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has offered to provide San Francisco with free wireless Internet access at no cost to the city - a move that heightens speculation the firm may seek to establish a free, nationwide wi-fi network that could cause problems for existing Internet service providers.
com) Eighteen months ago, the State Patrol praised trooper David Meredith for going beyond the call of duty by developing time-saving software that helps officers write traffic tickets electronically. Now, he is suing the head of the patrol, saying the state is trying to illegally seize the source code to software he developed on his own time.
com) A post from a very satisfied and very non-technical person on their 2 year experience of using Linux. The secret however is there in the post, someone else installed it for her. It would be interesting how easy Windows would be if everyone had to install it themselves!
com) Crytek has confirmed that a 360 version of Crysis is in development. It should be noted, however, that the game will not be a port of the PC version, but rather an entirely new game built from the ground up.
Intervideo--yes, *that* Intervideo, makes a legal and licensable software for "embedded" Linux (by which they mean commercial distros and hardware). Supposedly, paid-for Mandriva Linux bundles it with their distro.
org) "Just because KDE has been designed to be portable across Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX/X11 environments for an age now, doesn't mean we aren't up for the occasional challenge.
uk) Nine years after the Dreamcast was launched, SEGA are still producing GD-ROMs for use in Naomi and Dreamcast systems. There are several developers still taking advantage of the cheap Naomi boards and these games often see Dreamcast releases like the coming Trigger Heart Exelica and Karous. Please fill out the petition and help keep GD-ROM alive.
com) The Venice Project, created by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will launch under the name Joost. The site is password protected, but simply hitting "cancel" multiple times will show an unformatted Venice Project web site.
org) InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
com) The V8 Vantage Roadster embodies the qualities that are integral to Aston Martin: Power, Beauty and Soul. Representing the essence of pure driving pleasure, the new Roadster is a compact sports car that offers an astonishing blend of performance and exhilaration.
com) Child kidnapper Michael Devlin appears to have an Xbox Live Gamertag and had created a profile on GamerTagPics which appears to feature a photo of victim Shaun Hornbeck standing in front of Devlin's apartment.
At one point, my stick connected with Wendy's shins with a loud smack that echoed in my ears. Instead of stopping, I swung the stick again and was rewarded with the faint plinking sound of my puck hitting the back of the net."
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