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MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach

Hugh Pickens writes "About 60 people from 20 nations will descend on the MIT campus July 14th for the second annual International Development Design Summit to begin an intensive month-long process of creating technological solutions for the needs of people in the world's developing nations. The goal of the program is to develop simple, inexpensive devices that in some cases can be produced locally and make a real difference for people and communities. The event is the brainchild of MIT Senior Lecturer Amy Smith, a returned Peace Corps volunteer and a past winner of the MacArthur 'genius' grant. Previous products of Smith's design class include a bike-powered corn sheller, a metal press that can make clean-burning fuel out of agricultural waste, and an electricity-free incubator.

TJAT Provides Messaging Solutions to World?s Lowest Cost Smart Phone for Third World Countries at Mobile World Congress

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Taiwan market: Soft-World to launch third online game developed by China-based Perfect World

Soft-World International, the largest developer/operator of online games in Taiwan, at a June 30 press conference announced the launch of Zhuxian Online, developed by China-based Beijing Perfect World, in the Taiwan market. This is the third Beijing Perfect World game Soft-World will operate, the latter indicated.

WORLD ART VISION 2008 to be launched in Cancun

WORLD ART VISION 2008 to be launched in Cancun - Over 100 artists from 5 continents will participate in WORLD ART VISION, which will feature painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, prints, installation art, video and digital art. Arturo Garcia Bustos and Rina Lazo, who were, respectively, pupils of and assistants to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera will be present during the exhibition, therefore bringing an exceptional artistic testimony to WORLD ART VISION: CANCUN 2008. The idea of WORLD ART VISION: CANCUN 2008 comes from a desire to invest in contemporary art in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico; not only to further increase the number of tourists, but also to make it a meeting point for the Americas for collectors, critics and interested parties, to visit a fair where the artists stand beside the art, without the representation of a ga

MIT sues Affymetrix for patent infringement

Affymetrix, the Santa Clara maker of tools used to study DNA and diagnose diseases, was sued for patent infringement by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the company's GeneChip system used to analyze genes. Affymetrix has knowingly infringed the patent, MIT and a company started by an MIT professor said in a federal court complaint filed Tuesday in Boston. Affymetrix filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in September 2004, six months after a similar patent was approved for MIT, the university said in its complaint. The patent regulators ruled in May 2007 that the MIT group was the first inventor, according to the complaint. The GeneChip technology is used to develop new therapeutic drugs and to investigate the cause of cancer, AIDS and other diseases, Affymetrix has said.

GNOME Helping Hands Project Launches

The openSUSE-GNOME Team is proud to announce the launch of the Helping Hands Project. Our first event will be the Helping Hands Grand Opening in the #opensuse-gnome channel on the FreeNode IRC network, June 27th at 14:30 UTC. To find out the time in your area, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?mont... The Helping Hands Project is designed to bring together experts from various areas of the GNOME environment with users who want to learn more about openSUSE-GNOME and applications that run in the GNOME environment. Helping Hands Experts will present on the topic of the week and then open the floor up for questions and answers from users. The Grand Opening event will be an extended two hour event attended by many of our GNOME team members to offer advice and answer questions for setting up and customizing your new openSUSE

Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design

Hugh Pickens writes "Using computers to model the physical world has become increasingly common as products as diverse as cars and planes, pharmaceuticals and cellphones are almost entirely conceived, specified, and designed on a computer screen. Typically, only when these creations are nearly ready for mass manufacturing are prototypes made. But the NYTimes is running an interesting essay highlighting a little-noticed movement in the world of professional design and engineering: a renewed appreciation for manual labor, or innovating with the aid of human hands. 'A lot of people get lost in the world of computer simulation,' says Bill Burnett, executive director of the product design program at Stanford. 'You can't simulate everything.' Fifty years ago, tinkering with gadgets was routine for people drawn to engineering and invention, and

"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World

Stony Stevenson writes "The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers. The list was announced this week during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. IBM's Blue Gene/P, known as 'Intrepid,' is located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and is also ranked third fastest overall. The supercomputer has a peak performance of 557 teraflops and achieved a speed of 450.3 teraflops on the Linpack application used to measure speed for the Top 500 rankings. According to the list, 74.8 percent of the world's supercomputers (some 374 systems) use Intel processors, a rise of 4 percent in six months.

Argonne's supercomputer named world`s fastest for open science, third overall

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List of the world's fastest computers.

Online survey reveals Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour info (Guitar Hero World Tour)

A new survey sent to users of the invitation-only survey site u.talk.back asks the question: which would you rather get, Guitar Hero World Tour, or Rock Band 2? Along with the question, each game is described with various new features. Things such as Rock Band DLC working in RB2, new online modes, and more are described for Rock Band 2, while World Tour is given some new instrument information, as well as a peak at the names and bands involved.

IDG World Expo Previews LinuxWorld Conference 2008

IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events, provided a preview of next week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo®. During the event, which runs August 4-7 at Moscone Center North in San Francisco, more than 200 exhibitors and thousands of Linux and open source users from around the globe will gather to explore the latest products and solutions, learn from industry leaders about emerging trends, and gather intelligence in broad-reaching educational and hands-on training sessions focused on key industry themes.

World Cyber Games USA 2008 National Final Video Game Tournament To Be Held at the E For All Expo in Los Angeles

NEW YORK & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2008--The road to elite video gaming’s TEAM USA 2008 is now confirmed: The World Cyber Games (WCG) USA 2008 National Final will be held in at this year’s E for All Expo in Los Angeles, October 3 – 5, International Cyber Marketing (ICM) and IDG World Expo announced today. The WCG USA 2008 National Final at the E for All Expo will feature 200 of America’s very best players, all competing for the rare chance to make TEAM USA and represent the United States at the WCG 2008 Grand Final, to be held in Cologne, Germany, this November 5 th – 9 th. The WCG’s Grand Final is the culmination of the world’s largest video game tournament.

