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Tom Krazit Year:April 20, 2006 12:35 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
A new patent application filed on behalf of Apple Computer suggests the company might be planning its own implementation of the UltraMobile PC concept.
A patent filing spotted by UMPC News covers a touch-screen keyboard on a product that resembles the UMPC or Origami devices introduced by Intel and Microsoft last month. The application describes a virtual QWERTY keyboard that covers one half of a screen. It looks a bit like the virtual keyboard that
will be used on Origami devices, except that Microsofts version splits the keyboard into two pieces on opposite sides of the screen, according to the Origami Projects blog.
Mac OS X already has a feature called Inkwell that can translate handwritten notes into text, and the company has worked on touch-screen technology in the past. S...
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Stephen Shankland Year:April 20, 2006 12:17 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Sun Microsystems has released mainstream servers using its UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor, but the company plans blade server models this summer specific for the telecommunications market, said David Yen, executive vice president of the scalable systems group in charge of Sparc machines.
Sun began selling a new line of blade servers using the Advanced Telecom Computer Architecture (ATCA) standard earlier this month; the current Netra CP3010 and CP 3020 models use Suns UltraSparc IIIi or Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors, respectively.
"In the summer timeframe, we will release the UltraSparc T1 Niagara blades," Yen said in an interview. Suns Netra blade servers are available with either Solaris 10 or MontaVista Softwares Carrier Grade Edition of Linux.
The company also is se...
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Elinor Mills Year:April 20, 2006 12:06 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Blogger Dave Winer wrote on his Scripting News blog on Wednesday that hed "just heard a rumor that AOL is going to challenge MySpace, head on, to be announced in approximately two weeks."
In response to questions about that rumor, an America Online representative declined to comment beyond this statement: "There have been previous reports regarding how we are looking at making it easier for AIM users to connect with their circle of buddies and others within the AIM community on topics and activities of shared interest. Right now we dont have anything else to share."
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Michael Kanellos Year:April 20, 2006 11:43 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
To make it in Hollywood, a lot of big name stars had to start on daytime TV. To make it big on the net, youve got to start on the small sites first.
Atom Films is using its sister site Addictingclips as a farm team for talent, said Cynthia Francis, CEO of Reality Digital, which makes tools for web sites that make it easier for consumers and subscribers to post video, during a breakfast meeting in Mountain View sponsored by AlwaysOn. "Addictingclips is monitored and the clips are rated, and if it gets big enough, it goes to Atom Films," she said. Atom Films and Addictingclips are customers of Reality.
The big question for the online video industry, however, continues to be how does one make money off this and who really is going to be the big player.
"I see about fifty to 100 video sha...
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Candace Lombardi Year:April 20, 2006 10:46 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Johnny Matthews, a blogger and developer, has released GetCals, an application that imports iCal files from Google Calendar and allows users to save them to their iPod video or iPod Nano. As with many applications of this nature, Matthews GetCals is free to download.
Many more programs for Google Calendar can be expected following Googles release of Google Calendar data API on Wednesday. This GData aids developers in building applications to go with the calendar program.
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Stephen Shankland Year:April 20, 2006 10:42 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Persistent rumors in recent months that Scott McNealy may step down as Sun Microsystems chief executive returned in force Thursday, as reports of the possibility appeared in the Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle.
The stories came as computing industry sources reported in recent months that major changes could be in the works at Sun, in particular with the return of Chief Financial Officer Mike Lehman. Lehman has said that hell reveal and begin a new Sun strategy in July and that hes "taking a fresh look at everything." Some expect deep layoffs.
One former Sun insider has heard Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz will become CEO, Lehman will take over as COO, and McNealy will remain chairman. Another rumor gives the CEO spot to Lehman. But McNealy, who already has su...
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Stephen Shankland Year:April 20, 2006 10:41 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
SWsoft programmers are working on an open-source virtualization project called OpenVZ that would make it possible to give a single installation of Linux the appearance of being several independent copies of the operating system. But Harald Welte, the lead programmer of the netfilter/iptables firewall software used in Linux, griped last week on his blog that the software didnt support the next-generation IPv6 Internet standard.
Weltes complaint didnt fall on deaf ears. "We have listened to the community and appreciate the feedback and will implement IPv6 support in OpenVZ in a month or two," SWsoft said in a statement.
Welte is delighted with the response. "I never expected such a thorough and immediate response. This is amazing, and it shows how much they actually care even about subje...
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Mike Yamamoto Year:April 20, 2006 10:00 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Its been barely a week since Google Calendar was unveiled, but seemingly countless uses have already sprouted up across the Web. This blog has compiled some early examples that show the applications diversity, ranging from Formula 1 racing dates to DVD release schedules.
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CNET News.com Staff Year:April 20, 2006 9:54 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
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CNET News.com Staff Year:April 20, 2006 9:06 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Nathan Myhrvold, CEO and founder of Intellectual Ventures, explains that all the name-calling he endured in a long career at Microsoft helps make him the perfect person for his new start-up aimed at getting together inventors for sessions he hopes will lead to profitable patents.
"...Ive got a bunch of people who are probably going to call me names," he said. "And so, its not my unique intellectual assets or financial assets. It may, in the end of the day, be thick skin that actually helps make this whole thing happen, because Im willing to be called a patent troll."
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Marguerite Reardon Year:April 20, 2006 9:00 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Skype, which lets people to make phone calls over the Internet for free, has joined the ranks of other big tech companies in defending its practice of censoring speech in China, according to an article published earlier this week in the Financial Times.
In the article, Niklas Zennstrom, Skypes chief executive and founder, told the Financial Times that the companys Chinese partner Tom Online has been censoring words such as "Falun Gong", "Dalai Lama" and "Tiananmen Square " in text messages.
Zennstrom defended the practice by saying that adhering to local laws was the price of doing business in any country. He likened the censorship laws in China to any other laws that exist in Western countries, such as the United States or Germany.
The Financial Times quoted him saying, "I may like o...
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