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Finally something refreshing from Yahoo. You Witness News is a new news service that uses Flickr photos and user-submitted videos to document news events. As described on the Flickr blog, “it’s a “citizen journalism” site which allows people to submit photos and video directly to the editorial desk of the biggest news site on the
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For the second time in less than a month, users of ZoneLabs product ZoneAlarm Pro are experiencing severe difficulties with the programs’ TrueVector Engine.
Since Friday, June 24, reports have been flooding forum boards and blogs. The majority of users are experiencing TrueVector engine crashs. The VSMON.EXE system service seems to use 100% of
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The latest excitement stems from the already high profile BitTorrent is the entry into the search space. BitTorrent will now offer search of media and other files over the web..
This is coming after the a MPAA’s press release blaming the BitTorrent protocol for the leak of Star Wars episode III.
On unrelated
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MSN spaces is officially out of beta and includes a few enhancements. Microsoft have an official press release about the it: “Global Availability of MSN Messenger and MSN Spaces Connects People Around the World”
One of the enhancements is the 50 new themes, providing users with more choices when deciding to customize their Space. I saw
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AOL launched a new Internet telephone service, getting into an already crowded market with various startups, cable operators and traditional phone and communication companies. The AOL Internet Phone Service includes the regular features of traditional telephony combined with services that are accessed on a PC over the Internet.
This technology, known as Voice over Internet Protocol
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Need a ride? Get it from Google. Using its recently released Google Maps technology, developers at Google Labs are now working on Google Ride Finder - a service which allows users to locate transportation services within a given area.

Just three weeks ago I reported about CherryOS suspected of being a replica of the open source PearPC and now it seems like there is an attempt to protect the GPL in court. After trying to contact CherryOS to talk things through, there was no reply other than “speak with an Attorney”. So, that’s exactly
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Amid all the raving reports about CherryOS - the new Mac OS X emulator for PC, BetaNews reports or rather brings back allegations of CherryOS being actually a stolen modified code of the PearPC open source project.
From the artice: “Its creator, Arben Kryeziu, found himself in hot water last year amid claims the
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Wells Fargo Bank announced that it has completed a five-year project to Web-enable its 6,200 ATMs in 23 states. The Windows-based infrastructure is designed to allow Wells Fargo to update and add services to its entire network remotely. More than 3,000 online stations were installed in nearly all of its 6,046 branch locations. The WebATM
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SiliconValleyWatcher is reporting a scoop. Yahoo is in negotiations to buy Flickr.
Form the story, “A high level source within Yahoo told SiliconValleyWatcher that the two companies are in negotiations over the purchase price and that as of late Friday night Pacific Time, no final agreement had yet been reached.”
You can read the full story
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Sun Microsystems has released Solaris 10 for both SPARC and Intel/Opteron. Download is available for x64/x86 or SPARC system right now for free under SUN’s simple Right to Use (RTU) license.

Apple’s iTunes music store has sold more than 250 million songs so far. Now it’s selling at a rate of more than a million downloads per day.
Pretty amazing hu? The music industry is starting to feel really foolish. It’s the movie industry turn to be stupid again, and you’d think they learnt the VCR lesson
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Wired just now caught up with Ron Avitzur’s story about secretly sneaking into Apple’s campus and developing the Graphing Calculator for the PowerPC without any authorization.

That’s it. It’s done!!!
After more than a year of legal wrangling, PeopleSoft Inc. agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. for about $10.3 billion, which is $26.50 a share.
The agreement, which comes 18 months after Oracle launched its hostile-takeover bid for PeopleSoft, represents a $2.50 boost in Oracle’s last offering price. The deal has the
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Amazon.com announced it’s annual Top 10 Editors’ Picks: Computers & Internet for 2004.
These are their selections for the Best Books of 2004 in the Computers and Internet category:

Excel Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools
Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple’s Final Cut Pro
Head First Servlets & JSP
On Intelligence
Grand Theft Auto:
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