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Google Wants You To Be Its Unpai... | ||
| Published 3 days ago on Slashdot | ||
| theodp writes "So where do you turn to for great ideas when tough times force you to abort your engineers' brainchildren? If you're Google, reports Nicholas Carlson, you simply outsource brainstorming to your users. Google's launched a new Google Product Ideas blog as well as a Product Idea ...read on | ||
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Linux In 2009 — Recession Vs. GNU | ||
| Published 2 days ago on Slashdot | ||
| RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportu ...read on | ||
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Hackers Finally Unlock iPhone 3G | ||
| Published 2 days ago on Slashdot | ||
| nandemoari quotes a story at Infopackets: "2009 has gotten off to a great start for a team of iPhone enthusiasts with little regard for Apple's licensing requirements. They've finally figured out a way to get the phone to work with any cell phone carrier (and not just AT&T). The iPhone ...read on | ||
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Universities Patenting More Stud... | ||
| Published 1 day ago on Slashdot | ||
| theodp writes "Working as a NASA intern, grad student Erez Lieberman had a eureka moment, resulting in an algorithm that detects whether a person is standing correctly or is off balance. Unfortunately, MIT liked it so much they decided to patent it. Seeking permission to use his own idea fo ...read on | ||
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LG High-Def TVs To Stream Netfli... | ||
| Published about 7 hours ago on Slashdot | ||
| DJAdapt writes to tell us that LG has launched a new line of high definition TVs that will be capable of streaming Netflix videos with no additional hardware. This is just another in a long line of expansions from the once DVD rental service, which has expanded to the Roku set top box, Xbox ...read on | ||
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Anyone Besides Zune Owners With ... | ||
| Published 4 days ago on Slashdot | ||
| aputerguy writes "My Fedora 8 Linux server crashed sometime between 18:59:40 EST (GMT -5:00) and 19:00:00 EST (GMT -5:00) on Dec 31, 2008 which remarkably corresponds to within at most 20 seconds of the New Year in GMT. I have been running this same hardware non-stop for more than six years ...read on | ||
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Actor Matt Smith Will Be 11th Do... | ||
| Published 2 days ago on Slashdot | ||
| Jerry Smith was among a large number of readers letting us know that the 11th Doctor Who has been named. It's Matt Smith, 26, who will be the youngest actor to play the time-traveling Doctor. The head of drama at BBC Wales said this about Smith's audition: "It was abundantly clear that he h ...read on | ||
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