th international move.


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Adriane Wachholz (* 1979 in Oppeln) ist eine deutsche Künstlerin polnischer Herkunft, die mit den Medien Zeichnung, Installation und Video arbeitet.

Leben und Werk

Von 2000 bis 2003 studierte sie Freie Kunst im Bereich Film/Video an der Kunstakademie Münster bei Andreas Köpnick. Anschließend nahm sie am Erasmus-Programm an der École supérieure des beaux-arts de Genève in Genf (heute HEAD), im Bereich der experimentellen Zeichnung und Performance, teil. 2005 setzte sie anschließend ihr Studium in der Klasse für Installation und Bildhauerei bei Guillaume Bijl fort, bei dem sie seit 2006 als Meisterschülerin, 2007 ihr Studium abschloss.

Wachholz lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und im Ruhrgebiet.

Auszeichnungen und Stipendien

2007 wurde Wachholz mit dem Ida-Gerhardi-Förderpreis ausgezeichnet. 2008 erhielt sie den Nam June Paik Award Förderpreis der Kunststiftung NRW (Kategorie: National) für "herausragende elektronische und digitale Kunstwerke". 2009 war Wachholz Hauptpreisträgerin des DEW 21 Kunstpreises in Dortmund. Des Weiteren erhielt sie 2012 den Förderpreis der Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Unna.

Wachholz nahm an verschiedenen Artist-in-Residence-Programmen teil und erhielt zahlreiche Stipendien:

 2017 Projektförderung des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW
 2016 Ruhrresidence der KunstVereineRuhr
 2014 Atelierstipendium des Salzamt Linz, Österreich
 2012 Ausstellungsförderung des Instituts für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) und der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der westfälischen Kulturarbeit (GWK)
 2010 Wilhelm Morgner Stipendium, Soest
 2010 Saari Residenz der Kone Stiftung, Finnland
 2009 Nes Artist Residenz, Island
 2008 Bellevue-Saal Stipendium, Wiesbaden
 2004 Freemover Stipendium des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD)

Werkgruppen

Wachholz Arbeiten lassen sich in verschiedene Werkgruppen aufteilen:
 Raumbezogene Arbeiten/ortsbezogene/zeichnerische Rauminterventionen/Projektionen
 Analoge Projektionen
 Arbeiten auf Papier
 Skulpturale Zeichnungen

Werke im öffentlichen Raum

2016 COMING HOME, Wandmalerei, Ferdinand-Buchberger-Gasse, Landespflegeheim Mödling, Österreich
2013 COMING HOME, installative Wandmalerei, Grenzgasse, Landespflegeheim Mödling, Österreich

Literatur

Monografien
 Adriane Wachholz, Coming Home, Text: Cornelia Offergeld, (Hrsg. Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur) St. Pölten, 2013
 Adriane Wachholz, every context has its frame, Text: David Riedel, (Hrsg. Kunsthalle Bielefeld) Druckverlag Kettler, Bönen, 2012
 Adriane Wachholz, Wilhelm Morgner Stipendium, Druckverlag Kettler, Bönen, 2011
 Adriane Wachholz, Text: Sascha Winter, extra verlag, Berlin, 2010
 Bellevue-Saal Stipendium 2008, Text: Ulrike Brandenburg (Hrsg. Ulrich Meyer-Husmann) Mainz, 2008
 zu Hause im Grünen, Wewerka Pavillon Münster, Text: Gail Kirkpatrick (Hrsg. Kunstakademie Münster) Münster, 2008

Publikationen zu Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
 Kemnade klingt! Kunstverein Bochum, Text: Reinhard Buskies, (ed. Kunstverein Bochum) Hattingen, 2016
 5 x 3 – Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Text: Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge, (Hrsg. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf) Düsseldorf, 2016
 WIN-WIN EG-Null – Raum für junge Kunst, Generali Deutschland, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2015
 RuhrKunstSzene – Fünfzig Positionen, Zehn Museen, Eine Ausstellung, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2014
 (Nie)porzadek, (Dis)order (Hrsg. Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej) Opole, Polen, 2012
 hbf-häuser, bilder, fenster 2012 (Hrsg. ISG, Bahnhofsviertel Münster e.V.) Münster, 2012
 Entwürfe (Hrsg. Verein Entwürfe für Literatur) Zürich, 2011
 Kunstwelten (Hrsg. Boesner GmbH) Witten, 2011
 NamJunePaik Award 2010 (Hrsg. Regina Wyrwoll), Walther König, Köln, 2010
 Jetzt und Damals (Hrsg. Hilke Gesine Möller) Lüdenscheid, 2010
 Lido 11 (Hrsg. Gertrud Peters, KIT) Düsseldorf, 2009
 digital image not available (Hrsg. Christoph Platz) Münster, 2008
 Ida Gerhardi Förderpreis 2007 (Hrsg. Hilke Gesine Möller) Lüdenscheid, 2007
 Die Zeichnung als Medium der Reflexion (Hrsg. Kunsthaus Essen e.V.) Essen, 2006

