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A Fantasy Universe Raises Its Broadsword Against World of Warcraft New York Times - 27 minutes ago By SETH SCHIESEL Designing a successful massively multiplayer online game may be one of the supreme challenges in all entertainment. Warhammer Online Reaches 750000 Players in Less Than A Month Maximum PC 750k players have fallen for Warhammer Online Neoseeker PC World - Gamasutra - MarketWatch - Gaming Today all 34 news articles

FCC, Wireless Providers at Odds Over Plan for Unused Airwaves Washington Post - 33 minutes ago By Kim Hart A report released yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission concluded that using empty airwaves to provide free wireless Internet would not cause major interference with other services, paving the way for FCC Chairman Kevin J. FCC Engineers Back Airwaves Auction Wall Street Journal Even more Samsung phones clear the FCC CNET News MarketWatch - Reuters Canada all 21 news articles

NewsOXY

Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Companies Sending Text Messages New York Times - 1 hour ago By SAUL HANSELL Verizon Wireless this week told companies that send out text messages that starting Nov. 1 it will impose a fee of 3 cents for each message it delivers to the phones of its subscribers. Verizon to begin charging text alert senders TG Daily Verizon Wireless considers extra text fee CNET News InformationWeek - CRN - Washington Post - NewsOXY all 22 news articles

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (PS3)
Explosive trailer from the Tokyo Game Show.

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YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through New York Times - 1 hour ago By BRIAN STELTER After months of experimenting with long-form video, YouTube said on Friday it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site. YouTube beams up Star Trek for long-form video, prominent new ads CNET News YouTube to Offer Full TV Shows Wall Street Journal Gizmodo - Yahoo! Tech - Silicon Alley Insider - Bizjournals.com all 71 news articles

Washington Post

PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 Console War: Unneeded Animosity PSX Extreme - 1 hour ago Has anyone else noticed a disturbing trend in the console war, specifically between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 loyalists? I own both consoles, most people I know own both consoles, and if you're not familiar with the PSX Extreme readership, … Obama Campaigning on Xbox 360? New York Times Holiday wars: Sony counts on games, Microsoft on price Ars Technica Shacknews - GamePro.com - Neoseeker - Wired Blogs all 706 news articles

Nobi Nobi Boy (PS3)
A life changing experience. Watch this now.

CTV.ca

Next Mars Rover Mission on Schedule Even as Cost Rises New York Times - 1 hour ago By KENNETH CHANG Despite another overrun that could push its cost to more than $2 billion, NASA’s next-generation Mars rover mission remains on track for launching next fall, NASA officials said Friday. UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News United Press International NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009 The Associated Press MSNBC - Reuters UK - Florida Today - AFP all 303 news articles

ZDNet

Sprint's Xohm WiMax Network Debuts In Baltimore, Works Well Slashdot - 2 hours ago bsk_cw writes "Sprint's newly launched Xohm service is now offering America's first WiMax network. Computerworld's Brian Nadel went to Baltimore to try it out, and he reports that Xohm delivered data smoothly to a car moving at highway speeds, … Sprint's Xohm WiMax service: How fast is it? Computerworld Sprint's Xohm zooms: mobile wireless at 5Mbps NetworkWorld.com NewsFactor Network - Twice - CNET News - InformationWeek all 99 news articles

bsk_cw writes “Sprint’s newly launched Xohm service is now offering America’s first WiMax network. Computerworld’s Brian Nadel went to Baltimore to try it out, and he reports that Xohm delivered data smoothly to a car moving at highway speeds, played YouTube videos flawlessly, and on average, pushed through more than 3Mbit/sec., compared with 1.3 Mbit/sec. for the AT&T network Brian used as a comparison. But right now, coverage is only planned in a few U.S. cities; if Sprint isn’t able to ramp up its coverage quickly, it may lose its advantage.”

