Search giant to release platform that will allow services to go mobile

Google will come out in mid-2008 with a mobile phone platform that incorporates a variety of Google online services and lets outside developers create applications, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

Source: It Business

~LC

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Company will increase features in Messenger in order to enter hot market

Yahoo, disconcertingly unable to develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenger when it releases on Tuesday a beta upgrade of this widely used instant messaging service.

Source: It Business

~LC

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I’ve been using the XChat IRC client for many years. The only thing I find lacking in it is a list of favorite channels. The Uberscript plugin, written in Perl, adds a favorites list to XChat, and also allows you to do things like auto greet users when they join a channel and hide nick changes, quit, and join messages.

I found this yesterday and just had to try it, it sure brings back the old days of Mirc and all the slaps and macros and were popular back then, plus even more features. The first thing that I did was turn off all the auto greets and auto parts messages and fun with it after that. Give it a look if you want to add to your chat fun.

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Nrbelex writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. The investment will cost Microsoft $240 million valuing the total site at somewhere around $15 billion. “The astronomical valuation for Facebook is primarily evidence that Microsoft executives believed they could not afford to lose out on the Facebook deal.

Okay the last thing that I want to see on my facebook page(yes I have one) are Microsoft ads. Lets hope that some one comes up with a billyware ad blocker soon.

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Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook

With several models to choose from, it’s great to see Dell still offering XP machines, while everywhere else you look, Vista is all there is!

I’ve never been a huge fan of Dell, but I’m starting to come around. They’ve been doing a pretty good job lately, in their effort to give customers what they want.

Source: dell.com

~LC

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ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc. plans to sell computers and other electronics gear at 1,400 Staples Inc. stores, the latest departure from the direct-to-customer business model pioneered by the No. 2 computer maker.

Dell and the world’s biggest office products supplier announced Monday that Staples would offer Dell desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, ink and toner starting Nov. 11. Dell products also will be available through Staples’ Web site.

Source: Globe & Mail

~LC

As more organizations adopt server virtualization software, they’re also looking to hire people who have worked with the technology in live applications. But such workers can be hard to find, as Joel Sweatte, IT manager at East Carolina University’s College of Technology and Computer Science, recently discovered when he placed a help-wanted ad for an IT systems engineer with virtualization skills. Sweatte received about 40 applications for the job at the Greenville, N.C.-based university, but few of the applicants had any virtualization experience.

Now here is a job op for folks that say it is too hard to get their foot in the door. I know from personal trials that this is one field that is almost a untouched area that really needs more folks to learn it and I mean learn it, Baldy

 

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Virtualization: Everybody’s Doing It, but Few Know How

A script called winefix. In short, it allows Wine applications to be run just as easily as those native to Linux, meaning that they can be linked to or run from any directory, whether from a terminal or even a file manager like nautilus. It also handles some of the more awkward Wine extensions like .lnk and .msi, akkowing them to be run with a double click.

It also offers a good number of enhancements and fixes over “vanilla” Wine, especially in regards to Compiz and Beryl. If either of the two are running when a Wine application requiring DirectX or OpenGL is run, you’ll be asked if they should be temporarily disabled, and reinstated immediately after the application exits. it also allows for the “Legacy Apps” workaround in Compiz Fusion to be similarly enabled and disabled, as always leaving it on is a disaster – while it can fix the fullscreen modes of Wine apps, it actually breaks those of most native ones. The other enhancements allow the option for each application to have it’s own dedicated virtual Windows desktop (basically whether a program should be started “windowed” ), be reniced, ensure that fullscreen applications restore the desktop resolution properly, or, for 64 bit machines, run in 32-bit compatability mode (thanks to mikey for suggesting the last two!)
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Watch it or download it

Check out the new features and get a closer look at Leopard.

Source: apple.com

~LC

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A webisode for gamers, about gamers by a gamer.

Cyd Sherman’s online gaming addiction brings more than she bargains for…

Episode 1: Wake-Up Call
I saw this awhile back, now I’m anxiously awaiting Episode 4. They’re very well done and too funny!

Source: The Guild

~LC

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