Law

======================================================================
Get Insiders Look at the Latest Malware Attacks
Watch Sophos's Anatomy of an Attack videos about iFrames drive-by attacks,
Fake Anti-Virus and more to see the latest threats in action. Learn how today's
cybercriminals target your computer, identity and money.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-sdnews
======================================================================

Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets
* Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x
* YouTube, Gaming and Social Networking Busting TV's Chops
* The Fight Against Dark Silicon
* Oracle, Google Move To Streamline Java Suit
* Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier
* More Windows Phone Update Problems
* NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space
* German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls
* On-Screen Keyboard Maliit Demoed With Gnome 3
* On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps
* Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool
* Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC
* Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser?
* Using Googlemaps To Simulate Tsunamis
* The Future of SiLo's Language Library
* Developing Android Apps Visually, In 3 parts
* Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets
| from the apple-a-day-vs-swallowing-tablets dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday April 29, @20:43 (Android)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2338211/Figuring-Out-Why-Android-Wins-On-Phones-But-Not-Tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]GMGruman writes "Android smartphones have overpowered the iPhone in
market share, yet Android tablets barely register in sales versus the
iPad. Android tablets are as competitive in most respects against the
iPad as Android smartphones are against the iPhone. So why the difference
in success? Galen Gruman [1]examines five theories for the gap, and
concludes the reason is that Android tablets' real competitor is in fact
not the iPad."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2338211/Figuring-Out-Why-Android-Wins-On-Phones-But-Not-Tablets?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.infoworld.com/
1. http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/the-android-conundrum-why-tablets-tank-smartphones-surge-165

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x
| from the catching-up-with-the-jobses dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday April 29, @21:26 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0046216/Adobe-Ships-Flash-Player-102-For-Android-3x?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]MojoKid writes "Adobe last night announced the [1]release of Flash
Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets and it is available for
download in the Android Market. Eventually, this could prove to be a big
deal, but it looks as though a Honeycomb update is needed to take full
advantage of the Flash Player 10.2's new features. It's not certain if it
was intentional or not, but Adobe's statement points to an updated
Honeycomb release, Android 3.1. According to reports, the new Android
build is coming out soon for currently shipping Honeycomb tablets like
the Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer."

Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0046216/Adobe-Ships-Flash-Player-102-For-Android-3x?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Adobe-Ships-Flash-Player-102-for-Android-30-Tablets/

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| YouTube, Gaming and Social Networking Busting TV's Chops
| from the what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-watch-what's-on dept.
| posted by Soulskill on Friday April 29, @23:04 (Australia)
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2057216/YouTube-Gaming-and-Social-Networking-Busting-TVs-Chops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

splitenz writes "A TV executive told a major Australian broadband
conference that television audiences are slipping away into social media,
gaming and other online subscription spaces. YouTube and online gaming is
[0]taking the traditional TV audience online and TV is struggling to
fight back."

Discuss this story at:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/11/04/29/2057216/YouTube-Gaming-and-Social-Networking-Busting-TVs-Chops?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/384782/youtube_gaming_social_networking_busting_tv_chops_/

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| The Fight Against Dark Silicon
| from the can't-we-all-just-get-along? dept.
| posted by timothy on Friday April 29, @23:33 (Android)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0051219/The-Fight-Against-Dark-Silicon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An anonymous reader writes "What do you do when chips get too hot to take
advantage of all of those transistors that Moore's Law provides? You turn
them off, and end up with a lot of dark silicon — transistors that lie
unused because of power limitations. As detailed in MIT Technology
Review, [0]Researchers at UC San Diego are fighting dark silicon with a
[1]new kind of processor for mobile phones that employs a hundred or so
specialized cores. They achieve 11x improvement in energy efficiency by
doing so."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0051219/The-Fight-Against-Dark-Silicon?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://greendroid.ucsd.edu/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37478/?a=f