Weblinks
Website

Einzelnachweise

Installationskünstler (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Pole
Geboren 1979
Frau

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I will not completely go into detail about why I use Linux. Suffice it to say that if you are a blind Windows user, you are, for the most part, a target of big name companies who make extremely pricey software products (namely screen readers and screen magnifiers as well as other technologies) which allow you the "privilege" of using your computer system. … Ever installed a system with your eyes closed, literally? … As of right now, at least to my knowledge, one can completely install Debian (see the Debian accessibility page), Ubuntu, Vinux (a Ubuntu derivative designed for blind and visually impaired users), Trisquel and Arch Linux (via Chris Brannon's TalkingArch ISO image).
I currently own an HP Envy laptop. I like the machine overall, but typing on its island-style keyboard is a frustrating chore, one that inevitably triggers a string of typos that don't occur when I use a classic keyboard.
Media Coverage of Mad Cow: USDA Calls "Misleading," Columbia Journalism Review Calls "Sane".
Chemicals in common household products may be behind the huge rise in cancers, diabetes and obesity, falling fertility, and an increased number of neurological development, the European Environment Agency (EEA) reported yesterday.
Some farmers have been able to sue Monsanto for contaminating their crops with GM. There are hundreds of others who lost everything when sued for patent infringement.
The stock option tax loophole is the only provision of the tax code that allows companies to deduct money for costs without actually spending any money. It allows Facebook to declare to shareholders and potential investors that their expenses remain low, while at the same time declaring to the IRS that those same shares cost them $5 billion and write those higher costs off as a tax deduction. To their shareholders and the stock market, Facebook will present itself as highly profitable, while their tax return will show the opposite.
See also, Senate Floor Statement Facebook's $16 Billion Stock Option Tax Deduction. The worst fraud of all is the ridiculous valuation, created by the usual Microsoft/NASDAQ press tools.
The practice is pretty standard during IPOs, especially high-profile ones like Facebook. The big banks buy into a wave of selling as a way to prevent their customers from suffering big losses.
The syndicate of underwriters led by Morgan Stanley helped prop up shares after the Nasdaq Stock Market experienced technical problems processing trades.
None of that should be legal.
Trashy ways to scrape the bottom of the barrel even harder.
sign this petition that pressures the relevant authorities in the US and EU (FTC, EU trade commission) to issue regulations that force hardware vendors to offer alternative OS software in order to break this monopoly for good!
It's Vista with an even nastier face and more digital handcuffs.
If you are using non free software, you might not really see what's published here.
The current US economy is built on 'growing worker insecurity' – people who are too busy and poor to make demands. … For many people in the United States, there's a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it's quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.
Lots of missed opportunities are listed, but the Occupy movement is reason to hope that people won't let themselves be walked on.
The colonized are denied job security. Incomes are reduced to subsistence level. The poor are plunged into desperation. Mass movements, such as labor unions, are dismantled. The school system is degraded so only the elites have access to a superior education. Laws are written to legalize corporate plunder and abuse, as well as criminalize dissent. And the ensuing fear and instability—keenly felt this past weekend by the more than 200,000 Americans who lost their unemployment benefits—ensure political passivity by diverting all personal energy toward survival.
The US Patent Office is hopelessly corrupt, insane and self serving. This explanation begs the question of software as an invention worthy of a monopoly grant and the validity of the 600,000 patents on backlog. A claim to business methods is turned into a "position" which is good language if you think patents should be traded as a commodity, but that contradicts the protecting innovators excuse. People in other countries should take notice of the obvious fact that US Patents are used for US protectionism. People in the US should notice that this protectionism is mostly serving the interest of a few US companies at the expense of other US companies owned by less wealthy individuals. The net result is that the US market is a backwater of inferior goods.
Dr. Tenenbaum has had years of his life wasted and faces a $675,000 judgment that is completely unjust and makes him a slave for the rest of his life because he admits to having shared a few files.
I do not think this will end well for Oracle.
In the metaphor of the romantic author, the works he creates are his children, born of his labor and genius. … We reflexively begin to believe that orphan works need the kind of protection that society provides to abandoned children. … What these works need are "special forces" that can free them from the constraints placed on them by the combination of the regulatory effects of copyright and the lack of a locatable owner who can grant permission to avoid the consequences of the regulation.
Leonard Tsai (shown), a key executive at Taiwan ODM Compal Electronics, is trying to navigate the unknown waters between today's Wintel PCs and tomorrow's ARM/Linux tablets.
