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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
 The lamp projects the outline shadow of friends |
Shadows are being used by Japanese researchers as an non-intrusive way for friends to stay in touch. Called Teleshadow the system pipes video of what people are doing at home via the net to their friends' houses. But instead of showing images in full motion and colour, Teleshadow turns them into shadow outlines projected on the inside of a small decorative lamp. Creator Shunpei Yasuda said the shadow presence system aims to fill the gap between live video and static images. Mr Yasuda, a post-graduate student in Media Design at Japan's Keio University, said the inspiration for the system came from Japanese history..... |
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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
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Search giant has open-sourced its Web Toolkit code, and is welcoming outsiders interested in the development process Google has open-sourced all of the code in the Google Web Toolkit and invited non-Googlers to participate in the process, to the point of publishing internal meeting notes. The Google Web Toolkit is a tool to help Java programmers write Ajax-style web applications. |
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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
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Fourth version of Debian, codenamed Etch, is late as developers 'reduce their involvement drastically' The upcoming release of Debian is being delayed because of a slowdown by key developers. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 — the next version of the Linux distribution — was due to be released by 4 December, meaning it is already over two weeks late at the time of writing. Now one of Debian's release managers has started pointing his finger at key individuals. In a blog posted on Monday, Andreas Barth wrote, "Some people who used to do good work reduced their involvement drastically. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 January 2007 )
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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
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A French company authorised to duplicate and distribute Microsoft software has admitted copying tens of thousands of illegal copies of Exchange and SQL Server Microsoft has claimed an important victory in its battle against software "piracy", after securing a multi-million dollar settlement against one of its own, trusted disc "replicators" which had produced 20,000 unauthorised copies of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. Microsoft released no details of exactly how much money it had recouped from the MPO Group, a company that replicates DVDs and CDs in France, Spain, Thailand and Ireland. The settlement was reached following an investigation into the group's disc manufacturing facility in Thailand. |
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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
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January 09, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Despite comments from a Microsoft executive in testimony released last week in which he called software developers "pawns," the company's success at wooing third-party software developers has long been credited as key to the success of Windows and other Microsoft platforms. "I think the one thing that's inarguable is that supporting developers is in Microsoft's DNA from its earliest days," said Anil Dash, a vice president and technical evangelist for San Francisco blogware vendor Six Apart Ltd. Microsoft will "move mountains and bend over backwards to accommodate developers. My feeling is that, at every major transition, Microsoft's developer network resources would almost overwhelm you with information and tools to get you to use the new shiny stuff." At the same time, Microsoft has also long faced accusations by embittered former software partners alleging that the company gave them illegally inferior treatment when it decides to release its own offering. |
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