Apple looking at dual-mode touchscreen desktops and laptops

With Mac OS X and iOS both sharing a lot of underlying code, and touchscreen interfaces becoming more popular, there is certainly reason to believe that Apple could leverage an iOS-like touchscreen interface for future computers. Patently Apple recently discovered a patent application filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization primeval this year, which reveals that Apple has considered how both desktop and laptop individualized could switch from a more traditional desktop UI saint suited for use with a ..read more

Windows Phone 7 nears the finish line with SDK release date

Even as Windows Phone 7′s launch rapidly approaches—currently expected to be October for the EU, November for the US —developers are still using incomplete beta tools for creating applications for Microsoft’s new phone platform.

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One-night stands make birds uncooperative

To cooperate or not to cooperate is a question that apiece breeding species has to answer. From an evolutionary standpoint, breeding passes on half your genetic material, while your siblings will pass on a quarter of your genetic material. If life isn’t too difficult, then it makes sense to do your own breeding and ignore your siblings—or, perhaps, try to outcompete them

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Lady Java Video Marks Exact Point Where Geek Culture Jumped The Shark

Lady Java , whose whiny drone is making me pretty nostalgic for the days when non-developers thought Java was a kind of coffee, is the creation of the supremely dorky folks over at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway. And while you might argue that the Java developer community is still small and tight knit, that thing is currently rounding out 100,000 views on the originally posted YouTube video and countless others on repost

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Reach out and touch your netbook with Ubuntu multitouch

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced Monday that multitouch support and gesture-based interaction will arrive in Ubuntu 10.10, the next major version of the favourite Linux distribution. The feature will be tightly integrated in Unity , Ubuntu’s new lightweight netbook environment. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has developed a software framework called uTouch that is intended to simplify gesture handling

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Most people in the dark about best ways to save energy

Many people are profoundly misinformed about how much energy they use and how much they can save, according to a study published in PNAS on Monday. A sampling of adults showed that most people incorrectly think that actions like turning off lights and unplugging idle cell phone chargers save more energy than using more efficient appliances, like compact fluorescent light bulbs. They also evidenced to be poor at estimating differences in energy use between various appliances, suggesting that the ..read more

SBS beta and WHS Vail release candidate are out

Microsoft has released new previews of two of its server products: the first beta of the new cloud-based Small Business Server Aurora, and an updated beta of the second version of Windows Home Server, codenamed ” Vail .” The first beta of Vail was released in April . The new version of Windows Home Server provides more robust storage management and better backup options, including the ability to back up Mac OS X computers

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Google calls Oracle Android lawsuit ‘baseless,’ says Java goes ‘beyond any one corporation’

Oracle’s decision to sue Google for infringing its patents and copyright on Java in Android has certainly stirred up a hornets’ nest of commentary and analysis on the web today, but it’s only just now that we’ve received Google’s official statement, in which the search giant calls the suit “baseless” and vows to “defend open-source standards.” Them’s fightin’ words — and considering the Dalvik virtual organisation at the heart of the Android OS is the centerpiece of this dispute, ..read more

Hands-on: KDE 4.5 launches with tiling, new notifications

The developers behind the KDE project have officially released version 4.5 of the KDE Software Collection. The update brings some improvements to the environment’s stability, performance, and functionality.

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AMD Fusion won’t kill the GPU, but what if it kills the CPU?

AMD’s Godfrey Cheng has a post on the company’s blog, saying that AMD’s upcoming CPU + GPU “Fusion” chips will not, in fact, kill the venerable and much-loved discrete GPU. Cheng claims that he’s frequently asked if AMD’s “APU” plans—where APU stands for “Accelerated Processing Unit,” and is AMD’s term for a chip that includes a CPU and GPU on the same die—will result in the eventual demise of discrete graphics. It’s plausible that he’s asked this quite a ..read more

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