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Geneforge 5: Overthrow previewed
Spiderweb Software this week released new information about Geneforge 5: Overthrow, the final part of its epic fantasy game series -- 'Set in the land of the Shapers, a secretive sect of wizards with the ability to create new life to serve them. Play a lone traveler in this strange land and fight to bring an end to this war. Or, if you choose, join...
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Dundalk man sentenced for child pornography charges
A 44-year-old Dundalk man was sentenced yesterday to five years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised probation for possessing child pornography and distributing the images over the Internet, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
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Microsoft Speaks Powerset’s Language
Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset , Venture Beat reported. The acquisition price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million with an announcement expected in July.
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IDC Finds More of the World's Population Connecting to the Internet in New Ways and Embracing Web 2.0 Activities
Nearly a quarter of the world's population – roughly 1.4 billion people – will use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 billion unique users, or 30% of the world's population, in 2012, according to IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast.
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10 Great Software Programs You can Get Gratis
As we bring another season of The PC Guy column to a close -- I'll be off for the summer -- let's take a quick look at 10 cool and free software programs. They include Paint.net, EssentialPIM, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, CDBurnerXP, 7-ZIP, Stickies, WordWeb and ooVoo.
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Verizon's fiber guru talks strategy
Mark Wegleitner, chief technology officer of the company's broadband division, talks about the Comcast-BitTorrent controversy and the future of Verizon's fiber-to-the-home network.
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Verizon's fiber guru talks strategy
Mark Wegleitner, chief technology officer of the company's broadband division, talks about the Comcast-BitTorrent controversy and the future of Verizon's fiber-to-the-home network.
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Blogger Adds Slew of New Features
If you use Google’s Blogger platform, head on to draft.blogger.com and you’ll find several new interesting features for your blog. Besides some minor updates and bug fixes, they are: * Webmaster Tools Verification lets you automatically verify all your blogs on Google’s Webmaster Tools. * Star ratings let [...]
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Google Seeks TV Connection With Media Server
Google Media Player became the latest UPnP driven application to offer a way to view images and videos stored on a computer on one's television. read more
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Microsoft to buy mobile software maker MobiComp
Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to buy MobiComp , a Portuguese company that makes software for the mobile world, including mobile posting to Web sites such as Facebook . Microsoft hopes the acquisition will further its mobile ambitions, particularly in building new mobile data protection and sharing services, the company said in a statement. The company also plans to use MobiComp ...
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Recent Original Stories
For reasons nobody quite understands, Microsoft changed a lot of settings in Vista. Any programmer whose application hard-coded directory settings will soon discover that the application will fail to run well.
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Asus launches monster Blu-ray laptop
Clement James, vnunet.com , Friday 27 June 2008 at 12:05:00 1TB hard drive, 4Gb of Ram, 17in high-def screen Asus has launched an ultra-portable high-definition multimedia laptop featuring Blu-ray technology. The Asus M70 packs a 1TB hard drive, which the firm claims can store over 350 full length movies....
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Bill Gates - Boy Genius, Corporate Villain, Global Giver - Has Left the Building
In many ways, Monday will be like any other day at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters of the world's largest software maker. Microsoft workers will still come to work to tackle the same array of technological and business challenges facing the company. For the first time in the company's 33-year history, however, one of those employees won't be William Henry Gates III.
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Linked by kvaruni on Mon 11th Jul 2005 14:48 UTC
The true reason for this article is to point out some sensitive points and to start a discussion. Hopefully, this discussion will produce some useful outcome and if some people in the Linux community are willing to listen to them, I would already be very enthusiastic. Let's start, shall we?
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Telia Prices 3G iPhone
STOCKHOLM -- Telia today announced that it will offer Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 3G from as little as one SEK and with three new subscriptions when it goes on sale in all of Telia´s 84 stores in Sweden on July 11.
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Video Review: iMac
Our review copy of Mr Site Takeaway Website Pro arrived in a box. This is unusual because it’s not desktop software at all; it’s an online service.
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Dutch court rules against law that allowed file downloading
A court in the Netherlands has ruled against an interpretation of local copyright law that allowed for downloading of copyrighted materials.
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Philadelphia man arrested over anti-police video
A man was arrested Thursday after authorities said he posted an Internet video in which he waves a gun and says he rejoices whenever a police officer is
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The Philter
7:00 AM -- We've established that, for AT&T, the IP in IPTV really matters. (See The U-verse Experiment and AT&T's iPhone Trick .) But what's next for U-verse?
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The East Bay Today: June 27, 2008
Today's Top Event: The Mystery Plays at Dean Lesher Center for the Arts. Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today's event: Computer tutors at the Oakland Public Library, Main Branch.
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Bill Gates logs off today
As the Microsoft figurehead bows out today to spend time giving away his $58bn fortune and 'improving the state of mankind', some believe he is getting out at the right time. By Andrew Clark
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Bill Gates logs off today
Microsoft figurehead bows out to spend time giving away his $58bn fortune
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Mindanao teachers and students bridge the digital divide
OLUTANGA, ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY, Philippines -- Mario Calipes has been a geometry teacher at the high school here for 16 years, but until recently his knowledge of computers and the Internet was close to zero. "I hesitated to even touch a computer because I was afraid I might damage it," he recalled.
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Novell enhances data center line with new PlateSpin product
PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, announced earlier this week the launch of PlateSpin PowerConvert Version 7.0 with new backup and recovery features and expanded multi-platform support to help enterprises migrate and protect server workloads across heterogeneous physical and virtual IT environments.
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'Portal' Star Launches Machinima in the UK - With a Little Help From Rustlers
Rustlers may be the market leaders in the hot snacking section of your local supermarket, but that doesn't mean they're content to rest on their burgers. They've teamed up with Machinima.com, the most popular machinima website in the world, to launch the art in the UK - and they've brought along a friend to help them.
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