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2010-09-07 21:10:01 GMT

Pascal Finette / Gaming:
Welcome to Mozilla Labs Gaming — We are excited to present to you the latest initiative from Mozilla Labs: Gaming. Mozilla Labs Gaming is all about games built, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser. We want to explore the wider set of technologies which make immersive gaming on the Open Web possible.

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2010-09-07 21:35:01 GMT

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets — Rsearch In Motion (RIM) has indeed acquired software developer DataViz — well, most of it anyway. — “RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform,” …

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2010-09-07 21:40:00 GMT

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Confirms Game Center Compatibility: Yes on 2nd-Generation iPod Touch, No on iPhone 3G — Apple has confirmed on its Game Center overview page that the social gaming network will be available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPod touch models …

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2010-09-07 21:50:00 GMT

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Analysis: the H-P Suit Against Mark Hurd — Hewlett-Packard is suing former CEO Mark Hurd, alleging breach of contract and threatened misappropriation of trade secrets, a day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle. Below, a look at some of the most salient points in the suit.

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2010-09-07 22:20:00 GMT

David Kirkpatrick / Vanity Fair:
With a Little Help From His Friends — At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he's the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher's new film, The Social Network.

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2010-09-07 23:10:00 GMT

Grant Gross / PC World:
ACLU, Other Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Border Laptop Searches — The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.

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2010-09-07 23:25:00 GMT

Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web — The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users …

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2010-09-07 23:30:04 GMT

Oracle:
Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today issued the following statement: — “Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard …

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2010-09-07 23:35:00 GMT

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Controversial Investor McClure On Doing 50 Deals This Year, Clashing With VCs, and More — Dave McClure is rather unlike most investors in Silicon Valley. He curses like a sailor, for one thing - publicly. He tweets almost constantly, no matter the time of day.

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2010-09-07 23:45:04 GMT

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Scribe — Google launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It's not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For example, I started to type “This works sur” and Google suggested …

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2010-09-07 23:50:00 GMT

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google's Kinetic Logo Apparently Has To Do With Their Big Search Event Tomorrow — By now, you've likely noticed the interesting, kinetic logo Google has had up today. While there is still no official word from the search giant as to exactly what it means, they are letting out some hints.

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2010-09-08 00:10:00 GMT

Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Dell Killing Windows XP Option This Month — Dell said Tuesday that it plans to stop offering Windows XP as a preloaded OS option beginning this month, as a prelude to Microsoft's slow phase-out of the older operating system. — Microsoft said in June that the company would prevent OEMs …

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2010-09-08 00:40:02 GMT

Gizmodo:
Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter — Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has “racks of servers dedicated to him. I'm sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more.

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Alan Cone — 2010-09-07 22:49:57 GMT

Orange and T-Mobile networks have joined together to allow users to connect and use either network, based on whichever signal is best for their location. This deal, which was suspected almost a year ago, will allow the shared network to host 30 million subscribers. The deal is limited to 2G...

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2010-09-08 04:40:00 GMT

Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP who recently resigned over sexual harassment allegations, has secured a job at software giant Oracle.

Mark Hurd - HewlettPackard - Sexual harassment - Oracle - Larry Ellison

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Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) — 2010-09-07 21:31:02 GMT

Electronic Arts has announced that a variety of well known artists will be contributing songs for the upcoming console version of The Sims 3, with all the tracks sung in the well known but little understood special language of the series.For the first time in its history a Sims title is arriving on the Xbox 360 from Microsof...

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Softpedia News (Andrei Dumitrescu) — 2010-09-07 22:51:02 GMT

Doctor Richard Marks, who is a senior researcher working for the Research and Development department for Sony Computer Entertainment, has stated that he believes the PlayStation Move motion tracking controller, which uses a wand with buttons, is more flexible than the Kinect from Microsoft, which is based around recognizing body motion patterns and ...

