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Steve Ballmer is known as hot-tempered man, but a student from Nashville did not make him angry. Although the situation was indeed explosive: the student asked the chief of Microsoft to give him an autograph on a laptop … MacBook.

Ballmer met with students of the university "Trevekka Nazarin, after which one of the students asked him to sign on a laptop Apple, adding:" It is Windows, believe me! "Chapter Microsoft does not efface himself, took a marker, boldly signed directly on top of apple and finished sarcastic : "We need a new (laptop)?" Pleased with the student was happy to pose with a laptop, a video of the incident for four days already viewed by over 300 thousand people.

Via TGDaily

Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien said he did not consider piracy a threat to the music industry and that the industry would rather die myself if it can not adapt to the digital era.

Last year, several famous musicians, including members of Radiohead, formed the so-called coalition of famous artists (Featured Artists Coalition) to fight the abuse of record companies. Musical dissatisfied with the position of labels that are often abused by pricing policies, limit the rights of musicians, ignore their views on the negotiations on anti-piracy laws.

The very group Radiohead is considered an activist confrontation with record labels and organizations like RIAA: its musicians once even made by witnesses in court against the RIAA. One of the songs was released on BitTorrent.

Guitarist Ed O'Brien told MIDEM said these words: "Of course I understand that illegal downloading Peering – it's just a more advanced version of what we did in the 1980's, when they copied the house tapes. If they really like the music, some of them can buy records … But I find it hard to understand when someone in the industry said: "This is killing the industry" … Personally, I do not agree.

According to the musician, the music industry is wrong in trying to apply the analog business model in the digital age: "We need to license more music, more Spotify, more sites that sell more music. Also have a little to reduce prices to compete with peering.

O'Brien expressed surprise that the music industry still struggling with the digital formats. He called labels "hurry up" and reduce prices.

Via TorrentFreak

Sometimes, speaking of the giants of IT industry, the question arises, in what areas they compete with each other, and in which – no. But while we have no "cheat sheet" so you can quickly visualize the situation and show it to others.

The New York Times has decided to rectify this situation and published a summary table of the 12 activities on the four heavyweight IT: Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo. As seen from the table, the most diversified business at Microsoft, but Google should have her literally on his heels. But Yahoo would prefer not sprayed too much.

Via New York Times

On Thursday last week, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox 3/6. According to the developers, the new version more stable than the previous one and as much as 20% faster – as in rendering pages, and when processing JavaScript.

Among other innovations: radial and linear gradients, integrated video HTML 5, open fonts WOFF. It supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. There is a completely Russified version of the browser.

Via Lenta

Major Personalities Cyanogen been added to the Nexus One support for multitouch input (multitouch). Little earlier, Google officially made the Android 2.1 Open OS, which greatly facilitated the hacker problem.

Technically, multi-sensory input in the Nexus One is present, but due to licensing problems Google has disabled it in full-time applications.

Via andro1d.com

Director General of Cisco, John Chambers (John Chambers) said in an interview that he considered the conflict with Google by the Chinese government a routine affair, in which there will be no far-reaching consequences.

"I think, between technologies and countries and between countries, there is a regular exchange of concessions. I have little doubt that these problems will be resolved regardless of the difference in approach. I have 25 years of doing business in China, I believe the Chinese leadership, I believe in the Internet, and I believe in American leadership. "

Via Reuters

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