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Comment Puff Piece (Score 1) 734

by mr micawber on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @10:07AM (#22856656) Attached to: Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)

"Sad but true"?. This was a lazily executed piece of wishy washy emotionalism. Let these companies show their real faces over time, and we then we can judge. MS has such a large catalog of infamy that it would take any Google or Apple out there decades to catch up. Gates and Ballmer aren't going to slow down one bit.

New X-Files Movie 228

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @11:26PM from the i-want-to-believe-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes to let us know that a new X-Files movie is in pre-production, directed and written by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Duchovny said in an interview that his understanding is that filming will start in November for a summer 2008 release. The article notes that in an earlier interview, Anderson said the film "would stay away from the series' (and first film's) sometimes tortured mythology" (quoting the article, not Anderson).

Submission + - Does Comcast hate Firefox? (blorge.com)

Submitted by

destinyland

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @11:00PM

destinyland writes: "Comcast is the largest ISP in America. And they're requiring Internet Explorer for installations — even if you're using a Mac. The Comcast homepage even species that the page is optimized for IE 5.5 (which was released in 2000), and "is not optimized for Firefox browsers and Macs." With 13 million subscribers, you'd think they could spring for a web developer who could handle multiple browsers. (From the last line of the article: "I'm afraid to ask how Comcast handles Linux...""

Submission + - IT-Business Gap Widens. Is this a problem? (softwarecreation.org)

Submitted by

salavat

on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:55PM

salavat writes: "As a result of recent changes role of IT becomes less important. However, it could be a good trend for the software development. http://softwarecreation.org/2007/it-business-gap-w idens-is-this-a-problem/"

Submission + - Hollywood Breaches Copyright Too.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: The SMH (Australia) reports that: "THE makers of Paul Hogan's most recent hit film are investigating whether it has been ripped off for a new Hollywood comedy starring Adam Sandler. The director and co-writer of Strange Bedfellows, Dean Murphy, is concerned about the similarities with I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which opens in the US this week." Can't wait to see the case for the defence.

Submission + - All contacts in gmail address book spammed

Submitted by on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Hey Guys,

As you might know, social networking sites are cropping up as weeds in a garden. I recently signed up for a newcomer known as www.yaari.com. It's a website trying to compete directly with the likes of orkut and facebook. I signed up on the website with my gmail email id and was careless enough to the same password as my email account. Today, about 1000 contacts from my contact list got an invite from me to this website (without my knowledge). Obviously, they hacked into my gmail account using the same password I signed up with them for, and stole my contacts, then sent spam to all. Is this common? Isn't this illegal on so many levels? What kind of action would you guys take if this happens to you? I wrote a quick email of apology to all the contacts I care for as soon as I found out.

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