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Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle (Theregister.co.uk)
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:03am EST
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HDD Price Update: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices, 3 Months Later
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:19am EST by Soulskill
New submitter jjslash writes "The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world's fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That's on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. TechSpot has monitored a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months."
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Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:15am EST by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes "There is media (but not public?) outcry over the Pasadena, CA police switch from analog radio that can be picked up by scanners to encrypted digital radio that cannot. 'On Friday, Pasadena police Lt. Phlunte Riddle said the department was unsure whether it could accommodate the media with digital scanners. Riddle said the greatest concern remains officer safety. "People who do bank robberies use scanners, and Radio Shack sells these things cheap," Riddle said. "We just had a robbery today on Hill Avenue and Washington Boulevard," Riddle said. "The last thing I want to do is to have the helicopter or the officers set up on the street and the criminals have a scanner and know where our officers are." Just prior to the switch over, city staffers said they would look into granting access to police radio chatter, most likely by loaning media outlets a scanner capable of picking up the secure signal.'"
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Verizon, BT team on 'immersive-video' conferencing worldwide (zdnet)
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:02am EST
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Hackers hit Greek ministry website (itnews)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:13pm EST
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NBN Co orders long-term satellites (itnews)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:13pm EST
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4G Phones Are Really Fast — At Draining Batteries
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:11pm EST by Soulskill
Hugh Pickens writes "With Verizon's 4G network covering a good chunk of the country and AT&T gaining ground, more smartphone users have access to the fastest wireless service available. But because 4G coverage isn't truly continuous in many locations, users' batteries are taking a big hit with 4G, as phones spend an lot of battery power trying to hunt down a signal. 'You've got a situation where the phones are sending out their signals searching and searching for a 4G tower, and that eats up your battery,' says Carl Howe, a vice president for research firm Yankee Group. The spottiness of 4G stems at least in part from the measured approach carriers have taken to it, rolling out the service city by city. There are a few tricks 4G users can try to extend battery life such as turning off your 4G connection when you don't need the fastest speeds — when using email, for instance — or using a program such as JuiceDefender to search for apps you may have downloaded that you don't need to run all the time, and erase them."
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Man sentenced for illegal gambling operation (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:18pm EST
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Google to promise fair licensing for Motorola patents (cnet)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:00pm EST
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iPhone app controls tiny Hot Wheels car (cnet)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:00pm EST
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Telstra breach probe into extra time (Australian IT)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:55pm EST
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Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy?
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:10pm EST by Soulskill
DocDyson writes "I'm a dyed-in-the-wool C/C++/Java developer with over 20 years of experience. I'm making a good living and having fun doing back-end Java work right now, but I strongly believe in being a generalist, so I'm finally trying to learn the HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript future of the Web. However, I find JavaScript's weak typing and dynamic nature difficult to adapt to because I'm so used to strongly-typed, compiled languages with lots of compile-time error-checking and help from the IDE. Does anyone out there who has made this transition have any tips in terms of the best tools and libraries to use to make JavaScript more palatable to us old-school developers?"
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Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec (TheRegister.co.uk)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:51pm EST
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Frustrated With Virtual Customer Service? Microsoft Tries to Help (WSJ)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:43pm EST
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Should Next-Gen Game Consoles Be Upgradeable?
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:30pm EST by Soulskill
MojoKid writes "Historically, console add-ons that boosted the performance of the primary unit haven't done well. Any attempt to upgrade a system's core performance risks bifurcating the user base and increases work developers must do to ensure that a game runs smoothly on both original and upgraded systems. The other reason is that a number of games rely on very specific hardware characteristics to ensure proper operation. In a PC, swapping a CPU with 256K of L2 for a chip with 512K of L2 is a non-issue assuming proper platform support. Existing software will automatically take advantage of the additional cache. The Xbox 360, on the other hand, allows programmers to lock specific cache blocks and use them for storing data from particular threads. In that case, expanding the amount of L2 cache risks breaking previous games because it changes the range of available cache addresses. The other side of the upgrade argument is that the Xbox 360 has been upgraded more effectively than any previous console; current high-end versions ship with more than 10x the storage of the original, as well as support for HDMI and integrated WiFi. It would also forestall the decline in comparative image quality between console and PC platforms."
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History Repeats Itself: KDP Select Is Amazon.com's 'Payback For Playback'
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:50pm EST by Soulskill
New submitter brennanw writes "Anyone who was active on mp3.com during the late 90s/early 2000's will find Amazon.com's KDP Select awfully familiar: authors who make their works exclusive to Amazon compete for a pool of money. Any time someone 'borrows' one of their books, they get a cut of a monthly sum (700K in January, 600K for February) based on how many of their books were checked out vs. how many other author's books were checked out. This is almost identical to the 'Payback for Playback' service MP3.com provided musicians a little over a decade ago. Payback for Playback effectively destroyed the original MP3.com artist community, and I don't think KDP Select is going to be much different for the self-publishing community that is growing on Amazon."
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Higgs Signal Gains Strength
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:26pm EST by Soulskill
ananyo writes "Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The new papers (here here and here) boost the case for December's announcement of a possible Higgs signal. Physicists working on the In the case of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, have been able to look at another possible kind of Higgs decay, and that allows them to boost their Higgs signal from 2.5 sigma to 3.1 sigma. Taken together with data from the other detector, ATLAS, Higgs' overall signal now unofficially stands at about 4.3 sigma."
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MIT Crowdsources and Gamifies Brain Analysis
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:07pm EST by Soulskill
MrSeb writes "There are around 100 billion neurons in a human brain, forming up to 100 trillion synaptic interconnections. Neuroscientists believe that these synapses are the key to almost every one of your unique, identifiable features: Memories, mental disorders, and even your personality are encoded in the wiring of your brain. Understandably, neuroscientists really want to investigate these neurons and synapses to work out how they play such a vital role in our human makeup. Unfortunately, these 100 trillion connections are crammed into a two-pound bag of soggy flesh, making analysis rather hard. Starting small and working its way up, MIT today launched Eyewire, a crowdsourced 'game' that tasks users with wiring up the neurons in a mouse's retina. A future stage of the game will get users to find the synapses, too."
