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July 2007

Today in Second Life – 31 July 2007

July 31, 2007

The grid instabilities which have been plaguing Second Life for about a week rumble on, with speculation that it’s been caused by griefing, a previously-sighted bug, and just about everything else. Prokofy Neva blames the Patriotic Nigras, calling them “Leninists“, amongst other choice words. Added to this, there’s been something of a financial meltdown going [...]

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Why Energy Star compliance isn’t so important for the Mac

July 30, 2007

Ouch! According to a post on The Apple Core, not a single Mac meets the new, upgraded Energy Star requirements. This isn’t good for Apple’s environmental credentials, but actually, it may not be as bad as it seems. In fact, as Eric D Williams, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University [...]

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The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, v4.0 – Coming Soon!

July 29, 2007

If you’re a Mac user who has a Windows Mobile phone or PDA, then you’ll probably already know all about The Missing Sync. The good news is that there’s a new version coming – with features which will have Windows users drooling: Support for Windows Mobile 6 DevicesImports Video from Camera-Enabled Devices (Note: This feature is not [...]

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Google YouTube copyright infringement filtering system – How will it work?

July 29, 2007

Don Dodge raises a slew of interesting questions re: Google’s plan to install technology which will stop the posting of copyright-infringing material to YouTube and Google Video: How will Google’s copyright filtering work? I haven’t seen it, but based on what I have read it works by creating a “digital fingerprint” of the original video [...]

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Sky and Sony to launch TV download service for PSP

July 29, 2007

Sky will take Sony PSP users to the movies | | Guardian Unlimited Business: “BSkyB has linked up with Sony in a deal that will enable British users of the PSP games console to download films and TV shows. The joint venture between Sony and Sky will create Europe’s first official PSP video download service. [...]

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Virgin ditches mobile TV service

July 29, 2007

Virgin ditches mobile TV service | | Guardian Unlimited Business: “Virgin Mobile has decided to dump its broadcast mobile TV service after less than a year because of poor customer take-up. The mobile phone operator’s partner on the project, BT, is ending its experiment with mobile TV and disbanding its BT Movio business that was [...]

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So little imagination

July 29, 2007

Coverage of Second Life over the past couple of years has fallen into two categories: 1. “Hey, Second Life! People are making millions there! Every corporate MUST be in there or it’s a dinosaur!” 2. “Hey, Second Life! It’s all about kiddie porn/rape fantasies/scams/crazy shit! All the corporates are leaving so fast you can’t see [...]

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Follower of one of the major Abrahamic faiths?

July 29, 2007

< p>You probably don’t want to listen to Marcus Brigstocke’s rant from “The Now Show“. As he puts it, “can the rest of us have our planet back?”

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And the prize for best headline of the week goes to…

July 28, 2007

Bob Cringely, for “Is Google on Crack?” Bob looks at the Google offer for spectrum, and sums it up like this: These are Internet rules Schmidt is asking for, Internet Engineering Task Force-like rules, that Google wants to apply to this fresh patch of wireless connectivity, turning what would have been yet another mobile [...]

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Millions of Us giving away free land

July 28, 2007

Millions of Us » Blog Archive » You Have Cool Ideas, We Have Land Social media is all about participation, right? In that spirit, Millions of Us will be opening up land on several of its sims in order to host the coolest projects you can come up with. We own 8 perimeter sims, clustered [...]

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