Thursday, October 9, 2008

09-Oct-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Apple are granted a patent on the dock after 9 years. Watch that boost innovation (yeah, right):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/apple_patents_osx_dock/ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,434,177.PN.&OS=PN/7,434,177&RS=PN/7,434,177

Firefox gets a location-based plugin so now applications can know where you live:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7659497.stm

Interview with Linus Torvalds on Linux distributions. He uses Fedora but also likes Ubuntu. Let the flamewars begin:
http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/linux-torvalds-on-linux-distri.html

Using cameras and a heads-up display, a car body can be made to appear transparent to the driver, improving road safety:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14896-transparent-cockpit-removes-car-blind-spots.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news5_head_dn14896

And finally. Ciscon ships a VPN clinet CD containing 12 tracks of snappy Spanish music instead of the usual boring software:
http://dave.fumberger.com/2008/10/08/cisco-networks-new-album/

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