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Capone's Hideaway in St. Charles shuts its doors (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:31pm EST
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Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:15pm EST by Soulskill
Brad Lucier writes "The Saylor Foundation has a vision: Free and open materials for a complete undergraduate university education. To that end, they've announced the first winners in their Open Textbook Challenge: Four textbooks were relicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY 3.0) Unported license, the most open of the CC licenses, and in return the authors were awarded a prize of $20,000 for each book. See the blog entries and the accompanying press releases for details. The second wave of submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2012."
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McHenry County regional superintendent candidate withdraws (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:14pm EST
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Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:32pm EST by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes "If we break a bone it can take weeks or even month to heal depending on the type and severity of the break. In some extreme cases the complexity of the fracture can make it impossible to heal properly. Researchers at the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center have come up with a new solution for healing broken bones that cuts recovery time to days. It relies on the use of stem cells that contain a bone generating protein. These cells are injected in gel form directly into the area of the broken bone, where they quickly get to work forming new bone. The end result is very rapid recovery, possibly sidestepping the muscle atrophy that can come with long bone healing times. The gel has been proven to work on animals as big as a sheep and has funding from the DoD. Lets hope it is proven to work on humans in the coming years."
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Google Releases Chrome For Android (Information Week)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:01pm EST
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Apple Could Lose $1.6 Billion In iPad Lawsuit
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:51pm EST by Soulskill
redletterdave writes "Proview Technology, which currently uses the 'iPad' name on several of its products including computer monitors, stands to win up to $1.6 billion and an apology from Apple for allegedly infringing upon Proview's trademarked name to use on its bestselling tablet. Proview International, which owns subsidiaries Proview Technology in Shenzhen and Proview Electronics in Taiwan, originally registered the name 'iPad' in Taiwan in 2000 and mainland China in 2001. Proview eventually sued Apple in 2011, and even though the Cupertino-based company retaliated with a counter-suit of its own, Apple lost the case in local Chinese courts. Depending on the court's findings, Apple could be fined anywhere from $38 million to the $1.6 billion that Proview is seeking. In addition to the money, Proview also wants Apple to apologize. 'We have prepared well for a long-term legal battle,' said one of Proview's lawyers."
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Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:09pm EST by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes "Today Google announced the availability of a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android. Unfortunately, it's limited to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices. Google is trying to keep Chrome fast and easy to use, and part of that involved redesigning tabs so they work more naturally with touchscreens. 'You can flip or swipe between an unlimited number of tabs using intuitive gestures, as if you're holding a deck of cards in the palm of your hands, each one a new window to the web.' They've also including synchronization functionality that allows you to move from desktop browsing to phone or tablet browsing and pick up right where you left off."
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The 20th IOCCC Winners Announced
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:46pm EST by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes "The 20th International Obfuscated C Code Contest ended on February 5th, 2012, and the list of winners has been announced. According to the page, the source code for all the winning entries 'has not been released yet.' It will be available alongside code from previous years 'in late-February to mid-March.'"
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Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:25pm EST by Soulskill
astroengine writes "So it turns out U.S. radars weren't to blame for the unfortunate demise of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission — it was a computer programming error that doomed the probe, a government board investigating the accident has determined." According to the Planetary Society Blog's unofficial translation and paraphrasing of the incident report, "The spacecraft computer failed when two of the chips in the electronics suffered radiation damage. (The Russians say that radiation damage is the most likely cause, but the spacecraft was still in low Earth orbit beneath the radiation belts.) Whatever triggered the chip failure, the ultimate cause was the use of non-space-qualified electronic components. When the chips failed, the on-board computer program crashed."
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B2B Marketing Strategist Dawn Westerberg to Speak at Texas Association of CPAs Conference (Send2Press)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:23pm EST
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Honeywell Vs Nest: When the Establishment Sues Silicon Valley
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:42pm EST by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes with this quote from an article at TechCrunch: "Honeywell filed a multi-patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs and Best Buy yesterday. The suit alleges that Nest Labs is infringing on seven Honeywell patents. Honeywell is not seeking licensing fees. The consumer electronic conglomerate wants Nest Labs to cease using the technology and is actually looking to collect damages caused by the infringement. Damages? Bull****. This is about killing the competition."
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Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
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Get a head start on Windows 8 (and get 30% off my new book)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:41pm EST by Ed Bott
The first review is in. I don’t want to spoil the ending , or anything, but to quote Sally Field: “He liked it! He really liked it!”
Reviewing Ed Bott’s Windows 8 Head Start | 7 Tutorials
After being walked through the basics by the earlier chapters, I think many non-expert, non-developers would feel confident trying out some of these more advanced topics. Having instructions from someone who really knows what he’s doing, and who can write everything clearly and without confusing jargon, is always important to understanding.
And a reminder that my special offer on this book is still valid.Windows 8 Head Start is based on the Windows 8 Developer Preview, and in its 100 pages you’ll get a thorough overview of the new user interface and learn what you need to know to prepare. When the Consumer Preview arrives (in “late February”), I’ll immediately begin updating the book and making it substantially longer.
And here’s the best part:
If you purchase the current edition you will get the next edition for free.
Oh, and I have a coupon code you can use to get 30% off your order total when you check out. That means you’ll pay $6.96 instead of the list price of $9.95.
The book is available in a single download package that contains full-color editions suitable for reading on any device. Use the PDF file on your PC or Mac, copy the MOBI file to your Amazon Kindle, or use the EPUB file on a Nook or other Android device.
