IBM pushes “Microsoft-free” desktops
IBM announced a partnership with Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat to sell “Microsoft-free desktops,” says an eWeek story by Chris Preimesberger. The Linux software giants will work with hardware manufacturers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Lotus word processing and collaboration software, says the story.
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iminplaya writes with a link to an excellent article at Ars Technica, extracting from it a few choice nuggets: “The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good — and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September [...]
Social-news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in “final negotiations” to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources.
Google has been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the deal closes, if [...]
Who knew the Onion would be right? [Thanks Mister Justin] BTW, this chart is out of date. Remember the good, old days of $3 gas? Good times, good times…
Darn this came from the Onion? And I am so sorry to say so correct, Thanks GW, Baldy
Bush — Before And Now
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The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country’s open source business model. Russell McOrmond, a member of the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance (CSIA), says that Bill C-61, the proposed copyright legislation unveiled by the government last month, ignores just about every recommendation made by CSIA, a [...]
Reuters - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season formed on Monday, hundreds of miles (km) away from the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Hang on to your hats folks, we have one more chance for Bush to show us “correct” hurricane rescue tips
First hurricane of season forms in [...]
Canada’s largest wireless carrier, Rogers Communications, announced pricing plans, Friday, for Apple’s 3G iPhone.
Due to hit Canadian stores on July 11, many customers may not be rushing out to buy one. Although the actual cost of the phone itself is almost the same in Canada and the United States, the monthly costs are not.
Rogers [...]
Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.
He will be missed for sure. A funny, funny guy…
Source: Yahoo News
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You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today.
Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than [...]
Okay I don’t care how bad the situation or how stupid the idea is, trust me there is a idiot out there to always say “hey hold my beer and watch this”. It is not like there are more important things for the officials to be doing.
Amid the hard work along the River, rescue teams [...]