We have hardware manufacturers and OEMs willing to crank out supported systems. The last barrier to adoption are retail chains catering to the Wintel monopoly. Read all about it in a thoroughly researched report by The Association of Open Source Software Companies of Portugal.
After another seven Release Candidates, Linus Torvalds proudly announced a few hours ago, May 20th, the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.4.
Just two months back, we got the news of Linux 3.3 Release that had Android support included. And now, Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 3.4. Apart from the new drivers and fixes, among the major features in the 3.4 release, we have several Btrfs updates. It includes support for more than 4KB metadata blocks with better performance. A new X32 ABI ((Application Binary Interface) allows us to run programs in 64 bit mode with 32 bit pointers. The GPU drivers have been updated as well. It supports early modesetting of Nvidia Geforce 600 'Kepler', AMD RadeonHD 7xxx and AMD Trinity APU series, and also support of Intel Medfield graphics.
The new version sees a number of important changes affecting graphics drivers. The x32-ABI promises the advantages of x86-64-CPUs without the overhead of 64-bit code. Btrfs is reported to be quicker, and Yama prevents processes from accessing each other's allocated memory.
[wayland] Introduce zoom-area-follows-text-cursor and animated zoom transitions.
ARM has published a new open-source X.Org DDX Linux graphics driver while working to enable support for their next-generation ARM Mali T6xx graphics core.
Version 2.52 of Transmission, the open source cross-platform BitTorrent client that strives to be as simple as possible, is now available for download.
Shell prompt fans! here's a microblogging client for Twitter and identi.ca you can use through the command line interface. Twidge allows you to view the recent tweets, add a new tweet, view messages, replies, retweets by those you follow and many other features.
Indie game studio SkyGoblin has released a new point and click adventure game The Journey Down: Chapter One. The game is a commercial remake of their free adventure game with same title but it comes with new content, fully voiced cast and HD art and animations.
EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a desktop for UNIX-like operating systems. Main features of EDE are speed and responsiveness, low resource usage and familiar look and feel. Simply said, desktop that doesn't get on your way.
Always on an activity, or all. You asked for it.
In the world of Linux there's plenty of choices to choose from, whether it be distribution or desktop environments (KDE, Gnome2, Gnome 3, XFCE) but then there are those who would like a new distro with an older desktop environment.
SolusOS is a Debian "Stable" based distribution that uses GNOME 2 as its desktop environment. Currently SolusOS is only available in 32 bit but will see a 64 bit release in the near future. SolusOS is also an installable Live distribution.
Installation of the distribution was quite straight forward and feels like an Ubuntu based distribution being installed. There were very standard options to choose from when installing your distribution from keyboard language, to setting up your first user account.
The XFCE Desktop Environment has risen greatly in popularity over the past few years. Major credit for it goes to the XFCE team who has been putting out releases with incremental updates and advancements but there is a misconception among many people that XFCE is bland. I encourage you to come on a voyage with me and you may discover something splendorous.
What is ExTiX 10 64bit?
Lucid Imagination has announced the 2.1 release of its open source LucidWorks Enterprise product for search of both structured and unstructured data located across an organisation.
Utilising Apache Lucene/Solr as its base, LucidWorks Enterprise 2.1 adds features such as Crawler Configuration, the ability to schedule external data source crawling and new connectors for high-speed Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Twitter and Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS).
When the going gets though, as the saying goes, the tough gets going. That is usually a test of character. When it comes to software companies in a financial mess, that old adage can be paraphrased as: When the going gets tough, we dump our software on the (open source) community.
It certainly was true of HP/Palm and their webOS mobile operating system. Oracle did something similar with OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice). And is that not what Sun Microsystems did with Solaris/OpenSolaris? And recently, there has been calls from some quarters for Research In Motion (RIM) to do the same with its mobile platform.
Ubuntu's Unity interface made a brief appearance in a popular Japanese 'children's' show last weekend.
I have become a Linux user since 2008 and my first Linux distribution was Ubuntu. Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux distribution and when somebody is talking about Linux, very likely that he is talking about Ubuntu. I personally have a very complicated opinion toward Ubuntu, I both love it and hate it. In this article, I will enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of Ubuntu to justify my love and hate for it.
I read this article today by someone called Hoo-Ann and I was very disappointed by how short the article was. I have been using Ubuntu off and on since it was Breezy Badger and I can come up with a lot more to say about the advantages and disadvantages of using Ubuntu. So, as someone that believes if someone else can't do it "right" then you should it yourself, I'm going to list the (much longer) advantages and disadvantages I've personally found with using Ubuntu.