Interested? Here are the details:
- Go to the book page at the Fair Trade DX bookstore.
- Add the book to your cart.
- When you check out, include the code FriendOfEd. Your 30% discount will be reflected in the checkout price.
You can purchase the book at the Amazon or B&N store, but the checkout discount is only available from FairTrade DX directly. (Copies purchased from any source are eligible for the free update to the next edition.)
Why am I doing this? Because I want your feedback. Tell me what you want me to cover in the next edition and you’ll see that feedback reflected in my update.
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5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world (InfoWorld)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:01pm EST
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App Stores Create 500,000 U.S. Jobs (TechWeb)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 12:15pm EST
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Artificial medical implants built with 3D printing (feedsportal)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 11:22am EST
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NY Times: RIAA & MPAA Exaggerate Piracy Impact Stats... But We're Going To Assume They're True Anyway (Techdirt)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:37am EST
Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
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Thoughts on intellectual property
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:36am EST by Ed Bott
This essay by Wondermark cartoonist David Malki is thoroughly delightful, entertaining, and educational.
I’ve excerpted one of the more boring parts here, but the entire thing is filled with eye-opening historical footnotes and observations.
Patent law was created to preserve the rights of an inventor to the profits derived from his invention, without fear of the invention being duplicated by a rival; trademark law, the same for brand names (essentially to prevent counterfeit goods from being sold under a reputable name); and copyright law, the same for works of creative expression such as books, plays, and music. The three forms of intellectual property are nowadays often bundled together as far as legal rights are concerned, but it wasn’t always so.
Not convinced? As Malki points out, in 1877 someone in Congress tried to stealthily push through a law that would have abolished patents.
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TeamF1 Announces Support for Cavium OCTEON III Multicore MIPS64 Processor Family (Send2Press)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:58am EST
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Will Canada - China Changes Include a Shift on Intellectual Property? (michaelgeist)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:11am EST
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Online gaming firm 888's full-year revenue up 26 percent (reuters)
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 2:38am EST
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Gun group appeals concealed-carry ruling (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:56pm EST
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Microsoft Flight Launches February 29, 2012
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:52pm EST by Sumeeth Evans
On the heels of a successful beta, we’re excited to announce that “Microsoft Flight” will be available to download worldwide for free starting February 29, 2012, right here at www.microsoftflight.com. In addition, the Hawaiian Adventure Pack – which includes the remaining Hawaiian Islands, a new plane and 20 new missions – will be available to purchase the same day through Games for Windows—LIVE.
Microsoft Flight lets players jump into the fun, freedom, and adventure of flight with no special hardware or past experience. If you have a mouse and a PC, you can fly! We’d also like to thank our beta testers for their invaluable help in getting Microsoft Flight ready for takeoff.
Our executive producer, Joshua Howard, had this to say: “There was an overwhelming demand for access to the ‘Microsoft Flight’ beta and the number of requests was far more than what we initially planned for. We received amazing feedback from the beta participants and it’s great to see this level of excitement from fans as we move toward the release of Microsoft Flight.”
We hope you’ll come fly with us on February 29th! Full Story At Source
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Rumor Mill: The Apple iTV Will Cost $1,499 (geeksugar?format=xml)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:37pm EST
Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
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One more time: Ziff-Davis is not ZDNet, and vice versa
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:31pm EST by Ed Bott
I’ve heard from a few friends who were concerned after they read this story by The VAR Guy:
Ziff Davis Enterprise, Channel Insider, eWeek Sold: Now What?
The short version is this: a spinoff from the 20th Century Ziff-Davis publishing empire was sold, and the acquiring company plans to lay off 80-90% of the staff. The company being sold is Ziff Davis Enterprise, which publishes eWeek, Baseline Magazine, CIO Insight Magazine and Channel Insider.
Here’s the part to pay close attention to:
Today’s news has nothing to do with Ziff Davis (a completely separate company) and ZDNet (the popular blog destination, also a separate business).
I write for ZDNet, which is a member of the CNET family of companies, which in turn is owned by CBS.
The ZD in ZDNet derives from its heritage with the old publishing company, but the two companies’ paths diverged a long, long time ago.
The VAR Guy post has a good recap of how the various “companies whose names begin with Z” have evolved through the years. You can also read my brief history, from 2006:
Anyway, best of luck and good wishes to my fellow writers/reporters who are getting pink slips.
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IT budgets plunge in North America, Europe (TheRegister.co.uk)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:14am EST
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Twitter snaps up Google Asia exec (TheRegister.co.uk)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:44am EST
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HTC forecasts sharp fall in Q1 sales, margins (DMeurope)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:09am EST
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HTC forecasts sharp fall in Q1 sales, margins (DMeurope)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:09am EST
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Waukegan black man grew up believing he was white (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:56am EST
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Wait, Windows 8 at Walmart already?
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:14pm EST by Ed Bott
I literally laughed out loud this morning when I saw these sponsored ads on a search results page at Bing:
(No, I didn’t bother clicking.)
Meanwhile, back in the real world…
The beta of Windows 8 (officially called the Consumer Preview) will be publicly released in “late February.”
Here are some links that might help you get caught up.
- Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (by me at ZDNet)
- Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the ‘consumer preview’ (by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet)
- Windows 8 has a special Bing homepage, Consumer Preview name all but confirmed IMichael Gillett, LiveSide)
I’m also soliciting feedback on whether and how you plan to test the Windows 8 beta … sorry, Consumer Preview. Please take a second to vote in this ZDNet poll. If you have any additional suggestions or comments, feel free to leave them in the comments here.
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Windows Phone Marketplace expands to 5 new countries
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:37pm EST by Sumeeth Evans
Good news—the Windows Phone Marketplace for apps and games is opening for business today in five new spots—Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru and the Philippines.
