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Red-light district for the Net gets green light (AP)

Published by Gets Topic in Uncategorized on March 18th, 2011 | Comments Off

SAN FRANCISCO – You’ve heard of “.com” and “.org.” Joining them soon will be “.xxx” for pornographic websites.

On Friday, the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet’s naming system, approved the creation of a red-light district online. It follows a decade-long battle over such a name.

The uproar over the idea has created unlikely bedfellows.

Pornographers worry it will ghettoize their content. Although it’s meant to be voluntary, they fear governments could try to mandate the domain’s use, so that pornographic content is more easily blocked.

Religious groups argue that giving adult websites their own corner of the Internet legitimizes the content.

Supporters have maintained that approving the domain is in keeping with the principle of openness that has fueled the Internet’s growth.

Nokia talking homegrown ‘Harmattan’ release of MeeGo at May conference, but it’s nothing new

Published by Gets Topic in Uncategorized on March 17th, 2011 | Comments Off

.Some noise has been made today over the news that Nokia is going to be chatting up its Harmattan platform at May’s MeeGo conference in San Francisco, suggesting that Nokia will be releasing Harmattan devices as a precursor to its MeeGo offerings — some sort of postmortem Maemo 6 sendoff before Espoo starts to take MeeGo seriously. In reality, there’s nothing new here: it’s been known for the past year that Harmattan was happening — and it’s looking more than ever like it’s Nokia’s full-on MeeGo play, having pulled the code over from the work it had already done on Maemo 6. The abstract for the Harmattan session at the conference says that Nokia will “clarify” the relationship between the project and MeeGo proper, but at no point has Nokia skirted around the fact that Harmattan was still in the works — and with the company’s commitment to MeeGo beyond its 2011 product line a big question mark right now, we wouldn’t be surprised if Harmattan was as far into the MeeGo ecosystem as Nokia ever got.

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Tesla Model S will support third-party apps and text-to-voice, red lights will never be the same

Published by Gets Topic in Uncategorized on March 17th, 2011 | Comments Off

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Now that pretty much every gizmo from your smartphone to TV has apps available for it, what’s the next logical frontier? Of course, your car! Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Cleantech Forum attendees in San Francisco that the upcoming Model S would indeed come with support for third-party applications to run on that monster 17-inch infotainment console. We’re happy to see the company encouraging developers to put that Tegra chip to good use, though we can’t help but worry about the myriad distractions that could come along with it. Of course, we’re still in the dark about what OS is powering the whole shebang, but we’re sure there will be a port of Angry Birds before you can come to a complete stop.

PG&E missing 8 percent of gas line safety records (AP)

Published by Gets Topic in Uncategorized on March 15th, 2011 | Comments Off

SAN FRANCISCO – A California utility under fire for a deadly natural gas explosion near San Francisco says it is missing 8 percent of the records it is required to keep to ensure its pipelines are running safely.

The company made the statement Tuesday after an exhaustive search of its records.

California regulators could order Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to conduct expensive and time-consuming tests if the utility cannot prove it set safe pressure levels for all its transmission lines running through densely populated areas.

The California Public Utilities Commission previously directed PG&E and other California utilities to produce the paperwork following the revelation that the company’s records about the ruptured San Bruno line were wrong.

The Sept. 9 blast sparked a massive fireball that killed eight people and destroyed three dozen homes.

HP TouchPad coming June, webOS for PC beta by year’s end

Published by Gets Topic in Uncategorized on March 14th, 2011 | Comments Off

We may have to wait until summer to purchase a webOS slate, but it won’t be summer’s end — PreCentral reports that the company has confirmed a June release date for the HP TouchPad. At the enterprise-oriented HP Summit in San Francisco, CEO Leo Apotheker finally offered the month of release, and also reportedly said that the company’s full-force webOS on PC initiative will begin in a humble way — the beta will run in a web browser, and we’ll see it by the end of the year.