Renault teams lose exhaust concession

Red Bull Racing is seeking clarification from the FIA about the state of the off-throttle blown diffuser regulations, after a ruling on Saturday morning prevented Renault-powered teams from being allowed to run a concession handed to them earlier in the weekend. After an intense 24 hours of controversy over the issue, with McLaren and Red Bull Racing clashing over allowances that have been handed to their respective engine partners ahead of the British Grand Prix, the matter reached a head on Saturday morning.

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/renault-teams-lose-exhaust-concession/

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Red Hat Delivers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

Red Hat announces the general availability of Red Hat Linux 6.1, which offers enhanced performance, reliability, scalability, security and more. - Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, the first update to the platform since the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in November 2010. Red Hat delivered Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 to key partners at its Red Hat Summit in early May, but is now ma...


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AT&T shipping HSPA / LTE USBConnect Momentum 4G and Elevate 4G this summer

So, summertime it is. Not only is the livin' e-zee, but staying connected at an even higher rate of speed should be as well for those situated on Ma Bell's network. AT&T has just confirmed that a duo of HSPA + / LTE WWAN devices will be shipping within the next few months, with the USBConnect Momentum 4G offering plug-and-play access to both high-speed networks and the Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G acting as a liaison for up to five nearby WiFi devices. The former is nothing more than a rebranded Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U -- the same oversized (and we mean oversized) device that launched on Rogers' own LTE network just days ago in Canada. Aside from being large enough to double as a cricket bat, the dongle features a microSD card slot, works with Mac and PC platforms and supports roaming in over 200 nations -- not that you'll be silly enough to actually take advantage, though. Moreover, those using the card will get gratis access to AT&T's growing WiFi network if using a post-paid data plan.

Moving on, the carrier's first 4G LTE mobile hotspot device (yeah, that'd be the AT&T Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G) will include a 1.77-inch display for showing just how few megabytes you have left on your plan, support for five simultaneous connections and the ability to seamlessly hop between HSPA+ and LTE. AT&T will begin selling the AT&T USBConnect Momentum 4G for $49.99 with two-year contract after a $50 mail-in-rebate, while the Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G will be available for $69.99 with a similar deal. The company's not going any further than stating a "summer" ship date, and despite our pleading, we can't get anything more solid out of 'em. Naturally, it'll be folks in Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio enjoying the LTE spoils first, with ten more cities to be blessed by the end of the year. Too bad it's still not saying what kind of scratch will be required on a month-to-month basis.

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Red Hat Delivers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

Red Hat announces the general availability of Red Hat Linux 6.1, which offers enhanced performance, reliability, scalability, security and more. - Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, the first update to the platform since the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in November 2010. Red Hat delivered Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 to key partners at its Red Hat Summit in early May, but is now ma...


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The Move Lets You Wear Your iPhone Sans Straps, Look Like Tony Stark

Three things come to mind when I look at the Move, a Kickstarter project that lets you attach an iPhone to your clothes without any sort of straps, velcro, or magnets:
  • "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated."
  • "The Arc Reactor, from AT&T and Stark Technologies. Now with 3G support and streaming cat videos."
  • "... what are the chances I'm cool enough to pull that off?"

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Microsoft's Skype Deal Means Monetizing

There's an interesting blog posting from Ben Horowitz, co-founder and partner of venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, detailing what he sees as Skype's competitive advantage over companies like Google and Apple. Of course, he has a vested interest in promoting Skype as the 800-pound gorilla of voice over IP and video conferencing, untouched by its competitors--Andreessen Horowitz was one of the private investors with a stake in Skype, before Microsoft announced the $8.5 billion acquisition this week, meaning Horowitz may have made enough off the platform to buy a Porsche for every day of the month.

First, he cites Google's attempt to market a similar VOIP offering to Skype via its Gmail service. "What was the result of this effort?" he wrote in that May 10 posting. "Skype new users and usage growth has accelerated since Google's launch."

Then he calls out Apple's FaceTime as being unable to blunt Skype's momentum: "How did that impact Skype's usage on the iPhone? 50 million users have downloaded Skype's iPhone product since the release of Apple's FaceTime."

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Horowitz sees Microsoft's acquisition as an unmitigated Good Thing: "By acquiring Skype, Microsoft becomes a much stronger player in mobile and the clear market leader in Internet voice and video communications," he wrote. "More importantly, Microsoft gets a team, ably led by the exceptional Tony Bates, that can compete with anyone."

In 2005, eBay agreed to pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the then two-year-old Skype. Four years later, the auction site announced it would resell a majority of its Skype holdings to a team of private investors--including Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz--for $1.9 billion in cash.

Pending regulatory approval, Skype will become a Microsoft division headed by Skype CEO Tony Bates, and its services will be meshed with a variety of products in Microsoft's portfolio, including its Lync unified-communications platform, Outlook, and Xbox Live. In a May 10 press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that the deal, the biggest in Microsoft's history, is the sort of bold move needed as his company faces competition on multiple fronts: "This Skype acquisition is entirely in keeping with our ambitious, forward-looking, irrepressible nature."

Microsoft will almost certainly pursue how to monetize its newest addition. "While it's true that Skype has been slow to make money off its service, the potential is there," Forrester analyst Ted Schadler wrote in a May 10 blog posting. "Local phone numbers, three-way video conferencing, business administration, and making calls to real phone numbers are all things that people will pay for."

If Microsoft loads up on for-pay services, though, will that drive users away from Skype to the waiting arms of Google or another platform?


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ChromeLite: experience the ASCII Web of yesteryear

ChromeLite ASCII extension
Have you ever wondered what the Web was like before the Mosaic Web browser? If you were born in the last 20-odd years, or you only discovered your inner geek recently, did you miss out on monochrome monitors and the dial-up BBS era? Well, here's your chance to get a sneak peek at history: grab the ChromeLite extension and marvel as the entire Web is transformed into ASCII characters.

Now, ChromeLite isn't really all that functional. For the most part, it simply strips images and converts text into a monospaced terminal font. There are a few Easter eggs inserted -- such as a fun message at the bottom of YouTube (image after the break) -- and some fun ASCII art, but that's about it. Rather oddly, most JavaScript continues to work -- so you can still enjoy Google Instant Search!

ChromeLite was actually made by Google as an April Fools' joke -- and indeed, an annoying 'you can uninstall this!' message appears at the top of every page -- but we're kind of hoping that Google, or another developer, takes ChromeLite and turns it into a real ASCII browsing extension with configurable settings. If anything, it will provide an easy way to save bandwidth and CPU time.

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