If you live in one of these countries, tapping on the Marketplace tile will soon (it might a few hours for all the lights to come on) put loads of great apps and games at your fingertips. One important caveat: Your phone will need to have Windows Phone 7.5 installed to access the new stores. (Look here for update instructions.)
If you’re a developer and want to make sure your app lands in one of these new stores, make sure to check out Todd Brix’s post today on the Developer Blog.
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Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:45am EST by Sumeeth Evans
The Kinect for Windows SDK enables developers to create applications that support gesture and voice recognition, using Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7, Windows 8 developer preview (desktop apps only), and Windows Embedded-based devices.
The Kinect for Windows SDK includes the following:
- Drivers for using Kinect sensor devices on a computer running Windows 7 or Windows 8 developer preview (desktop apps only)
- Application programming interfaces (APIs) and device interfaces, along with technical documentation
- Source code samples
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Lync 2010 Bandwidth Calculator
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:40am EST by Steven Bink
A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that calculates WAN bandwidth requirements for a Lync Server deployment based on administrator-specified user profiles and network information.
With the Lync Server 2010 Bandwidth Calculator, you can enter information about your users and the Lync Server features that you want to deploy, and the calculator will determine bandwidth requirements for the WAN that connects sites in your deployment.
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Convergence Summit North (IT Reseller Magazine)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:00am EST
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DocMagic Provides New 'Sergeant Doc' Bunny to Thousands of Children (Send2Press)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:58am EST
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Four arrested in Waukegan shootings (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:38pm EST
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Accu-Sort laser barcode scanner offers iPhone and iPad compatibility (IT Reseller Magazine)
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:19am EST
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Indian Supreme Court cancels 122 GSM licences (DMeurope)
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:11am EST
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Mount Prospect man killed by car remembered as 'brilliant' (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:18pm EST
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Google Begins Country-Specific Blog Censorship
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:41pm EST by samzenpus
bonch writes "Google will begin redirecting blogs to country-specific URLs. Blog visitors will be redirected to a URL specific to their location, with content subject to their country's censorship laws. A support post on Blogger explains the change: 'Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog you're reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD." For example, if you're in Australia and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected to [blogname].blogspot.com.au. A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader's current location.'"
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NASA Studying Solar Powered "Space Tugboat"
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:57pm EST by samzenpus
Zothecula writes "Last year, NASA announced it was seeking proposals for mission concept studies of a high-power solar electric propulsion (SEP) system that could be used in a "space tugboat." Such a ship would be used ferry payloads in low Earth orbit (LEO) into higher energy orbits, including geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and Lagrange point one (L1) — saving on fuel and the use of expensive secondary boosters. NASA also anticipates an SEP system could be used to propel spacecraft into deep space for science missions and for the placement, service, resupply, repositioning and salvaging of space assets by commercial operators."
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Firefox 10 Released
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:34pm EST by samzenpus
Taco Cowboy writes "It's time to upgrade again. Firefox 10 is out and here's a list of bugs fixed in the new version."
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Microsoft Releases Kinect For Windows
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:14pm EST by samzenpus
nk497 writes "Microsoft has released Kinect for Windows, featuring a new "near mode" that lets the gesture control tech be used as close as 40cm. The Kinect for Windows hardware will retail at $249 — well above the price of the version for Xbox 360 consoles. Microsoft defended the price difference, saying sales of games and Xbox Live subscriptions help subsidize the console version. The new version will support Windows 7 and the Windows 8 developer preview, as well as Windows Embedded 7 devices."
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Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:33pm EST by samzenpus
hypnosec writes "Today is the day when Facebook may be submitting all required paperwork to regulators for its $5 billion initial public offering. According to the source close to the deal, Facebook has selected Morgan Stanley along with four others — Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Barclay's Capital to handle this IPO. Morgan Stanley will be taking "lead left" role in this supposedly biggest IPO from Silicon Valley. According to International Financing Review, the preliminary target of $5 billion will be increased by many folds in coming few months as a response to the demands of investors. Sources close to this matter disclosed that this might turn out to be defining moment for current web investments. The deal might rise to $10 billion which eventually will make Facebook a social networking empire valued between $75 billion to $100 billion. In fact, $75 billion is definitely an undervaluation compared to previous expectations."
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DC Comics Announces "Before Watchmen"
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:48pm EST by samzenpus
eldavojohn writes "Currently DC Comics' site has a banner announcing a new series called "Before Watchmen." Unfortunately the blog pages for this new series appear to be experiencing high traffic and are unreachable. But a number of sites are breaking down these new endeavors that will be giving backstories to the seven characters and who will be creating each of those series. There's also speculation ranging from how much this must upset Alan Moore (egg frying on his forehead seems to be the popular guess) to the theory that this is simply for more movie material. There's an abundance of information from interviews released today."
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Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:22pm EST by Unknown Lamer
sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from Science: "The first plants to colonize land didn't merely supply a dash of green to a drab landscape. They dramatically accelerated the natural breakdown of exposed rocks, according to a new study, drawing so much planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that they sent Earth's climate spiraling into a major ice age."
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New BBC Sports Website Makes Heavy Use of RDF
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:05pm EST by Unknown Lamer
New submitter whyloginwhysubscribe writes "A technical blog post describes how the BBC has rolled out the latest changes to its sports website in anticipation of the Summer Olympics in London. The innovative content management system extends the already available dynamic semantic publishing, which enables their journalists 'to spend more time creating great content and less time managing that content.' The post covers some of the technical and lots of the HCI / UI design decisions and is accompanied by a non-technical overview of the re-design."
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EFF Seeking Information of Legal Users of Megaupload
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:23pm EST by Unknown Lamer
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, with the assistance of Carpathia Hosting, has issued a a call for information on users who lost legitimate data as part of the Megaupload takedown. No promises are made at this point, but Carpathia at least notes: "We have no immediate plans to reprovision some or all of the Megaupload servers. This means that there is no imminent data loss for Megaupload customers. If this situation changes, we will post a notice at least 7 days in advance of reprovisioning any Megaupload servers."
