We have all heard of our share of open-source software, now this company plans on revolutionizing the electronics industry with open-source hardware. In a discussion with our friends from Engadget (we wish they were our friends), Bug Labs describes how they will provide young (or old) designers with a kit containing a small Linux-based [...]

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Engadget is reporting that the good hax0rz over at the iPhone Dev Wiki have churned out a proof-of-concept compiled application (”hello world”) that will run on the good ‘ole iPhone. Of course this doesn’t mean anything for you yet (unless you want to write your own software for the iPhone), but if you’re looking for [...]

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A few weeks ago proposed a new amendment that would require, at first, twenty-five colleges and universities to install “anti-P2P technology” on their internet connections. This outrageous bill would allow everyone’s favorite organizations (the RIAA and MPAA, please note thick sarcasm) to dictate what was considered “good” and “bad” (obviously immensely biased in their [...]

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Ars Technica has recently published a great article on current “deep packet filtering” technologies, some of their uses, and how this relates to the net neutrality debate. Excellent reading, and highly recommended.

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While many of you have been busy attempting to get to the bottom of all this Harry Potter nonsense, I decided to catch up on the venerable Mr. Sherlock Holmes. And what better way to do this than with the wonderful free resource known as Project Gutenberg? If you’ve not yet heard of Gutenberg (or [...]

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In a clever move, Facebook has taken it’s next step toward world domination and acquired a small startup, Parakey. I am sure you are all familiar with Facebook, Parakey on the other hand, my not ring any bells. First, I must introduce Blake Ross. He’s the guy that helped pioneer the Firefox [...]

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You may might have missed the commotion, but a few days ago our good friends in Redmond filed away this little patent, titled “Advertising services architecture.” This patent outlines a mechanism by which “targeted advertising” can be delivered using deep integration into the OS. The targeted part comes from analyzing your documents (basically anything on [...]

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This is important: Microsoft has been busy getting their version of the office XML standard written (basically an open format for storing documents like excel spreadsheets, power point presentations, and word documents). However, it seems they got in a little bit of a hurry and really screwed up the mathematical formulas for spreadsheets. What does [...]

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