News: Software & Web

• Logitech unveils Squeezebox Boom tabletop music player
  Jason Snell
  Aug 28 2008
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  Logitech announced on Thursday the Squeezebox Boom, the latest addition to its Squeezebox line of streaming-audio products. Featuring an integrated amplifier and speakers, the Squeezebox Boom brings...

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• Open source: What you should learn from the French
  Tom Kaneshige
  Aug 28 2008
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  A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through...

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• Air out your bookmarks
  Kelly Turner
  Aug 28 2008
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  Buried in the clutter of my browser's bookmarks bar is a folder called Inspiration. This is where I store sites that make me marvel at how funny and creative people can be, and it's often my first...

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• Internet radio apps for iPhone
  Ben Boychuk
  Aug 28 2008
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  A million formats lived and died on AM and FM radio. But news of the niche format's death was slightly exaggerated. Album-oriented rock, classical, bluegrass, free-form progressive, surf rock and...

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• UK men more likely to access the Internet
  Lexton Snol
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Software & Web

  The Office of National Statistics reports that in 2008 33.9 million adults (71 percent of the U.K. adult population) accessed the internet. This was an increase of 6.6 percent (2.1 million adults)...

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• Office of National Statistics: half of UK now banks online
  Lexton Snol
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Software & Web

  In a national study of activities on the Internet the UK Office of National Statistics reports that nearly half of U.K. internet users now bank online. The most popular activity of recent internet...

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• Defending Islam, hacker defaces thousands of Dutch websites
  Andreas Udo de Haes
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Software & Web

  A 'hacktivist' has hijacked numerous Dutch sites in retaliation for the anti-Islamic short film "Fitna" which was made and released earlier this year by the Dutch right-wing politician...

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• Is Google Knol the new pharma spam box?
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Members of The Wikipedia Review forums noted that there appears to be a concentration of Knol articles centered around the area of medical knowledge, and suspect it may come from the same source as...

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• Do you know an Appiphiliac? AppStore lures even the jaded.
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
  Aug 27 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Do you borrow your spouse's iPhone only to discover each time that you can't find the app you're looking for because several pages of new applications have been added? Do you receive regular...

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• Cloned code finder offered for Visual Studio
  Paul Krill
  Aug 27 2008
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  An open-source technology has been launched to help developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 find duplicated code in their software projects. Called Clone Detective for Visual Studio, the...

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