Check out Woz’s New Toy
Filed under: Security
As the co-founder of Apple, admitted gadget freak and tinkerer who helped create the Apple I and II, before becoming an evangelist for the uncertain new sport of Segway Polo, Steve Wozniak, we can presume, has his choice of cool new tech toys to play with.
So when InfoWorld heard that Woz had his eyes on a prototype RFID spoofer by Chris Paget, director of R&D
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Open source helps housing effort
Filed under: Open Source
Open source software will serve at the heart of a project management system developed in a humanitarian effort to design housing for the needy.
Built on the drupal open source content management system, the Open Architecture Network Web-based system enables collaboration between building architects and designers.
“The primary focus is bringing
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JBoss founder quits Red Hat
Filed under: Platforms
Marc Fleury, the founder of open source Java application server maker JBoss, is leaving Red Hat, which acquired JBoss last year, according to a JBoss spokesperson.
Fleury is leaving to pursue other interests, such as teaching, research in biology, music and his family, said spokesperson Chantal Yang. He had been on paternity leave since December and his resignation is effective immediately, she said
QEDWiki: Collaborating on Mashups
Filed under: Web 2.0
Blending two central tenets of the Web 2.0 ethos — an emphasis on community and the development of lightweight, integrated mashup apps — IBM has taken the wrapper off QEDWiki, which the company describes as a “browser-based assembly canvas used to create simple mashups.”
Written in PHP, QEDWiki — which stands for Quick and Easily Done — is a Wiki framework
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Massive ID theft scam used Mortgage, Escrow Cos
Filed under: None
A grand jury in Seattle has indicted six people in connection with a massive identity theft scam that used insiders at a mortgage and escrow firm to siphen around $335,000 from customers of Bellevue mortgage company, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington on Wednesday.
According to a recently
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X marks the spot for Unix
Filed under: Platforms
The X Window System may not be in the limelight like the Microsoft Windows interface, but it remains vibrant and developers continue to enhance it.
About 30 developers from companies such as Intel, Sun Microsystems and VMware are attending the X.org Developer’s Conference in Menlo Park, Calif. this week to ponder the direction of the X Window System.
“The
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Google Maps does scenic route in Sydney
Filed under: Google
The Sydney Morning Herald reports of an embarrassing gaffe with Google’s new Maps for Down Under: The route for a three-second walk across the street from The Herald’s offices — it shares a building with Google Australia — is a 10.4-kilometer jaunt, according to Maps.
Journalists at The Herald would know better – it’s “the local”, or
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Apple Inc. settles dispute with Apple Corps.
Filed under: None
Barely an Apple lyric was spared as news agencies and publications around the world raced to announce the news that Apple Inc., the company that invented iTunes has settled its 25-year-old off and on dispute with Apple Corps., the folks who brought you the Beatles.
Here are just a few of the headlines gracing the Web sites and print media pages around the world:
Apple to music industry: Nix the DRM
Filed under: Intellectual property
“If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store.” So says Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a lengthy message posted on Apple’s Web site today.
DRM, of course, stands for digital rights management — or digital
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Look out BlackBerry, Palm is back
Filed under: Internet/browsers/e-mail
Palm’s dated OS is a love-hate relationship — let’s say familiarity comes at the cost of modernity. But with a new boost to its e-mail service, the old dog of smartphones has new tricks.
Look out BlackBerry? Well, maybe not, if RIM can just update its core devices line with some memory expansion, cameras and other multimedia features. But it still has the problem with its business-class pricing for data.