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Submission + - Outrage over Virginia Tech game

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Sam Varghese

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @04:34AM

Sam Varghese writes: "Sydney youth who created an uproar with an online game based on the Virginia Tech massacre, says he will remove the game if he receives $US2000 in "donations". read more"

Submission + - Vista sells 40 M licenses in 100 days.

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Gary

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @04:19AM

Gary writes: "In the first 100 days since its launch in Jan 30 Windows Vista has sold an astounding 40 million licenses. Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles which has made it the fastest selling operating system in history. Surprisingly the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales. With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users."

Submission + - The nitty-gritty on the PDA market share/decline

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Tam Hanna

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @03:14AM

Tam Hanna writes: "IDC has recently released a press release looking at the handheld market — how PDA's changed and how market shares changed. TamsPPC has comments and interpretation!

Get the full scoop here:
http://tamsppc.tamoggemon.com/2007/05/16/news-on-t he-handheld-market/"

Submission + - Google Searching Slashdot for Patentable Ideas ?

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rtb61

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @03:13AM

rtb61 writes: "So is Google 'searching' the Slashdot forums for patentable ideas and claiming them as their own? Not that I am particularly proud of coming up with the idea but I certainly don't want Google patenting it, http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167009&cid =13929372. Now would that post, as negative as it is about the concept, be sufficient to constitute prior art and is Googles "Do no Evil" starting to wear 'patently' thin."

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