Sun inches toward low-cost computing. SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. demonstrated Oracle Corp.'s new database software running on a cluster of its Intel Corp.-based servers this week, its latest step toward offering customers a low-cost alternative to its proprietary Unix servers. [InfoWorld: Top News]

 

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Doctor Who to return to TV - official. No longer lost in the Vortex [The Register]

 

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Smart cards track commuters. New season tickets being used by London's commuters can track their movements around the city. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Primary source is what can give us an edge in our work...  Jon Udell: "Folks who consume news by way of blogs are likelier to be exposed to primary sources than folks who rely on conventional news sources." [Scripting News]
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Where does radical rethinking of landscape architecture design intellectual property rights lead you?  NY Times: Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet. It was inevitable, then, that the Internet would eventually force a radical rethinking of intellectual property rights, and the music industry's current travails represent a particularly dramatic example of the mutating rules -- though not the only one. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

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