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"If you're a Mac user and you've ever wondered what other games out there are available for your preferred platform, rest assured that Warhammer Online will be joining those ranks soon. According to a recent announcement on their website, the Mac version will be available some time during fall of 2009. For now, Mac users can try out the beta version to see how it runs on their machines."

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"Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement."

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"It took me almost no time to adapt to Ubuntu and become at ease with using it. In fact, this entire column was written and published under Ubuntu running on the MSI Wind. No Windows needed around here!"

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"The company, which sponsors Ubuntu, already sold helpdesk services for enterprise users. However, the new Desktop Support Services, announced on Friday, are largely aimed at "small businesses looking for a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac", Canonical said in a statement."

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"Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, have run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The technique will allow them to effectively observe behaviour found in malicious botnets, or networks of infected machines that can operate on the scale of a million nodes."

OB Linux

"The Acquia Drupal stack installer for Mac (DAMP) configures all the software you need to build a Drupal web site on your Intel Mac running OS 10.5, including Acquia Drupal, Apache, MySQL and PHP."

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"Are you interested in a word processing environment that's more or less the same across multiple PC desktop and mobile platforms--a Linux notebook and a Windows CE device, let's say, or a Macintosh PC, a Windows XP netbook, and an Android phone? How about a word processor that comes with abundant tech support, or one that handles complicated documents relatively easily? If any of these capabilities cries out to you, you might be better off with a commercial product--the kind you pay for--instead of one of many free open source packages also aimed at countering the Microsoft Word stranglehold."

OB Linux office

"Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today it has launched new support services for individuals using Ubuntu desktop - and small businesses looking for cost effective alternatives to Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac."

OB Canonical Ubuntu service

"An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format"

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"Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming."

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"Many potential buyers of laptops priced under $300 in the U.S. had an unpleasant surprise over the weekend: The machines would not be eligible for a free upgrade to Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system."

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"Earlier today, Microsoft announced pricing and delivery details for a pair of eagerly awaited products in the Windows 7 family. If you were hoping for upgrade bargains or a long-term commitment to multi-PC upgrade pricing, prepare to be disappointed."

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"A source close to Bruce Springsteen has confirmed what two Chicago newspapers (the Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune) are reporting: that Bruce and the E Street Band will perform their landmark 1975 album Born to Run in its entirety when the tour touches down at the city’s United Center on September 20th."

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"Virtual Bridges, IBM and Canonical announced today the immediate availability of the newest version of a Linux-server based virtual desktop with the release of Virtual Bridges' VERDE 2.0 software."

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"How these positives and negatives work out in practice will emerge in due course. Meanwhile, one thing is certain: the big loser in this deal is neither Microsoft nor open source, but Yahoo, which has effectively become a media company, leaving the Internet technology side in Microsoft's hands. In that respect, it's a sad day for everyone that cares about the past, present and future of the online world."

OB Microsoft Yahoo Open Source

"Bookseller Barnes & Noble has announced a partnership with mobile carrier AT&T to provide complimentary Wi-Fi Internet access in B&N’s stores across the United States. Customers can also use the in-store Wi-Fi to access B&N’s collection of 700,000 titles, which it claims is the world’s largest e-bookstore."

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"I used to complain that the Web companies pick and choose where to contribute back, but it all seems to work out in the end. Yahoo works on Hadoop while Red Hat releases KVM while Google releases Gears while...you get the picture. Different companies releasing and "free-riding" on different open-source code, with the entire industry growing and benefiting in the process."

OB Asay Red Hat Google Open Source

"Regardless of whether Microsoft did violate the GPL, or whether it did release the code to avoid a lawsuit, Microsoft should have been more forthright in its announcement and told the whole story, Cherry said. He said the move "casts doubt" on Microsoft's motives in the open-source arena. Perhaps it casts doubt on Microsoft's credibility in general.

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Google July 24 said it released to open source the OT (Operational Transform) code, the framework that enables multiple people to edit a single document in real time across a wide-area network, as well as a basic client/server prototype that uses the wave protocol. Google Wave programmers issued the code under an Apache 2.0 license during an event hosted for 150 developers who desired a deeper dive into the software and possibly even to pony up code for the Google Wave Federation Protocol.

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