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Gamer Pays $100,000 for Virtual Property
A gamer has paid $100,000 for a virtual space resort in the massive multiplayer online role-playing game Project Entropia.Mindark, the Swedish developer of the game, sold off the “real estate” in a ...
Open Source Is Alive and Well with Commercial Developers
The appeal of open source to software developers is that it allows them to improve, modify, or adopt according to their own needs, saving time that might be wasted on the paths ...
Amazon Rain Forest Shrinking Twice as Quickly as Previously Estimated
Ecologists and Brazilian officials long have known that illegal selective logging occurs, says Dr. Asner, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, based at Stanford University in Palo Alto, ...
Microsoft, Nigeria Join Forces Against Cybercrime
Microsoft is lending its I.T. expertise to the government of Nigeria in a joint effort to combat e-mail fraud and other cybercrimes in the African nation.The software giant has signed a Memorandum ...
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Delayed
October 13, 2005 10:02AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us According to a blog posting on OpenSource.org, “a serious showstopper” apparently related to graphics was detected at the last moment, and developers agreed ...
Report Warned of FEMA I.T. Problems in Wake of 2004 Hurricanes
Faulty federal computer networks may have been partly to blame for the government’s lackadaisical response to major storms last summer — and Hurricane Katrina this year, experts say.A new federal audit of ...
Open Source Attracts Public Sector
“With open source, there’s no company that’s going to take the source code away if they fold or get bought out,” said Peter Gallagher, president of Development InfoStructure, a consulting firm. TARGUSinfo ...
Linux: A New Kind of Service-Oriented Architecture
September 22, 2005 7:50AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us No one should confuse IBM or Hewlett-Packard with the Salvation Army. They are not charitable organizations. IBM and HP are supporting the open-source ...
Novell Releases SuSE Linux 10
Find out how actual customers deploy 3Com’s best in class enterprise security, VoIP and networking solutions. 3Com: Advance the network. Novell announced that SuSE Linux 10.0 will be available in October 2005 and will include more than ...
Novell Releases SuSE Linux 10
Novell announced that SuSE Linux 10.0 will be available in October 2005 and will include more than 1,500 open-source applications and packages that can be installed for advanced Web hosting, application development ...