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Rumors Flying On $20 Billion Microsoft Offer For Yahoo
gadgetopia is one of many who wrote to tell us about the many rumors flying around that Microsoft may be aiming another deal at Yahoo, this time for $20 billion. ...
Slashdot - 9:12 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 9:12 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake
theodp writes "No doubt many will nod knowingly as they read Paul Graham's The Other Half of Artists Ship, which delves into the downside of procedures developed by Big Companies ...
Slashdot - 8:20 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 8:20 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army
fortapocalypse writes "Duke University in collaboration with Virtual Heroes (who created America's Army) has produced a game called Virtual Peace, the intention of which is to help the gamer develop ...
Slashdot - 7:26 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 7:26 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras
Dave Bullock (eecue) writes "Scientists at UCLA have accidentally created a material that will some day give us better, faster, cheaper, more flexible digital cameras. I toured their lab and ...
Slashdot - 6:35 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 6:35 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated
blackbearnh writes "Last week, the net was all abuzz with speculation that SCO was finally gone and done for. With the final judgment in SCO v. Novell in, and SCO ...
Slashdot - 5:48 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 5:48 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
MySQL in a Nutshell
stoolpigeon writes "MySQL is frequently touted as the world's most widely used relational database management system. Many of the best known web applications and web sites use MySQL as their ...
Slashdot - 5:01 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 5:01 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Censorship By Glut
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A 2006 paper by Matthew Salganik, Peter Dodds and Duncan Watts, about the patterns that users follow in choosing and recommending songs to each ...
Slashdot - 4:12 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 4:12 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par
Mad Merlin writes "It's no secret that MySQL 5.1 has been a long time in the making, with the first beta release being in Nov 2005, but MySQL 5.1.30 has ...
Slashdot - 3:28 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 3:28 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
FCC Considering Free Internet For USA
jbolden writes "According to the Wall Street Journal the FCC is considering a plan to provide free wireless internet. The plan would involve some level of filtering but might allow ...
Slashdot - 2:45 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 2:45 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source
Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining ...
Slashdot - 2 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 2 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown
Gimble writes "Richard Bennett has an article at the Register claiming that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for file transfers to avoid ISP "traffic management" restrictions will cause ...
Slashdot - 1:14 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 1:14 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
What Needs Fixing In Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Infoweek's Fixing Linux: What's Broken And What To Do About It argues that the 17-year-old open-source operating system still has problems. Leading the list is author ...
Slashdot - 12:35 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Slashdot - 12:35 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
10 hours, 28 minutes ago
Ninth Anniversary of Amazon 1-Click Injunction
theodp writes "Nine years ago Monday, Amazon kicked off the Holiday Season by slapping Barnes and Noble with a court injunction barring BN from using a checkout feature that Amazon ...
Slashdot - 11:50 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Slashdot - 11:50 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Acorns Disappear Across the Country
Hugh Pickens writes "Botanist Rod Simmons thought he was going crazy when couldn't find any acorns near his home in Arlington County, Virginia. 'I'm used to seeing so many acorns ...
Slashdot - 11:11 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Slashdot - 11:11 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead
Several readers pointed out a ComputerWorld UK blog piece on the expanding ripples of the Vista fiasco. Glyn Moody quotes an earlier Inquirer piece about Vista, which he notes "has ...
Slashdot - 8:14 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
Slashdot - 8:14 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