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Golden Gate Managers Vote to Build Suicide Net New York Times - 2 hours ago By JESSE MCKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO - After decades of debate, and unknown numbers of lost lives, the board that controls the Golden Gate Bridge took a major step toward building a suicide barrier on Friday, voting to erect a net under the span. Golden Gate Bridge to get suicide net to catch would-be jumpers Los Angeles Times Suicide net for the Golden Gate Bridge ABC30.com San Diego Union Tribune - Reuters UK - San Jose Mercury News - The Associated Press all 291 news articles

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Game developer set for space launch United Press International - 3 hours ago ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan, Oct. 10 (UPI) — An Austin, Texas, man in Kazakhstan is set to become the world's sixth space tourist and the first second-generation space traveler from the United States. Pittsburgh-area native returning to space tomorrow Pittsburgh Post Gazette US space tourist confident ahead of blast-off Reuters USA Today - New York Times - The Associated Press - Space.com all 132 news articles

BlizzCon 2008: Staying true to Diablo GameSpot - 3 hours ago By Tom Magrino, GameSpot Lead designer Jay Wilson opens up about his team's game creation philosophy, with more information to arrive "in the coming months…and years." ANAHEIM, California–Diablo III was the topic of one of the first sessions on the … Diablo 3's Wizard Class Unveiled RPGamer.com 3rd Diablo III class revealed Neoseeker IGN - Shacknews - Warcry.com - Gamespy.com all 25 news articles

PC Perspectives

Apple Laptops May Be Affected by Nvidia Chip Flaw Wall Street Journal - 3 hours ago By DON CLARK Apple Inc. became the latest computer maker to disclose that some of its laptop computers may be affected by a flaw associated with Nvidia Corp. Apple will repair MacBooks that have faulty Nvidia GPUs CNET News NVIDIA platform claimed likely for new MacBook line Apple Insider BetaNews - PC Magazine - CRN - Computerworld all 54 news articles

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A shaving-free, Palin-free day Financial Times - 4 hours ago By Tyler Brûlé On Wednesday the good people in charge of handing out Nobel Prizes awarded Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien of the US and Japan‘s Osamu Shimomura the chemistry prize for research that has allowed them to exploit luminosity in sea creatures … List of recent Nobel Prize in chemistry winners The Associated Press Comment by Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., Director National Institute of General Medical Sciences WAAY - Los Angeles Times - SPIE Newsroom - U.S. News & World Report all 1,229 news articles

rsk writes “Justin Voskuhl, a Google engineer, in a 2-fold bid to fight boredom and figure out something to cover a large barren wall in his living room, one weekend developed a Java program using an annealing algorithm to figure out the best layout and colors of Lego blocks to reproduce a source image exclusively in Lego blocks inside a frame. He plans to release the source code soon. I probably would have just painted the wall …”

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CDlinux is a compact Linux distribution. It is small in size, yet rich in features. It ships with an up-to-date version of the Linux kernel, Xorg, Xfce, and many popular applications. It has good internationalization and locale support and is highly user-configurable.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
A smart handling codepage (FAT/NTFS) of hotplug-able media. Ppower management support (ACPI/cpufreq). Auto-guessing the current time zone. Multimedia keyboard support. Booting from Linux RAID and ATA RAID. Improved support for a lot of newer hardware (video/WLAN/Linux UVC). Several new GUI configure tools. For those who love the old CDlinux 0.4.x, a new console-only CDlinux_mini edition is also released.

Dojo is a cross-browser AJAX/DHTML toolkit for
building dynamic Web UIs. Dojo includes a
rich-text editing component, an aspect-oriented
event system, rich drag-and-drop support, a
rapid-prototyping framework for building new
widgets, and a full-featured abstraction for
XmlHTTP I/O. In short, it’s a very fast way to
build Web interfaces.

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License: Academic Free License (AFL)

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Changes:
This release adds major upgrades to Dijit (the UI
system), including
visual polish, an attribute manipulation API,
speed improvements in the
CSS selector engine, new widgets in DojoX,
advanced cross-domain Ajax
transports, charting events, GFX events, and
accessibility improvements.
Over 1,000 issues have been addressed across the
three projects. A
single-file download of dojo.js as a Base Utility
library is now
available.

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets).

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
The zombie command now has a new option,
“onerror”. A buffer overflow
in resize.c has been fixed. Startup has been made
more robust. Minor
documentation updates have been added.

