Posted on November 18th, 2008 by dhirender
110 major public figures in Argentina have managed to secure a court order restraining the Argentine versions of Google and Yahoo! from serving up search results on their names.
What worries the search engines is that the ruling’s legal principle effectively holds them responsible for the content of websites turned up in their searches, leading a [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by dhirender
85% of the 274 end-user organizations across the Asia/Pacific, Europe, and North American markets surveyed by Gartner across May and June are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15% expecting to do so within the next year.
The survey consistently pointed to cost as a prime motivator for their adoption of open source, [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by dhirender
National Geographic Ventures, a unit of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, will be working with game publishers to turn its material into games for PCs, consoles and handheld devices.
The first title - available now for computers and the iPhone - is Herod’s Lost Tomb, a simple hidden-objects game built on a story in the magazine’s [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by dhirender
As the world gaming market gets ready to touch $43 billion by 2010, the Indian console gaming market, one of the biggest untapped markets in the world with less than one per cent penetration, is expected to reach $125 million by 2010.
This would be aided by the rationalisation of prices of gaming consoles recently. The [...]
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