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Submission + - Carriers & Manufacturers Are Strangling Androi (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by loconet on Saturday December 19, 2009 @12:17AM

loconet writes: The Google Phone could be a ploy to upset the wireless industry, or it could be an expensive niche device. Either way, it'd be a bid to take Android back from the companies that seem hell-bent on destroying it. Read on to see how the Android's fragmented model is harming it and how Google could save it.

Submission + - Fastest-ever flashgun captures image of light wave (newscientist.com)

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loconet

on Friday June 20, 2008 @07:23AM

loconet writes: "Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light — 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long. Such flashes have already been used to capture an image of a laser pulse too short to be "photographed" before. Jonathan Marangos at Imperial College London, UK, says the super-short flashes could let researchers image the movement of electrons around large atoms."

Submission + - Canada's new DMCA considered worst copyright law (theglobeandmail.com)

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loconet

on Thursday November 29, 2007 @12:59AM

loconet writes: "The government of Canada is preparing to attempt to bring a new DMCA-modeled copyright law in Canada in order to comply with the WIPO treaties the country signed in 1997. These treaties were also the base of the American DMCA. The new Canadian law will be even more restrictive in nature than the American version and worse than the last Canadian copyright proposal, the defeated Bill C-60. Amongst the many restrictive clauses, in this new law — as Michael Geist explains — is the total abolishment of the concept of fair use, "No parody exception. No time shifting exception. No device shifting exception. No expanded backup provision. Nothing.". Michael Geist provides a list of 30 things that can be done to address the issue."

Submission + - New Outlook will not use IE to render HTML e-mails

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loconet

on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:46PM

loconet writes: "From MSDN: "Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to display HTML message bodies. The same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support available in Word 2007 is available in Outlook 2007." This means that HTML and CSS handling will be taken care by the Word engine rather than the IE engine as it has been in the past. Campaign monitor has a more detailed take (with screenshots) on the possible issues of this decision by Microsoft."

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