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Porsche this month revealed it had made EU3.6bn from share options in the year to July, compared with about EU1bn from sales of its cars. The news provoked comments from some analysts that the German luxury marque was acting more like a hedge fund than a carmaker. (Read content ‘Balancing industrial enterprise with financial speculation (FT.com)’…)
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San Francisco - The Software Freedom Law Center, an organization focused on protecting open source and free software, has filed copyright lawsuits against two U.S. companies, alleging that they are redistributing software in violation of the GNU GPL (General Public License). ADVERTISEMENT
The SFLC filed lawsuits Monday on behalf of the developers of BusyBox against High-Gain Antennas of Parker, Colo., and Xterasys of City of Industry, Calif. (Read content ‘Free software group files copyright lawsuits (InfoWorld)’…)
As a publication whose bread and butter is handheld gadgets, we’re obviously more than a little excited about ‘ upcoming LEGO-style DIY electronics kit, which allows users to affix various modules to a small, open-source computer and create such magical products as a GPS-enabled digital camera with built in 3G modem and motion detector. (Read content ‘Working Bug Labs hardware hands-on’…)
San Francisco - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded the license for 10MHz of valuable wireless spectrum to a public safety organization in anticipation of the spectrum being used to build out a nationwide emergency communications network. ADVERTISEMENT
The FCC awarded the license for the spectrum in the 700MHz band to the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. (Read content ‘FCC awards spectrum to public safety group (InfoWorld)’…)
San Francisco - Nokia Siemens announced an energy-efficient mobile network equipment package, the first announcement of more to come that show a commitment to improving the energy consumption of its network gear, the company said. The package includes software that can reduce the energy used by base stations by setting some components to enter a power-saving mode at night, a time when network traffic dramatically decreases. (Read content ‘Nokia Siemens adopts ‘green’ policy to cut costs (InfoWorld)’…)
San Francisco - Mozilla has released a beta version of , moving its next-generation browser one step closer to general release. ADVERTISEMENT
Close to 75,000 developers have been testing early "alpha" versions of Firefox 3.0 code for several months now, but this first beta release of the code, unveiled Tuesday, should open up the software to a much larger group of testers, said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering. (Read content ‘Firefox 3.0 beta release adds security, search (InfoWorld)’…)
San Francisco - The news last week that , a SaaS (Software as a Service) vendor for remote management of desktops, was further evidence of a once phenomenally successful high-tech company trying to change its product offerings to satisfy the new and more complex requirements of its enterprise customers and to return to its former glory. (Read content ‘Dell wants to be more than a hardware vendor (InfoWorld)’…)
The online for the just quietly went live on our side of the world with two downloadable PSP titles, 16 PSone titles, and a handful of themes, wallpapers, and videos. Wipeout Pure and Syphon Filter: Combat Ops are the first two $10 PSP games out of the gate, and highlights of the PSone list include Twisted Metal 2, Crash Bandicoot, and Tekken 2, all for $6. (Read content ‘PlayStation Store for PSP goes live in the US’…)