How Steve Jobs Fooled the Leader of the Free World and His Opponents

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In 2001 Creative met with Jobs to discuss a user interface for a new MP3 player Apple was releasing. They showed him what they had, Steve said, “no thanks”, and proceeded to use it anyway. Creative sued and got $100mil over it. So much for the revolutionary iPod.

via The World Warrior.

Like every company that Apple steals from (or the majority of them, since Creative is the only exception), no legal action was taken. However, after doing some more research it seems as if LG opted not to file a lawsuit because they could (and did) technically fire back by using similar Apple hardware designs – meaning if they were to sue LG for looking too much like an iPhone, LG could throw them under the bus for working too much like a Prada.

Thinstuff: Products

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Thinstuff develops a range of server based computing software for the small business as well as for the enterprise market which allows you to securely publish windows applications to any device on any network by utilizing the de-facto standard RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)!

via Thinstuff: Products.

I’m not a big fan of RDP or VNC — especially for day to day activities.

TIME dotCom, Facebook And Others Invest In Massive Undersea Internet Cable Project

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TIME is leading up the process, but Facebook as well as a few others are joining in by combining $450 million to the cause. APG is geographically well spread to bridge international capacity hubs such as Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Korea as well as connecting emerging markets such as Vietnam and China where demand for capacity is multiplying yearly.

via TIME dotCom, Facebook And Others Invest In Massive Undersea Internet Cable Project – HotHardware.

AOL Gets Small With Outdoor Micro Data Centers

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What might the outer limit for modular data centers look like? It could resemble the micro data center prototype unveiled this week by AOL. The rack-sized enclosure, which will live outdoors, is the first step in AOL’s ambitious plan to reshape its infrastructure using small, unmanned IT facilities that can be managed remotely.

via AOL Gets Small With Outdoor Micro Data Centers » Data Center Knowledge.

OVH Deploys “Container Cube” Data Center

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The French firm OVH is one of the world’s largest hosting companies, with more than 120,000 servers. It has also earned a reputation for its innovative data center designs. DCK readers may be familiar with OVH for the innovative Cube-shaped data center it opened last year in Roubaix, France, which houses servers in an exterior corridor built around an open center, allowing for easy airflow through the facility.

via OVH Deploys “Container Cube” Data Center » Data Center Knowledge.

Cyberlocker Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit

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A cyberlocker being sued for $34.8 million by an adult studio agreed in principle to a remarkable set of demands to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit. TorrentFreak has learned that file-hosting service Oron said it would turn over the IP addresses, banking details and email addresses of users alleged to have infringed copyright. The troubled cyberlocker then offered to assist plaintiff Liberty Media in civil prosecutions against its own customers.

via Cyberlocker Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit | TorrentFreak.

Telefonica Shows Off Firefox OS Prototype, Reveals Plans

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Telefonica has shown a prototype phone using Firefox OS, the new open  HTML5-based operating system from Mozilla, and explained its reasons for adopting a fledgling OS in the face of huge competition from iPhone and Android.

Firefox OS will let the operator balance its “strategic dependence on Android” and allow for the creation of cheaper devices that offer the same user experience, claimed Telefonica Digital chairman and CEO Matthew Key, at an event in London.

via Telefonica Shows Off Firefox OS Prototype, Reveals Plans | TechWeekEurope UK.

Natural Language Toolkit — NLTK 2.0 documentation

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NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning.

via Natural Language Toolkit — NLTK 2.0 documentation.

From: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/03/natural-language-processing-with-hadoop-and-python/

NLP is a highly interdisciplinary field of study comprising of concepts and ideas from Mathematics, Computer Science and Linguistics. Naturally occurring instances of human language, be it text or speech, are growing at an exponential rate given the popularity of the Web and social media. In addition, people are increasingly becoming more and more reliant on internet services to search, filter, process and, in some cases, even understand the subset of such instances they encounter in their daily lives.

NLP = Natural Language Processing

New Windows Server 2012 puts virtualization front and center

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That’s no longer the case with Windows Server 2012. Both Standard and Datacenter editions will support the same set of features and the same hardware limits. Both will require CALs for authenticated server access. Both will be licensed on a per-socket-pair basis. The only difference will be in virtualization rights: Standard edition can be run in up to two virtual machines (in addition to the host operating system); Datacenter edition can be run in an unlimited number of virtual machines.

via New Windows Server 2012 puts virtualization front and center | Ars Technica.