Apple, Google Gear Up For Developers
Autor admin | 15.03.2008 | Category SEO
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Conference attendees will likely be exposed to final, or very near-final, features of the finished SDK, which is due out by the end of June.
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Rocker Lou Reed: ‘Technology Taking Us Backwards’
Autor admin | 15.03.2008 | Category SEO
AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) – Lou Reed is lashing out at new modes of audio technology, saying that “people have got to demand a higher standard” than current MP3 music files.
The edgy rocker delivered the keynote speech at the South By Southwest Music Festival + Conference, which is underway in Austin, Texas.
Reed was interviewed Wednesday by producer Hal Willner, who recently worked with him on the opulent “Berlin” concerts in which the musician delivered a theatricalized concert version of his under-appreciated 1973 concept album of the same name. Those shows are the subject of “Lou Reed’s Berlin,” a documentary by Oscar-nominated director Julian Schnabel that had its American premiere at SXSW.
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Open Source Group: Microsoft ‘Promise’ Not Enough
Autor admin | 15.03.2008 | Category SEO
A leading open source legal advocacy group this week lashed out at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) regarding what it calls uncertainty about the free use of the company’s specifications for its Office application suite file formats.
Microsoft, in turn, lashed right back.
On Wednesday, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) issued a white paper criticizing Microsoft’s contribution, in particular, of its Office Open XML (OOXML) specification to what the software firm calls its “Open Specification Promise” (OSP) initiative.
Among the issues that the SFLC white paper raises are questions regarding whether Microsoft could draw open source developers into working with the OOXML formats and then withdraw them, or later versions, from OSP protection.
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California Net Sales Tax Bill Faces Long Odds
Autor admin | 15.03.2008 | Category SEO
A California bill that could lead to a tax on Internet music downloads faces slim odds of success, but the Democrat who wrote it says a debate over taxing such online retail transactions is overdue.
Assemblyman Charles Calderon told Reuters late on Thursday that California should consider imposing a tax on entertainment downloaded from online merchants such as Apple’s iTunes that is similar to the state’s levy on music compact discs sold in stores.
Sales taxes should apply equally to online and in-store purchases and California is missing out on revenues from the rise of Internet retailers, Calderon said.
“If you walk into Wal-Mart and buy a CD you walk out paying a tax,” Calderon said.
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Intel to Answer AMD’s Fusion?
Autor admin | 15.03.2008 | Category SEO
Intel is reportedly preparing its own product to compete against AMD’s “Fusion” processor, a combined CPU/GPU, for an early 2009 release, according to published reports.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has made no secret of plans to integrate graphics with the core CPU but has not gone into detail on layout or exactly when it will ship. The chips are reportedly planned for Q2 2009, which would put it ahead of AMD’s planned launch of Fusion in the second half of 2009.
The processors are being developed under the code names “Havendale” (desktop processor) and “Auburndale” (mobile processor).