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September 15 was the official launch date for the Zune HD. It had been rumored for a while, and I even thought it might be a solid contender to the iPod touch. I purchased a Zune HD on launch day from Best Buy and detailed my purchasing experience and first impressions on Tuesday… September 11th - [...]

Decision was based on a new assessment that Iran's longrange missile programme was less advanced than previously thought.

Celtic manager Tony Mowbray thinks the Israeli heat drained his players as Hapoel Tel-Aviv came from behind to win 2-1.

The animated 3-D adaptation of the 1978 children's book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs serves up a lot of laughs, as well as some food for thought. Critic Bob Mondello says the script is chock-full of wit, with some real-world crunch to boot.

'Zombie' computers, taken over by hackers to spread spam and malware to surfers around the world, remain infected for much longer than previously thought.

'I couldn't think of a better pick,' she says

WHAT does Council plan for its fall legislative sessions? * Councilman Frank DiCicco will introduce a resolution calling for hearings on the Board of Revision of Taxes, which was studied this summer by a committee appointed by Mayor Nutter and Council. Verna calls that Council's main initiative for the rest of the year. "I think that is a very complicated and extremely important project," she added.

Electric vehicles are clearly the favoured technology for concept cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week. But Toyota, the leader in hybrid cars, thinks that the high cost of the Lithium-ion batteries will keep electric cars from penetrating the mass market for another decade.

Uma Thurman - who has been working exclusively in New York for a number of years so she can be close to her children - thinks it is time to return to Hollywood.

alphadogg writes 'Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation has serious flaws to correct if it wants to become a credible force in the open source industry, and attract a diverse collection of developers and participants, according to an expert in forming consortia and foundations. Andy Updegrove, a lawyer and founder of ConsortiumInfo.org, says Microsoft has created with CodePlex a rigid foundation that has almost no wiggle room and a poorly crafted governance structure that concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others who might join the foundation.' Here is Andy's detailed analysis of CodePlex's structure: 'Over the past 22 years, I've helped structure scores of open, consensus based consortia and foundations, and represented over 100 in all... In this blog entry, I'll show where I think the legal and governance structure of CodePlex has wandered off the open path, and offer specific recommendations for how the structure could be changed to give people (other than Mi