A lot of reports from retail sources that Paramount has moved the street date for its The Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Complete DVD Movie Collection up to 10/21 (from 11/4) to avoid competition with Disney’s Finding Nemo.
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The Standard (Greater China’s Business Newspaper) recently reported that crime in Internet cafes has risen sharply in the last six months:
There has been a sharp rise in petty theft in video game centres and Internet cafes in the first six months of this year, according to police. New Territories South Police said petty theft [...]
Seventeen years of Readers’ Choice Awards have brought 17 years of surprises and many close contests — but none as close as this year’s horse race between Microsoft and Apple for Favorite Vendor. In the end, the two giants tied statistically, but Microsoft edged ahead with just three votes. The final tally: Microsoft won 16.2 [...]
The PC maker releases its first portable music player as it continues its expansion into the realm of consumer electronics.
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Spotted at this year’s DefCon hacker convention: a robot which can roam around searching for vulnerable wireless networks.
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FeedDemon Beta 3a is now available for downloading for all interested in giving it a try. The FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 3a Release Notes reflect quite a few positive changes and fixes for this promising syndicated newsreader/organizer.
After just discussing (again) whether or not blogs were clogging Google, with a reporter, a thought occurred to me: The first-name test?e.g., saying Steven Johnson shouldn’t show up before Steven Spielberg, because Steven Spielberg is clearly more famous—sounds interesting, but it misses something: That’s not what Google is for. Google is not a famousness-ranking-by-first-name engine. [...]
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