That left Tower with the have-it-all-in-stock business model, the go-to source for hard-nosed music enthusiasts.
The court's ruling has put aside, for the short run, a more potent challenge of the FCC's ability to mandate so-called software-defined devices, which use open-source software to define how a signal can be sent or received.
Key technology leaders are striving to increase access to education through low-cost or free peer-to-peer and open-source models.
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Currently, the tool can only pull your 3, 200 most recent tweets, but Recollect is well-positioned to be the go-to source for storing our all of our personal digital chronicles.
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Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give it.
Increasingly, their conversations about scaling turn to so-called open-source strategies: flexible and decentralized ways to speed innovation.
However, if you do hire one of the tens of thousands of small-time IT services shops that cater to small businesses, ask them about using open-source alternatives to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.
And just as open-source programmers collaborate by sharing software code, engineers are already starting to collaborate on open-source designs for objects and hardware.
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PulsePoint provides the ability to crowd-source Good Samaritans in your community to reduce collapse-to-CPR and collapse-to-defibrillation times by simultaneously dispatching nearby CPR-trained citizens to those in need of CPR.
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Government plans to out-source much of the probation service to providers on so-called payment-by-results contracts were recently criticised by senior probation officers.
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Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
Wang believes open-source hardware will follow the popularity of open-source software, as people want to create more physical things.
He is looking at scaled-down Linux desktops and open-source database software to replace software he now buys from Microsoft and Oracle.
ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
It turned out there was a voracious appetite -- particularly among a growing class of DIY geeks -- for a cheap, easily-programmable, open-source piece of hardware that would allow them to let their imaginations run wild.
Until now, the existence of such a device -- which works by splitting light in a way that points to its source -- has only been hinted at in fleeting literary mentions.
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Note: While Android is based on a Linux kernel, the goal behind Tizen seems to be an even more open-source, flexible OS designed to be user-friendly and carrier-friendly.
After the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, many firms turned to Linux and other open-source software to save money.
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And, closing the conference, theorist and teacher Clay Shirky pointed to the promise of open-source approaches to social and political issues.
In this way, Obama's great strengths--he is a brilliant communicator and image-builder--are also proving to be a source of profound weakness.
Novak said the special prosecutor already had waivers from all three of his sources - that is Mr. Rove, Mr. Harlow, and this third primary and unidentified source - to testify before the grand jury that was trying to figure out whether to indict people on this stuff.
The police swooped in on the two suspects in a luxury rented property in Atholl, north of Johannesburg on Monday, following a tip-off from a yet-to- be identified source.
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For those tracking the growing malicious elements on the Web, Chrome's innovation--and GreenBorder's contribution to the open-source browser--is a technology known as "sandboxing, " a tactic that limits Web applications' access to a computer's memory beyond a virtual border.
The current model of robo-fly is tethered to a small, off-board power source but Dr Ma says the next step will be to miniaturise the other bits of technology that will be needed to create a "fully wireless flying robot".
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come up with a way to produce electricity from just about the most renewable source known to man -- his own breath.
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So we're trying to use open-source software development ideas to take the tools we've developed internally and make them publicly available.
Veolia Environmental Services was the other firm fighting to run the incinerator, and whose spokesperson said it believed it was "sympathetic with the local environment and represented a unique opportunity to use the residual waste to provide a secure source of sustainable energy and heat to the neighbouring Tata Steel steelworks - a major source of employment in the area".
Those who rely on email aliases will also like that Microsoft has finally let us choose an SMTP server to send messages from non-Outlook addresses without revealing the true source -- we won't have to put up with "on behalf of" tags any longer.
Interestingly, an April 18 paper in the journal Nature reported that upper limits for neutrinos measured from IceCube are low enough that gamma-ray bursts are unlikely to be the sole source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
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