Stories about: Boston University

Apple announced today that it sold its 1 millionth iPhone 3G worldwide on Sunday, three days after the launch, adding that more than 10 million applications from the App Store had been downloaded since late last week.

Chinese blogger Paul Denlinger noted in his blog Monday that for the first time ever, Chinese flags are lowered to half mast to commemorate the loss of ordinary citizens. The flags have been lowered for the tens of thousands of victims down during a three-day national mourning period that ends on Wednesday.

A University of Minnesota researcher said he expects to unveil a Web site in the next few weeks designed to track Internet traffic around the world.

After doing research for years using computer clusters, Iowa State University has a high-performance supercomputer running to decipher the corn genome. Meanwhile, Georgia Institute of Technology deepened its high-performance computing relationship with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Increased litigation and licensing costs might drive European open source software developers and small IT companies out of business if the European Union (E.U.) approves legislation to allow the patenting of software, according to participants at a conference in Brussels on Tuesday.

Last Monday at the Desktop Linux Consortium Conference at Boston University, there was a lot of talk about a “UserLinux” distribution. The topic was sparked by remarks by Bruce Perens who voiced a need for a distribution that was designed to meet community needs for a desktop operating system based on the Linux community favorite Debian distribution.