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 UK Report Calls for Free Access to UK Research: Information Posted by: comforteagle
From the Paid For dept.:
The UK Government has published a report that calls for all publicly funded research to be made freely available. The report says: "Government will work with partners, including the publishing industry, to achieve free access to publicly-funded research as soon as possible and will set an example itself," Research councils will be required to ensure compliance with existing mandates to "deposit published articles or conference proceedings in an open access repository at or around the time of publication" and will investing £2 million (€2.4 million) to develop a 'Gateway to Research' website that could also include non-publicly funded research.
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Android Reaches 39% Tablet OS Market Share (Standing On Amazon’s Shoulders): Android Posted by: comforteagle
From the Army of Many dept.:
Apple’s iPad reigns supreme from whatever angle you choose to look at the tablet market (profits, apps, quality, market share, mindshare, you name it), but research firm Strategy Analytics this morning said Android did manage to capture a record 39 percent tablet OS market share in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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Twitter Announces It Can Block Tweets Per Country: Legal Posted by: comforteagle
From the Hard Realities dept.:
As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.
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EU ACTA Chief Resigns: Legal Posted by: comforteagle
From the ShamNow dept.:
The EU ACTA chief has resigned, saying, 'This agreement might have major consequences on citizens' lives, and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade.'
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Ireland SOPA Set To Be Enacted Without Vote: Legal Posted by: comforteagle
From the Backdoor dept.:
Ireland is soon to have a law similar to SOPA passed that would give music and movie companies the power to force Irish ISPs to block access to sites suspected of having copyright infringing material on them.
Irish citizens won’t have a chance to lobby their democratic representatives because there won’t be a vote on the law — snappily named “S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011″ — in the Irish Parliament. Instead the law is being enacted by ministerial order because it is being prepared in the form of a Statutory Instrument.
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Mozilla JavaScript Engine JSRuntime Now Single-threaded: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Read Carefully dept.:
...A single SpiderMonkey runtime (that is, instance of JSRuntime) — and all the objects, strings and contexts associated with it — may only be accessed by a single thread at any given time. However, a SpiderMonkey embedding may create multiple runtimes in the same process (each of which may be accessed by a different thread).
That means it is up to the embedding to provide communication (if any) between the runtimes via JSNative or other SpiderMonkey hooks. One working example is the new implementation of web workers in Firefox which uses a runtime per worker. Niko Matsakis is experimenting with a different architecture in his new parallel JS project.
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KDE 4.8 Released: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the KNew KNews dept.:
The KDE community has released version 4.8 of their Free and open source software bundle. The new version provides many new features, improved stability, and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, the redesign of power management, and integration with Activities.
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Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Spicy dept.:
Cinnamon 1.2 is out! All APIs and the desktop itself are now fully stable! I hope you'll enjoy the many new features, the desktop effect, desktop layouts, the new configuration tool, the applets, changes, bug fixes, and improvements that went into this release.
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Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP: Tech Posted by: comforteagle
From the Zoom dept.:
Google's efforts to improve Internet efficiency through the development of the SPDY (pronounced 'speedy') protocol got a major boost today when the chairman of the HTTP Working Group (HTTPbis), Mark Nottingham, called for it to be included in the HTTP 2.0 standard. SPDY is a protocol that's already used to a certain degree online; formal incorporation into the next-generation standard would improve its chances of being generally adopted. SPDY's goal is to reduce web page load times through the use of header compression, packet prioritization, and multiplexing
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