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'Bungie Day' To See Release Of New Halo 3 DLC
Microsoft has announced that July 7th will see the release of a new Halo 3 multiplayer map, as well as a number of other gamer pics and themes and a drop in price for the last DLC set, in honor of the so-called 'Bungie Day.' The new multiplayer map, called Cold Storage, is similar to the Chill Out map from the original Halo. Microsoft describes it as a "once vibrant, active research center" ...
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Ulster County Internet sting nabs Canadian at Niagara Falls
KINGSTON – A Canadian national, who arranged a meeting with a 14-year-old girl for a sexual encounter, is in custody, after an undercover Internet sting by the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit (ICAC).
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Lowe’s jumps up among Home & Garden sites in May
With 41% growth in unique visitors in May from May a year ago, Lowe’s Cos. Inc. is breathing down the neck of Home & Garden category retail web site leader The Home Depot, according to the latest figures from Nielsen Online.
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sit down with Carlos Guerreiro
"A few months ago, the GNOME Mobile Platform was announced to the public. One of the main forces behind the launch of this initiative was Nokia, which uses a lot of GNOME-components in its Linux-based Internet Tablets Nokia 770 and N800. During this years GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to , Nokias Manager for Open Source Software, to talk - amidst other things - about the not so ...
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lost its cherished moral edge ."
"Is open source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior? Some observers argue it's the latter.
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether ...
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Bice’s buys up domain names to boost traffic and sales
Bice’s Florist is closing its stores and buying up domain names as part of its strategy to drive more customers to its site and boost e-commerce sales.
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Direct marketers should bid for lower positions on search pages
Bidding for the highest positions on search results pages may not be the best use of marketing dollars for most online retailers, according to new research from AdGooroo, an online market research firm.
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How to write a thorough review of a Linux distribution
I have never written a review of a Linux distribution, but I've read more than I can count, and many of them have been maddeningly incomplete and not worth the time it took to read them. Here's a list of items you need to talk about in order to write a thorough review, covering every aspect of the distribution from the initial download to the final recommendation and everything in between.
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Recent Original Stories
Google is developing a program to help academics around the world exchange huge amounts of data . The firm's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size.
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Customer reviews in e-mail marketing lift conversion rates at Mountain Gear
With customer-generated product reviews posted on outdoor apparel and gear retailer Mountain Gear’s web site, higher conversion rates in an e-mail marketing campaign led to average order values up by more than 80%, the retailer says.
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Apple’s iTunes leads the digital music market, but competitors keep coming
Apple reports that online music shoppers have now purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from its iTunes store. But Napster and RealNetworks have launched new DRM-free music stores to chip away at Apple’s lead.
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You've got a fast car: mass transit goes live in Geekland
University of California Irvine computer scientist Crista Lopes has too much time on her hands.
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VeriSign parts company with CEO
VeriSign, the world’s leading provider of the electronic certificates that help secure internet traffic, on Thursday announced the departure of its chief executive.
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XChange International Announce Releaes of WBC4 Software
DMN Newswire--2008-7-3--XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide are pleased to announce the release of WBC4 barcode generating software for Windows. WBC4 produces barcodes as EPS, JPEG and TIFF files for use in any graphics or page layout software.
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XChange International Announce Release of eBookCreator
DMN Newswire--2008-7-3--XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide are pleased to announce the release of eBookCreator. eBookCreator allows users to easily create their own professional, interactive eBooks from any PDF file in minutes. eBookCreator is an ideal tool for creating interactive online magazines and catalogues, bids and offers, brochures, campaigns, reports, ...
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Top 10: Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans
A Trojan horse program that has been around for about six years is now being used to steal system-administrator passwords, including those at banking and brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we'll still be talking about Microsoft's aim to buy Yahoo's search business, which could involve obtaining the entire company and breaking it apart. ...
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No More MLS Malaise; "Realtor" Is Really...Not Bad
Although Torontoist has always been known for its sunny disposition and positive outlook on life, we have on a few occasions been less than effusive in our praise of the de facto real estate web search king, mls.ca . A poor (very, very poor) search function, crappy pictures (when available), and often useless information (telling us a property is in "C03" doesn't narrow it down very much) makes ...
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Microsoft Searches For Meaning In Powerset
To better compete with Google, the software giant agrees to acquire a semantic search engine.
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Latest Open Source Linux Phone on Sale July 4
The latest attempt at an open source, Linux-based phone goes on sale July 4. Offered by OpenMoko, will it succeed where so many others have failed? We'll find out for sure on the Fourth.
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EU still greasing IBM antitrust probe despite PSI withdrawal
'Your complaint stands' IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart , but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.…
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Nov 2007 21:48 UTC
The breakdown for the various editions of Windows Server 2008 was revealed this morning by Microsoft, and the big news there is the almost total lack of change: Retail server software editions for the next Windows Server will fall right in line with the current Windows Server 2003 R2 editions, including the number of client access licenses provided in the basic package.
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MotoPR to Produce
Moto Public Relations, LLC (MotoPR) has signed a licensing deal with XTRM Networks, the promoter of the AMA XTRM Supermoto Championship series, to produce the Internet broadcasts for the entire six-round series.
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EIC Squared: Indexing Flash; Powerset; and Viacom vs. Google
On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 23:50 UTC
CodingExperiments.com posted an interesting article by utilizing the Google Trends system to show the trends in the Linux ecosystem. While these trends don't mean "market share", they are interesting and pretty accurate in terms of what average users care about.
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