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This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Open-Source Licenses Get Categorized, Not Ranked

Gadgets & Tech – The License Proliferation Committee was set up in 2005 in response to the growing concern that license proliferation was harmful to the success of open source.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Desktop Linux at a tipping point

Gadgets & Tech – There's a lesson in all this that all the PC makers, and all businesses, should hear loud and clear. The Linux desktop isn't just for Linux fans anymore -- it's on its way to being ready for all us

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

Smartphone with Linux, WiFi and VoIP

Gadgets & Tech – (Article translation) A new 3G phone that incorporates WiFi and VoIP

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

The Vista Domino Effect On Tech

Gadgets & Tech – Assessments and opinions of Vista Beta 2 suggest that a third beta is required before release candidate 1 comes out, which is the last major step before commercial launch.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Apple admits excessive iPod hours

Do No Evil – Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / 1 sink

Intel's open source drivers keep proprietary code from creeping into the Linux kernel

Gadgets & Tech – It would be nice if VMware could get a little more open, too, but the truth is that it's going to take longer for some companies to shed their reliance on binary blobs than others.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

OSDL accepts GPL proliferation

Gadgets & Tech – A second public draft in July did not address Torvalds' issues and, in fact, led him to brand the license a disaster. He posted on Groklaw that the Linux kernel is "staying with GPL v2." He called the failure to address problems in GPL 3 "shortsighted."

Voted for on August 18, 2006 07:53am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Microsoft to Give Florida Schools $80M

Gadgets & Tech – Another antitrust settlement (Microsoft software vouchers)

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:59am

Ubuntu Edgy Eft & GNOME 2.16 Features
This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks

Ubuntu Edgy Eft & GNOME 2.16 Features

Gadgets & Tech – GNOME 2.16 Beta has been in Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10) for the past few days [or even a week or so]. It is functioning extremely well. I've seen some occasional crashes with Epiphany and Nautilus but I hope that it will be fixed soon. Other than that, there are lots of new things in GNOME 2.16.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:59am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

AMD and Intel Quad-core race heats up

Gadgets & Tech – The past few days have seen a burst of quad-core-related news items from both AMD and Intel. In this post, I'll take a look at announcements from both companies and try to put them in the larger context of the Intel-AMD rivalry.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:59am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

How Light Pushes Atoms

Science – Unlike water, which speeds up as it passes through a small nozzle, photons of light have less momentum at the center of a focused laser beam,"

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:51am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

CBS to Simulcast Katie Couric Online

Television – CBS said Thursday it will become the first network to simulcast its evening news broadcast online, starting on the night of Katie Couric's debut as anchor Sept. 5.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:24am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Lax Laws in Parts of Asia Aid Pedophiles

News – One pedophile had plastic surgery and jumped bail to elude authorities. Another paid thousands of dollars to the families of his victims after they agreed to ask that charges be dropped.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:24am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

Deficit to Rise After Drop, Budget Office Predicts

Money – The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday estimated that the federal deficit will decline to $260 billion this year but will increase to $286 billion next year.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:23am

Making Condoms Stylish For Everyone
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / 1 sink

Making Condoms Stylish For Everyone

Love & Personals – Condoms are very much in style as a fashion accessory at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, showing up on strait-laced men, shy teenagers and African grandmothers.

Voted for on August 18, 2006 06:23am

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