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Sun is shifting the license that governs OpenOffice from the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2 to LGPLv3 in an effort to give the open-source office suite greater patent protection. I’m not sure it’s going to work:
Until Microsoft and the ever-waiting horde of patent trolls start contributing to OpenOffice, it’s unclear how users of [...]

eBay announced Wednesday its second straight $2 billion quarter and said its first-quarter revenue was up 24 percent from a year ago.

In a release, eBay attributed its strong quarter to several factors, including global business classifieds, growth at its Skype and PayPal units, and “net transaction revenues” from Marketplaces.

It’s also somewhat ironic that eBay [...]

On Monday, Adobe released a security update for a serious vulnerability within Reader and Acrobat. The vulnerability described in CVE-2008-2641 is being circulated on the Internet. Adobe says if exploited the vulnerability could crash applications and could allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

The update affects Adobe Reader 8.0 through 8.1.2, Adobe [...]

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Best Buy)
Best Buy appears intent on expanding its line of MP3 players. The latest addition, dubbed the Insignia Kix (1GB), screams budget: It has a small screen, a plastic body, and a price tag of just $50. No doubt, the Kix is cheap (and feels it), but it’s not without its merits. The player [...]

Still, Qwest’s options in wireless are limited. And this could potentially come back to haunt the company.

“I think we have much to do in wireless,” he said during the call. “We need a partner for voice, but we need a partner for data and broadband data, so as we look forward, we’ll need someone to [...]

MySpaceTV, the video-sharing section of News Corp.’s MySpace, has announced the addition of direct video uploads. This means that you can now sit in front of your Webcam, navigate to MySpace, and hit a “record” button, blab on incessantly about how the Jonas Brothers are ruining American youth, and you’ve got yourself a piece of [...]

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Sony)
Supports BonusView, which means it is Profile 1.1 compliant
BD-Live ready, which means it can gain BD-Live capability with a firmware update
Ethernet port for firmware upgrades
Supports 1080p output at both 24 and 60 frames per second
Onboard decoding for Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD
Bitstream output for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
About $400 list price, [...]

Using the Sikorsky system, the pilot has only to press a button to bring the chopper from en-route flight to a low, non-drift hover over a pre-programmed landing point, according to the company headquartered in Stratford, Conn.
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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.)
There are many challenges in waging war for oil, not the least of which is fighting [...]

You can think of us as a combination of the best of commercial software, open-source software, and custom software for the benefit of like-minded companies.
Asay: Open source really is about collaboration, as you indicate in the name of your company. Given your experiences over the last five years, what’s your advice for the open-source industry [...]

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Microsoft)

A family member contacted me this morning about a problem a friend of his was having in Microsoft Word. It seems there were little dots in every blank space, paragraph marks at each “carriage return,” and other formatting symbols that she didn’t want to see.
Deactivate formatting marks in Word 2007 via the Display window in [...]