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Devin Coldewey — 2010-09-07 23:01:59 GMT

We've seen a lot of TVs announced before and during IFA this year. That makes sense — it's a consumer electronics show, after all. And I guarantee that most if not all of those sets will have their 3D capability touted. It's a dangerous move, since so many consumers are wary of 3D — not enough content, bulky glasses, headaches, and so on. So there's been some grumbling: why are they including 3D on TVs when nobody wants it? It's really pretty simple: adding 3D capability to a TV is trivial. It's a freebie feature they get to charge for.

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Jason Kincaid — 2010-09-08 00:16:59 GMT

The dramatic battle between Mark Hurd, HP, and Oracle continues. Yesterday Oracle announced that it was hiring recently-ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd as Co-President and a member of its Board. HP responded this morning by suing Hurd, alleging that he would potentially leak trade secrets to Oracle. Oracle has just responded to the suit, and it isn't pulling any punches:

“Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard for that partnership, our joint customers, and their own shareholders and employees. The HP Board is making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together in the IT marketplace."

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Jack McKenna — 2010-09-08 00:26:48 GMT

Apparently some of Digg's employees aren't super happy that their main source of news about Digg is TechCrunch - probably referring to the news that VP of Engineering John Quinn is out. Digg Designer Danny Trinh Twitters "I love finding out about @digg company news via @techcrunch. Wonder if they'll post our lunch menu too.." Yes, we will.

The Register

2010-09-07 21:41:05 GMT

BP spilled $3.6m in Gulf spin campaign

Following its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP went from spending about $57,000 a month on Google search ads to an enormous $3.6 million outlay for the month of June alone, according to a report citing internal Google documents.…

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

An international consortium of researchers has completed the majority of the genome sequence of the domesticated turkey, publishing it in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology next week.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

A new study published in this week's PLoS Medicine aims to evaluate the possibility that exposure of a fetus to computed tomography or radionuclide imaging performed during pregnancy might increase subsequent risk of childhood cancer.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

Acamprosate reduces the number of patients being treated for alcoholism who return to drinking, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The drug showed moderate benefits in trials when used in addition to non-drug treatments.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

Microbes could be threatening our cultural heritage by degrading historic cinematographic film and even preventing some valuable footage to be archived at all. Mr. Gavin Bingley who is presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Nottingham today describes how fungal growth on cinema film can not only lead to deterioration of the film but may also pose a risk to the archivist.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

There are currently no reliably safe and effective treatments for morning sickness, according to Cochrane researchers who conducted a systematic review of the available evidence. There was very limited evidence for all pharmaceutical and alternative medicines tested.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

The likelihood that the treatment of a middle ear infection will fail is slightly higher for a child who is given a shorter course of antibiotics, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The results are conclusive, but the researchers say there are other factors that must be considered when the drugs are prescribed.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

Two new studies published in Human Reproduction journal have shed more light on how smoking may damage fertility, and give further weight to advice that mothers and fathers-to-be should stop smoking before attempting to conceive. The first shows that a mother's smoking reduces the numbers of germ and somatic cells in the testes of developing embryos; the second study shows that men's smoking affects the levels of two proteins, protamines, that are crucial for the correct formation of their sperm.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

More than 90 percent of the domesticated turkey genome has been sequenced and assembled. Thousands of genes previously unknown to avian scientists have been described. Also of interest are the sequences of the sex chromosomes "Z" and "W," which were poorly covered in the past.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

Fostering community cooperation, building on skills and strengths, and getting strangers to work together -- these are fundamentals of community development.

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2010-09-07 04:00:00 GMT

Expanded irrigation has made it possible to feed the world's growing billions -- and it may also temporarily be counteracting the effects of climate change in some regions, say scientists in a new study. But some sources of irrigation water are projected to dry up in coming decades and when they do, people may face the double whammy of food shortages and higher temperatures. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research pinpoints where the trouble spots may be.

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2010-09-07 22:42:16 GMT

Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case.

