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  • This Epixtar Issue Just Won’t Die

    I still get Epixtar spam, months after that infamous issue, which incidentally I won’t link to as I really don’t want to give it any more publicity than it should. Having said that, I’m about to post sample spam I regularly get re it, with no intent other than information:

  • Intel Told How To Make Mobos

    In an article on Newsfactor.com, Mark Reiner, VP of Epic, designer of Unreal Tournament, is imo acting like a kid when he says that “I’m concerned about the level of growth in the PC games business…A $900 PC is nowhere near as capable as a $299 Xbox 360 console. We’re losing PC gamers in record…

  • Of Conspiracy Theories and Artificial Chip Pricing

    Back March 23, 2006, 3 Samsung executivers pleaded guilty for DRAM price-fixing, reported on Inq7.net here, and I blogged about it here. And now, there are new allegations of artificial pricing involving chipmakers, here. Excerpt: The complaint, to be filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, charges the companies with fixing…

  • MS Live and YM! hook up

    I installed YM!8 the other day, and was wondering about this:

  • Finally. Geek Girls Getting It.

    In other IT news, “IT women shed clothes and geeky image for calendar“. SYDNEY–A group of female computer professionals in Australia has struck sexy poses for a calendar to try to shake off their geeky image and encourage women to take up technology studies. “The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar features beautiful photos of real women…

  • Slow News Day?

    There’s an article today re “UK firm says RP-based web design outfit ripped them off”: In an e-mail correspondence, Paul Bowers, a representative of the UK-based firm behind arcadegamescript.com, said a company called “wickedinnovations” was hired to do contract job to code and design the company’s website. A deadline to complete the job was set…

  • Some Paypal News! (but not what we want to hear)

    As per the LA Times yesterday, the President of EBay’s PayPal has called it quits. The San Jose-based company said Jeff Jordan, president of its PayPal online payment business and considered a potential successor to Chief Executive Meg Whitman, would leave in the fall to spend more time with his family. Now, obviously this is…

  • Movie Promotion via (make a guess) Youtube

    From Yahoo Tech: Studios catching viral bug to promo new DVDs online “LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Online video sites like YouTube are Hollywood’s hottest new marketing tool.”….”YouTube is a key component in our overall marketing and publicity strategy,” said Greg Newman, executive vice president development for MPI Home Video and Dark Sky Films”…” Paramount…

  • The Very Kewl Vyew

    Vyew is a brower only visual collaboration tool that offers the following:

  • Tip to CoffeeShop Wifi freeloaders: Buy Something

    .. and conversely, Tip to coffee shops with wifi: Tell them to. This was bound to happen. A 20 year old man in Washington, US was charged with “theft of services” after mooching off of a coffee shop’s free internet access for three months without buying anything. “He doesn’t buy anything,” Emily Pranger, the shop’s…