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Mitch Pronschinske04/09/10
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Daily Dose - Intel's Mind Reader

At the Tech Heaven event this week, Intel and Carnegie Mellon University unveiled rudimentary mind-reading software that uses an MRI to scan your brainwaves in controlled conditions and recognize their patterns. The person using the technology was shown...

Mitch Pronschinske04/08/10
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Daily Dose - The iPhone 4 Cometh

The iPhone 4.0 SDK beta is here and yes, it comes with multitasking - sort of. It's not true multitasking because it's not the type of free-for-all that would drain the battery and crash the system. Basically, it pauses applications so you can run parts...

Mitch Pronschinske04/07/10
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Daily Dose - Microsoft Turns on Silverlight 4 April 13

The final launch date for Silverlight 4 has been set for April 13. This doesn't mean for sure that Silverlight 4 will be available on that date because of the way Microsoft does its launches - it could be downloadable after, during, or possibly before April...

Mitch Pronschinske04/06/10
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Daily Dose - US Net Neutrality Suffers Setback

A US federal appeals court ruled in favor of Comcast this week in the ISP's net neutrality battle with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) which has been going on since 2007. In an attempt to stop Comcast from blocking p2p file-sharing sites, the...

Mitch Pronschinske04/06/10
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IBM Breaks Patent Pledge; Breaches the OSS Community's Trust (Updated)

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Mitch Pronschinske04/05/10
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Daily Dose - iPhone OS 4.0 To Be Revealed Thursday

Hot on the heels of the iPad release, Apple has just sent invites "for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software." The press event will be held April 8th, this Tuesday, at 10AM Pacific time. Some expected features include...

Mitch Pronschinske04/04/10
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Daily Dose - Opera Alerts Microsoft About IE, Microsoft Criticizes Chrome

Opera has notified the EU and Microsoft about a potential problem in Microsoft's European browser ballot, according to the Register. Opera says that the ballot screen is being hidden behind an IE configuration wizard in a few cases. Those cases occur if a...

Mitch Pronschinske04/02/10
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Daily Dose - We Live in a World Where There Are iPads

Apple's "next big thing" was released in stores today, but the apps have been available since yesterday. These pre-release apps included Netflix streaming movies, the ABC player, a Marvel Comics reader, and a VNC client that wirelessly connects to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/10
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Daily Dose - Mozilla Research Says Firefox Just Under 40% Market Share in Europe

The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The report says that Firefox currently has a global market share of nearly 30% and in Europe, that share...

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/10
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Cloudkick Monitoring Gets Physical

Cloudkick is a friend to the cloud sys admin. Before this week, the startup was focused on providing tools solely for monitoring cloud servers, but recently Cloudkick rolled out new tools to monitor your in-house physical servers and VMs along with public...

Mitch Pronschinske03/31/10
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Daily Dose - OSS Victory in Italy, But Trouble Brewing in EU

A law passed by an Italian regional council that made preferences for choosing free software in government systems was recently upheld in a national court. The Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers challenged the law saying it was...

Mitch Pronschinske03/30/10
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Daily Dose - Novell Keeps Unix Copyrights; Linux is Safe

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights, and not SCO. In the 7-year court battle, SCO claimed that copyrights transferred from their predecessor, the Santa Cruz Operation, to them. In the court ruling, the judge said that...

Mitch Pronschinske03/29/10
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Daily Dose - Councilman Offers to Name Children After Google Founders for Fiber-Optic Network

You may have heard that Google is looking for deserving US cities and towns to host their experimental 1GBps fiber-optic networks. The competition for these networks is getting intense… and weird. One local government official in Raleigh, North Carolina...

Mitch Pronschinske03/28/10
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Daily Dose - Solaris 10 License Change

At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs. The change is described in this quote from the licensing terms: "Once you have completed the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/26/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Teases with CS5 Release Date

Adobe has launched a teaser site announcing the release date of Creative Suite 5. The site contains several videos introducing a handful of new features, but the pricing, specs, and other features are being kept under wraps until the launch date...