Monday, August 10, 2009

10-Aug-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

A Neilson survey shows that Stuff has had 1 1/2 million different browsers connecting to it, putting it ahead of its rival The Herald:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/herald-gets-stuffed-107097

Sky TV to offer internet remote control of Sky Boxen for no additional cost. Control by TXT message to come soon:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2734003/Sky-TV-to-offer-Remote-Record

Cannonical to move Ubuntu developers onto Debian to quell critics and persuade Debian to go for a feature freeze:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/shuttleworth_ubuntu_debian/

German researchers at Chemnitz University of Technology are able to print paper-thin batteries for smartcards from manganese and zinc:
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218400704

A new Wine free Windows runtime for Linux is released with 120 bugfixes and multiple language updates:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.27

And finally. Researchers find that dogs are about as smart as the average human ywo-year-old - for a given value of smart:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5994583/Dogs-as-intelligent-as-two-year-old-children.html

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