Having proudly claimed the first Android-Windows Phone dual-boot phones would arrive by spring, Huawei is now backpedalling—saying they won’t happen after all. Sound familiar?
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This article was written on June 18, 2008 by CyberNet.
You’ve probably heard some buzz about reddit over the last few days with people speculating what it is they’re going to announce tonight when they meet with some of their fans at a bar in San Francisco. Yesterday they posted on their blog with an invite to their readers saying they had an announcement to make on the 18th of June and there’d be “plenty of beer, miniature hamburgers, and something else even more intoxicating and delicious…”
Once people saw the invite showing a penguin, everybody started speculating that it was either going to involve Linux, or open-source in one way or another. The party has yet to start (it’s tonight) but reddit has already announced that they are in fact going open source. We’re not sure if this means there’s something else they plan to announce tonight or if it’ll just be more of a celebration when they meet with their fans.
So about reddit going Open Source, they say this move will help them be even more transparent with their users and is a logical “next step.” They wanted to be able to give back to the community who has given them a lot, and so opening up is their way of saying thanks. A new site has been set-up where the public can go to download the code behind reddit and it’s found at http://code.reddit.com. There you’ll find everything you need to go to get started.
As Mashable points out, now that the code is available, there’s going to be a race to see who will be able to dissect it and determine how reddit works the way it does. And once that’s determined, it could mean people will try to game the system. Hopefully people will be appreciative of reddit’s decision to go open source and use the code to make the site even better.
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With its latest research project, Volvo is hoping to make driving in inclement weather a bit less dicey. The Swedish automaker is testing a safety system that uses mobile data networks to relay icy road conditions from vehicle to vehicle. Once you…
"Not tonight, darling, I just don't want to listen to you."
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I know that Nancy Reagan always encouraged us to “just say no.”
But it’s not easy, is it? Some people can be terribly insistent, nagging even. Some can sulk or get aggressive.
Thankfully, it seems that Americans have found a new way to tell their significant others that they don’t have a significant mood for sex: they say they’re busy online shopping.
You might think I’m making it up. And I might think that people who create these surveys are making it up too.
All I can tell you is that the cashback rewards site EBates commissioned TNS to perform a study among 1,000 American adults that emitted fascinating conclusions.
Some 10 percent of women say they use their mobile devices — and the excuse of shopping on them — to deter their lovers from getting amorous.
But here’s the nugget that might astound even more: 13 percent of men admitted to doing the same thing.
I confess that I hadn’t considered online shopping as a means of expressing emotions toward another person. I certainly couldn’t imagine telling a lover that I wasn’t feeling carnal because I was trying to decide which pair of camel boots to buy.
And you’ll forgive me, I hope, if I mention that survey respondents … [Read more]
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