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Oracle, Google Move To Streamline Java Suit
| from the brass-tacks-and-billable-hours dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @02:24 (Google)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0148225/Oracle-Google-Move-To-Streamline-Java-Suit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]itwbennett writes "Google and Oracle each submitted proposals on
Friday to [1]reduce the number of claims in their Java patent
infringement lawsuit, which could help bring the case to a speedier
conclusion. Earlier this month, lawyers for the two companies gave Judge
William Alsup of the US District Court in San Francisco [2]a crash course
in Java to prepare him for a claim construction conference."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0148225/Oracle-Google-Move-To-Streamline-Java-Suit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.itworld.com/
1. http://www.itworld.com/software/160867/oracle-google-move-streamline-java-lawsuit
2. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/0324236/Judge-In-Oracle-Google-Case-Given-Crash-Course-in-Java

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier
| from the other-people's-not-so-much dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @05:23 (The Military)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0156256/Robo-Gunsight-System-Makes-Snipers-Life-Easier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An anonymous reader writes "Military and police marksmen could see their
rifle sights catch up with the 21st century with a fiber-optic
laser-based sensor system that [0]automatically corrects for even tiny
barrel disruptions. Factors such as heat generated by previously fired
shots, to a simple bump against the ground can affect the trueness a
rifle barrel. The new system precisely measures the deflection of the
barrel relative to the sight and then electronically makes the necessary
corrections. With modern high-caliber rifles boasting ranges of up to two
miles, even very small barrel disruptions can cause a shooter to miss by
a wide margin."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0156256/Robo-Gunsight-System-Makes-Snipers-Life-Easier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://scienceblog.com/44869/robot-gun-sighting-system-uses-sensors-to-score-bulls-eye/

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| More Windows Phone Update Problems
| from the both-of-them dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @08:21 (Bug)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0617216/More-Windows-Phone-Update-Problems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]angry tapir writes "Yet another problem has cropped up preventing some
[1]Windows Phone 7 users from getting two software updates, adding a new
chapter to the update saga that started in February."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/0617216/More-Windows-Phone-Update-Problems?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/
1. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/384852/microsoft_admits_more_windows_phone_update_problems/

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space
| from the path-of-destruction dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @08:42 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1236202/NASA-Satellite-Shows-Southern-Tornadoes-From-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]gabbo529 writes "Like it has done previously with earthquakes,
hurricanes and tsunamis, a NASA satellite has captured a devastating
natural disaster from a space satellite. An image acquired by the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from NASA's Aqua
satellite on April 28, distinctly shows [1]three tornado tracks in
Tuscaloosa, Ala." For those not following the news, a cluster of
tornadoes and close-enough storms earlier this week [2]caused the death
of hundreds across several US states.

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1236202/NASA-Satellite-Shows-Southern-Tornadoes-From-Space?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. mailto:g.perna@ibtimes.com
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/139829/20110429/nasa-tornado-southern-tornado-alabama-tornado-satellite-images.htm
2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42834400/ns/weather/

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls
| from the zwei-kugeln dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @09:22 (Robotics)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1251211/German-Aerospace-Robot-Plays-Catch-With-Two-Balls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[0]HizookRobotics writes "German Aerospace Center (DLR) designed "Rollin'
Justin" to [1]fix satellites in space. But robotics work isn't all work
and no play ... In the past, DLR engineers had Justin '[2]dancing like in
Pulp Fiction.' More recently, in work to be presented at the
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in two weeks,
DLR engineers demonstrated whole-body real-time control, allowing Justin
[3]to catch two balls at once, or prepare you a cup of coffee."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1251211/German-Aerospace-Robot-Plays-Catch-With-Two-Balls?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.hizook.com/
1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/humanoid-robot-justin-learning-to-fix-satellites
2. http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/03/04/rollin-justin-coins-new-robot-command-dance-pulp-fiction
3. http://www.hizook.com/blog/2011/04/27/highly-anticipated-icra-2011-talks-low-cost-arms-helicopter-manipulation-and-ball-ca#DLR