Anyone who knows the world Linux will surely heard of Ubuntu. A distribution that has done so much for Linux and the Open Source world itself! In fact, thanks to the hard work of Canonical, Ubuntu is one of the first user-friendly distributions that have brought many people in the Linux world. Especially those most skeptical!
But if Ubuntu is a distribution that has done so much in the past, now we must curb our enthusiasm. In fact, for some time now, this same distribution is becoming a lot more criticized by veterans of the Linux world.
Dream Studio 12.04 is here!!!!
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi's diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster, the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above. The add-on is slated to ship later this year and plugs into the CSI pins left exposed right in the middle of each unit. According to the accompanying blog post, the specs may be downgraded from the prototype's 14MP sensor to keep things affordable, although there's no word on an exact price yet. Possible applications include robotics and home automation, but until the hackers get their hands on them you'll have to settle for one pic from the Pi's POV after the break and a few more at the source linked below.
Wind River has announced that it has been recognized as the continued real-time operating system (RTOS) and embedded Linux market leader by VDC Research Group in its 2012 "Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems" report. The report covers the global market for commercially available RTOSes and non-real-time operating systems and other related bundled products and services used in embedded applications.
It's the hottest thing in computing, it has a price tag of around $45, and it has finally arrived in New Zealand.
RS Components sales manager Mike Kelly brought a Raspberry Pi Model B into the Computerworld office on Friday to show us how the tiny Linux computer is assembled.
Is the Raspberry Pi lost on the iGeneration?
tive comments, but to me they seem to reflect society's move away from the concept of "tinkering" with technology. The personal computing revolution was driven by people who were curious as to what makes things tick. They were hackers in the true sense of the world, people who could see hidden potential and find ways to unleash it.
The next few weeks I want to further explore the BeagleBoard and embedded Linux, in general. To tell the truth, I had planned to do this several months ago when I first got the BeagleBoard, but it didn't make a very good first impression.
I got one of the A4 version boards (the 2nd run of PC boards, apparently). There was a hardware bug on the board that prevented the Ethernet port from working most of the time. It took a while to find the answer, which was to remove a surface mount resistor. This has been fixed in subsequent releases.
The other problem was the Linux distribution. You can load many different operating systems on the board (including Android, and some non-Linux operating systems like QNX and FreeBSD). By default, however, the board ships with a microSD card loaded with the Angstrom Linux distribution.
Over the past few months there have been no fewer than three tiny, cheap Linux PCs making headlines, and now there's a fourth to add to the list.
Still wishing for some more functionality on Sony's touch-friendly watch? Well there's good news if you're into slider puzzles and music playing apps, as both of these have arrived open source in the SmartWatch's latest SDK. The music extension will allow devs to start work on their own music player, already including support for Android's generic music player.
So, GNU/Linux on netbooks is not dead, just localized… Anticipating claims of "old stock" I looked up this message about interpreting the serial number. The first character is the last digit of the year and the second character is the hex month (1-C). So, this unit starting with "C1″ was made in 2012-01.
ZaReason, the Linux computer builder, is launching its first tablet called ZaTab. Unlike the company's desktop computers and laptops that feature Ubuntu Linux, the tab will be powered by Android.
The centre, supported by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), has so far taught 40 students basic GNU/Linux skills along with opensource tools to provide image and graphics software. "We use free software to bring home the idea of equality and freedom. Besides teaching computer skills, we also touch upon the issues of caste and gender discrimination. Also, we emphasise that free software does not mean subsidy for the poor. It's about freedom from copyright. The focus is on freedom and equality offered by the community software as compared to corporate ware,," says Balaji Kutty, an IT professional and board member of SFLC who also teaches at the centre.
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have developed a simulation tool for the electric industry to analyze geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) on their systems.
Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists. They are also very expensive, so wasted time can mean a lot of wasted resources. But making the most efficient use of them is not the easiest proposition in the world; it's not just a case of clicking a button to analyse a protein. However, fitting out the world of supercomputers with a user-friendly, web-based interface is the focus of an open source project based at Western Australia's Murdoch University.
Last year Murdoch publicly launched Yabi, a tool equipped with a web interface to make using supercomputers simpler.
Good morning. Open source software is enjoying somewhat of a revival in business environments, although the revival is more about perception than reality. IBM's decision to swap out Oracle customer-account management software for similar software from SugarCRM was probably motivated at least in part by a desire to inflict some pain on rival Oracle, but also indicates an underlying confidence in the reliability, stability and scalability of open source software.
