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Darling Brothers, UK Indie Game Devs, Upgraded to CBE
scriptedfun writes "The BBC reports that David and Richard Darling, the brother tandem who founded Codemasters back in the mid-'80s from their bedroom, were recently made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for their 'services to the computer games industry.' Their story is definitely inspiring for modern-day independent game developers." Naming such honorees annually is one of ...
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Giving Google the day off
I had thought it was just me. In reading the cover story in the new issue of The Atlantic, however, I have learned that I am not alone. There are at least two...
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Nothing is private
THE roiling water in which Judge Alex Kozinski finds himself should be a lesson for every Internet user: Nothing is private. Kozinski, the chief judge...
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Recent Original Stories
"Back in 2001 Microsoft's early betas of Windows XP contained a user interface dubbed 'Watercolor'. But only months before the operating system shipped Microsoft completely replaced it with an entirely different look and feel called 'Luna' which became known as 'Windows XP Style'.
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ReactOS just released version 0.3.0 RC3 of their Windows compatible operating system. Their code audit is now 94.3% complete. You can get it from their
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The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines
against the software maker over claims it fails to offer rivals a fair deal on licenses for helping servers work with Windows. In response, Microsoft charged that the treatment it receives from the EU is unmatched around the world and harmed Europe's efforts to become a thriving high-tech economy.
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LIBRARY NOTES
1298 Theodore St., Crest Hill, (815) 725-0234. Buying a computer: 7 to 8 p.m. June 23. A free talk on the dos and don'ts of buying a computer.
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Project to bring computers to Belize
A new University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh organization is working to raise money to send computers to a school in Central America.
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Capsonic's happy 40th
Capsonic Group LLC has been rolling out components for the automotive, computer and consumer electronic industries since 1968, when the Elgin-based company was founded by James Liautaud. Annual revenues tip the scale at approximately $38 million, generated by the firm's 15,000-square-foot facility at 495 Renner Drive, Elgin, and a sister division in Juarez, Mexico.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Oct 2005 10:51 UTC
Actually, there's more on processors today, but the processor in this article is so out-of-the-ordinary, that it deserves its own item. " Niagara has eight processing engines - called cores - each able to simultaneously execute four instruction sequences called threads.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th May 2007 09:55 UTC
Microsoft executive Ty Carlson spoke about the future of Windows recently during a panel discussion at the Future in Review 2007 conference held in San Diego, California.
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Suspect jailed in auto dealership burglary
MANITOWOC A 23-year-old Manitowoc man was held at the Manitowoc County Jail Saturday pending possible felony charges after police found him with two laptop computers from Maritime Ford, said Police Lt. Nick Reimer.
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ESPN Ultimate Remote is now shipping, inexplicable packaging comes free
Filed under: Home Entertainment , Peripherals Just in time for Father's Day, ESPN's tvCompass-built WiFi Ultimate Remote is finally available, and rapidly making its way into the awaiting, Cheeto-stained fingertips of a couch potato near you. It still costs $300, and with a good number of laptops retailing for that price these days, it's certainly hard to justify, but forget all ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2007 18:02 UTC
Apple has released new iMacs , with a new interior (up to 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo) as well as new exterior (thinner, with a black back, as well as black 'eyeliner' around the screen), including a new keyboard , during a press event in Cupertino today.
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Recent Original Stories
This is already a fairly old article, but I'm pretty confident it never made OSNews' front page. In this article, the author proves that Windows XP can be installed, and 'run', on processors with as little as 8MHz . "The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP. Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM. ...
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Rabbi Mordecai Tendler Scores Another Appellate Victory Adding to a Line of Court Victories Stretching From Jerusalem, ...
Rabbi who has been the subject of a long running internet defamation campaign wins court decision against anonymous bloggers. (PRWeb Jun 15, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1024704.htm
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Oct 2007 22:45 UTC
"The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the security model.
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Training helps bloggers hone professionalism
Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades ago.
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HIGH-TECH HYPE
PRESS releases have gone electronic. The other day, a fancy black box arrived with what looked like a gold cigarette lighter, but it turned out to be a USB flash drive. Plugged into a computer, it plays a 30-second commercial for...
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Appleton Flag Day Parade marches on
APPLETON The film crew documenting small -town Americana for an upcoming See America Tour hadnt planned to start traveling the country until July.
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Park Forest mom's book inspired by ailing daughter
Armed with notes of love, support for her suffering daughter and a simple computer paint program, Yvette Jones decided to show the world and the parents of ailing children there still could be good times. What began as a personal project turned into a children's book that she both wrote and illustrated.
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Crimsonwing acquires Dutch software company
Crimsonwing has entered into a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of the total share capital of VDA Informatiebeheersing BV, a Dutch IT software and services business for a total consideration of €1.9 million. The transaction will be complete on July 1.
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Illegal software users may face legal action
HA NOI — Viet Nam will step up fines for intellectual property violations up to VND500 million (US$29,500) and begin filing criminal charges, according to Ordinance 04/2008/UBTVQH12 which takes effect on August 1.
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E-edition bringing interactive Daily Telegraph to your desktop
BLUEFIELD— Starting June 23, readers in Four Seasons Country and beyond will have the option of receiving full editions of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph from the Internet.
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Recent Original Stories
"Today the Southern California Linux Exposition's fifth iteration kicked off with all-day mini-conferences on free and open source software in the health care industry and women in the free/open source software community.
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