28th July 2007 Archive

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• YouTube rival inks TV production deal

  Shakes off French courts, expands to US

  You see, some parts of the TV and movie industry are beginning to like this online video-sharing thing. Earlier this month, several French film producers successfully sued video-sharing site Dailymotion for copyright infringement, but now the Paris-based YouTube rival has teamed up with a high-profile TV production company, …

  Media 28 Jul 2007, 01:01

• Startup brings free Wi-Fi to the streets of San Francisco

  A noble experiment

  A California startup is relying on civic-minded volunteers in San Francisco to accomplish a goal that so far has eluded the city's government leaders: provide residents with wireless internet access that's free and dependable. Over the past few weeks, Meraki Networks has launched a grass roots "Free the Net" campaign that …

  Broadband 28 Jul 2007, 01:30

• One programmer's unit test is another's integration test

  Word games

  The question of what units you are working with is one that will at one time or other have plagued anyone who studied a science or a branch of physical engineering. Teachers go to great lengths to make sure students remember to specify their units. It is not enough to say that the answer is 42. Forty-two what? 42 metres? 42 …

  Developer 28 Jul 2007, 08:02

• Laser iPhones shrink your brains

  Comments But overpriced booze doesn't - honest

  It's been a fairly average week, with the normal crop of lasers, abnormal cranial conditions and massively overpriced drinks. We'll start with an iPhone article. Don't worry, it's the only one. A vulnerability has been discovered in the iPhone, and an exploit devised. There's been less of a row than usual, but it's still there …

  Letters 28 Jul 2007, 16:49

• Cries for help go out as open source mogul's radar breaks

  OSCON A man in crisis

  How appropriate that we caught Chairman Tim O'Reilly ogling Portland's tram schedule just a few minutes before the Pirate Party's founder Rickard Falkvinge took the stage at O'Reilly's own conference. Chairman Tim plotted his escape from OSCON, as Falkvinge prepared to talk to the people about things that matter. O'Reilly …

  Applications 28 Jul 2007, 17:14