Friday, August 3, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 03/08/2012





Firefox continues to gain as Internet Explorer, Chrome slide
Windows 7 growth slows, and Safari remains the mobile favorite.

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Oculus Rift head-mounted display finds funding from developers
Carmack, Newell among prominent backers for Kickstarter effort.

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KDE 4.9 arrives with incremental improvements, KDE devs prepare for Qt 5
Developers intend to modularize KDE libraries for next version of the platform.

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Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills
Legislation would be the first time Congress defines "software patent."

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Congressman presses for limits on domestic drone data collection
Bill would restrict data gathered by commercial, law enforcement UAVs.

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Apple wants Samsung punished for leaking rejected evidence to press
Samsung tried to influence jury through the media, Apple says.

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Illinois employers can no longer force Facebook password disclosure
Midwestern state follows law signed earlier this year in Maryland.

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Hands-on: Amazon Instant Video on iPad sorely lacks Airplay support
Still, Amazon Prime subscribers will get the most from this app.

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Nokia reportedly planning to sell Qt as more developers are laid off
Nokia has shut down the Qt offices in Australia, which were responsible for QML.

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Good riddance: the death of online gaming's monthly subscription model
The Old Republic's free-to-play shift signals the end of an era.

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HP wins judgment in Itanium suit against Oracle
Court finds Oracle breached contract, is required to port products to Itanium.

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Bad financial algorithm leads to severe stock market disarray
Knight Capital Group's code appears responsible; 150 stocks involved in error.

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Google Wallet now accepts major credit cards of all magnetic stripes
A barrier to consumer adoption falls; retailer adoption remains an obstacle.

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Android 4.0 ported to Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer
The port includes support for hardware-accelerated graphics and video playback.

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IPv6 on its way to conquer the world after World IPv6 Launch
IPv6: 60 percent of some university traffic, but still not enabled everywhere.

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Apple's Twitter talks were mostly about product integration, not investing
The company "floated the idea" of investing in Twitter, but nothing came of it.

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