While budgetary constraints and increasing commercial competition has clearly taken its toll on NASA, one area where the iconic government institution has unquestionably made headway is the implementation of open source.
While there are quite a few budget and even open source logic analyser platforms for recording and evaluating digital signals, each of them usually comes with a custom interface protocol and dedicated evaluation software of varying functionality. Usually, the software only works with one analyser family made by a specific company.
Open source software has come a long way. From the days when it was seen as a curiosity, to today's scenario where some of the world's biggest computer setups run atop Linux including Amazon and Google, it has been an interesting journey. According to IDC, Linux accounts for about 18-20% of the server market by revenues in any given quarter. That's within striking distance of Unix, which had a market share of 20-22% in the second and third quarters of 2011. Of course, Windows ruled the roost with 45-50% in revenue terms.
Anytime you pay a visit to Mozilla.org, the home page of the open source Mozilla project, you're landing on a page served by a brand new type of machine. A SeaMicro SM10000 server — a fat box about the size of an air conditioner that houses 64 Xeon processors.
Openness in the cloud depends on open source code, open data and open APIs, according to Marten Mickos, chief executive of infrastructure-as-a-service software provider Eucalyptus Systems.
In fact it is about the difficulty to get started at the LibreOffice project, which is a quite bad thing, because we need supporters and contributors of any kind. In the past, the decade of OpenOffice.org, one thing what we missed were the developers (I was not involved at that time, but I heard it several times and I think it is true…). Now, at the LibreOffice project we have easyhacks (At least I assume this, because of THIS Google search). Loads of things have been done about that. Now, I would really want to show you 2 month old numbers from Italo Vignoli's blog. On March the 15th, there were ~360 people contributing to LibreOffice and ~21 at Apache OpenOffice.
Policy makers, industry and many teachers are eager that pupils should learn more about computing. This includes learning how to write computer programs, but also "computational thinking", a transferable way of solving problems and exploring situations, which has wide applications across and beyond the curriculum. In short, as pupils learn to program computers and the principles of computer science they start to bring the unique insights of algorithms, abstraction and the like to other fields. The same is true for teachers – ideas from computing can dramatically change the way we think about our work, and one of these, agile development, is what I'd like to explore here.
According to many A-level specifications, students are taught that software projects follow the "waterfall" methodology, starting with agreeing requirements, designing and implementing the software, testing it and then keeping things ticking over when it's deployed to clients.
In other words, the sort of approach that has characterised public sector IT projects like the NHS database. Hmm… This doesn't sound that far removed from how we've designed curricula: a top down list of things "children should be taught", schemes of work, implementation in the classroom, plenty of testing, and the "service pack" of INSET as and when needed.
That may sound a bit hypocritical. But in truth it just reflects an economic reality. Many solution providers have plenty of expertise available to them. What they are often short on is funding. When faced with the choice of throwing labor at a solution versus parting with cash to acquire commercial technologies, the decision is almost always to "sweat" the labor investment.
Opsview has around 19,900 customers using its free open source offering and a further 100 customers paying for all the bells and whistles as well as a support package in the shape of the Enterprise version.
Imagine what "Risk Factors" a hypothetical Open Source Incorporated would put into the regulatory filings that corporations file every year. The process could well provide insight into what the communities of Open Source should be prepared for.
First a look at the numbers: Nuxeo reported global customer growth of 40 percent adding new customers that included Electronic Arts and InterContinental Hotel Group. It was North America where Nuxeo really took off, as North America became the company's biggest market with revenue doubling there. Meanwhile, the community also grew. Nuxeo reported that the number of downloads tripled.
Bocoup incubates Web startups, fosters open-source community [...] Web app and open-source consulting company that also provides space and funding for startups.
Apache has dished out another serving of Cassandra, the open source NoSQL database popular for handling big data. The improvements speak to a maturing NoSQL database that's well-suited for big data deployments. This time around, Cassandra has improvements to its query language, and tuning improvements that will help companies trying to boost performance with a mixture of magnetic media and solid state drives (SSD). Its continued development helps maintain open-source dominance in the big data/NoSQL market.
The UK government has finally unveiled the second iteration of its Cloudstore after a number of delays, and has reneged on its pledge to make version 2.0 open source.