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Linux Game Publishing CEO Resigns
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:00pm EST by Unknown Lamer
An anonymous reader writes "The CEO of the once fledging Linux Game Publishing, Michael Simms, has announced his resignation. Simms attributes his resignation from the Linux game porting company he founded more than a decade ago to being burned out and having little success as of late in his work." In his place, Clive Crouse will be taking the helm.
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Cystic Fibrosis Gene Correction Drug Approved by the FDA
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:41am EST by Unknown Lamer
tguyton writes "The good news: the FDA just approved the distribution of the first drug to treat the underlying cause of Cystic Fibrosis, called Kalydeco by Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The bad news: this drug will only affect 4% of patients with the disease in the U.S. From the article: '[Affected patients] with the so-called G551D mutation have a defective protein that fails to balance the flow of chloride and water across the cell wall, leading to the buildup of internal mucus. The vast majority of cystic fibrosis patients have a different genetic defect, in which the protein does not reach the cell wall. Vertex is developing another drug to try and address that problem. Study data for that drug is expected later this year.' Hopefully the research involved will be applicable to finding treatments for other genetic diseases." Further bad news: "...executives said Kalydeco would cost $294,000 for a year's supply, placing it among the most expensive prescription drugs sold in the U.S."
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Unicode 6.1 Released
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:19am EST by Unknown Lamer
An anonymous reader writes "The latest version of the Unicode standard (v. 6.1.0) was officially released January 31. The latest version includes 732 new characters, including seven brand new scripts. It also adds support for distinguishing emoji-style and text-style symbols and emoticons with variation selectors, updates to the line-breaking algorithm to more accurately reflect Japanese and Hebrew texts, and updates other algorithms and technical notes to reflect new characters and newly documented text behaviors."
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ITC Throws Out B&N Antitrust Claims Against MS
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 11:00am EST by Unknown Lamer
N!NJA writes with an excerpt from a post by Florian Mueller: "Barnes & Noble's primary line of defense against Microsoft's allegations of patent infringement by the bookseller's Android-based devices has collapsed in its entirety. An Administrative Law Judge at the ITC today granted a Microsoft motion to dismiss, even ahead of the evidentiary trial that will start next Monday (February 6), Barnes & Noble's 'patent misuse' defense against Microsoft. [...] Prior to the ALJ, the ITC staff — or more precisely, the Office of Unfair Import Investigations (OUII), which participates in many investigations as a third party representing the public interest — already supported Microsoft's motion all the way. The OUII basically concluded that even if all of what Barnes & Noble said about Microsoft's use of patents against Android was accurate, it would fall far short of the legal requirements for a patent misuse defense."
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Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:33am EST by Unknown Lamer
bonch writes "In an attempt to tackle the inefficient complexity of its current template system, Wikipedia will be adopting the Lua scripting language. Known most for its use in videogame scripting, particularly World of Warcraft, Lua is lightweight and designed for easy integration into existing applications. The transition is expected to begin after the release of MediaWiki 1.19, possibly in May." Basically, the template system started turning into an ugly programming language. There was debate over using Javascript or Lua; Lua ultimately won due to implementation concerns. The mailing list threads announcing the decision and discussing the change have further details.
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Kazuo Hirai To Assume CEO Position At Sony
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 10:17am EST by Unknown Lamer
thomst writes "Cnet's Stephen Shankland breaks the news that Sony will replace the lamentable Howard Stringer with Kazuo Hirai, the (now former) head of its electronics division. Better yet, the changeover will take place on April Fool's Day. Stringer, who was appointed CEO of Sony in 2005, will become Chairman of its board, and Hirai will become a board member. Hirai has been the leader of Sony's consolidated electronics group only since last year. He was in charge of all Sony electronics products, including the Playstation Network, which famously suffered a massive security breach that compromised its unencrypted user data on his watch."
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Publisher’s AdSense Account is Disabled, Reinstated Quickly (Digital Inspiration)
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:04am EST
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If you trust just one site like TechMeme or Reddit or YCombinator News or Slashdot for your tech news you are doing it wrong (Rolandtanglao)
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:34am EST
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Stevenson High in middle of drug investigation (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
Posted: January 31st, 2012, 9:15pm EST
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Bloomberg Open Sources Its Market Data Distribution Technology (Financetech)
Posted: January 31st, 2012, 7:02pm EST
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Enterprises ask for and get 10-year software support cycles
Posted: January 31st, 2012, 12:01pm EST by Ed Bott
I don’t write about Linux much, but this story by fellow ZDNet blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols caught my eye today:
Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle to ten years
I’m a big believer in “It’s not broke, then don’t fix it.” So is leading Linux company, Red Hat. The company has just announced that it is extending the production lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years in response to enterprise customer demand and Red Hat’s hardware original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners.
A lot of consumers and tech bloggers fail to understand that enterprises prefer stability over shiny new toys. It’s hard to imagine using a 10-year-old mobile phone or MP3 player, but boring corporate apps need stability on the dektop and server sides.
Interestingly, this puts the leading maker of Linux servers on the same support lifecycle as … Microsoft. Consumer versions of Windows are supported for five years, business versions (including servers) get extended support for a total of 10 years.
I’ve got an old but still useful post that explains it all:
How long will Microsoft support XP, Vista, and Windows 7?
The point of having a predictable release cycle—a new Windows version every three years—is to encourage upgrades. That’s especially true for consumers, who can skip one version but not two. Even so, full support will be available until the beginning of 2015. For businesses, anyone considering a Windows 7 migration can take comfort in knowing it will be supported for nearly another decade more—until January 14, 2020.
