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"Breath of Fire 2"
When I was younger (in other words, when I had no internet access) I randomly spotted BoFII in a games store. I paid £29.99 for it, beat it and then took it back to the store. I regretted it ever since due to it becoming increasingly rare.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 05:16 UTC
Adding my voice to the praise for these articles. Very nice. I'm still dreaming of the day when I'll be able to boot my PC OS as fast as my old Commodore 64.
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Mozilla patches Firefox side of Safari 'carpet bomb' threat
Updated: 17 Jul 2008 FRAMINGHAM, JULY 16 2008 - Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older Version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer Version 3.0 until Wednesday.
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Current Newswire:
"When it comes to proprietary drivers, AMD has almost completely eliminated their dependence on the xorg.conf and NVIDIA too is eliminating their need of this method for configuring the X server.
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Gmail Tries to Be Less Creepy, Fails
Gmail , Google's powerful web based email service, announced some changes to its contact management features today. Contact management has for some time been a contentious matter among Google Account holders - the company does strange and mysterious things with your email contacts, including tying them in to some other applications without anyone's permission. Today's new changes failed ...
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Heavily Backed Financial Intelligence Firm Monitor110 Shutters; Unable To Secure Latest Funding
This is a tough time for any company selling premium-priced services to hedge funds… Monitor110, a NYC startup that analyzed raw, unstructured internet content to help hedge funds make decisions, is shuttering.
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Apple backs down from Push, Exchange marketing
Apple's retail employees are already being retrained regarding sales of MobileMe ñ Apple's Web 2.0-based service suite ñ with the company urging staff to rephrase how they mention or describe the service. A notice to the retail sales team indicates that they should refer to MobileMe as an "automatic sync" service, rather than Push, to clear up any ...
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Business Digest
TRAFFIC INFORMATION TrafficCast expands link with Yahoo TrafficCast International of Madison is expanding its partnership with Yahoo to provide real-time road speed information for the Internet search engine's mapping products. The Madison's company's Dynaflow technology will allow Yahoo Map users in the nation's top 100 markets to calculate travel times and receive incident reports. Through ...
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Amazon to add 'store' for video on demand
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store and keeping couch potatoes planted firmly in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com will roll out a new online store of TV shows and movies today, called Amazon Video on Demand.
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Symantec Explains SMB Renewal Changes; VARs Still See Problems
While Symantec contends that they give the VAR a fair shot at software licensing renewals, partners say the security company recently began attempts to redirect customer renewals away from the reseller.
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Apple Climbs Into Third Place in U.S. PC Market
Apple Computer cracked the top three in U.S. PC sales for the third quarter, according to surveys released Wednesday by both Gartner and IDC.
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Samsung Collaborates with Sun Microsystems to Develop New Ultra-Endurance Flash Memory for SSD Products in Server ...
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today
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Spam is spreading all over
If it seems life is filled with one annoyance after another -- the cost of gas, telemarketers, spam -- you might be on to something. A national study validates your irritation about the spam overflowing your e-mail inbox.
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Ready or Not, VMware, Here Comes Hyper-V
At the very least, the entrance of Microsoft and Hyper-V into a market in which Xen-based offerings are already giving VMware a run for its money means that the days of VMware as the no-brainer option for server consolidation and similar virtualization-based tasks are over. · With its June 26 release of Hyper-V, Microsoft presented x86 server virtualization leader VMware with what may prove its ...
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Yahoo Japan Shares Gain on Tie-Up Over TV-Net Ads With Dentsu
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo Japan Corp., the operator of Japan's most visited Internet portal, gained the most in more than a month in Tokyo trading on an alliance with Dentsu Inc. to sell TV and the Internet advertising packages.
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Amazon.com's Streaming Service To Launch in Limited Beta Tomorrow; Links With Sony Bravia
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching its new streaming online movie and video service tomorrow...the new service is called, surprise surprise, Amazon Video on Demand. Some details of the service were inadvertently pre-announced by CEO Jeff Bezos at the D conference in May. It will be available at Amazon.com/VOD when it launches...well, not yet fully. Turns out it is only launching it in beta ...
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IIJ Introduces DKIM Sender Authentication Technology to the IIJ Secure MX Service
TOKYO, July 17, 2008 -- Internet Initiative Japan Inc. , , one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced that the integrated email security solution IIJ Secure MX Service is now compatible with DomainKeys Identified Mail technology.
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WELCOME GUEST! Videogame makers are riding the social-networking wave with a flood of soon-to-be-released titles that let friends play online as teams and even create their own characters.
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House Judiciary Committee Approves PACT Act Legislation
The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation yesterday – HR 4081 – that would crack down on illegal cigarette trafficking, including the illegal sales of cigarettes through the Internet.
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The edge-centric Internet
Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the Internet. And get paid for it. P2P vs Internet data centers A new project, spearheaded by National ICT...
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Microsoft expected to post gains amid Yahoo turmoil
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. is expected to post strong fiscal fourth-quarter profit and sales gains when it reports results after the market's close Thursday, as the software giant struggles to strike a deal with Yahoo Inc. to bolster its relatively young online services unit.
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All eyes on Google for signs on online ad slowdown
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. is expected to post strong profit and sales growth when it reports fiscal second-quarter results after the market's close Thursday, while investors and analysts will be keen to hear what the market leader has to say about the health of the online advertising business.
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Is This The Future Of Search?
The video above shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a video of the search history, recorded by Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango. This new video, however, shows the full Google search experience with [...]
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Opera Software releases Opera Mobile 9.5 beta
A hands-on review of the newest version of Opera's browser for Windows Mobile phones.
CNET |
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Newspaper giant Gannett drops as internet wreaks havoc
New York - The largest newspaper publisher in the US, Gannett Co, reported a sharp drop in profits Wednesday as the flight of readers to the internet amid harsh economic conditions continued to wreak havoc in the newspaper industry. The publisher of ...
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