New Sony Cams: Slim and Storage-Packed
Sony's proprietary Memory Stick storage card isn't being phased out, but one of the company's two just-announced cameras comes equipped with 4GB of internal storage. Pictured above, the 10-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700's 4GB flash drive will store close to 1,000...


Mozilla Invites World to Shape Web's Future
The latest versions of Firefox did not bring any drastic changes to the way people browse the Internet besides a few welcomed features like tabs. Now, Mozilla Labs placed a call to the online community to share their ideas...


Nikon Unleashes New Digital Cameras
Nikon today announced its fall lineup of cameras, including a refresh of its Wi-Fi model. Due out in September, the new cameras are all 10 megapixels or greater, and most models are available in multiple colors. A few models in...


Google Gmail Outage Fixed: Users Still Steamed
Yesterday a very large number of Gmail users were locked out of their accounts as Google scrambled to fix a problem with the service some trace back to an upgrade to the Contact feature in Gmail. For Google customers...


Why Microsoft Cozied up to Open Source at OSCON
This year at OSCON it seemed that you couldn't throw a stone without hitting someone from Microsoft (and in fact, I'm sure several people did). They were working very hard to make themselves known, and working desperately to change public opinion of Microsoft's involvement in the open source community. Linux.com's Nathan Willis took a look at what they were preaching, with a hefty dose of skepticism, and tries to postulate what the "angle" is. Of course, the powers that be at Microsoft may have finally seen the writing on the wall and felt the pressure from Google enough to alter their strategy a bit. For now I guess we'll have to wait with guarded optimism (or laughable contempt, depending on how old/jaded you are).

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Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?
A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE with every Windows upgrade."

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Apple Rumor-Rama: New MacBook, iPods On Tap?
Only a month ago Apple released the iPhone 3G, but analysts are already expecting another big announcement from the company next month. Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, expects Apple to announce redesigns of its iPod line this...


Microsoft Partners on Eco App For PCs
Each PC's power consumption is responsible for an average of 1000 pounds of CO2 emissions every year. And there are more than a billion of them in the world. Striving to go green, the technology industry focused mainly on...


Students Come First Again on Facebook With Inigral App
A small start-up company called Inigral is trying to bring back some student-centric functionality to Facebook with one of the first enterprise applications for the social network. The new application is called Schools and will allow students to view...


Beijing Bound? Instant Chinese Translations on Your Cell!
Headed for Beijing (lucky you)? Not a Chinese speaker? Then you might be interested in an instant Mandarin-English (and vice-versa) phone-accessible translation service developed by Jajah and IBM. Just in time for the Olympics, the Jajah.Babel service lets you dial...