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Comment Re:Is this for real? (Score 1) 258

by Durf on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @11:30PM (#24854567) Attached to: China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS?

SMS isn't so common here in Japan, and just about ever phone comes with its own @docomo.ne.jp (or other carrier domain) email address. This is what most people use to text each other, and it lets them do the same to addresses on computers as well.

SMS does exist on the handsets, I suppose, but I don't know a single person who uses it.

Anyway, so long as SMS itself can handle Unicode text it can carry Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Thai, you name it. Beyond that it's just a matter of developing an input system that lets you use the 12-key pad to get the characters on your screen.

Feed New York Times: New Bribery Allegation Roils Samsung (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @12:52AM

Samsung sustained another blow to its image on Monday when a former legal adviser to South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun said the company had once offered him a cash bribe.

Feed New York Times: Amazon Reading Device Doesn’t Need Computer (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @12:52AM

Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, is hoping that Kindle, an ambitious $399 electronic book device, will avoid the fate of other e-books.

Threat To Free, Legal Guitar Tablature Online 223

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @10:31PM from the you-would-prefer-piracy? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest songbook publisher, sent an email to the music publishing and copyright community urging them not to license guitar tablature for free, advertising-supported use online. The email includes a number of factual errors and was potentially very damaging to the potential for a free, legal, and licensed destination for guitar tab online. Musicnotes and MXTabs have posted the full letter along with their response."

Submission + - Flickr Censors A Photographer's Plea

Submitted by Bananatree3 on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @10:02PM

Bananatree3 writes: Popular Iclandic photographer and art-student Rebekka Guoleifsdottir has been targeted by Flickr for posting a plea for help in a theft case involving an online retailer selling copycat art. She requested that people send the retailer letters concerning the issue, and in response her original post was promptly deleted. It is still ironically available on Yahoo cache. In the end it appears that the retailer had been duped by a rogue art dealer under the title "Wild Aspects and Panoramics LTD". However, Flickr seems to have overstepped its bounds in deleting this post.

Independent Human Interface Guidelines 245

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @09:08PM from the because-somebody-has-to dept.

An anonymous reader alerts us to the IndieHIG Wiki, which is an independent effort to pick up the ball that Apple has dropped on human interface guidelines (can you spell FTFF?). From the wiki: "The IndieHIG project is an initiative created out of the necessity to document the new look and feel aspects of the Mac OS X experience, outside of the supervision of Apple itself. The project is not intended to replace, but rather to supplement the somewhat dated Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). There are many instances of Apple using new and experimental interface styles, spurring developers to emulate these styles in their own applications. Unfortunately, because Apple provides neither guidelines nor code for developers to work with, the implementation of these interface styles and features by third parties can be lopsided and directionless. The IndieHIG intends to change this by providing a comprehensive set of guidelines governing the use and appearance of new, undocumented interface elements so that their implementation by third party developers adheres to the unwritten standards that Apple has set."

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