You may have noticed late last week that Linspire was officially retired. Or perhaps you didn’t. No matter. Given Linspire’s rocky history with the GPL and its inability to get traction with consumers, it’s an unsurprising move as Xandros seeks to consolidate its assets.
Note to other open-source projects: “Abstract” worked for Picasso. It won’t for [...]

They replied such things as: “Rabid bull? Should I drool excessively?”
And, of course, George W. Bush to LeBron James: “Imagine you are being chased by Dick with a gun.”
So the Chancellor could not be sure that her charges, in a state of heightened nervousness, had not succumbed to the delights of Viennese night life and, [...]

• Robert Kotick, 7.6 percent, no change

A transmission error by Broadridge Financial Services affected the withhold tally, lopping off any withhold votes beyond 100 million in some particular circumstances. Broadridge transmitted to Yahoo results from Capital Research Global Investors, which owns 6.2 percent of Yahoo stock at last count, and its sister group Capital World Investors, [...]

If nothing else, the controversy illuminates the degree of distrust that exists between artists and the labels. As CD sales continue to shrink, look for more squabbling between them.

That’s the question some music artists are asking, according to a story that appeared Wednesday in The New York Post.

“The labels are always going to [...]

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Maybe the upcoming release of Research In Motion’s highly anticipated Bold will inspire the artist, whose Etsy handle is picnicbybarbfeldman, to pound out some more. She has been working with Fimo since 1971 and says she can make the earrings even tinier than the ones pictured–as studs about three-eighths of an inch wide [...]

If you thought the $34 HP DeskJet F2110 printer/scanner/copier was a good deal, try this on for size: Wal-Mart has the Lexmark X3430 printer/scanner/copier for a mere $27.88.
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Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on CNET’s Shopper.com.
The printer relies solely on tri-color ink cartridges (which run about $21 apiece), so don’t expect great black output. [...]

“As a mother of a child who was violently shaken at 7 weeks old, causing a severe brain injury, and the founder of a national organization for Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention (as well as the communications director for a national organization helping children with brain injuries), I don’t have to tell you how much [...]

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T-Mobile G1
As for Google Maps, it will support Google Maps Street View, which lets you explore cities at the street-level as if you were right there on the corner. It will also have a built-in compass on the phone and allow you to view locations and navigate 360 degrees by moving the phone around. The [...]

Q: If I were to buy and use the upcoming iPhone 3G and later decided to add a family member to my plan, will I be allowed to add that family member if they don’t use an
iPhone?
- Neil

A: It is possible that T-Mobile could carry the phone here in the United States but it won’t [...]

Steve hasn’t told me where he’s going, but Jon will be joining iVillage as its new CTO. If NBC’s iVillage was looking for an open source savvy, innovative and entrepreneurial CTO, it couldn’t have done any better.
A few weeks ago Steve Pearson (CBS) and Jon Williams (Kaplan Test) keynoted the Open Source Business Conference. In [...]