Gadgetwise

By NICK BILTON — 2010-09-07 20:01:25 GMT

A product made by Warpia allows you to stream your entire laptop to a television from up to 30 feet away, bypassing the need for an additional gadget to hook into your TV.

Bits

By NICK BILTON — 2010-09-07 23:37:10 GMT

Steven P. Jobs says his customers don't want to watch "amateur hour." So why are they watching so much video on Facebook?

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nospam@example.com (Alan Patrick) — 2010-09-07 16:42:56 GMT

News that Google will launch an into-the-TV service later this year:

(Reuters) - Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room. CEO Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full Internet browsing via the television, would be free, and Google would work with a variety of program makers and electronics manufacturers to bring it to consumers. "We will work with content providers, but it is very unlikely that we will get into actual content production," Schmidt told journalists after a keynote speech to the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in Berlin.

Sony said last week it had agreed to have Google TV on its television sets, and Samsung has said it was looking into using the service. The announcement comes less than a week after rival Apple unveiled its latest Apple TV product and will intensify a battle for consumers' attention and potentially for the $180 billion (117 billion pounds) global TV advertising market.

That last line says all you need to know. Well, except its a battle to lock up search on another type of screen:

Schmidt also said Google would announce partnerships later this year with makers of tablet computers that would use Google's Chrome operating system, due to be launched soon, rather than its Android phone software, which has been used for mobile devices until now.

Interesting that they think Android hasn't got the jets..... (Update - I may have misread the Reuters piece - Kevin Marks says TV has Android its some tablets that will use Chrome, but that is interesting too)

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nospam@example.com (Alan Patrick) — 2010-09-07 19:38:34 GMT

We have been fascinated by virtual goods ever since reading more pieces of furniture were sold online in Korea in socnets like Cyworld than in real life. You may also recall that a number of companies experimented with virtual goods in 2nd Life (c'mon, you can't have forgotten 2006 - unless you were one of those 2nd Life marketeers ). Anyway, hey ho we are off again.

.....some large companies are testing whether they can raise awareness of their brands — and sell more actual goods — by creating and offering their own pretend merchandise. Volvo Cars of North America, the clothing retailer H&M; and MTV Networks are among the diverse brands entering the market for virtual goods — the make-believe items offered on social-networking games, smartphone apps or fantasy Internet sites.

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So far, the virtual goods market largely consists of micro-purchases. Consumers typically pay $1 to $3 while playing games like FarmVille or Mafia Wars, both created by the social-gaming company Zynga, to get a jump on game rivals. Users also can give a gift, like flowers, or build a collection of items — just as collectors do in real life.

Those impulses will be worth nearly $2 billion in revenue or more this year, according to ThinkEquity, a financial research firm in San Francisco. Its analyst for new media and games, Atul Bagga, said his research found that the market could reach $2.6 billion next year.

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To succeed, “branded virtual goods have to be identifiable and have a real world relevance,” said Ravi Mehta, vice president for products at Viximo, a social gaming platform provider. “They are driven by the relevance to the purchaser. Paris Hilton has people who buy her virtual goods because they are fans and want to identify with her, her hair, her place in pop culture.”

I think he is actually serious about Paris Hilton.....

Actually, we've been arguing for a while that this is the best model for Facebook, but whether people will buy virtual trainers etc on SocNets any more than they did('nt) on 2nd Life is still an open question. Those "decorate your own room" socnets have largely passe'd away. All the evidence is that virtual goods are bought in pursuit of another (typically game based) objective, not "real world relevance" - unless maybe they can be converted into free drinks, like 4square mayoralties at Starbucks.

I await with fascination to see if Nike will be selling under-armour gear on World of Warcraft, and Wilkinson Sword will sell...... but I think this is far more likely to be more akin to the 2nd Life experience, as corporate clumsiness leads to egg on faces and rivers running with red ink.....

