dBTechnoNetflix Set to Increase Blu-Ray StockPC Magazine - 9 hours agoby Brian Heater "The war is over, and Blu-Ray won," says Netflix vice president Steve Swasey, in response to Toshiba's recent decision to discontinue the production of HD-DVD hardware.Get Your $50 HD DVD for Xbox Now eFluxMediaHD-DVD players not obsolete, but consumers won’t have as many choices Chattanooga Times Free PressDailyTech - CRN - International Business Times - Punch Jumpall 499 news articles

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Canada.comCrunch time for Microsoft's Open XML standards bidCNET News.com - 11 hours agoGovernment technocrats are meeting this week in Geneva to decide the fate of Microsoft's Office Open XML, a document format that backers say is worthy of an international standard but foes call a risk to people's liberties in the Digital Age.The Open XML debate resumes before the ISO BetaNewsUPDATE 1-Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standard ReutersZDNet Blogs - Ars Technica - Sydney Morning Herald - Manila Standard Todayall 41 news articles

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DexignerNokia demos bendable cell phoneCNET News.com - 8 hours agoThe new concept phone is part of an online display presented in conjunction with the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition underway through May 12 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.Nokia expects real-life 'Transformers' in seven years BetaNewsNokia Uses Nano Tech For 'Morph' Concept Cell Phone InformationWeekTechNewsWorld - BusinessWeek - Guardian Unlimited - Washington Postall 111 news articles

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dBTechnoAdobe Blurs Line Between PC and WebNew York Times - 3 hours agoBy JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO - On sabbatical in 2001 from Macromedia, Kevin Lynch, a software developer, was frustrated that he could not get to his Web data when he was off the Internet and annoyed that he could not get to his PC data when he was …Adobe RIA Technologies to change the Internet I4UWith Adobe AIR out, Microsoft readies Silverlight 2 CNET News.comInformationWeek - Ars Technica - Washington Post - BetaNewsall 232 news articles

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This is what the future looks like. Heavy adoption of open source at the core of commercial software so that developers can focus on pushing the envelope on innovation, not reinventing wheels that provide no discernible differentiation.

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Like eating fruits and vegetables or building lighter cars, open-source technology seemed like the sort of good idea that would always go ignored.  But according to Gartner, elements of open-source technology will be present in 80 percent of all commercial software by the year 2012. read more

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jammag writes “If the marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo were to be consummated, GNU/Linux would be hindered, argues Roy Schestowitz. Yahoo’s funding of open source initiatives would dry up. Yahoo, which acquired Zimbra, would lose its love for the open source competitor of Microsoft Outlook. The list goes on…” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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An analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers was up 26%.

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Companies looking to get an edge through open-source codes and software may be setting themselves up for quite a fall if they are not up to speed on the legality of using other people’s work. Business owners in every field may be exposing themselves to a legal mess and compromising their own intellectual property rights.

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