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Computerworld UK: 'The News International-owned publication, which is read by over one million people in the capital each day, claims it is the first newspaper to run its website on an open source platform.'

There is something magical about the night sky over Lake Powell. In the daylight hours, Glen Canyon is a place filled with an abundance of scenic beauty.

For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world's four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, mobile applications are hastening the demise of that vision. - HELSINKI (Reuters) - For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world's four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, just three letters are hastening the demise of that vision. App. Short for quot;application, quot; the programs people ...

Sony intorduced the Walkman portable cassette player 30 years ago and changed how people listend to their music. Apple released the iPod less than ten uears ago and changed the music market again. Today TMO readers are talking about the impact both devices had, and why the Walkman faded away while the iPod flourished.

waderoush writes 'Ever since Google added the 'My Location' feature this week to the desktop and laptop versions of Google Maps, allowing Firefox and Chrome users to see their current location on a map, people have been reporting bizarre location errors — Manhattanites, for example, are being told by Google that they're in Austin, TX. Ted Morgan, the CEO of Boston-based location software provider Skyhook Wireless, talked about the problems in an interview Friday. Skyhook's Wi-Fi-based location-finding technology was passed over when Mozilla adopted Google's own location services toolkit for Firefox 3.5 in April; Morgan says that was unfortunate for Web app developers, because Google's 'crowdsourced' database of Wi-Fi access point locations is far less reliable than Skyhook's.' of this story at Slashdot.

Fortune's annual Global 500 list for 2008 is out and Apple made the cut yet again, moving 337th place in 2007 up to 253. The list ranks the largest 500 global corporations and also includes companies such as Wal-Mart, General Electric, AT&T, Walt Disney and microsoft.

Today, July 11th is the last day people will be able to buy Windows 7 at the Pre-Order discounted price. You can find ordering information in June 29th's blog entry....

Google boss Eric Schmidt says he will have to discuss his role as director of Silicon Valley rival Apple in the wake of his company's decision to launch its own computer operating system.Schmidt, who has been on the board of Apple since 2006, said he would be talking to Steve Jobs and others after some critics voiced concerns over a possible conflict of interest.'I'll talk to the Apple people,' he told reporters on Thursday. 'At the moment, there's no issue.'Google said on Tuesday that it was planning to launch a new operating system next year, called Google Chrome OS. News of the system - which will be aimed at the users of small laptop computers - created enormous buzz, as the clearest signal yet that Google intends to directly challenge microsoft's Windows and its continuing dominance of the computer industry. However the announcement - which was possibly timed to spoil a similar announcement due next week from microsoft - also meant that Google is more directly competing with Apple

U.S. science, medicine and technology were under the microscope in the latest survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, and one finding that's generating headlines is that only 17 percent of the public participants held the belief that American scientific achievements are the best in the world.

Spiderweb Software has announced Avernum 6, the final game in its role-playing series. Set in the world of Avernum, the game takes players to an underground world where a nation of people live inside large tunnels and caverns far below the planets surface. The final chapter has the world of Avernum in chaos, where the mushrooms have withered and died and the people are suffering from hunger. In th...