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Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State
daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"
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GDC 2010: Power Gig - Rise of the Six String - GamePro.com
GamePro.com
GamePro.com
The music game genre is an almost contradictory game category; though these games test the dexterity of players and their ability to color match on the fly, they don't teach gamers anything about playing a real musical instrument. ...
Power Gig puts realism in playLos Angeles Times
New Guitar Game Features Real GuitarPC World
Be a real guitar hero with Power Gig: Rise of the SixStringThe Tech Herald
The Associated Press -GotGame News -CNET
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Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked
An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."
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Microsoft researcher wins Turing Award - BusinessWeek
New York Times (blog)
BusinessWeek
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. Thacker, for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer. In 1974, while at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), ...
Turing Award goes to Microsoft researcherV3.co.uk
Winner of `Nobel of computing' at a glanceThe Associated Press
Microsoft researcher wins Turing AwardCNET
SYS-CON Media (press release) -Tech Eye -AHN | All Headline News
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NASA space shuttle gearing up for big phase out - BusinessWeek
MiamiHerald.com
BusinessWeek
While politicians banter about NASA's budget and the future of manned space flight, the space agency is prepping the critical technology its remaining four space shuttle missions will deliver to complete the International Space ...
Obama's plans for NASA changes met with harsh criticismWashington Post
Obama's New Mission for NASA Sets Off Intense CriticismFOXNews
Analysts point to politics over Obama's NASA conferenceHouston Chronicle
Florida Today -Space.com -The Associated Press
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The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language
Mirk writes "Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.' The Reinvigorated Programmer argues that the world is full of excellent programmers who cut their teeth on BASIC, and suggests it could even be because they started out with BASIC."
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MySpace Co-Presidents Reduce Clutter, Plan Game and Film Hubs - BusinessWeek
Los Angeles Times
BusinessWeek
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- MySpace's new co-presidents are making changes to the News Corp.-owned social-networking site, reducing clutter on users' profile pages and expanding music, movie and game features. ...
MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growthReuters
MySpace outlines makeover after exec shakeupThe Associated Press
MySpace looks to the past for its futureLos Angeles Times
USA Today -Mashable (blog) -Media Asia
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The FCC's Misguided Spectrum Quest - Wall Street Journal
Reuters
Wall Street Journal
He wasn't Punxsutawney Phil, but Julius Genachowski poked his head out of the Federal Communications Commission recently and foreshadowed a period of cold relations between his agency and TV broadcasters. ...
The FCC National Broadband Plan: Long Haul ExpectedBusinessWeek
FCC Drives Need for National Broadband PlanPC World
FCC Plan Asks for Govt.-Funded Broadband TrainingPC Magazine
Investor's Business Daily -AOL News -BroadbandBreakfast.com
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The Top 10 Free Travel Apps - PC Magazine
Sydney Morning Herald
PC Magazine
I travel a lot. I'm out of town at least once a month, for business or for pleasure. And as the mobile-phone guy, I'm never without a smartphone - whether it's my Nokia E72, the latest BlackBerry, a Google Android phone or an iPhone 3GS ...
Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control UniverseWired News
Home Buyers Check Out AppsWall Street Journal
Apple's draconian developer docs revealedRegister
CNET -VentureBeat -Gamasutra
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Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes - Wired News
New York Times (blog)
Wired News
By Mary Catherine O'Connor With the click of a mouse, the new feature allows you to plot the best (and flattest!) ride from Point A to Point B. Several cities, including New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, have bike-specific ...
Google Maps to add bike maps, directionsCNET
Google adds bike lane with latest mapping featureThe Associated Press
Google Maps Adds Directions for CylistsNew York Times (blog)
GigaOm (blog) -Seattle Times (blog) -BikePortland.org (blog)
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US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service
gollum123 writes "US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later. One way of making broadband more affordable is to 'consider use of spectrum for a free or a very low-cost wireless broadband service,' the FCC said in a statement." Nobody has more than a couple of paragraphs on this story. None of the press coverage mentions the obvious likelihood that any such free network would be heavily filtered, censored, and monitored.
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UN to Announce Review of Climate Panel - Wall Street Journal
CBC.ca
Wall Street Journal
Top United Nations officials plan to announce Wednesday that the InterAcademy Council, an organization representing scientists from around the world, will head up a review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
Global warming skepticism rising in the GOPLos Angeles Times
Outside science academies to review warming panelThe Associated Press
Would you let the NY Times teach your kids about global warming?Daily Caller
Times Online -CBC.ca -Washington Post (blog)
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HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers - Ars Technica
TopNews New Zealand
Ars Technica
Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst ...
Report: Microsoft May Help Apple Lawsuit TargetsChannelWeb
Analyst: Apple warned handset makers before suing HTCCNET
Apple's Lawsuit Against HTC is WorkingPC World
Portfolio.com -TheStreet.com -iBlast
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US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly
eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopefully that will fund some developer budgets for bigger and better MMOs yet to come. The study also found that roughly a quarter of the US population plays some form of MMO. Surely MMOs are shaping up to be a juicy industry, and a market that can satisfy people of all walks of life."
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Google announces business app store for Google Apps - CNET
Mashable (blog)
CNET
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google is bringing the app store concept to business cloud computing, giving software developers a storefront for Google Apps customers. The Google Apps Marketplace will allow Google Apps users to purchase ...
Google launches a store for business appsVentureBeat
Google launches the Google Apps marketplaceZDNet (blog)
Live: Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire OneTechCrunch (blog)
Mashable (blog) -MSPmentor -Gizmodo Australia
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