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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" new title

Author JK Rowling has revealed the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book. It will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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OScar - Open Source Car

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madbean » JarWars

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Cisco owns iPhone, not Apple

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Disco Dancing Santa Claus

My 6year son is now giving me links for compiledby! He found this great disco dancing santa that is very funny.
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Skype users to get lie detectors

You better watch out; Skype will be offering lie detecting software to its users to measure stress levels. Hope it will filter out the stress of dropped connections and poor quality.
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What Can't Open Source Achieve in the Next 10 Years? | Linux Journal

Gly Moody writes a blog on what he sees could be the next 10 years after reviewing just how far it has come in the last.
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Festive return for singing sheep

Its the season of novelty records, and there is nothing more novel than a singing christmas sheep!
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Bush's daughter's phone on 'eBay'

We noted last week how the President's daughters phone was snatched. Well it has popped up on an auction site!
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From the desk Santa

A very funny letter found by Joe illustrating just how the whole present giving system works.
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Five reasons to forget about C

Well, Joe found this article on why C should go the way of the dodo
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Open source Java presents world of opportunities

Now that Java is open source what can we do with it?
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Is IBM Happy Over Sun's Open Source Java?

An interesting piece on IBM's feelings about Sun's recent open sourcing of Java
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Golden Gate Bridge considers corporate sponsors

Come on Cisco, time to step up and offer some money to the very symbol that has inspired your corporate logo for years
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'Hairy Fairy' treats shoppers

A modern day fairy, albeit a middle aged man in a pink dress, is handing out free lunches and good deeds in Cornwall England
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Million Dollar Challenge

Need to earn $1M? Then simply prove the existence of the paranormal and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Come forth all soothsayers.
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Rocky Balboa Trailer

Rocky is back! Trailer looks promising
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Beyonce and Eva Longoria as lesbians next film

My wife found this news nugget - Sophia Coppola will be thanked by men worldwide if her next film gets the go-ahead. :)
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The Conference Community

Andy found this conference site where you can review and discover all about past and future conferences. Pretty neat idea.
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Digging Deep into the Sun/GPL Announcement

James Turner writes a beautiful piece on the reality of the announcement that Java is now GPL. Well worth the read.
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Choice in the Linux world, payup for open source, Kaplan has another GO and Indepedence Day

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Wahey, the 4th of July is upon us. Wait a minute ... why am I celebrating? I represent the oppressor! Contrary to popular belief the UK doesn't celebrate this momentous day in the American calendar. So not much news coming from the US today, but the rest of the world is business as usual.

TechTarget has a good editorial on the woes of choice within the Linux world. Having chosen Linux as your new operating system the choices only just begun as you delve into the world of distributions. This editorial has some good pointers on what you should be looking for.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at eWeek wrote an interesting editorial last week on the need to support open source software. He tells a tale of an unnamed open source celebrity who is facing a major problem surviving financially. I suspect I know who it is he referring to, and if you were to look over at the Linus camp and his recent troubles you may fathom out who it is. The editorial has a good point, open source software isn't free as in 0 dollars, and for the industry to survive we must stop viewing it as such.

Anyone ever read the book called 'Startup' by Jerry Kaplan? It's a very good read for the large part, including the foray into X-FILES land, as it charts the fall-and-fall of GO, the company behind the pen based computing. In light of Microsoft's payment to IBM last week, Mr Kaplan is having a bash at reviving the legal case that Microsoft killed his company off. In response Microsoft's lawyer said "These claims are 20 years old and they were baseless then". Should be interesting to watch this one play out, if anything, could be the basis for another follow-up book for Kaplan; "GO to Court" maybe?

 

Independence Day

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[WikiPedia] In the United States, Independence Day, also called the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

MS accused of killing pen computing pioneer Go

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The founder of tablet computing pioneer Go Corporation has revived long dormant allegations of corporate wrongdoing with an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. Jerry Kaplan alleges that Go technology demonstrated to Microsoft technicians under non-disclosure was used to help develop competing products.

Know your Linux options

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Low cost and reliability have made Linux the right server operating system choice for thousands of SMBs. Choosing the right flavor of Linux, however, can be daunting.

Going Broke with Free Software

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Open-source developers are facing hard times both because the money that flows through open-source often isn't reaching their wallets and because not enough people are paying even the nominal amounts requested by open-source vendors.

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