7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers
Passionate
Able to Learn, Unlearn and Re-learn
Balance Principle and Practice
Keep It Simple Software (KISS)
If You Don’t Know the Answer, Know Someone Who Does
Focus on Value
Puts the Needs of the Many Before the Needs of the One
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EU to investigate Microsoft file format support
A new plan by Microsoft to allow its Office software to save and edit files in a rival format will face a probe by the European Commission.
The Commission said late Wednesday that it will investigate whether Microsoft’s decision to add support for the Open Document Format to Office will result in greater consumer choice.
Microsoft’s move, also announced Wednesday, is seen as a concession to regulators concerned about competition and to customers, mainly governments, worried about product lock-in.
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Apple’s digital home, five years out
Five years from now, with Apple aiming to become the center of the digital home, users may expect to see a number of key products and services designed to connect PCs and digital content to HDTV stereo audiovisual networks, according to “The Future of Apple” report, released by Forrester Research on Thursday.
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Dell to cut XPS gaming desktops, embrace Alienware
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning on Dell’s plan to stop competing with itself. Rather than selling both high-end XPS gaming PCs as well as similar products from Alienware (which it acquired in 2006), Dell will shift all of its gaming energies at Alienware, including providing Dell R&D resources.
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Wafer-thin: Samsung’s OLED laptop prototype
This picture of a Samsung OLED laptop prototype raises more questions than it answers. Just how thin and light is it? Is touch-typing possible on that keyboard? Where’s the mouse pad? What’s that panel behind the display? Why is the woman pictured on the display checking her pulse? When can I have one?
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Google gathers 3D data with Street View
Google confirmed today it’s gathering 3D data along with the photographs it takes for its online Street View service, a potential boon for those of us who fantasize about flying like Superman through urban landscapes, at least virtually.
“The imaging technology includes lasers that collect 3D geometry data,” the company said Thursday in a statement. However, for now at least, the 3D information is just experimental, Google said.
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Google Translate speaks 10 new languages
Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India.
The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish. That brings the total to 23 languages, Google said in a blog posting Thursday.
In addition, Google added a language-detection feature that can guess the source language a user is trying to translate. It’s more effective with longer amounts of text, Google said.
Detect Language means you only have to click the language you want to translate text into.
|| Tags: Google, Hindi, Translation HP to launch fall line of teen PC products
PALO ALTO, Calif.–Hewlett-Packard wants to get hip to teens.
At an event here this week focused on teenagers and technology, Ameer Karim, director of HP’s future and innovations group for consumer PCs, said that it plans to introduce a new line of devices this fall that will be designed by teens, for teens.
“We’ve used this teen council to help us with everything from the design of the products, the user interface and the box design, even including how the Web site will look,” Karim said on a panel of executives talking about marketing to the younger generation. Representatives from Sun and Microsoft were also panelists.
“That’s a major transformation for a company like HP, which has been much more focused on an older crowd,” Karim added.
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Is Intel’s and AMD’s duopoly coming to an end?
Is the end of the Intel-AMD duopoly nigh? Via Technologies is hoping this may be the case when it announces the “Isaiah” processor later this month.
The company’s first high-performance x86 chip will be targeted at the mainstream PC market–another first for the Taipei-based chip supplier. Via processors have historically appeared in ultrasmall mobile devices (such as the OQO), embedded computers, or thin-client computers.
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