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| On-Screen Keyboard Maliit Demoed With Gnome 3
| from the several-layers-of-the-latest dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @10:25 (GNOME)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/137205/On-Screen-Keyboard-Maliit-Demoed-With-Gnome-3?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Developer Jon Nordby has posted a video demo of the on-screen keyboard
Maliit — intended "to be the input method project for MeeGo and other
GNU/Linux-based embedded/mobile platforms" — [0]working on a tablet
running Gnome 3 under Fedora. Nordby mentions that Fedora packages are in
the works for those who'd like to try it out. The keyboard looks
impressively smooth and flexible (including language-specific character
sets); I only wish it had the smooth-swiping predictive ability of
keyboards like [1]Swype.

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/137205/On-Screen-Keyboard-Maliit-Demoed-With-Gnome-3?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.jonnor.com/2011/04/introducing-maliit-on-screen-keyboard-in-gnome-3/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps
| from the wake-me-when-the-world-ends dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @11:27 (Businesses)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1324255/On-Monday-ATampT-Customers-Enter-Era-of-Broadband-Caps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

theodp writes "[0]The Age of Broadband Caps begins Monday, with AT&T
imposing a 150 GB cap on DSL subscribers and 250 GB for UVerse users, and
keeping the meter running after that. The move comes as AT&T's 16+
million customers are increasingly turning to online video such as Hulu
and Netflix on-demand streaming service instead of paying for cable. With
[1]AT&T's Man in the White House, some fear there's a 'digital dirt road'
in America's future. Already, the enforcement of data caps in Canada has
prompted Netflix to [2]default to lower-quality streaming video to shield
its users from overage fees."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1324255/On-Monday-ATampT-Customers-Enter-Era-of-Broadband-Caps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/att-broadband-caps/
1. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/01/08/atts-man-white-house
2. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-policy%2Fnews%2F2011%2F03%2Fdata-caps-claim-a-victim-netflix-streaming-video.ars&ei=nKK7TbPJDMGEtgeus6jBBQ&usg=AFQjCNHp_LUCxHnR2jTvtWh84l2pxKKglQ

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool
| from the hey-fellas-psssst-over-here dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @12:22 (IOS)
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1356210/Developers-MS-Hopes-To-Lure-iOS-Apps-With-API-Mapping-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Microsoft isn't standing idly by while Appple's app store fills with
software; [0]fysdt writes "A newly-announced service called the [1]iOS to
Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool acts as an interchange for developers to
take applications they've already written for Apple's platform, and
figure out ways to get the code work with Microsoft's standards."

Discuss this story at:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1356210/Developers-MS-Hopes-To-Lure-iOS-Apps-With-API-Mapping-Tool?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://thunderfeeds.com/
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20058635-248.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC
| from the dude-hook-us-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @13:26 (Open Source)
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/172214/Help-Build-the-Worlds-First-Community-Funded-CPU-ASIC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An anonymous reader writes "The 32-bit OpenRISC CPU has been available
for many FPGAs and was [0]turned into a commercial ASIC in 2003. Now, the
OpenCores community is asking for [1]donations to create a new ASIC with
the OpenRISC CPU, ethernet, PCI, UART, USB and other peripherals. The
goal is to be able to sell these ASICs at a low price to anyone who wants
to build a cheap embedded system built completely on open source. The
OpenRISC currently runs on Linux 2.6.37 and has ports of gcc 4.5.1 among
other things."

Discuss this story at:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/172214/Help-Build-the-Worlds-First-Community-Funded-CPU-ASIC?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/12/08/2326236/Open-Source-Finally-Hits-Real-Silicon
1. http://opencores.org/donation

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser?
| from the treading-lightly-on-the-silicon dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @14:29 (Software)
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1720251/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Small-Footprint-Modern-Browser?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Annirak writes "I've recently started a paid internship at a company
which is expanding faster than their IT department can supply new
hardware. As a consequence, I've been issued a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of
RAM. Currently, I am using Firefox 4, but I find that it eats up far too
much of my limited RAM. I'd rather not give up some of the more modern UI
features that are offered by the current versions of Firefox and Chrome,
but I need a smaller footprint. What other browsers are out there which
could help me conserve resources?"

