In the News: 2012-05-13

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Klaus

Mac News: Why Apple’s many patents in Germany get stayed   
Here at TUAW, we’ve found ourselves covering lawsuits around Apple quite a bit lately, especially in Germany, where Apple is getting sued by lots of companies, and then getting shut down by the courts. Ever wonder why so many companies sue in Germany, or why so many of Apple’s arguments are stayed? Here comes FOSS Patents to the rescue, with this great piece on Apple’s legal troubles.    
Read full story => tuaw

Technology News: Help! There’s A Patent On My Idea! What Now?   
One of the most frequent questions I get asked goes something like this: “I have a really great idea, but (name of big company or university) has a patent on that. What do I do?” With over 8,000,000 patents issued to date and thousands of new patents issued weekly, chances are good that patents have been issued that are relevant to your business or idea. Knowingly infringing an active patent can lead to disastrous consequences for your business. So what do you do?    
Read full story => TechCrunch

Programming News: Never use hard tabs  
As there seems to be some confusion when hard tab characters (ASCII code 9) are appropriate in source code files here is a rule:   

  • Never use hard tabs, unless your source code is hard tab sensitive (only such format I know is Makefile)

Read full story => OpenSourceHacker

Other News: US Government To Make Texting While Walking illegal   
We all know how danger is talking to someone while driving or even reading, Texting a message or else because it consider illegal in too many countries and there is too many people who are arrested by the police  because talking in their mobile devices but what about texting while walking? Is that dangerous, too? Maybe this is the perfect ad for Apple’s Siri?    
Read full story => iJailbreakNow

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In the News: 2012-05-12

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Klaus

Mac News: Apple-Owned Map Technologies to Replace Google in iOS 6   
Apple’s “Maps” app will be updated in iOS 6 to use Apple-owned technologies to replace Google’s mapping data for the backend, according to unnamed sources at 9to5Mac and AllThingsD. Included is a new 3D mode that will reportedly be part of the re-engineered system.    
Read full story => MacObserver

Technology News: Bitcoins worth $87,000 plundered in brazen server breach   
More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage.    
Read full story => ars technica

Programming News: Where is that next big programming language?   
TIOBE has released the Programming Community Index for May 2012 a bit late. The top 3 languages do not change compared to last Month TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language, they are still C,Java and C++. However, the share of Java is continuing dropping, Objective-C is steadily rising  Other languages which have rising trend are Visual Basic.NET，PL/SQL and Logo.    
Read full story => PixelsTech

Other News: Facebook updates its data policy   
As part of the changes, Facebook is also signaling that it may start showing people ads on sites other than Facebook, targeting the pitches to interests and hobbies that users express on Facebook. The move comes a week before Facebook’s expected initial public offering of stock. Facebook held events with potential investors this week, and it has posted a version of its road show online. The offering could value Facebook at nearly $100 billion — more than Kraft, Ford and other major brands.    
Read full story => USAtoday

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In the News: 2012-05-11

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Klaus

Mac News: Adobe’s security chief praises Apple for Flash-crippling move   
Adobe’s head of security yesterday applauded Apple’s move to block outdated versions of his company’s Flash Player. ”We welcome today’s initiative by Apple to encourage Mac users to stay up-to-date,” said Brad Arkin, Adobe’s senior director of security, products and services, in a post to the company’s secure engineering blog.    
Read full story => ComputerWorld

Technology News: Betting Everything on Mobile   
Though the purchase price is an anomaly, the message behind Facebook’s $1 billion agreement to buy photo-sharing application Instagram is not: apps are where the money is. It’s a sentiment echoed by countless startups now writing software applications for smart phones and tablets. All are hoping for a share of the $6 billion in revenue that Forrester Research says apps generated in 2011 from purchases and ads. Forrester expects app revenues to double this year, to $12 billion—an incredible figure for a market not yet four years old.    
Read full story => TechnologyReview

Programming News: The salesman and the developer   
A salesman and a developer go on a bear hunting trip. They arrive at the cabin in the woods and start unpacking the car, moving stuff into the cabin, getting things ready for a week of bear hunting in the wilderness. The salesman quickly gets bored of this and says:

“Tell you what, you continue unpacking and getting everything ready, and I’m going to go and find us a bear.”    
Read full story => swombat

Other News: Bing search engine gets major overhaul   
The “Decision Engine” is receiving a significant tuneup. Microsoft unveiled an upgraded version of its Bing search engine focused more on social discovery. The layout breaks down into three columns: a primary panel for traditional search results, a snapshot with useful information on the subject and a sidebar with recommendations from social networks such as Facebook.    
Read full story => USAtoday

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In the News: 2012-05-10

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Klaus

Mac News: iOS 6: The opposite of widgets   
Last week I ruminated out loud about whether or not Apple needs to redesign the iOS Home screen. We’ve continued to discuss it on the podcast and in the forums and I realized something: as much as it’d be nice to information from apps and make it glanceable on the Home Screen, it’d be even better to take functionality of apps and make it accessibly from within other apps.    
Read full story => iMore

Technology News: Ebooks: Is digital opening up a new chapter for publishing?   
With ebook sales on the rise, how is the publishing industry embracing the world of digital? Next week some of the biggest names in publishing will gather at the Hilton in London’s Park Lane for The Bookseller Industry Awards.    
Read full story => BBC News

Programming News: Supporting IE Is Too Much Work   
Yesterday the bitching about IE seemed to be worse than normal. I believe it started with the post “We don’t support Internet Explorer, and we’re calling that a feature” by @Paydirt. When reading the article i was thinking about the insane amount of time I spend on getting sites to work on IE6 and reading that only 1.63% of their traffic uses IE, it makes sense not to support it.    
Read full story => Bartj3

Standards News: Digital object identifier (DOI) becomes an ISO standard   
A new International Standard that provides a system for assigning a unique international identification code to objects for use on digital networks is expected to bring benefits for publishers, information managers, multi-media distributors, archive and cultural heritage communities, and the internet technology industry.    
Read full story => ISO

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In the News: 2012-05-09

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Klaus

Mac News: U.S. version of Proview’s iPad lawsuit dismissed by California judge   
By now, most of you are likely familiar with the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Proview over the iPad trademark. Much of the dispute has unfolded in or around China, but in February the monitor-maker brought its fight Stateside.    
Read full story => iDownloadBlog

Technology News: Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas   
One of the enabling technologies for a quantum internet is the ability to store and retrieve quantum information in a reliable and repeatable way.    
Read full story => MIT Technology Review

Programming News: The New Native Languages   
To many developers, the recent trend of reversion to true compiled languages implies a re-engagement with C and C++, or for denizens of smaller niches, a renewed embrace for Pascal, Fortran, Ada, and other languages of the pre-2000 era. But for some programmers, this native trend, which is most heavily touted by Microsoft as part of its re-engagement for C++, leaves a certain sense of dissatisfaction.    
Read full story => Dr.Dobbs

Other News: US conservatives gain upper hand in Twitter politics   
Following his successful use of Twitter in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Barack Obama is seen by many political pundits as the king of social media. But according to a new analysis of the Twitterverse, US conservatives have fought back and may now possess an online network that is better organised to spread their message.    
Read full story => NewScientist

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