Intel, Nokia tout MeeGo as inclusive alternative to Android
During the annual LinuxCon conference last week in Boston, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin moderated a discussion panel about the Linux-based MeeGo platform with Nokia's MeeGo Ecosystem Development head Thomas Miller and Intel open source technologist Derek Speed. During the panel, Miller and Speed discussed some of the technical and logistical characteristics that differentiate MeeGo from other mobile platforms.
The MeeGo project was launched earlier this year when Intel and Nokia brought together their respective mobile Linux platforms in a combined effort to reduce fragmentation and offer device vendors a standardized platform. The MeeGo platform is endorsed by the Linux Foundation, which has taken on a stewardship role with the aim of facilitating collaboration around the software. Although the underlying software components on which MeeGo is based are relatively mature and functional, the convergence process is still ongoing.
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Pepsi spill causes sticky mess in science blogging ecosystem
The potential for blogs and other new forms of communication to reshape the media landscape has almost certainly been oversold, but there's one corner of the landscape that has been transformed by blogging: scientific communications. As science blogs have grown in number and credibility, their ability to take scientific results directly to the public has changed the dynamics of science reporting—scientists who blog are some of the regular media's fiercest critics, and provide an alternate, often more nuanced take on the latest scientific findings. But, given the growth in popularity and credibility, it was inevitable that someone would try to cash in on science blogging. That someone turned out to be Pepsi, which cut a deal with a major science blogging platform that ultimately led to a full scale exodus and questions about whether providing science bloggers a platform made any sense.
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Uncharted, and now everything: give Nolan North a time out
Nolan North is probably best known for playing Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series of games, and in that role he took a character that could have been little more than a bundle of Indiana Jones jokes and brought it to life. North as Drake is always a pleasure to listen to, and is a large part of the appeal of the Uncharted titles... but then he became the go-to guy when you needed a hero or character who sounded like Nolan North, or Nathan Drake. It's a problem.It's not that North isn't a talented voice-over artist, because he is. It's not that he doesn't deserve work, because he does. The problem is that his voice sticks out like a sore thumb, and it can be found in so many games that, at this point, it doesn't aid immersion as much as it actively pulls you out of a game.
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Apple manager charged with taking kickbacks from suppliers
A manager at Apple has been indicted on 23 counts of money laundering, wire fraud, and accepting kickbacks of over $1 million from would-be Apple suppliers in Asia. Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager, and Singapore resident Andrew Ang are accused of soliciting payments from suppliers in exchange for confidential information that would enable the companies to win contracts from Apple.According to the indictment, Devine had the companies bidding to supply iPod and iPad components wire numerous small payments to a number of US and offshore bank accounts held by him and at least one shell company. Devine is currently in custody in California, while an IRS agent declined to tell the The Mercury News if Ang was in custody.
Apple condemned Devine's alleged actions in a statement. "Apple is committed to the highest ethical standards in the way we do business," spokesperson Steve Dowling said. "We have zero tolerance for dishonest behavior inside or outside the company."
Devine will appear in federal court on Monday afternoon.
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Weird Science medicates its vices in real time
Why not just add it to the ground beef?: Try to figure this one out: helmet is to motorcycle as _______ is to hamburger and milkshake. Give up? The answer, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology is a statin, a cholesterol-lowering drug. Comparing the coronary artery risk associated with fat intake to the risk reduction enabled by statins, the authors found that statins nicely cancel out fast food. And, at least in the UK, low-dose statins are available over-the-counter. The authors suggest that the pills should be viewed just like any other safety measure we take in response to engaging in a high-risk activity. I only trust you because I know you're not lying: The cliché of a trusting individual in movies and literature is not a kind one: naive, easily duped, and prone to abuse by people willing to play games with the truth. Apparently, that cliché doesn't hold water. When faced with a panel of potential job candidates, some of whom were padding their records, the people with high general trust in others were significantly better at identifying the lies. Apparently, their trust is based on the confidence that they'll know when it's being violated.
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Net neutrality protesters lay siege to Google (for an hour)
"We had a bunch of papers which had, like, talking points so that we could all be on the same page," explained the net neutrality activist leaning over the front seat of our chartered bus. "But we can't find them."Laughter erupted from the rest of the vehicle. Nobody cared. It was Friday afternoon. And after all, this was San Francisco, where two or more people being on the same page about anything is a misdemeanor.
With that, a dozen or so protesters (and Ars) rode from the city's Opera Plaza to Mountain View, California, headquarters of Google, now fallen from grace since the release of its watered-down net neutrality manifesto with Verizon.
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