http://techcrunch.com – The Raspberry Pi mini computer that’s become popular with the maker community but was originally conceived as a device to help kids learn how to code has had the lightweight TinyBASIC programming language ported to it. The Raspberry Pi Foundation noted the development in a blog post – explaining how it’s received lots of emails from parents who haven’t done any programming (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Publishing giants Pearson and Bertelsmann have announced they are creating a joint venture to pool their respective consumer publishing businesses, Penguin and Random House, in a bid to go the distance in the digital age. Penguin and Random House will combine to form a JV named Penguin Random House, the pair said today, with Bertelsmann owning 53 percent of the new JV and Pearson owning 47 percent (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.talkandroid.com – The latest ruling in the ever complicated Digital Millennium Copyright Act continues to list smartphones as exempt from the rules prohibiting rooting and Jailbraking as it did in 2010. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – We’ve all been inundated with political back and forth over the past few weeks. Curse you, social networks! And you too, Internet! And yet, what’s really frustrating isn’t the political back and forth, but the content that is being volleyed back and forth. More specifically, the lack of content. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Last week Glassdoor published its most recent software engineering salary report. Short version: it pays to code. Google and Facebook employees earn a base salary of ~$125K, not counting benefits, 401k matching, stock options/grants, etc., and even Yahoo! developers pull in six figures. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.talkandroid.com – Hear ye, hear ye! Smartphones for one and all! Qualcomm has announced a breakthrough in smartphone interfacing to allow the visually impaired access to the smartphone technology we all know and love. The new interface, named Project Ray, adapts to user preferences and habits to allow easier access to commonly used actions such as contacts, SMS, and the dialer. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://unix.stackexchange.com – Problem: I need to bring up the SJA 1000 CAN controller on the Colibri Evaluation Carrier Board v2.1 (with a Colibri T20 (NVidia Tegra) module inserted into it, which has an ARM CPU). Research: On the Toradex website they write that subject chip is "connected to GMI bus" (which could be "General Memory Interface"). (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – Evince, a document viewer for multiple document formats, which aims to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application, is now at version 3.7.1. Evince is specifically designed to support a lot of file formats, including PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS SyncTex, and even comic books. Highlights of Evince 3.7.1: • Application menu (General)
Email this pagehttp://forum.xda-developers.com – "Epub is an opened ebook format, it's so popular that almost all ereaders support epub format except kindle devices, kindle format is special for that Kindle have thier native format Mobi/AZW. But readers may purchase ebooks in other bookstores like Google Bookstore or Nook,to expand their reading fun. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://forum.xda-developers.com – Hello a;;, I am looking for a Reader apps that has integrated parts for Books, Magazines and News (something similar with Samsung's Reader's Hub - that has ebook Reader, Zinio and Pulse news integrated). I am looking for something similar. I have searched, and searched... but no success so far. Maybe you can point out a direction.... Thanks in advance! (HowTos)
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