If you’re curious about how this translates into actual dates, the post also includes a table that breaks support for desktop Windows versions down by version.
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System Center Cloud Services Management Pack RC Now Available
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 4:59pm EST by Steven Bink
The Cloud Services Management Pack is now available for download. It contains:
1) Model extensions for the SCSM CMDB to store additional types of data which are useful for managing a private cloud.
2) Views so that the cloud-related data can be easily viewed in the Configuration Items workspace in the SCSM console.
3) Service request templates for common scenarios related to private cloud management such as provisioning/deprovisioning VMs, allocating capacity pools, creating new projects, and so on.
4) Request offerings based on the service request templates that can be published to the Service Catalog on the self-service portal.
5) Automated workflows in SCSM to automatically fulfill some of the requests.
6) Runbooks for Orchestrator to automatically fulfill other types of requests which need to be executed on other System Center components such as Virtual Machine Manager
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RIM Launches BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 36
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:20pm EST by Sumeeth Evans
Research In Motion today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. The service is available at no additional charge to current medium-sized or enterprise subscribers of the Office 365 suite or standalone Exchange Online and works with BlackBerry smartphones on business or consumer data plans.
“RIM is pleased to launch BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. This new cloud-based option allows customers to cost-effectively support mobility across their organizations and easily manage and secure their BlackBerry deployments,” said Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management and Marketing at Research In Motion. “We continue to build upon the end-to-end BlackBerry solution for our business and government customers with both on-premise and cloud-based solutions, a range of technical support options to suit any size organization, and a growing ecosystem of apps and services for users.”
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Microsoft France: no new Xbox in 2012
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:20pm EST by Sumeeth Evans
The next Xbox will not launch in 2012, Microsoft has gone on the record to say.
Cedrick Delmas, marketing director of Microsoft France, was asked by Lepoint.fr in a new interview (translated by Eurogamer's Oli Welsh): "Rumours indicate the presentation of a new Microsoft machine at E3 in June..."
His response:
"We're in an industry that talks a lot, that likes telling stories. I am not convinced that things will happen this year. The Xbox 360's cycle is not over at all. The proof is that we haven't price cut this year.
"Afterward, what will happen at E3, it's still too early to say. What's certain is that there will be nothing new in 2012. If we wanted to counter Nintendo, we would have to be in a position to release something immediately, and that is not at all the case.
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"Office 15" Begins Technical Preview
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:18pm EST by Sumeeth Evans
This morning, we reached an important development milestone: the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program. Office 15 is the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office products and services, and the Technical Preview is the first time we share our work with a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreements. These customers play a key role in our development process by testing early builds and providing feedback, which we incorporate into the final release.
At this early point in our development cycle, I'm not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division. With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio. Quite simply, Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before.
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Microsoft Exchange PST Capture tool released
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 3:06pm EST by Steven Bink
Microsoft Exchange PST Capture is used to discover and import .pst files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online
File Name Size PSTCapture.msi 10.4 MB Download PSTCaptureAgent.msi 556 KB Download PSTCaptureAgent_x86.msi 548 KB Download PST Capture is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online. PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over their email data repositories by placing them into Exchange. By optionally installing PST Capture Agents on target machines, administrators can determine where .pst files are located and who their file owner is via the PST Capture Console. Administrators can import .pst files via Import Lists to Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Data can be directly imported into the primary mailbox or associated archive mailbox.
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Are There Too Many Storage Solutions? (InformationWeek)
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 2:18pm EST
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Thai Gov't Welcomes Twitter's Censorship Plans
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 10:13am EST by timothy
patiwat writes "The Thai government has called Twitter's tweet censorship move a 'welcome development.' Tweets may now be blocked at the request of the Thai government; the system will be used to discourage and punish lese majeste (criticism of the Thai King). The government previously declared that Facebook users worldwide 'liking' a lese majeste Facebook link would also be prosecuted; over 10,000 Facebook pages have been removed and hundreds of individuals, including children and academics, have been jailed. Calls to reform the lese majeste laws have been fiercely criticized by no less than the Army Commander, whose backing is critical to the government's stability."
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Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 9:32am EST by timothy
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that Apple's image is taking a dive after revelations in the NY Times about working conditions in the factories of some of its network of Chinese suppliers and the dreaded word 'boycott' has started to appear in media coverage of Apple's activities. 'Should consumers boycott Apple?' asked a column in the Los Angeles Times as it recounted details of the bad PR fallout amid detailed allegations that workers at Foxconn suffered in conditions that resembled a modern version of bonded labor, working obscenely long shifts in unhealthy conditions with few of the labor rights that workers in the west would take for granted." Read on, below.
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Interactive Games and Concept Cars (Video)
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 8:50am EST by Roblimo
So far, Timothy Lord has showed you the Tesla Model S, a CODA electric car, both gas and electric Smarts, and the Chevy Segway. Now, in his final wrapup video from the North American International Auto Show, he looks at some concept car models he doesn't think will ever make it to production, along with some interactive games some of the car makers used to draw attention to their products.
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SEC Takes Action Against Latvian Hacker
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 8:09am EST by timothy
wiredmikey writes "The SEC has filed charges against a trader in Latvia for conducting a widespread online account intrusion scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 NYSE and Nasdaq securities by making unauthorized purchases or sales from hijacked brokerage accounts. The SEC also went after four online trading firms and eight executives who are said to have helped the hacker make more than $850,000 in ill-gotten funds. The SEC's actions occurred on the same day that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued an investor alert and a regulatory notice about an increase in financially motivated attacks targeting email."
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Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:48am EST by timothy
angry tapir writes "I recently caught up with some of the key developers of Rockbox: An open source firmware replacement for the stock firmware shipped on MP3 players. The project, which has been active for over a decade, currently supports products from more than half a dozen manufacturers, including Apple, Arhcos, iRiver and Toshiba. It involves extensive reverse engineering to figure out how the devices' stock firmwares operate, as well as the challenge of developing for greatly varied targets. You can read the interview here (or the full Q&As with the project's founder and some of the developers involved in it)."
