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on Thursday March 10, @05:40PM
from the a-a-b-b-up-down dept.
Eli Singer writes "Are gamer employees different? This is the question John Beck and Mitchell Wade answer in Got Game, How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. They argue that yes, employees who grew up with Nintendo, TurboGrafix and Genesis approach their work in fundamentally different ways than non-gaming workers. If you grew up with games, you can use this book to teach your boss how to appreciate your gaming abilities in the workplace." Read on for the rest of Singer's review.
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) FCC Opens More Spectrum for WISPs |
Posted by
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on Thursday March 10, @04:59PM
from the leveling-the-playign-field dept.
flirzan writes "Today the FCC announced that they will be opening up new spectrum for use in wireless broadband applications. The new spectrum will run from 3650-3700 Mhz, and requires that licensees register all system base stations. This is great news for wireless ISPs everywhere, as it will make interference avoidance/mitigation much easier. Licenses will run 10 years, and are renewable and transferable. No word yet on how much the licenses are expected to cost or when they'll be available."
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) Google Punishes Self for Cloaking |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thursday March 10, @04:23PM
from the slap-their-own-wrists dept.
amyrick writes "eWeek is carrying a story about Google's response to March 8th's cloaking accusations. Rather than justify the shady practices as some exception to their rules, Google removed the pages from their indices, and are requiring the pages' maintainers to revise the pages and reapply for indexing. Though the existence of the cloaked pages at all is somewhat questionable, at least Google has responded with integrity and consistency."
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) IT: Spyware Analysis of P2P Software |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thursday March 10, @03:42PM
from the dark-side-to-the-dark-side dept.
rhizome writes "Benjamin Edelman, a PhD candidate in Economics and a Law student at Harvard, has analyzed the hidden (or not) additions to a user's machine when they install some of the major Windows P2P clients. He analyzes the length and readabilty of their licenses, what is revealed or hidden in the software's installer and includes screenshots for illustration. Clear, concise and eye-opening."
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) Samsung Cell Phone Features 3GB Hard Drive |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thursday March 10, @03:00PM
from the we're-getting-close-on-this-one dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung will be showing off a new cell phone which runs on Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system which features a built-in hard drive. The SGH-I300 will offer 3GB of storage which allows you to store up to 1,000 songs on it for playback through the music player. The 3GB hard drive is similar to the type of hard drive that is found in Apple's Mini iPod. These 1-inch drives with very low power requirements, are ideal for cell phones and other mobile devices."
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) Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thursday March 10, @02:19PM
from the spelling-it-out-for-ya dept.
woginuk writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay on his website on how to start a startup. According to him 'You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.'
How difficult can that be? So go start them startups."
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) Linux: OSDL Says SCO Suit Was Good for Linux |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thursday March 10, @01:43PM
from the makes-a-good-point dept.
sebFlyte notes a zdnet story thats says "Speaking at Queen Mary, University of London, on Monday night, Open Source Developer Labs chief executive Stuart Cohen said the lawsuits [SCO suing everyone in sight over supposed issues with Linux] were "the best thing that ever happened to Linux"'
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @01:00PM
from the click-and-pay dept.
Christopher Reimer writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the Wisconsin's governor is proposing a tax for downloads. From the article: 'Wisconsin's Democratic governor thinks it's not fair that tangible items get taxed while downloads, like music, ebooks, software, etc., go completely untaxed. So, he proposes to rectify the situation by having Wisconsin's 5% state sales tax apply to Internet downloads.'"
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Posted by
Cliff
on Thursday March 10, @12:18PM
from the april-15th-will-be-here-before-you-know-it dept.
sub7 asks: "That time of the year is upon as again: Tax Season. Those of us living in the U.S. are busy fumbling with various forms with awkward names and meaningless garble on them. Being a lazy BOFH, I went to H & R Block to see how much it would cost for them to prepare and file my taxes. They estimated -at least- $175, if not more! I knew it was cheaper to buy some software to handle my taxes. So I headed down to my local office supply conglomerate and picked up Turbo Tax 2004 Premier for $69.99. Being an OSS user for nearly 6 years I have never even considered an OSS tax solution product (probably because I ph34r t4x s34s0n!). So I turn to Slashdot to ask: Are there any projects equivalent to Turbo Tax or the other tax products out there for the OSS community?"
