feed on feeds - 2012/03/10 - items 0 to 15

Socialdemokratiska Smer tycks ha vunnit en storseger i slovakiska parlamentsvalet som helt dominerades av korruptionsskandalen Gorillahärvan.

mr100percent writes with this excerpt from Electronista: "Battleheart's creator Mika Mobile in an update explained that it was dropping Android support. Google's platform was losing money for the company, since it spent about 20 percent of its time supporting the platform but only ever made five percent or less of the company's revenue. Much of the effort was spent on issues specific to Android, where the diversity was only creating problems rather than helping. 'I would have preferred spending that time on more content for you, but instead I was thanklessly modifying shaders and texture formats to work on different GPUs, or pushing out patches to support new devices without crashing, or walking someone through how to fix an installation that wouldn't go through,' one half of the husband and wife duo said. 'We spent thousands on various test hardware. These are the unsung necessities of offering our apps on Android.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Gemma McCluskies kvarlevor hittades i en kanal.

Presidentaspiranten Rick Santorum tycktes i Kansas i dag ha vunnit en dominerande seger i tävlingen om att få bli Republikanernas presidentkandidat, enligt en prognos från CNN.

En kvinna i 70-årsåldern var i kväll ute och gick med sin hund norr om Pajala.

mbone writes "The 'no cost' contract between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN over hosting the Internet Assigned Names and Number Authority (IANA) was supposed to be re-let this March. Now, it has been withdrawn, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) says that 'we are cancelling this RFP because we received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global community.' This is a pretty stunning vote of no confidence in ICANN by the U.S. government, on the eve of the 43rd ICANN meeting in Costa Rica. Speculation is that this is related to the attempts of the ITU-T to take over Internet governance, but it also could be over the new global top level domains. I am sure we will be hearing a lot more about this in the weeks to come."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

As a new exhibition dedicated to Antarctic explorer Capt Lawrence Oates opens, the BBC examines the man who entered the history books with his final famous words.

Folkomröstning i Schweiz om mer semester – men motståndet är massivt.

Tusentals studenter vid ett saudiskt universitet för kvinnor bojkottade sina lektioner i en, för Saudiarabien, ovanlig protest på lördagen.

Kenyansk polis lägger skulden för dagens granatattack mot en busstation i huvudstaden Nairobi på den terrorstämplade islamiströrelsen al-Shabaab.

Fem talibanfångar i USA:s läger på Guantanamobasen har godtagit överföring till Qatar.

Doofus writes "The Washington Post has a profile of Roger Fidler, who 'invented' the tablet computer in the 1990s, while working as a visionary for newspaper firm Knight-Ridder. He is now embroiled in the Apple/Samsung legal war, as an expert witness. Fidler admits that other prior art influenced him, such as the tablets being used as computing devices in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Prior prior art."