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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Mar 2006 21:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"It was recently annouced that desktop Linux's golden child, Ubuntu, may begin to offer Linspire's Click-N-Run service. This story which hit the internet just a few days ago is big news for the desktop Linux community.
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Home: Not Always Safe From ID Theft
By Lindsay Tyner Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 7:45 p.m. We hear a lot about identity theft these days. It usually happens when someone gets your information from a third party: off the internet, from a business, or a lost wallet.
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Startup brings WiMax to smaller cities
In Sprint Nextel Corp.'s multibillion-dollar vision, Americans soon will be able to sit in a moving car (passenger seat, please) and take part in a video chat while downloading a movie and writing e-mails.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-07 00:23 Japan's Nintendo, Sony to explore Asian game market - report
TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Nintendo Co. and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. are separately taking steps to expand in the game market in Asia outside Japan, where games played on personal computers are the mainstream, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday without citing sources.
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Gates is gone but the fight goes on: Stallman
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
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Google pleads with Vaicom for YouTube privacy
Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright-infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.
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Book Review: The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Complete First Serial Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
One of the best series of stories that I have read for young readers in a long time. I have to admit that I'm prejudiced. With very few exceptions, I believe that the best books for young people are written by the British. For imagination, intelligence, and maturity nothing I've read by authors from any other country has matched anything that has come out of the British Islands. From the ...
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Sony's PlayStation site hacked
Visitors to Sony’s official PlayStation site are being warned about security risks after hackers managed to jeopardise the security of the online portal last week.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 27th Mar 2006 19:30 UTC
Phil Sim, a professional with technology editor journalist background, has written three interesting blog posts recently, discussing the much-rumored Google OS ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). He speculates that all user's data will be stored online on Google's servers and so one's desktop and files can be retrieved exactly as left by any other PC station, anywhere in the world, by simply using his Gmail ...
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Recent Original Stories
Mandriva announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. Download the hybrid live/install CD One or the purely free/open source Free . Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring includes the latest software (KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0) and several new features: Metisse; WengoPhone; Google desktop applications like Picasa and Earth; updates and improvements to many of the Mandriva ...
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2. Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista.
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The Facebooker Who Friended Obama
When Mark Penn, a strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton, derisively said Barack Obama’s supporters “look like Facebook,” Chris Hughes took it as a compliment.
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Poof! You’re Unpublished.
A flurry of intense and angry comments erupted on BoingBoing.net when it was discovered that the Web site had unpublished all references to the blogger Violet Blue.
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Google, Zen Master of the Market
Microsoft challenged the rules on competition and antitrust law. Now, it’s Google’s turn.
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Blackjack Makes a Move From the Web to Television
With the premiere of ?Catch 21,? a TV version of a popular online blackjack game, winners on the Internet get a chance to say ?hit me? on the living room screen.
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A brave new worldwide web
The huge audience draw and the immediacy of the internet have made one director with a social conscience switch from feature films to online video
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British privacy group aims to roadblock Google's Street View
Google is set to start photographing areas in the UK for its Street View tool this week, but British rights groups are already up in arms about it and are threatening to call on the Information Commissioner to take action against it.
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US broadband take-up slows
The latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that US take-up of broadband is slackening off, and that many dial-up customers have no intention of upgrading..
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Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically
destinyland writes "A year ago, Aaron Stanton harangued Google over his new project, a web site analyzing patterns in books to generate infallible recommendations. In March he finally finished a prototype which he showed to Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, and he's just announced that he's finally received a big contract which 'gives us a great deal of potential data to work with.' The 25-year-old's ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Sep 2005 10:27 UTC, submitted by Josh
The latest release of the GNOME Journal is available. This edition includes stories on Google's Summer of Code, GOCollab, the Banshee music player, and more.
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Hasay finishes 10th in 1,500 Olympic Trials final
Jordan Hasay finished 10th in today’s 1,500 meter final at the U.S. Olympic Team Trial meet in Eugene, Oregon. Hasay, a 16-year-old junior from Mission Prep High School in San Luis Obispo, ran the race in 4 minutes, 17.36 seconds, according to online race results from USA Track and Field. She set a national high school record in the event in her semifinal race Friday in 4 minutes, 14.50 seconds.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Sep 2005 17:00 UTC
"Now that Firefox has become the first viable contender to Internet Explorer in years, its popularity has brought with it some unwanted attention. Last week's premature disclosure of a zero-day Firefox exploit came a few weeks after a zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer appeared on the Internet.
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Arthur C Clarke's last words - from beyond the stars
He gave the world 2001: A Space Odyssey and the concept of the intelligent computer in the form of the murderous Hal. He predicted geostationary satellites and space stations.
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The biggest company you've never heard of
The new UK headquarters for the business-to-business behemoth IDG Communications is opposite the British Library and just a few blocks down from the Wellcome Trust, the medical research charity. It seems fitting for a company that made its fortune from charting the rise of the computer industry in the 20th century, and is now setting its course for the biotechnology revolution of the 21st. ...
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