Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers
MS just buried the only lawsuit that could have blown a hole the size of Manhattan in their anti-Android patent portfolio.
via Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers – Slashdot.
Raspberry Pi gets an electronics prototyping plate kit
With the Raspberry Pi now shipping, thousands of curious programmers, hackers, teachers, and kids are starting to experiment with the device. That experimentation is limited to software for the most part, but with the Gertboard in development it shouldn’t be long before Raspberry Pi hardware extensions are also a possibility.
12in1 SIM Card+USB Card Reader/Writer GSM Copier Cloner
The Sim card can clone all the data from your original Sim card including pin code
It can clone the ki and IMSI code
It can contain 12 different Sim card content, You may change your current phone number operation to another by the selection list
Easy to read the phonebook of Sim card and save to PC
Can write the phonebook saved in the PC to another new Sim card
Read, edit, backup telephone directory and SMS
Leisurely create, edit, backup mobile ring tones and pictures (only for Nokia phone)
Plug and play, easy to operation
via. http://www.lunershop.com/product_info.php?language=en¤cy=USD&products_id=273
Big Content eyes Google Fiber deployment in Kansas City warily
Meanwhile, 180 miles to the north, in Iowa, Google is also getting busy. This week, the company announced plans to build a new $300 million data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, just outside of Omaha. This facility is expected to continue to do what another Council Bluffs site did when it came online in 2009: host Gmail, Google Maps, Google+, and of course, search.
Given Google’s FCC filing from earlier this year, that Iowa station may also serve as a future IP video facility to be used in conjunction with Kansas City’s fiber service.
via Big Content eyes Google Fiber deployment in Kansas City warily.
Trustworthy Internet Movement
The goal of the SSL Labs surveys is to measure the effective security of SSL. After some experimentation with an assessment of substantially all public SSL sites (about 1.5 million of them), we settled on a smaller list of about 200,000 SSL-enabled web sites, based on Alexa’s list of most popular sites in the world. Working with a smaller list is more manageable and allows us to conduct the surveys more often. It also allows us to conduct more thorough analysis to look for application-layer issues that may subvert SSL security. In addition, focusing on popular sites – we believe – gives us more relevant results and also excludes abandoned sites.
RIM’s future hangs on developer support for “new BlackBerry”
With its future up for grabs, Research in Motion at its annual BlackBerry World conference next week will focus on simplifying development for its soon-to-be-unveiled BlackBerry 10 operating system. HTML5 is one key technology in that strategy to create a viable ecosystem of applications for a new generation of mobile devices expected to ship by year-end.
via RIM’s future hangs on developer support for “new BlackBerry”.
The tablet that changed the whole market for tablets, and isn’t a tablet
Kindle Fire’s best feature is its ability as an e-book reader, according to reviewers. It is much more, however. For a list price of $199, customers get a seven-inch display, 8GB of RAM, free storage on Amazon’s cloud, WiFi and USB connections, the ability to run any Android-compatible app or game and automagical connections to media (for which you can pay Amazon) including e-books, music, movies and anything else you can find on the Internet.
Fire’s list price is $430 lower than the list price of the latest edition of the iPad and $249 less than Amazon’s discount price for a new ten-inch Samsung Galaxy tablet and $50 less than the seven-inch Samsung Galaxy.
via The tablet that changed the whole market for tablets, and isn’t a tablet | ITworld.
UCR Today: Scholars to Apply Facial Recognition Software to Unidentified Portrait Subjects
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Anyone who has admired centuries-old sculptures and portraits displayed in museums and galleries around the world at some point has asked one question: Who is that?
Three University of California, Riverside scholars have launched a research project to test — for the first time — the use of facial recognition software to help identify these unknown subjects of portrait art, a project that ultimately may enrich the understanding of European political, social and religious history.
via UCR Today: Scholars to Apply Facial Recognition Software to Unidentified Portrait Subjects.
“Almost every portrait painted before the 19th century was of a person of some importance,” Rudolph explained. “As families fell on hard times, many of these portraits were sold and the identities of these subjects were lost. The question we hope to answer is, can we restore these identities?”
Its Samsung Day! Congratulations Samsung for being world’s biggest handset maker, and biggest smartphone maker
So it was 14 years of Nokia leadership in the most widely used technology ever seen on the planet. At its peak, there was a quarter in 2006 that Nokia had 40% of the global market for phones, and there were years when Nokia was as big as rivals numbers 2 and 3 combined, there were quarters where Nokia was as big as rivals number 2, 3 and 4 combined. Nokia had spread to be in the pockets of 1.3 Billion people, 19% of the total population alive on the planet. No other technology ever, indeed no brand is used by as many people as Nokia. Not Sony Walkmans or TVs, not Microsoft on the PC, not Coca Cola in drinks, not Levi’s in blue jeans, not Bic in pens. But now that King has been toppled. The King is Dead, Long Live the King. Now Samsung will take over and build even a bigger footprint, as mobile phone handsets keep spreading to new first-time users in India, Africa, Latin America etc.