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Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 5:31am EST by Steven Bink
This update contains hotfixes for issues that were fixed after the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Note The build of this cumulative update package is known as build 10.50.2796.0.
Important notes about this cumulative update package
- SQL Server 2008 hotfixes are now multilingual. Therefore, the cumulative update package is not specific to one language and applies to all supported languages.
- One cumulative update package includes all the component packages. However, the cumulative update package updates only those components that are installed on the system
KB number Description 955850 Error message when you try to use the binaries from the SQL Server System CLR Types package (SQLSysClrTypes.msi): "Unable to load DLL 'SqlServerSpatial.dll': This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect" 970198 FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses the row_number function in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2159286 FIX: The Remote Registry service crashes when an application tries to retrieve performance counter data from an instance of SQL Server on another computer 2445812 FIX: A column that uses the DATETIME data type does not replicate to an Oracle subscriber by using a transactional replication in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2510788 FIX: Success message is incorrectly logged when a distributed transaction of an SSIS 2005 package, of an SSIS 2008 package or of an SSIS 2008 R2 package is aborted 2515286 FIX: "There is no function '{urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql}:variable()" error for an XQuery query that updates the value of an XML column in SQL Server 2005, in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2550375 FIX: Deadlock might occur in sys.dm_database_encryption_keys DMV in SQL Server 2008 R2 when you run log shipping from many databases to one secondary server 2562753 FIX: Slow performance when an MDX query uses unary operators on parent/child hierarchy members in SSAS 2008 R2 if you define a scope calculation on these members and if the query accesses multiple dates in a time dimension 2567366 FIX: Slow performance when you restore a database in SQL Server 2008 R2 if CDC is enabled 2580224 FIX: Incorrect results when you commit the Unpivot transformation to a SSIS package in SSIS 2008 or in SSIS 2008 R2 2583994 FIX: SSIS Checkpoint restores an incorrect variable value for an Execute SQL Task item of a For Loop Container item in SSIS 2008 or in SSIS 2008 R2 if an SSIS package executes again after it fails or stops 2588506 FIX: SQLGetDiagRec function does not return errors in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 if more than 2100 query parameters are sent 2588970 FIX: "Server: Msg 7359" error when you run a distributed query in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 if a schema version is updated more than five times 2591461 FIX: "Unexpected error from SE OLEDB interface" error when you run a full-text search query in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2597229 FIX: Report Builder 3.0 stops responding if SSRS 2008 R2 uses forms authentication 2598903 FIX: SQL Server Agent job randomly stops when you schedule the job to run past midnight on specific days in SQL Server 2005, in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2603910 FIX: Backup fails in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 if you enable change tracking on the database 2606301 FIX: High memory usage when you run Replication Snapshot Agent in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2606918 FIX: NULL value in the Retention column in sysmergepublications table and effects on the metadata cleanup process when you set up a merge replication environment in a republishing topology in SQL Server 2008 R2 2616117 FIX: Incorrect mail profile is displayed in the Alert System page in SQL Server 2008 R2 2616718 FIX: Poor performance when you synchronize the data from a SQL Server 2008 R2 publisher to a SQL Server compact 3.5 subscriber 2618676 FIX: Transaction log backup is created even though the full backup is canceled in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2618680 FIX: "Not registered correctly" error when you use a pull subscription and the Replication Interactive Conflict Resolver 2620762 FIX: Acknowledgement messages are not sent by a SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Broker target 2622668 FIX: Error message when you delete some records of a table at the publisher if the schema name of the table is not [dbo] 2622823 FIX: ghost_record_count values keep increasing in SQL Server 2008 R2 2624272 FIX: Error 9013 when you try to start the SQL Server services after you apply SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 for SQL Server 2008 R2 2624527 FIX: Clustered index is not used in the execution plan in SQL Server 2008 R2 if a query uses two or more partitions 2626637 FIX: DRILLTHROUGH statement does not work if it is run against some attribute members whose values contain one or more double quotation marks in SSAS 2008 R2 2628126 FIX: "Fulltext index error during compression or decompression" error when you create a full-text index in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 if the primary key is set to a BIGINT column 2628712 FIX: An infinite loop occurs in a hierarchy that contains a circular relationship in SQL Server 2008 R2 2629168 FIX: Internal error when you update a cellset that is returned after you run a query against a perspective in SSAS 2008 R2 2629456 FIX: Access violation when you insert a record into a new empty partition in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2632021 FIX: A SSRS 2008 R2 report that has toggle items is not paginated 2633271 FIX: SQL Server services cannot be stopped on a computer that has SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition installed 2634571 Improvements for the DBCC CHECKDB command may result in faster performance when you use the PHYSICAL_ONLY option 2635827 FIX: Access violation when you run a DBCC CHECKDB command against a database that contains a table that has a spatial index in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2638216 FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses an MDX reserved keyword as a parameter name in SSAS 2008 R2 2638448 FIX: Access violation when a query is compiled or recompiled in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2008 R2 2639301 FIX: Error message when you review a SSRS 2008 R2 report that has a tablix data region if the region contains some chart or gauge or map items 2641923 FIX: Incorrect custom color distribution when you use numeric values for the Start Value and the End Value of custom color distribution buckets in SSRS 2008 R2 2641971 FIX: "Error: Data conversion failed" error when you use multiple characters as the column delimiter in Flat File Connection Manager in SSIS 2008 R2 2643340 FIX: Action property does not work when you view an SSRS 2008 R2 report in Report Manager 2644396 FIX: Merge replication changes are missing on a SQL Server Compact subscriber when they subscribe to a partition in SQL Server 2008 R2 2645648 FIX: Export procedure fails when you export a 64-bit SSRS 2008 R2 report that contains multiple levels of document map to the PDF format 2646224 FIX: Query plan is displayed as an XML document incorrectly when you set the SHOWPLAN_XML option to ON in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 2647120 FIX: Incorrect page numbers are displayed when you export a SSRS 2008 R2 report into PDF format 2648158 FIX: "The process could not execute" error message when you set a nonzero value in the MaxCmdsInTran parameter of the Log Reader Agent in SQL Server 2008 R2 2649359 FIX: An access violation occurs in the "sqlservr!CSbMsgDispatcher::CSbReceivedDialog::AppendMsg" class in SQL Server 2008 R2 2651629 FIX: Error message when you use DTA to tune one or more queries against a database that contains many objects in SQL Server 2008 R2 2652582 FIX: "Invalid authorization specification" error message when you run the SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Deployment Wizard by using the SQL Server Authentication mode 2653893 FIX: It takes a long time to restore a database in SQL Server 2008 R2 2633151 The SQL Server database transaction log file does not grow by the configured file growth value Request a download: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2633146
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Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 2:50am EST by timothy
mask.of.sanity writes "If you can't create valuable content to attract users to your site, Russian cyber criminals will sell them to you. A web store has been discovered that sells hacked traffic that has been redirected from legitimate sites. Sellers inject hidden iframes into popular web sites and redirect the traffic to a nominated domain. Buyers purchase the traffic from the store to direct to their sites and the sellers get paid."