The government of Aragon, one of Spain's autonomous regions, is increasing its support for open source, by making it easier for companies to get assistance to create, acquire and deploy this type of applications. It will link public administrations and other enterprises with open source specialists.
The FDA sits some of the largest datasets in the world on drugs and other regulated products, and the agency's recently appointed IT chief plans to push for more of those data to become available to outsiders via open source projects. During an appearance in Boston this morning, Eric Perakslis, the FDA's chief information officer, presented part of his vision for transforming IT that supports regulation of products that comprise more than a fifth of U.S. commerce.
French government spending on services based on open source software has reached 15% of the public administration IT budget, and continues to grow at 30% per year.
It maybe says something about the impact of much of the vendor messaging about the Cloud that the European Union felt moved to fund the creation of a formal organisation to promote what really should be blindingly obvious – that regardless of how many sub-divisions of Cloud the vendor community try to introduce for marketing purposes, Hybrid Clouds are the obvious route for business users to follow.
Tube is an open-source animated film based on "The Epic of Gilgamesh," the ancient poem from Mesopotamia. Its collaborative animators seek funding through Kickstarter for the film's completion and release.
Researchers at a US energy department lab have released an open source tool to detect malicious cyber activity within an enterprise, Government Computer News reports.
Open source drug discovery might yield results of several scientists who are toiling to find a cure for the poor man's diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, say experts. Where traditional drug research by profit-driven companies fail, open source holds a lot of promise of succeeding because of its multi-institutional approach as well as the possibilities of collective work. In a world where a person dies of tuberculosis every 10 minutes, open source drug discovery might provide the answer soon.
A decade ago, the biopharma industry was nowhere near as open as it is today to joining forces with outsiders to advance research and development. And several efforts in biomedicine have made progress recently with strategies and structures that borrow heavily from the open source movement in software development, IT World reports.
People interested in donating their own genomic data to science should check out a new standard informed consent form that will let them route some or all of their genetic information to researchers. The goal of the Portable Legal Consent is to create a shared, open-source repository of that data.
The ability to give such gene data to science at large has been a subject of debate lately. Often a person's medical data is used for one specific research purpose but is off limits for anything else. In this big data era where there are more tools to sort and analyse huge amounts of information, the accessibility of a big genomic data pool for many projects could be a boon to researchers looking to cure diseases or just better understand human biology.
Western Australia's Murdoch University has pioneered an open source project designed to build drag-and-drop style web-based user interfaces suitable for supercomputers.
Real-time information is now a commuter's fingertips after TransLink rolled out the latest iteration of its Next Bus mobile site.
The new features allow people to find out exactly where their bus is (on an interactive real-time map or through text) and its estimated arrival time.
The real-time tracking system, found at m.translink.ca, is modeled after similar projects in New York, Boston, Chicago and Portland.
I really think this is one of the shrewdest things that Microsoft is doing at the moment (along with some pretty stupid stuff like fighting true open standards in the UK.) Location is going to become one of the key areas for future applications, as our position is used to modulate the information and services we receive on our main computing devices – smartphones. By supporting OpenStreetMap in this way, Microsoft is ensuring that Google does not end up in the centre of this particular spider's web. Call it payback for the damage inflicted by Google on Microsoft through its support for open source software.
But Berkowitz, a web designer, saw the problem as something he could potentially hack. A new breed of technologist increasingly interested in getting government to work more efficiently and transparently, Berkowitz co-created SeeClickFix, a location-based web platform allows residents to document neighborhood concerns and suggest improvements.
The University of Minnesota bookstore has one of the largest textbook departments in the country, with rows of shelves piled high with titles — everything from Algebra One to Nuclear Physics.
Students can buy Shakespeare's books for less than $10, but that's only because the literary rights have long ago expired. The average price of the store's books is about $50 and some titles fetch as much as $225 — another sign of the rising price of college education.
Academic publishing in the UK has conventionally been channelled through by a small number of companies who maintain high fees for journal subscriptions. But as open source software continues to provide high quality free alternatives for autodidacts and beyond, the lifespan of this model is increasingly being called into question. The 'Academic Spring' is gathering momentum but what does this mean for the future of the peer-review system?
It's a major bugaboo in life sciences R&D: Biopharma researchers waste lots of time and resources doing experiments that have already been done, in part because scientists in one lab aren't sharing results with their counterparts in another lab. Now Australian researchers argue that open source rules for clinical trials could nix the replication and stymied progress which result from keeping data from studies under wraps.
