Amazon Gets Into Content Delivery Network Biz

The e-commerce giant’s cloud computing and storage customers now have a cheap way to push out data. But will it rival the giants in content delivery?

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RIM Tosses a New Curve Into Smartphone Market

Latest BlackBerry offers up Wi-Fi and traditional features that were changed out in Storm device.

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Rim, Palm a Tale in Smartphone Contrasts

BlackBerry maker’s experiencing profits; Palm Centro maker banks on new OS for better financials.

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Linux clipboard utilities lead to frustration and defeat

AP Lawrence: “# xclipboard
Error: another clipboard is already running

Huh? I’m not sure why that would matter anyway, but:”

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The Future of Compiz In Question

Phoronix: “Kristian Lyngstol has shared some grave concerns for this project that brought “desktop bling” to Linux. Kristian has outlined a few areas that that he believes need to be addressed otherwise it could mean the death of Compiz. Compiz in fact is just losing developers at this point and with the different forks taking place there is much stagnation occurring within Compiz.”

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Creating KVTML Files

Linux Journal: “KWordQuiz, KVocTrain, and other KDE-based programs use the KVTML file format for their data files. The format is just a fairly simple XML format but, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything available to convert a text file to this format. So, once again, AWK to the rescue.”

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2008: A year of the Linux Distillery in review

The Linux Distillery: “As 2008 draws its final breath let’s reflect on some of the highlights of the year. There were major new FOSS releases, battles with Microsoft, arguments to further the cause of Linux as a viable server and desktop platform and more.”

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