Discuss this story at:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1720251/Ask-Slashdot-Best-Small-Footprint-Modern-Browser?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Using Googlemaps To Simulate Tsunamis
| from the you're-all-wet dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @15:40 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1938206/Using-Googlemaps-To-Simulate-Tsunamis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

flemster writes "[0]Tsunami mapper is a new site which uses the
googlemaps elevation service and the flood fill algorithm to predict
which areas near a coast are likely to be affected by a tsunami. You can
search for your local beach, set a wave heading and height and then
double click the tsunami starting point off the coast, after which the
tsunami range will be drawn. Naturally, predicting a tsunami is far more
complicated than this and this application is a general guide and not a
true predictor. However the simulations of the recent Japanese simulation
are interesting. Compare the [1]tsunami mapper simulation with [2]this
aerial photo of Ishinomaki after the March tsunami."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/1938206/Using-Googlemaps-To-Simulate-Tsunamis?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://tsunami-maps.com/
1. http://tsunami-maps.com/index.html?lng=141.22801813183594&lat=38.375751997095186&dir=0&hgt=20
2. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49648

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| The Future of SiLo's Language Library
| from the ich-weiss-nada dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @16:47 (Education)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/2044214/The-Future-of-SiLos-Language-Library?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i4u writes "Early this morning I had a chance to speak with Ase
(pronounced 'Ace') Deliri, curator of SiLo, the [0]world's first digital
language library. At its core, SiLo is a mash of Wikipedia and Babelfish,
an open database focused on facilitating real conversations with real
people. 'If you have 800-1200 words in your vocabulary, you can carry on
a daily conversation. That is what we are looking at. How do you get a
conversation going?'"

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/2044214/The-Future-of-SiLos-Language-Library?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.i4u.com/46355/future-silos-language-library-my-interview-ase-deliri

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Developing Android Apps Visually, In 3 parts
| from the build-it-and-they-might-pay dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @18:04 (Android)
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/224233/Developing-Android-Apps-Visually-In-3-parts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Dobb's has a three-part blog (all three
parts are up; [0]this is part 1) about using App Inventor. The focus
isn't so much on the technology but rather the discussion of 'can visual
development let anyone program?' If so, is App Inventor really visual
development? And should we be teaching real programmers about visual
development. Most of the [1]conclusions are in part 3. As a byproduct,
they show you how to put App Inventor output on the Market and there are
two games on the market (free) that resulted from the articles." Here's
[2]part two, to round out the trilogy.

Discuss this story at:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/224233/Developing-Android-Apps-Visually-In-3-parts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/229401706
1. http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/229402516
2. http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/229402209

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows
| from the gotta-have-a-benchmark dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 30, @19:07 (Firefox)
| https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/230259/Firefox-On-Linux-Gets-Faster-Builds-mdash-To-Be-Fast-As-Windows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

dkd903 writes "Mozilla's Mike Hommey has announced on his blog that his
team at Mozilla has finally managed to get the Linux builds of Firefox to
use GCC 4.5 with [0]aggressive optimization and profile guided
optimization enabled. All this simply means that we can now expect a
faster and less sluggish Firefox browser on Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit
systems)."

Discuss this story at:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/04/30/230259/Firefox-On-Linux-Gets-Faster-Builds-mdash-To-Be-Fast-As-Windows?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2011/04/30/ff6-fast-less-sluggish/

Copyright 1997-2010, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

======================================================================

You have received this message because you subscribed to it
on Slashdot. To stop receiving this and other
messages from Slashdot, or to add more messages
or change your preferences, please go to your user page.

http://slashdot.org/prefs/messages

You can log in and change your preferences from there.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Frontier Knowledge Group" group.
To post to this group, send email to frontier-knowledge-group@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to frontier-knowledge-group+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/frontier-knowledge-group?hl=en.