Open-source software has long since become a key part of government IT programs. One day, open-source hardware might join it in importance.
The Open Compute Project is ready to shake up the world of data center racks. The open source hardware project today outlined plans for Open Rack, which will seek to set a new standard for rack design for hyperscale data center environments.
FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) is helping a Slovakian business fined for failing to use that other OS and IE for filing taxation information. It will be interesting to see whether or not the courts can order the Slovakian government to do IT the right way, with open standards for communication protocols and file formats.
The Open Source Initiative agreed what made a standard open back in 2006 and today collaborated with the Free Software Foundation on a press statement about it.
Digital media playback in Windows 8 has fallen casualty to the savage economics of the PC industry and changing tastes in consumer viewing.
We knew Windows Media Center would be sold at extra cost in Windows 8, but Microsoft now says you won't be able to play DVDs on Windows Media Player in Windows 8.
Can Nvidia's Kepler processor revolutionize virtual desktop hosting?
In a BYOD world, this approach is compelling. By hosting the desktop, IT owns a virtualized generic hardware environment yet can supply that environment to a variety of hardware devices-smartphones, tablets, Linux PCs and even smart TVs, which could be used more readily for high-end, off-site conferences in rented facilities or as a cheaper alternative to more expensive conference room solutions.
The High Court said on Monday that Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media would have to block access to The Pirate Bay (TPB), following an earlier ruling in February over the role of the site in copyright infringement.
For years, the non-profit Tor Project has offered Internet users the world's most secure tool for dodging censorship and surveillance, used by tens of millions of people around the world. Now two of the project's researchers aim to help users to not only bypass what they call the "filternet"–the choked, distorted and censored subset of the Internet–but to understand it and map it out, the better to eradicate its restrictions.
Nice to see media addressing the cost of software patents. At CNET, Last Jim Kersteller writes "What is that patent lawsuit going to cost you". Basically you'd have to pay lawsuits costs that are very high and pushes you to settle for anything under a million dollars. It certainly puts the small firm at huge risk. And to top that one off, Techdirt describes a study on why It's Mathematically Impossible To Avoid Infringing On Software Patents. Even for the larger players patents are as Brad Feld at Business Insider says "Games Where The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play". In fact this study, at techdirt, says that you earn more if you share for free. Oh wait, thats open standards and Internet.
SOMETIMES even the simplest ideas must wait. Markus Kuhn, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge has been waiting patiently since 1995 to be free to exploit a simple bit of coding innovation.
Sadly for him, the intervening years have seen the technology this innovation was aimed at become obsolete. And he's in little doubt what's to blame – software patents.
Back in 1995, Kuhn had written roughly 4,000 lines of code as an open source implementation of the image compression algorithms used by fax machines. The trouble was, a single line of that code was covered by a patent awarded to Mitsubishi for an image encoding standard known as JBIG1.
Measuring the effects of patent litigation is a tricky exercise—you need to figure out what innovation would have happened in the absence of a lawsuit. In the case of Acacia's PACS suit, there was a convenient point of comparison: The lawsuit covered only medical-image-storage software, not text-storage systems, which are just as technologically complex. Since most companies named in the suit sold both image- and text-storage systems, the latter could be used as a benchmark to assess the impact of the Acacia suit on the PACS market.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has been awarded more than AU$220m (£142m) in an out-of-court settlement in the US concerning its patented Wi-Fi technology.
Do Non-Practicing Entities (aka, 'Patent Trolls') Hinder Innovation?
In addition to paying for protection, many of the bigger companies in the software business have also found themselves spending millions of dollars in order to acquire "defensive patents," with the explicit purpose of defending themselves against being sued. Of course, the great expense of court cases means that many companies have been forced to change their spending patterns.
A company that makes specialist talking tablet computers for speech-disabled children has mounted a patent lawsuit which seems set to kill off an iPad app that does the same thing for a tenth of the price. The firm is making no commitment to provide replacement affordable software for consumer devices.
THE patent situation in NZ resembles in some sense the situation in the EU. Although patents on software are in principle verboten, some companies lobby the system constantly and sometimes manage to sneak in software patents, as a matter of practice, not law.
Throughout the debate on the patenting of software, a battle has been quietly percolating under the radar over a NZ patent application (NZ525001) that has touched upon just about every issue in the software patent debate.
