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Mac Gaming News - Macgamestore Releases The Scruffs for Macintosh
Macgamestore.com announced the immediate availability of The Scruffs for the Mac on Thursday. The seek-and-find style game sends players on a hunt for hidden treasures to save their family home. ...
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Apple applies for 3D remote control patent
An Apple patent application, just published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, depicts a new 3D remote technology. Similar in basic concept to the controller for Nintendo's Wii console, the remote would have a photosensor, accelerometer or gyroscope, and detect absolute and/or relative position to an image. Distinguishing it would be the abil...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 15th Mar 2006 16:41 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
What makes a Mono developer tick? Linux format has a brief interview with Edd Dumbill and Niel Bornstein, two prominent Mono coders who've just written a book on the open source .NET implementation.
New Mobile Computing |
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Eee PC-like notebooks unlikely to become blockbusters, says IDC
There is an undeniable excitement that surrounds so called ultra low-cost notebook PCs these days. The OLPC XO and the Asus Eee PC have created another product segment between smartphones and traditional notebooks that is not only aimed at developing countries but is finding many friends in saturated markets as well. But despite the initial enthusiasm, these notebooks will not become ...
TG Daily |
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Verizon Pledges to Adhere to Openness Rules
Verizon Wireless says "of course" it will honor openness requirements in the 700 MHz spectrum blocks it won in the recent FCC auction - and Google's complaint has no basis.
DesignTechnica |
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News Corp. Unit Under Fire for Ties to Hacker
Facing corporate espionage charges, an NDS executive admits employing a hacker but dismisses allegations of sanctioning piracy.
InternetNews.com |
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Microsoft's Facebook Ad Deal Doesn't Include Search
Wondering why Microsoft's search isn't being promoted on Facebook? Greg Sterling has noted this odd absence a couple of times, such as in his article today on a possible Microsoft purchase of Facebook . Others have as well. The answer is simple. Last year's big Microsoft-Facebook ad deal didn't include search. I asked Facebook about the absence of a Microsoft search box today and got back: ...
Search Engine Land |
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Amazon may move in to Goodyear
Amazon.com Inc. will expand its presence in the West Valley by leasing a large chunk of warehouse space in Goodyear.
The Arizona Republic |
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Bridgewater, N.S., man facing trial on charges of running steroids operation
A Nova Scotia man accused of running an Internet steroids operation from his Bridgewater home will go on trial next year.
Times & Transcript |
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A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
An anonymous reader writes "The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind enough to teach us all how to make our own! The end result was a rolling system capable of long-distance war driving, GPS navigation, Skype calls on the road, serving as an Internet hot spot or a low-power pir8 radio station, as well as ...
Slashdot |
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Five things to consider before committing to SAP
Installing SAP applications is no picnic. Employees who are capable of deploying and maintaining SAP software are in high demand and practically form a whole profession by themselves. SAP, which built its reputation with ERP software, is rarely chosen by enterprises for one-off applications, AMR Research analyst Jim Shepherd notes in a report this month titled " The five SAP ...
InfoWorld |
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Google Apps Premier: The Way Forward?
By Playfuls Staff Google Apps has been here for free since August 2006, so what makes the premier edition better?
Web Host Directory |
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CNET UK goes mobile
Online publisher CNET Networks UK has made a move into mobile publishing.
Netimperative |
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Meridian's SaaS Strategy Includes Building Large, Online Training Library; Safety Education Comes First
CHANTILLY, Va.----Meridian Knowledge Solutions LLC has signed the first of several planned agreements that will help the company build a large, online library of training content to complement its software-as-a-service product for managing learning and knowledge.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Facebook, 49 U.S. states, agree on Web safety steps
Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators.
Reuters via Yahoo! News |
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Facebook, 49 U.S. states, agree on Web safety steps
Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators.
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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After long negotiations, Facebook agrees to safety plan with state AGs
Social network has reached a deal with attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to try to make the site safer for youths.
CNET |
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Tethered gadgets threaten Internet future: academic
The rise of gadgets such as the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation which helped to build the Internet, a leading Oxford academic has warned in a new book.
Canada.com |
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Addiction to Video Games a Growing Concern
Many parents are wondering where online and video-game play becomes obsession.
US News & World Report |
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CPUs: Vimicro launches video processor for laptop cameras
Beijing—Vimicro International Corp. is offering a Web camera processor dubbed the VC0343 that targets laptop embedded applications. VC0343 can reduce the power consumption and package size of a chip.
Embedded Systems Programming Magazine |
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Microsoft Considers Facebook Acquisition
Microsoft is attempting to see if Facebook has any interest in being purchased by the software company after it abandoned its bid to buy Yahoo. According to the WSJ Microsoft's bankers put out subtle signals to Facebook, to see if it would be interested in being acquired. Last October, Microsoft bought a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the social networking site at $15 billion. ...
WebProNews |
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Will Sony play nice with Apple, or turn the screws?
Every time you glance down at your Apple iPod to scroll through your music collection, much of the data you are presented with comes from Gracenote's massive database of artists, song titles, and other text and metadata. When you search for music in Apple's iTunes client, the results are largely based on data from Gracenote. And, if you still buy or own CDs, when you slot a disc into a ...
Macworld UK |
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Computer Program Helps Drug Abusers Stay Clean
THURSDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- The use of a computer-assisted training program, in addition to traditional counseling, helped drug abusers stay abstinent longer than counseling alone, a Yale University School of Medicine study found.
HealthDay via Yahoo! News |
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Voters will decide on planner
Pit bulls, mold, planning, computers and police cars—Town Meeting representatives will have their hands full with a variety of requests at Annual Town Meeting.
Stoughton Journal |
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Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems
ZDNet UK |
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