WorldWide Telescope has been released as a public beta. From the press release:The final frontier got a bit closer today as Microsoft Corp. officially launched the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.wo...
From the press release:Customers and Microsoft Corp. partners can now visit http://www.MultiplyYourPower.com to find out how to evaluate pre-release versions of Windows Essential Server Solutions for small and midsize companies: Windows Small ...
iTunes Gets HBO Content - Podcasting NewsTelevision content available through Apple s iTunes Store continues to grow. HBO and Apple today officially announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download via the iTunes Store. Programs include
One always wants to pick the finest products at the best value available. But if the product is human talent, the stakes involved are higher. A new site hopes to simplify this by creating a common platform for online bidding
The Chronicle of Higher Ed got a briefing at RIAA headquarters on how the group catches pirates . They just use LimeWire and other software that pirates use, except that they've set up scripts to search for songs, grab IP
Charter Communications has begun sending letters to its customers informing them that, in the name of an "enhanced user experience," it will begin spying on their traffic and inserting targeted ads. This sounds almost indistinguishable from what Phorm proposed doing
An article that details how Open Source is being hijacked by Microsoft and the sort via 'Shared Source' licenses and how Open Source licenses have become so much more confusing. From the article, "The confusion stems from the fact that
mytrip notes a News.com article reporting that Google has begun blurring faces in its Street View service, which has spawned privacy concerns since its introduction last year. Google has been working for a couple of years to advance the state
Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the package they are maintaining so that it better fits into the distribution itself. However, most of the time, their changes are not sent back to upstream for
Fedora 9 has been released as of 10 AM Eastern Time this morning. Release notes can be found here . Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system, which can be used as an alternative
About 45% architecture updates (counting the include files too), about 30% drivers, and about 25% odds-and-ends. The odds-and-ends are mainly Documentation, filesystems (mostly cifs) and core kernel (scheduler updates etc), " said Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.26-rc2 kernel
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday night strongly condemned the bomb blasts at Jaipur that left at least 60 killed and many injured.
Severed limbs, mangled heaps of cycle rickshaws, bicycles and smashed windscreens of cars turned the crowded markets crammed with peak-time shoppers in the walled part of the Pink City into a virtual war zone minutes after serial bomb blasts were
Banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia, operating from Bangladesh, is believed to be behind the serial blasts that rocked the tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, killing over 50 people besides injuring several others.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night spoke to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and offered all support to the state government in dealing with the situation arising out of the serial blasts in Jaipur.