AOL does not stop at patents; it now helps the Microsoft proxy which seeks to disrupt the real Free/open source community. Microsoft booster Mary Jo Foley helps the spin ("AOL joins Microsoft as sponsor of Outercurve Foundation" says her headline).
Generally speaking, to be passing around patents like weapons is always a bad idea and this practice should ideally be banned (more on that later). Here are very recent examples of patents passage in 'non-retail' quantities (bulk transfers).
The government of Venezuela which supplies computers, was caught agreeing to buy 205K licences for '7′ despite its own policies to prefer FLOSS. The blast in a blog by COLIBRIS is quite thorough and debunks all the usual myths trotted out to prop up the monopoly. They demand a reversal and other action.
Open source software (OSS) has picked up in the region with different levels of adoption in different countries, however, it is not a silver bullet to combat piracy, say market watchers.
The British government will not feel the squeeze of Microsoft price rises on volume licensing when the three-year Public Sector Agreement (PSA)12 launches on 1 July, The Register can reveal.
The company yesterday gave UK resellers and customers a preview of the new look price list, also due to kick in at the start of July, confirming hikes of more than a third as it aligns licensing prices across the EU to the Euro.
THE patent assault launched by Microsoft against Android is a really big deal. One of the fastest-growing platforms (ever!) is coming under constant extortion from an ageing monopolist. Need we stand aside helplessly while this is happening?
Apple's continued patent hoard aside for a moment (Apple does malicious things too), Microsoft the acquirer/developer-turned-troll is hoardingpatents on tablets and software. Microsoft is trying to take Android apps (with a patent) while attacking Android, taxing it, and removing features from the platform (see this disturbing article. We'll keep this post concise by citing, not quoting or rewriting).
"Both Apple and Microsoft like to pretend to be the victims, even when it's Apple which is the litigator and Microsoft is the aggressor (or interchangeably so)."Microsoft seeks a restraining order in the patent case against Motorola, which will soon be part of Google (at least the relevant division). The response to Microsoft's aggression can be seen as Google fighting against Microsoft's extortion against Android as a whole (granted, resistance to aggression is not aggression). Some recent articles say that it's only a matter of time before all green lights are shown for Google to indeed occupy Motorola's seat in this court case and in the process there might be offloading. As Microsoft essentially bribed B&N to stop fighting for justice this case is very important and Microsoft goes to great lengths to dodge a loss, pretending it (Microsoft) is the victim in all this storm that it, itself, started. Both Apple and Microsoft like to pretend to be the victims, even when it's Apple which is the litigator and Microsoft is the aggressor (or interchangeably so).
Is Germany's system of litigating disputes over patents bad for business? Microsoft's decision to move its European logistics and distribution headquarters to the Netherlands from Germany has generated a debate over patent law here, where it is easy to block the sale of a rival's product even before an infringement claim is verified.
Recently, an ITC ruling against Motorola was made publicly known and as Microsoft loves to use lobbyists such as Microsoft Florian we were showered with flagrant misdirections. The boosters are using Slashdot for their deception and one Microsoft booster wrote a deceiving article, ensuring it gets promoted in Slashdot (after being submitted by the booster himself), under a similarly misleading headline and description. Passive Slashdot followers further amplified it in other sites, perhaps not realising that they got bamboozled somewhat.
Since the Supreme Court refused to narrow patents on software and business methods two years ago, there has been a patent market boom.
At least, that's according to the U.S. District Court of Delaware, which ordered the two companies to discuss a potential settlement. The talks would be moderated by Judge Sherry Fallon, Foss Patents reported today.
This is why Microsoft will continue to use lobbyists. It gets to distort press coverage, so trial by press is subjected to deception by people like Microsoft Florian as a source, briefed by paying clients like Microsoft and given instructions, then proceeding to 'spamming' journalists (spam by proxy). Well, another longtime Microsoft booster is relaying Microsoft propaganda for phones as though CNET is just becoming a Microsoft platform for whatever agent to pin ads/press releases onto. Bloomberg covered this better.


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Mom of 4 shows how she uses EasyLunchboxes BPA-free containers and pre-prepped food from Costco to pack yummy lunches for an entire week ahead. Fast and easy!
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Make a week's worth of school lunches ahead of time. It's easy! Brittney of Homegrown Traditions shares her best tips and meal ideas.
Two lunches for work. Packed. Learn how to use one main ingredient for two different dinner recipes. Then repurpose the leftovers for packed lunches.
A packed lunch never goes out of style. No wonder these compartmentalized food containers are always on trend. Created by a mom of 3.
These are the originals, and they are coming to TARGET on July 23, 2017. Priced lower than on Amazon, they will retail for $11.99. BPA-free.
No matter what time of year it is, you can save oodles of time in the kitchen by prepping and packing your family's food (way) in advance.
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