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Anger With Game Content Lock Spurs Reaction From Studio Head Curt Shilling
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 11:57pm EST by timothy
MojoKid writes "Studios and publishers are fighting back hard against the used game market, with the upcoming title Kingdoms of Amular, the latest to declare it will use a content lock. In this case, KoA ups the ante by locking out part of the game that's normally available in single-player mode. Gamers exploded, with many angry that game content that had shipped on the physical disc was locked away and missing, as well as being angry at the fact that content was withheld from used game players. One forum thread asking if the studio fought back against allowing EA to lock the content, went on for 49 pages before Curt Shilling, the head of 38 Studios, took to the forums himself. His commentary on the situation is blunt and to the point. 'This is not 38 trying to take more of your money, or EA in this case, this is us rewarding people for helping us! If you disagree due to methodology, ok, but that is our intent... companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make, when they are bought. Is that wrong? if so please tell me how.'"
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Siri Competitor Evi Arrives, But Already Overloaded
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 8:58pm EST by timothy
mikejuk writes "Evi, a new rival to Siri, Apple's voice-driven personal assistant, has made its debut on both the iPhone and the Android. And people are so keen to that Evi's servers are overloaded — so be prepared for a wait for answers." The app costs 99 cents for iOS users, but it's free on Android.
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Ask Slashdot: Wireless Proximity Detection?
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 6:57pm EST by timothy
New submitter Cinnamon Whirl writes "As a chemist, I work in a both lab and office enviroments, and need access to data in both, without causing undue clutter in either. My company has recently purchased two Win7 tablets for trial usage with electronic lab notebooks, propietry software, SAP, email etc. These are also useful for sharing in meetings, etc. As part of this project, I have been wondering whether we can use these tablets to detect other devices by proximity. Examples could include finding the nearest printer or monitor or, perhaps trickier, could two roaming devices find each other? Although lab technology is rarely cutting edge, I can see a day when all our sensors and probes will broadcast data (wireless thermocouples are already available), and positioning information will become much more important. What technologies exist to do this? How accurate can the detection be?"
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UCLA Professor Says Conventional Wisdom on Study Habits Is All Washed Up
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 5:43pm EST by timothy
An anonymous reader writes "Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? According to Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, distinguished professor of psychology, and massively renowned expert on packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out, all are three are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning."
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Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 4:38pm EST by timothy
Hugh Pickens writes "Kate Murphy writes that as cellphones have gotten smarter, they have become less like phones and more like computers, and that with more than a million phones worldwide already hacked, technology experts expect breached, infiltrated or otherwise compromised cellphones to be the scourge of 2012. Cellphones are often loaded with even more personal information than PCs, so an undefended or carelessly operated phone can result in a breathtaking invasion of individual privacy as well as the potential for data corruption and outright theft. But there are a few common sense ways to protect yourself: Avoid free, unofficial versions of popular apps that often have malware hidden in the code, avoid using Wi-Fi in a Starbucks or airport which leaves you open to hackers, and be wary of apps that want permission to make phone calls, connect to the Internet or reveal your identity and location."
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Twitter's new censorship plan slammed (Australian IT)
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 3:46pm EST
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Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 3:40pm EST by timothy
An anonymous reader writes "Mitt Romney's campaign is airing an ad that is basically 30 seconds lifted from an NBC News broadcast and NBC is trying to stop them from using the ad. I found it interesting that the Romney campaign is invoking fair use to defend the ad. Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said 'we believe it falls within fair use. We didn't take the entire broadcast; we just took the first 30 seconds.'"
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Greenfields lobby group escalates NBN complaint (itnews)
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 3:12pm EST
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Thousands Take To the Streets To Protest ACTA
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 2:38pm EST by timothy
An anonymous reader writes "The protests against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continue to spread in cities across Europe. The protests began in Poland, where thousands have taken to the streets and opposition politicians have worn Guy Fawkes masks in protest against the country signing the agreement last week. The scenes from Poland and France are remarkable, demonstrating the widespread anger over the decision to join ACTA. A full rundown of protest plans can be found here."
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DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power
Posted: January 29th, 2012, 1:41pm EST by timothy
coondoggie writes "The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential of future systems. Technologists from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for an ambitious answer to the problem and will next month detail a new program it expects will develop power technologies that could bolster system power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt."
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