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Joss Whedon's Wacky Web Experiment
Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer likely will flock to Whedon's new Dr. Horrible online project. His business plan may be just as interesting
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BT Rolls Out a Massive Fiber Network
The telecom giant announced a network investment expected to connect as many as 10 million homes to the superfast broadband service by 2012
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Sony adds online movies and TV rental to PlayStation 3
At the ongoing E3 conference, Sony revealed its answer to Xbox Live Video Marketplace, adding online movie sales and rental to PlayStation 3 consoles. And to help persuade people make the most of the service, the company also confirmed that from September, current 40GB consoles would have their storage upped to 80GB.
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A Crackdown on India's Cybercafés
India's cybercafés could be headed for extinction as a nationwide clampdown in the name of anti-terrorism threatens their existence
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Jun 2006 13:44 UTC, submitted by Dylan
In November this year, Sony will launch the PlayStation 3. Apparantly, Sony has high expectations for the Linux-powered device, and Sony even claims it will render the PC useless.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Jun 2006 21:26 UTC
Linux isn't a threat to Windows on the desktop and is losing steam on the server as customers separate the operating system from the development model, according to Microsoft's chief platform strategist.
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Apple has filed a suit (more details ) on July 3rd against Psystar in the northern district of California. Psystar dubbed its cheap Mac Clone as Open Computer and started shipping them around April of this year.
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 15th Jul 2008 17:16 UTC
A new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has arrived, aimed at both Linux newbies and content creators. Boasting "out of the box" multimedia codecs, the freely downloadable PC/OS incorporates the lightweight XFCE desktop, and is said to offer a similar layout to the groundbreaking, but ultimately doomed BeOS.
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Chip maker Intel reports 25 percent increase in second-quarter profits
Intel Corp.’s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street’s estimates Tuesday.
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Yahoo goes to Washington to defend deal with Google
WASHINGTON – Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company’s advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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Icahn files candidate list for Yahoo board
SAN FRANCISCO – Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company’s board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected.
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Microsoft has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization.
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N.Y. man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL
NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system. Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after pleading guilty more than a year ago to breaking anti-spam laws.
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"Recently a blog post entitled 'Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy' has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of 'Linux ain't ready yet' jeremiads and it doesn't really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?"
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SAN FRANCISCO–Intel Corp. says its quarterly net income rose 25 per cent, helped by strong sales of microprocessors used in notebook computers.
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Laptop stolen in raid on house
POLICE are hunting for burglars who ransacked a house before getting away with a lap-top computer. (16/07/2008)
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Sony cutting price of PS3, adding video downloads
LOS ANGELES - In a bid to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive gaming business, Sony announced Tuesday that it will cut the price of its high-end PlayStation 3 console by $100.
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Apple alleges unauthorized use by Florida company
Apple has sued Psystar over claims the Florida-based company is selling inferior computers and servers using unauthorized copies of Apple's operating system.
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Intel profit signals strength in tech economy
Bolstered by a growing market for lower-cost notebook computers, Intel surprised Wall Street on Tuesday by reporting a 25 percent surge in profit for its second quarter and predicting more strong sales in the months to come.
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YouTube IDs are safe
A new deal lets Google cloak identities of YouTube users while complying with a court order.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-16 09:11 UK smallcap opening - Blinkx up on Brazil online venture; MSN partnership
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Higher levels were seen in Blinkx, 4-1/4 pence up at 22-1/2 following the launch of an online television venture, Blinkx Brazil, with audiovisual content distributor Elo Company to deliver films, music videos and special interest channels in the South American country.
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Sony Computer Entertainment
GamesIndustry.biz is the world's most read and influential games industry website. But don't just take our word for it!
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First look at the Envy 133's instant 5-second OS
Filed under: Laptops For those of you still able to focus, able to avoid a gobsmacked trance evoked by the unabashed sex of the Voodoo Envy 133 , listen up. LAPTOP went hands-on with a pre-production Voodoo Envy 133 running the instant-on, Linux-based IOS (aka, DeviceVM's Splashtop ) and came away "really impressed" by the "game changing" technology. Instead of waiting for Vista ...
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Viacom, YouTube Agree to Anonymize Court-ordered Log Dump
Google dodges a bullet with its faithful users...
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Blue Bomber ex-cheerleaders pose on sexy site
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were scrambling to protect their reputation after racy photos featuring some of the team's former cheerleaders were posted on an Internet sports site.
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