Still, as these goods cost nothing to make and distribute, they could be the last hurrah of Freeconomics

Internet Evolution:

2010-09-07 05:00:00 GMT

Telecom service providers are seeing the value of the cloud model and starting to unveil a range of services

Internet Evolution:

2010-09-07 14:30:00 GMT

We have the imagination and the resources to build an Internet that advances the good of civilization - but it will take work

Internet Evolution:

2010-09-07 16:15:00 GMT

Craigslist 'censors' its adult listings

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2010-09-07 16:55:00 GMT

Word has it that Cisco may buy Skype, a potential deal that could be good for both firms

Internet Evolution:

2010-09-07 17:05:00 GMT

Scientists are harnessing the IBM-supported World Community Grid to perform online simulations, crunch numbers, and pose hypothetical scenarios

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2010-09-07 21:25:00 GMT

Samsung's new chipsets set the stage for 'cellphone as laptop'

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Andrew Welsh-huggins — 2010-09-07 16:25:54 GMT

Runaway Ohio convert gains legal US residency COLUMBUS, Ohio ? A lawyer for a Christian convert who ran away from her parents says the now-18-year-old woman has gained permanent U.S. residency after living in Ohio as an illegal immigrant. A lawyer for Rifqa Bary said Tuesday the Sri Lanka native can now start applying for a driver’s .... Source article on Gaea Times at : Christian convert who ran from Ohio to Fla. wins permanent US residency; is Sri Lanka native.

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Doug Ferguson — 2010-09-07 16:30:03 GMT

more images more images more images more images more images US Ryder Cup picks: Woods, Johnson, Cink, Fowler NEW YORK ? Tiger Woods was a no-brainer as a captain’s pick for the Ryder Cup. Rickie Fowler required a little more than deep thought. “It just came down to feelings,” captain Corey Pavin said. “I had a gut feeling about Rickie.” Fowler, the 21-year-old mop .... Original article on Gaea Times at : US Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin makes his picks: Woods (the obvious), Fowler (a surprise).

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AP — 2010-09-07 16:32:18 GMT

Nigeria to hold presidential election on Jan. 22 ABUJA, Nigeria ? Nigeria will hold its presidential election in January, despite concerns that it doesn’t give the nation enough time to hold a credible election. The Independent National Electoral Commission announced Tuesday that the presidential election will be held Jan. 22. Oil-rich Nigeria, with a population of 150 million ... Read : Nigeria to hold Jan. 22 presidential election despite ongoing concerns over vote-rigging.

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Rod Mcguirk — 2010-09-07 16:36:37 GMT

Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule CANBERRA, Australia ? Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard barely retained power when the last two independent legislators made kingmakers by deadlocked elections ended a tense 17-day standoff and agreed to join her government. Her next challenge? Keeping the unlikely bedfellows of her coalition together. Gillard managed Tuesday to persuade .... Source article : Independent lawmakers hand Australia’s Labor Party enough support to form government.

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AP — 2010-09-07 16:43:45 GMT

Walters, Letterman compare notes on heart surgery NEW YORK ? Barbara Walters is feeling wonderful after heart surgery in May ? and has practically no scar, she added proudly Tuesday as she returned to active duty on “The View” after taking the summer off for recovery. “I would like to say, once and for all, to all .... Original article : Barbara Walters returns to ‘The View,’ greeted by fellow heart surgery patient David Letterman.

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Ians — 2010-09-07 16:48:14 GMT

NEW DELHI - Heavy rains lashed parts of Delhi Tuesday evening, leading to traffic jams on major city roads during the peak hours. Showers are also predicted for Wednesday, weather officials said. Slow traffic movement due to waterlogging was reported from areas in central and south Delhi. According to a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) report, .... Original article : Heavy rains lash Delhi.

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AP — 2010-09-07 16:49:49 GMT

NFL again tweaks positioning of umpires Peyton Manning complained, the NFL listened and now the league is making additional tweaks to the umpire rule. All 32 teams were told in a memo from the league Tuesday that the umpire will position himself 12 yards from the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped instead of approximately ... Original source on Gaea Times at : NFL heading into season with more rules changes to positioning of umpires.

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