$6M WoW Glider Judgment (1)
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Blizzard wins Warcraft bot payout reports $6 million is the damages award MDY Industries must pay Blizzard after losing a US court case over the World of Warcraft "Glider" software (story). Word is: "...
Microsoft Begins to Reveal Visual Studio 2010 (1)
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Yesterday Microsoft started introducing Visual Studio 2010 to Windows developers with a press release and a MSDN website. Introductions to the next Visual Studio also popped up on various technology news sites; InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, Microsoft Watch, BetaNews, and Ars Technica each have brief summary and explaination of the information Microsoft has released so far. Only NetworkWorld digs into the subject by asking various developers to give their impressions of the new Visual Studio.
10 Alternative Operating Systems (1)
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"This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris. There are much less mainstream options out there for the OS-curious." Though the article doesn't go into much detail about the OSes, it is a good round up of some of the interesting candidates.
Linux Foundation's Zemlin Declares Solaris All But Dead (1)
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Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin has said it is time for Solaris to simply move out of the way and yield the future to Linux. 'The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows. It is not Unix or Solaris,' he claims, contending that Sun's strength in long-lifecycle apps is giving way to Linux, as evidenced by the rise of Web apps, where Linux holds a decided advantage, Zemlin claims. With capabilities such as ZFS and ...
Digsby Build 32 Released (1)
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The Digsby development team is hard at work in the last months to optimize and improve the instant messaging, email and Social networking client. Joshua covered the last Digsby release which already saw a computer memory reduction of 50%. The new Digsby release was announced today in the official Digsby blog. The major changes in this release are again memory optimizations claiming memory reduction by up to 75%. The default Digsby client is using a ...
GPass Bypass Censorship and Restrictions (4)
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Censorship is a huge problem in many countries of the world but especially rampant in the Middle East and Asia. If websites and information are censored the local population has a hard time accessing them from within the country. This usually involves the use of proxy servers or vpn solutions to bypass the country’s restrictions. Restrictions on the other hand are usually implemented by an Internet service to prevent access to the service from users ...
Apple Adds NDA to App Store Rejection Notices (1)
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The situation regarding Apple's App Store for the iPhone is getting weirder by the day. Several applications have been rejected from the App Store based on seemingly dubious claims such as duplication of functionality (even though they didn't duplicate anything), or alikeness to default applications. Two such cases made headline news over the past few days; Podcaster and MailWrangler. The developers of these applications openly protested against these rejections, and apparently, Apple doesn't really like ...
Microsoft To Buy Back $40bn of Its Shares (3)
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phantomflanflinger writes "As you may have heard already, Microsoft have announced their intentions to buy back $40 billion in stock from their investors, in the biggest single buy-back plan in business history. The announcement has given Microsoft shares a small gain but they still stand significantly below their level in January — before Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo!. The announcement of the plan has also created new speculation about a now-or-never deal with Yahoo!."Read more ...
Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source (10)
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mjasay writes "As if the proprietary software world needed any help, two business professors from Harvard and Stanford have combined to publish 'Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology Under Network Effects,' a research paper dedicated to helping business executives fight the onslaught of open source software. The professors advise 'the commercial vendor ... to bring its product to market first, to judiciously improve its product features, to keep its product "closed" so the open ...
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mech said:
The best possible compliment to Open-Source!
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Rick Dillon said:
Yea! Keep your product closed so everyone duplicates effort to reduce the efficiency of the system even more...because we don't want to be working on innovative technologies, we just want to spend our time reinventing the wheel. Excellent advice. Or...maybe these guys have no clue how companies should be leveraging open source to innovate...
uTorrent’s Mac Client Leaked (24)
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An early Alpha release of the long awaited Mac version of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has leaked to the public. The application is still in development, but most features seem to work just fine. As expected, the application looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart. Thus far, only Windows users have had the pleasure of running uTorrent. The client saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most ...
eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US (5)
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Sir_Kurt writes "In eBay's latest FAQ, they explain that sellers (for the good of the buyers) will no longer be allowed to accept checks or money orders as payment. They can take electronic payments only. So, will Google Checkout, Checkout by Amazon or Amazon Flexible Payment be allowed? No, says eBay: 'Google's and Amazon's products and services compete with eBay on a number of levels, so we are not going to allow them on eBay.' ...
CD Projekt on DRM (1)
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GamesIndustry.biz has an interesting quote from CD Projekt on the interesting and quote-worthy topic of digital rights management in discussing the launch of Good Old Games, the DRM-free vintage...
10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles (5)
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theodp writes "Confirming paranoid high-schoolers' fears, a new Kaplan survey reveals that 10% of admissions officers from prestigious schools said they had peeked at sites like Facebook and MySpace to evaluate college-bound seniors. Of those using the profiles, 38% said it had a 'negative impact' on the applicant. 'Today's application is not just what you send ... but whatever they can Google about you,' said Kaplan's Jeff Olson. At Notre Dame, assistant provost for enrollment ...
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rorowe said:
Haha, University = Big Brother :)
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Derek said:
I wish they talked about the potential upside an online presence could have in these cases
Computer Trainer (1)
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Stanford School of Engineering started their Stanford Engineering Everywhere program which provides full computer science courses on a newly created website. This is not only useful to computer trainers but everyone who is interested in computer science in general. The available courses are divided into three categories which are Introduction to Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Linear Systems and Optimization. Of those courses the Computer Science courses are aimed at beginners while the other two ...
Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed (4)
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Shin-LaC writes "In a post on their official blog, WebKit developers introduced the 'next generation' of their JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme, claimed to be twice as fast as its predecessor. The post lists several changes contributing to the performance improvements, including 'bytecode optimization,' a 'polymorphic inline cache' (which sounds similar to V8's 'hidden class transitions'), and a 'context threaded JIT' compiler which generates native code (currently only for x86 processors), and is also applied to ...
Store, Tag and Print: 10 Great Photo Sharing Services - ReadWriteWeb (34)
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The photo sharing market is growing at a steady clip and new services are released regularly. In this round-up, we compare the features and usability of 10 of our favorite photo sharing sites. Two years ago, we published a similar list. So now seems a good time for us to revisit the topic. Some of these sites focus more on mainstream users and photo-finishing, while others stand out because of their extensive social features. Note: ...
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patarakin said:
Фликр - № 1
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Keith Teare said:
next year fotonauts will be here :-)
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Jamie said:
Photosharing beyond Flickr
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Rob said:
For some reason, I still haven't done anything more than dabble in photo sharing. I am sharing this to make sure I check out some of these tools myself...
Cisco to buy Jabber (1)
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Play Gears 2 First By Playing Gears 2 For Real [Gears Of War 2] (1)
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Do you want to play Gears of War 2 early? Bad enough to star in a reality show based on the game? Microsoft and Spike TV are looking for a few good men and women to be featured in a real-life televised Gears adventure, with getting your hands on Gears of War 2 a month early at stake. ...just like in the game, challenges, tough decisions and sacrifices stand in the path of victory. In ...
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A German court has ruled that Rapidshare.com isn't doing enough to combat piracy and that its filters are ineffective. The court decision of the Hamburg district court, which was published a few days ago, states that Rapidshare has to become active against copyright infringements as soon as rights holders make the companny aware of them - a rule that is somewhat similar to the DMCA in the United States. However, Rapidshare has to do a ...Contribute commentThe Globe and Mail - Technology News (19) permalink
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