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Leaked Microsoft roadmap reveals Office 15, IE 10 and Windows Phone details

If it’s accurate, then this leaked Microsoft roadmap has revealed the company’s plans for many of its forthcoming products. Here’s the basics: Internet Explorer 10 is due part-way through the year, at the same time that we hope to see Windows 8 appearing. Office 15 will enter beta-testing partway through 2012 and become “available” next year, but that’s no sure sign of a release date. On the Windows Phone front, there’s a launch expected in the summer that’s labelled as “future investments,” which we can only hope is a euphemism for Apollo. Oh, and any Silverlight fans better pour one out for their beloved flash-killer: nothing was marked on its timeline after the December 2011 release of Version 5. After the break we’ve got another shot of the internal document that Windows fans will spend the next few days analyzing with Zapruder-esque fervor.

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LogMeIn branches out from its remote desktop roots, intros Cubby cloud sharing service

Ready for yet another option in world of cloud storage services? LogMeIn today announced it’s ready to get in on the remote storage action with its own offering, built atop its Gravity Data Service, dubbed Cubby. Currently in beta, Cubby allots you 5GB of storage in the cloud, while allowing you to turn your Mac, PC and any folders into “virtual cubbies.” You’ll be able to sync selected data between your choice of devices and even share access (read-only if needed) to specific cubbies for collaborative efforts — and although the service is free, there’s no limit on how much data you can move between your machines. Better yet, iDevices and Androids are also supported via LogMeIn’s free Cubby apps. If you’ve been looking for another option aside from the likes of Pogoplug and Dropbox, you can request an invite to the service by hitting up the source link below. If you’d like more details in the meantime, check out the press release after the break.

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The First Universal Quantum Network

MrSeb writes “German scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have created the first ‘universal quantum network’ that could be feasibly scaled up to become a quantum internet. So far their quantum network only spans two labs spaced 21 meters apart, but the scientists stress that longer distances and multiple nodes are possible. The network’s construction is ingenious: Each node is represented by a single rubidium atom, trapped inside a reflective optical cavity. These atoms communicate with each other by emitting a single photon over an optical fiber. Each atom is a quantum bit — a qubit — and the polarization of the photon emitted carries the quantum state of the qubit. The receiving qubit absorbs the photon and takes on the quantum state of the transmitter. Voila: A network of qubits that can send, receive, and store quantum information. In another, probably more exciting test, the emitted photons were actually used to entangle the rubidium atoms.”

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US Court: Code isn’t property, therefore it can’t be stolen

New York’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that computer code cannot be stolen after acquitting former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov. He’d been charged with property theft and economic espionage which carried an eight year prison sentence, but left court a free man after serving just a year of his term. The case hinged upon the definition of both property and economic espionage, and the court found that code, being an intangible, couldn’t be property that’s capable of being stolen within the definition of the statute — affirming a state of affairs that’s been in place since the British case of Oxford v Moss from 1979. Just as a warning: the Judges advised Congress to amend the relevant legislation in order to prevent thefts of this nature in the future, so we’d hold back on any big data-heists you’ve got planned.

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Fusion-io announces ioFX, a super-SSD that’s already garnered an Oscar

You’ve heard of Fusion-io, right? It produces super-SSDs with the teeth-whitening ioMemory that’s so fast it can manage a billion input and output operations every second. Now it’s bundling that gear into a workstation PCIe card for FX professionals and speed-conscious multi millionaires. Capable of delivering 1.5GB/s (we checked, GB/s) of bandwidth, it’s capable of previewing 3D movie effects on the fly. The gear’s even managed to cover itself in Academy awards after it was used by studio Pixomondo on the special effects for Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo.” A 420GB model will arrive in late Spring, setting you (or more likely, your departmental budget) back $2,495 with an inclusive one-year support contract.

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Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards

alphadogg writes “A Japanese bank this week said it will introduce ATMs that use palm scanners in place of cash cards. Ogaki Kyoristu Bank said the new machines will allow customers to withdraw or deposit cash and check their balances by placing their hand on a scanner and entering their birthday plus a pin number. The ATMs will initially be installed at 10 banks, as well as a drive-through ATM and two mobile banks. Ogaiki announced the new ATMs with the slogan ‘You are your cash card.'”

DoJ files antitrust suit against Apple, publishers over e-book prices (Updated)

The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and six e-book publishers over alleged collusion to fix e-book prices. The antitrust suit was filed in US District Court in New York on Wednesday morning against Apple, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Penguin, Pearson, and Simon & Schuster, according to Bloomberg.

The European Commission began investigating Apple and the book publishers in December for allegedly trying to fix the prices of e-books in an attempt to cripple Amazon’s then-popular $9.99 e-book model. The EU was quickly followed by the US, and in late March, the EU and the US DoJ announced they were working together to pursue the case.

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Gaikai brings its cloud gaming to Facebook, launches beta application

Gaikai’s certainly grown leaps and bounds since its early days, and today the cloud gaming firm takes another step by joining the largest social networking platform on the globe. For starters, this first beta of Gaikai’s Facebook application is available to North American / European gamers, offering support for browsers such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Windows, OS X or Linux machines. Gamers who’ve fiddled around with the outfit’s previous betas or Walmart’s Gaikai powered Gamecenter will know the drill: streaming game demos in the frame of your web browser.

Ready to try before you buy? The setup is serving up samples of Saints Row: The Third, Dead Rising 2, Magicka, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, The Witcher 2, Orcs Must Die! and Farming Simulator 2011. Gaikai CEO and co-founder David Perry told us that while the outfit’s current Facebook rigging is still centered around demos, it’s primed to push full titles if and when a publisher requests it. “Our goal is to get games as accessible as movies and music,” he told us “so games get the chance to compete.” Gaikai v1.0 is live on Zuck’s site now, so click the source link below, pop in your Facebook credentials and you should be all set.

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Solar Tree Scheduled to Sprout in London for Clerkenwell

This morning I came across a news post announcing work by an industrial designer named “Ross Ludgrove.” Given Ross Lovegrove’s prominence, I figured Mr. Ludgrove must lead a tortured existence, constantly having to clarify his name on the phone.

Then I saw the project in question, pictured above. That’s the Solar Tree produced by Italian lighting manufacturer Artemide and designed as a research concept by yes, Ross Lovegrove, back in 2007. Originally debuted at Vienna’s MAK Museum, the steel structure supports 38 solar cells, a battery system and LED arrays in the “fronds;” sunlight is soaked up during the day, and the Tree uses that energy to output light overnight.

So why is a four-year-old design back in the news? Because next month it’s seeing (and storing) the light of day again, going up in London’s St. John’s Square as part of Clerkenwell Design Week.

It bums me out that although Lovegrove is famous to us, he’s unknown enough to the non-design-world that it’s possible to screw his name up. (Not a typo or a misprint, as the name was used that way more than once in the article.) We’d never see the Tree of Life star listed as Vlad Pitt, but either way, we’re happy to see this Tree getting more visibility.

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