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Feb
2009
Court Deals Death Blow to Violent Game Law  

131 days ago by admin

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a California law that sought to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2005 law violates minors’ rights under the Constitution’s First and 14th amendments. The three-judge panel’s una ...

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Taiwanese PC Makers Hang Big Hopes on Small Laptops  

131 days ago by admin

Thinking small might help Taiwan’s computer industry emerge from the global downturn as an even bigger global player. While the worldwide computer market is suffering through its worst sales in years, one bright spot is coming from the mini-laptops known as “netbooks,” which appeal to the budget-con ...

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Visions of IPO Dance in His Head: Q&A With Xactly CEO Christopher Cabrera  

131 days ago by admin

When Christopher Cabrera, president and CEO of Xactly, says his Software as a Service sales performance management company began 2009 with a big bang, he didn’t — as one might assume in this economy — mean it in a bad way. In January, the company acquired Centive, its primary competitor. In February ...

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TOGAF 9: Information Trumps Technology  

131 days ago by admin

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in early February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. TOGAF 9 represents a departure for enterprise architecture frameworks in general. It’s larger, more mature, and modular to allow folks to enter it from a variety of ...

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22
Feb
2009
Giving In to Pressure: Hulu, Facebook Buckle  

132 days ago by admin

Maybe the people over at Hulu really are evil aliens trying to turn our brains to mush. Or maybe they’re just beholden to the studios that sign their paychecks. Either way, Hulu’s decision to take its content stream away from startup Boxee has users crying foul. Boxee is an application that makes it ...

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Journalists Squeezed Out in Media Belt Tightening  

132 days ago by admin

Thousands of workers at U.S. newspapers and broadcasters are facing more layoffs, wage freezes and pay cuts as their cost-cutting owners scramble to survive an advertising drought that has become even more dire in recent weeks. The grim conditions prompted Media General to inform its 5,600 workers W ...

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21
Feb
2009
Nokia Bums $630M to Fund Symbian R&D  

133 days ago by admin

Nokia said Thursday it has signed up for a $630 million loan from the European Investment Bank to help finance research and development projects. The world’s largest mobile phone maker said the five-year loan, to be used in 2009-2011, was aimed at making its Symbian-based smartphones more competitiv ...

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Will Rural Broadband Goose the Economy?  

133 days ago by admin

With the first concerted federal program to subsidize high-speed Internet services in rural areas, the new economic stimulus package will create some jobs and could get hundreds of thousands of households online. Yet there’s some question whether the economy would be more energized by spending that ...

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Getting Lucene Down to Business With Lucid Imagination  

133 days ago by admin

On Jan. 26, Lucid Imagination opened for business as the commercial entity for the Apache Lucene-Solr ecosystem. The new company hopes to unite both the Lucene and the open source developer communities under its wing by offering product support, training, consulting services and value-added software ...

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Not Your Father’s Bank: Building Online Banking for Gen Y  

133 days ago by admin

Growing up in a world immersed in digital technologies, members of Generation Y have the highest of expectations on how they want to interact with their banks online. Born at the dawn of the digital age in the early 1980s, the oldest among Generation Y have never known a world without personal compu ...

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