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Submission + - Eolas to sue Apple, Google and 23 more (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by vinodis on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @03:31PM

vinodis writes: Company that won $585M from Microsoft sues Apple, Google

The company that won a patent case against Microsoft in 2003 is now using the same patent to go after 23 other companies, including Apple and Google. The USPTO has upheld the patent several times now, so the case may not be as cut and dry as some other patent complaints.

Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed 333

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @02:57PM from the forget-me-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Google study of DRAM errors in their data centers found that they are hundreds to thousands of times more common than has been previously believed. Hard errors may be the most common failure type. The DIMMs themselves appear to be of good quality, and bad mobo design may be the biggest problem." Here is the study (PDF), which Google engineers published with a researcher from the University of Toronto.

Comment Where is the Source? (Score 1) 621

by vinodis on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @06:29AM (#25216061) Attached to: Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap

Why GMail isn't opensource?.. Why any of the Google Cloud Computing Services are opensourced? Does RMS mean 'Closed Data' and 'Open Programs' will solve the issue?

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