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple
Web sites to complex corporate applications. It has a rich feature set, a long history, and a stable codebase.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
This is a maintenance and security release which
fixes some potentially
serious security vulnerabilities affecting all
earlier versions of
4.6. It is recommended that all 4.6+ users update
to 4.6.5 as soon as
possible. Instructions for upgrading are included
in the release.

YourKit Java Profiler is a CPU and memory profiler
that makes it easy to solve wide range of CPU- and
memory-related performance problems. It features
automatic leak detection, powerful tools for the
analysis of memory distribution, an object heap
browser, comprehensive memory tests as part of
your JUnit testing process, extremely low
profiling overhead, transparent deobfuscation
support, and integration with Eclipse, JBuilder,
IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and JDeveloper IDEs.

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License: Free for non-commercial use

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Changes:
Exception monitoring has been implemented.
Locally-running profiled
applications are immediately listed on the Welcome
screen. Retained size
is now calculated up to 50% (32-bit) or 30%
(64-bit) faster, compared to
7.5.x. This improvement is especially important in
the Class list view.
The 64-bit JVM is automatically used under Windows
64-bit to achieve
better performance and user experience.

GnuAccounting is an accounting and bookkeeping application. It interfaces with Moneyplex, Starmoney, Karm, and Winston, embeds OpenOffice.org and Firefox, and utilizes either HSQLDB or a separate MySQL installation.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release adds many small fixes and database
updates. As installed
Firefoxes can now be used, the binary has shrunk
in size, with
rudimentary GPG signing functionality and improved
data importation
(duplicate importations are now automatically
avoided).

Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL, GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering, Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and much more.

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License: GNU General Public License v3

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Changes:
Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.57 for IMAP and
NNTP. SSL support is
now provided by gnuTLS exclusively. OpenSSL
support has been dropped
due to licensing issues. A /View/Fullscreen option
has been added.
Re-ordering of the filtering/processing condition
and actions lists is
now possible using drag-n-drop.

BoxMonster is a call monitor designed to work with
the AVM FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 and compatible
models. It shows incoming and outgoing calls as a
balloon message in your desktop’s system tray. It
works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and modern
Linux desktops like KDE or GNOME.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release fixes a bug which caused the date
column to be sorted
incorrectly.

I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple
layer that identity-sensitive applications can use
to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with
several layers of encryption, and the network is
both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
This release adds performance and stability
improvements. Floodfill
peers which are already connected are preferred
for RouterInfo stores,
and references to new floodfill peers are obtained
from ordinary peers
in case of shortage. Preference for
already-connected peers is generally
increased by considering them active. Timeouts
during tunnel joins are
now counted against peer profiles.

Back In Time is a simple backup system for the GNOME desktop inspired by the “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. All you have to do is configure: where to save snapshot, what directories to backup, and when a backup should be done (manually, every hour, every day, every week, or every month). It acts as a “user mode” backup system. This means that you can backup and restore only folders to which you have write access.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
This release add size and date columns in the
files list, and changes
some texts.

dlib C++ library is a modern general C++ library with a focus on portability and program correctness. It comes with extensive documentation and thorough debugging modes. The library provides a platform abstraction layer for common tasks such as interfacing with network services, handling threads, and creating graphical user interfaces. Additionally, the library implements many useful algorithms such as data compression routines, linked lists, binary search trees, linear algebra and matrix utilities, machine learning algorithms, XML and general text parsing, and many other general utilities.

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License: Freely Distributable

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Changes:
This release is focused on fixing bugs and
improving usability.

Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL, GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering, Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization, and much more.

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License: GNU General Public License v3

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Changes:
This release contains 16 plugins.

Rxlogd is a receive-only syslog server (collector)
that can coexist with sysklogd. It features
simplicity, ease of use, and a built-in DNS cache
for high performance. The intended audience is
users of enterprise systems stuck with sysklogd,
or administrators who don’t need more complex
syslog server solutions.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release fixes a bug which caused IPs to be
improperly used in place
of hostnames if DNS resolution failed.

AgileWiki is an SDK for assembling software systems which are fluid, easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database,
the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic
inferencing.

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License: Common Public License

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Changes:
Persistence is now working, though the
implementation is very down and
dirty.