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Via the Big Slash, comes ONLamp.com: Calculating the True Price of Software, which applies arbitrage – looking for price differences between two things that ought to be exactly the same – to warranties and – more to the point – Continue reading Using Arbitrage on the Price of Software→

BBC News website is speaking to people whose creativity has been transformed in the digital age. Today they have a profile of Cory Doctorow : BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Digital Citizens: The activist. del.icio.us Tags: Cory Doctorow ; Technorati Continue reading Digital Citizens: Cory Doctorow, The activist→

Via Reuters.co.uk, USA Lawmakers are considering expanding daylight-saving time by two months to conserve energy (but refused to boost mileage requirements for gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles!) by starting daylight saving time one month earlier to the first Sunday in March Continue reading USA may change dates for DayLight Saving Time; What’s the Server/Desktop Impact?→

via SlashDot, as reported on Yahoo! News, TiVo will now give advertisers direct access to viewers who are interested in their wares…Consumers can select an option to tell TiVo to release their contact information to an advertiser. unfortunately it appears Continue reading TiVo upgrade allows instant response to TV ads→

Word about Zazzle.com a new inventment from the money behind Google. The name Zazzle means ‘to embellish something’ from the root word ‘zazz.’” Zazzle is a 2-year-old online marketplace where people can buy and sell artwork in the form of Continue reading Zazzle : A future Verb?→