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) IT: Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @11:41AM
from the the-collective-grows dept.
namalc writes "In a huge shot across the groupware bow, Microsoft announced today that it would acquire Groove Networks, and Ray Ozzie, the founder of Groove, would become Microsoft CTO.
Ray Ozzie, the
creator of Lotus Notes, had positioned Groove to straddle both the IBM/Lotus and Microsoft worlds. It will be interesting to see what direction Groove takes now."
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) Games: Only 15% of Gamers are Internet Addicts |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @10:59AM
from the I-know-I-could-remember-if-i-could-just-play-a-game dept.
Huckster writes "Jeffrey Parsons - a doctoral candidate from University of Iowa has resently conducted a research on MMORPG addiction. It took a while to get the results - but they are now available.
The study found that about 15% of gamers meet the criteria for Internet addiction as provided by Kimberly Young, a leading researcher in Internet addiction. Using more strict criteria, a minimum of at least 10% of gamers met criteria for Internet addiction. Compared to national studies of Internet addiction, this numbers are somewhat elevated. However, given the sheer number of hours MMORPG gamers spend online (in comparison to the general population), even a 15% addiction rate is somewhat low.
To illustrate the point, the college student spends 10 hours on the Internet per week. The average MMORPG gamer (addicted or not) spends 20-25 hours per week just playing MMORPGs, and an additional 10-15 hours per week in other Internet use. In other words, MMORPG players are spending 4x as much time online as non-gamers."
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) Science: Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @10:20AM
from the throw-that-old-thing-out dept.
marcel-jan.nl writes "There are plans to terminate the interstellar missions Voyager 1 and 2 and the solar mission Ulysses in October to save money. The Voyagers alone need $4.2 million a year for daily operation and data analysis. Scientist say this cut is "an extremely foolish thing to do": the Voyagers are approaching the edge of the Solar System and Ulysses is observing the Sun coming to the end of a 22-year magnetic cycle."
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) Developers: Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @09:44AM
from the who-will-get-the-kids dept.
sebFlyte writes "After the reports of problems with Firefox' development earlier this week there are now rumblings about more serious problems with the Mozilla Suite. Some developers want to spin the suite out as a community project that the foundation has no responsibility for, and others want to create a Firefox Foundation to deal with the success of the standalone browser."
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) Google Adds News Personalization |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @09:12AM
from the what-doesn't-it-do dept.
downbad writes "ZDNet is reporting that the Google News home page is now customizable, allowing you to add or delete main news categories (such as business, sports and so on), as well as increasing or decreasing the number of headlines within a section. They've also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you."
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @08:06AM
from the if-you-don't-have-anything-nice-to-say dept.
csaila writes "Some of the world's big media outlets (including CBC, CNN, Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Reuters, and -- as well as Amazon, AOL, Google and Yahoo) are appealing a Canadian court ruling threatening both free speech and the Net. The ruling stems from a former UN employee who successfully sued the Washington Post in Ontario for libel, arguing that because the Post's Web site carried the story. his reputation had been "damaged" in that province."
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @06:00AM
from the big-and-illegal dept.
vincecate writes "The Japan Fair Trade Commission has ruled that
Intel violated antitrust laws in Japan.
Giving customers discounts based on the volume of your products
they purchased is good business.
However, Intel was adjusting customer discounts
based on the volume of competing products they purchased,
which is not legal.
After the ruling,
AMD responded saying, "We encourage governments around the globe to ensure that their markets are not being harmed as well".
While
Intel responded
saying, "Intel continues to believe its business practices are both fair and lawful."
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) Science: Stem Cells Cultivated Free of Animal Contaminants |
Posted by
samzenpus
on Thursday March 10, @12:52AM
from the grow-me-a-new-liver dept.
qewl writes "In a follow-up to this story, researchers at Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology have created a new method of growing human embryonic stem cells that has overcome the major obstacle of animal contaminants to their use for human treatments. As President George W Bush has restricted federal funding of this research to limited cell lines existing since 2001, scientists have strived to find ways to keep the lines pure. Irina Klimanskaya and colleagues at ACT grew the stem cells from the beginning on a cell and serum-free mixture called an extracellular matrix. "The importance of this work, of course, is that by eliminating contact with animal and human cells, you minimize the risk of contamination with pathogens that could be transmitted to patients and the population at large," Dr. Lanza at ATC said."
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