Video: World Press Photo Exhibition

Photographers, judges and diplomats mingled Thursday night at the United Nations, where the traveling World Press Photo exhibition opened. The annual show tours several venues around the world, showing prints of the work that won the World Press Photo contest.

Linux Edges One Step Closer to Total World Domination

Microsoft told the world which desktop OS to use, and the business world listened. The innocent little Linux-based smartphone may change all that. As consumers become comfortable with Linux on handheld devices, they will likely influence decisions at their places of employment. This could be the beginning of the end of the Windows world as we know it, suggests LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

Linux Edges One Step Closer to Total World Domination

Microsoft told the world which desktop OS to use, and the business world listened. The innocent little Linux-based smartphone may change all that. As consumers become comfortable with Linux on handheld devices, they will likely influence decisions at their places of employment. This could be the beginning of the end of the Windows world as we know it, suggests LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

OPINIONLinux Edges One Step Closer to Total World Domination

Microsoft told the world which desktop OS to use, and the business world listened. The innocent little Linux-based smartphone may change all that. As consumers become comfortable with Linux on handheld devices, they will likely influence decisions at their places of employment. This could be the beginning of the end of the Windows world as we know it, suggests LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

Linux Edges One Step Closer to Total World Domination

Microsoft told the world which desktop OS to use, and the business world listened. The innocent little Linux-based smartphone may change all that. As consumers become comfortable with Linux on handheld devices, they will likely influence decisions at their places of employment. This could be the beginning of the end of the Windows world as we know it, suggests LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

Linux Edges One Step Closer to Total World Domination

Microsoft told the world which desktop OS to use, and the business world listened. The innocent little Linux-based smartphone may change all that. As consumers become comfortable with Linux on handheld devices, they will likely influence decisions at their places of employment. This could be the beginning of the end of the Windows world as we know it, suggests LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

$12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II

ericatcw writes "The $12 computer that a bunch of designers and grad students are talking up at an MIT conference this month as a potential, cheaper alternative to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for Third World students is actually a knockoff of the original Nintendo Entertainment System gaming console released in the mid-1980s, reports Computerworld, and confirmed in a comment by the project's spokesman, Derek Lomas. According to Lomas' account and pictures, the Victor-70 is an 8-bit NES clone that accepts its cartridges and is wholly contained in the keyboard. It is also likely to be an unlicensed clone made in China, according to Lomas, though he notes that may not matter patent-wise in the US, due to the length of time that has passed."

Are Third-Party Wii Games Finally Coming Into Their Own?

Gravy Monkey writes "It's not too difficult to criticize the quality of many third-party Wii games — whether they're unique titles, bad licenses or lazy ports to the new system. However, will this change as more quality third-party games appear on the Wii? Recently, Wiiware title 'Lost Winds' picked up some great reviews, as did the Blastworks game. The recent review of a new game called Order Up on IGN caught my attention because they praised it as the way all casual games should be made. Is this the beginning of a new era for Wii games where quality casual games from third parties manage to grab the attention of both mainstream and hardcore gamers alike, instead of being a console where only first-party titles sell?"

Spammers Announce World War III

schliz writes with the stub of a disheartening article at IT News: "Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran. Security experts warned [yesterday] that spam emails with subject lines including 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in Iran,' and 'US Army crossed Iran's borders' have been intercepted. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion."

Why The 'Third Party Doctrine' Undermines Online Privacy Protections

There's been an interesting discussion going on between my colleague Jim Harper and legal scholar Orrin Kerr about the third party doctrine, the legal principle that, in effect, you lose your Fourth Amendment rights when you relinquish information to a third party. The doctrine has become increasingly important with the rise of modern technology because we now entrust a host of private data -- including our email, cell phone calling data, credit card transactions, and more -- to private companies, and the third party doctrine would seem to suggest that Fourth Amendment protections would not extend to such information. A couple of weeks ago, Kerr posted a draft paper defending the doctrine, arguing that it brings clarity and simplicity to privacy law and avoids the need for "a complex framework of sui generis rules.

Guitar Hero World Tour

When the house lights go down this fall, a new generation of axe shredders, drummers and fearless frontmen will come together and rock with Guitar Hero World Tour. Guitar Hero World Tour hopes to transform music gaming by marrying the guitar gameplay of Guitar Hero with a cooperative band experience that combines wireless instruments with new online and offline gameplay modes. The game will feature a newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as a Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock-and-roll anthems, along with online Band Career and eight-player Battle of the Bands. Guitar Hero World Tour is being developed by Neversoft Entertainment and will be available for Xbox 360 this fall.

Online Market World Olympics Debuts

In support of the Olympic spirit and in recognition of the day-to-day competition marketers face, wsRadio, the worldwide leader in Internet Talk, is sponsoring the Online Market World Olympics, a marketing competition among all guests who have appeared on any of the 125 talk shows produced on wsRadio during the station's history. During the entire month of September, talk show guests are challenged to drive the most traffic to their personal interviews. The top three winners will receive Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals, respectively, at the Online Market World conference and trade show on October 2, 2008 at Moscone Center West Hall in San Francisco. Online Market World is the premiere event for online marketing and sellers who want to catapult their companies and clients to the next levels of success.

BT: BT Joins Inventor Of The World Wide Web To Promote Study Of Web Science'

BT today became a founding sponsor of the Web Science Research Initiative, an international body established to promote the science and development of the World Wide Web. Established by British Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, with co-directors Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Danny Weitzner, the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) exists to promote the study of Web Science', a new academic discipline focusing on the analysis, engineering and social impact of the World Wide Web.

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