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Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Company Financials, and Tech Data Arrangements

Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Despite being a quiet week for Novell, there are items worth highlighting as follows

What NOVELL Stands For

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Humour about Novell as an acronym

'Fatah officials warn of third Palestinian intifada'

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Fatah had made a strategic decision to declare a third intifada against Israel, movement officials told Nazereth-based newspaper Hadith Anas , citing the failed peace talks as the reason for their resolution. The newspaper report quoted Fatah Central Committee members as saying that the movement wished to implement a decision made during its sixth convention, which assembled last August in the West...

Face Detection with IronPython

IronPython-URLs (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Face detection in images is very cool (and perhaps a little bit scary), and with the help of Emgu CV it can be done from IronPython. Emgu CV is a cross platform .Net wrapper to the Intel OpenCV image processing library. Allowing OpenCV functions to be called from .NET compatible languages such as C#, VB, VC++, IronPython etc. The wrapper can be compiled in Mono and run on Linux / Mac OS X. This blog...

Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES and Samsung’s Bada, Enlightenment

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News catchup with vendors that pay Microsoft for the use of Linux

Telepathy a Plugin Away from Mono (Non-ECMA Parts)

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The road to Mono, courtesy of Novell projects; Moonlight never meant to be Silverlight compatible

Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Reviews, Board Elections, OpenSUSE 11.3 in the Details

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A roundup of news about OpenSUSE, ranging from the latest release to a new OpenSUSE Board whose tenure duration gets doubled

Directors Deals Near Closed Period

buyside (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The following Companies had significant dealing near the start of the Company closed period. For further information a spreadsheet showing full details may be downloaded here : BUYS Company name No of Directors Dealing Total Value QinetiQ Group PLC 2 £1,134,000 Lombard Risk Management PLC 3 £1,040,000 Conygar Investment Company (The) PLC 5 £977,800 Ideal Shopping Direct PLC 2 £432,000...

Eyewitness Report From Today's SCO Bankruptcy Hearing Re Wayne Gray and AutoZone

Groklaw (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

I'm happy to tell you that we did have a reporter, MikeD, at today's SCO bankruptcy hearing . He says Bonnie Glantz Fattel is an awesome attorney. She represents SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee, Edward Cahn. We have the minutes from the hearing too, so we know how it all went. This was the hearing mainly about two things: the AutoZone settlement agreement, the terms of which Cahn and AutoZone wanted to keep...

Google’s Past Failures Offer Perspective on Chrome OS Release

GigaOM (Free subscription) | 53 minutes ago

The Internet is abuzz over Google’s release of the open-source version of its Chrome OS, and for good reason. It’s free, which will save hardware manufacturers licensing fees, and it appears ideally suited for the netbooks that have become such a hot item for the mobile crowd (GigaOM Pro, sub. required). But Chrome is not [...]

Security in Google's Chrome OS

PC Mag (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The new Chrome OS promises extreme security. It's too early to put it to the test, but we took a close look at their strategy and checked in with some security experts for their opinions, too.

McAfee warns about '12 Scams of Christmas'

Cnet (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Shoppers and retailers aren't the only ones gearing up for the holidays. Criminals are out in full force with plenty of scams to separate you and your money

Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters

Right Mind (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

From The American Thinker : There's big news for climate change students. A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain's largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, and seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the "evidence" on global warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud ,conspiracy,and deceit...

• Scientific Scandal Appears To Rock Climate Change Promoters - Cool Science News
• Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters - Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian

Google Chrome OS and Canonical

Ubuntu Geek (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of Google Chrome OS When Chrome OS was announced in June we saw this as a positive development, bringing choice to the consumer. We considered how open source development is as much about co-operation as it is about competition. Google have made it clear that they are keen [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Available For Download

Know How To (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Technology and Software Giant Microsoft announced that Office 2010 became available for download as a Beta. “The Office Home and Business 2010 beta and Office Professional 2010 beta will be available soon. Please come back and try again. The Office Professional Plus 2010 beta is available for download now,” says Microsoft on this download page . Office Home and Business 2010 Beta –...

• Microsoft Beta Downloads Overview – 1051th Edition - Efinditnow

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hopeyangmei | 19/11/2009

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Safer Shopping, Happier Shopping – Szprice.com upgrades shopping security service

szprice | 19/11/2009

As a leading China consumer electronics wholesaler , Szprice treat service first and foremost on the development strategy. To ensure their customers shopping online safely and happily, they have adopted McAfee Secure, the world‘s well known security server, and upgraded their security service recently. “We always keep ‘customer is the God ‘in mind”, said Robin, the COO of Szprice, “as a leading B2C...

How to convert m4p to mp3 on Windows and Mac

dudude | 18/11/2009

Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music. So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media)....