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Melanie Williams is chief of operations at Lunenburg’s HB Studios, the biggest video game developer in the province. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff) EDITOR’S NOTE: More profitable than movies or music, the video game industry is worth an estimated $22 billion. Canada’s stake in the industry is a tad over $3 billion, […]

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Mindover Software Introduces Rewards Program

The company recently launched a new Customer Referral Program under which customers who make referrals that lead to new business relationships receive up to five hours of free consulting, or a $250 Visa gift card, the company said. The program targets Texas companies with annual revenue between $5 million and $75 million, and […]

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Airstrike 101: 5 Questions to Ask About The Civilian Bombing

Pentagon announced it will release a summary of the Pentagon’s investigation into a U.S. airstrike that killed at least 20 civilians in the Afghan town of Farah on May 4. The strike occurred after hours of fighting between the Taliban and Afghan military, who asked U.S. Marines for backup. The Marines called for […]

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Chris Csikszentmihayli and a Complex Vision of Citizen Media

MIT’s Knight News Challenge conference with an overview of his view of the world - “It’s my view from MIT - MIT wouldn’t endorse it, they’ve been quite specific about that,” he quips, a reference to the university’s unfortunate decision not to grant him tenure. Chris is now focusing on managing the Center […]

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Toshiba presents Artful Lineup of Notebook PCs

The NB200 Notebook bundles up 10.1-inch diagonal wide LED screen, full QWERTY keyboard, laptop-sized touchpad, Windows XP OS, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, two USB 2.0 port, USB port along with Sleep-and-Charge function, Wifi (802.11 b/g), 1.60GHz Intel Atom Processor N270 / 1.66GHz Intel Atom Processor N280, Intel 945GSE graphics chipset, 10/100 Ethernet […]

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Event Alert: Desktop Virtualization Management and Monitoring Webinar

Boston, MA, July 01, 2009 –(PR.com)– Aternity Inc., the industry’s technology leader in end user experience management solutions for Global 1000 enterprises and DABCC, Inc., a leading provider of information, training and solutions to the virtualization and server based computing community, will host a webinar on Wednesday, July 15th at 2 PM […]

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Q & A: To Pre or iPhone?

I’m trying to decide between a Palm Pre and an Apple iPhone 3GS. I now use an antiquated Treo 650, which contains all of my life. Will all my contacts, calendar info and memos in the Treo transfer to either phone? Getting the data from the Treo 650 to either a […]

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Overview/First Look: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0

by Jeff Rowe A summary of recently published MCAD product and company news, featured downloads, customer wins, and coming events. Brought to you by MCADCaf . Each period (about twice a month) MCADWeekly Review delivers to its readers news concerning the latest developments in the MCAD industry, along with a selection […]

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Major Intl. German Mfg. Seeks Discussions With US Mobile Robot Co.

CONYERS, GA–(Marketwire - June 30, 2009) - GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. ( PINKSHEETS : GCKO) announced today that a major, multi-billion dollar German manufacturer has extended an important request to GeckoSystems to meet with their senior management at their corporate headquarters in Conyers, GA. GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile […]

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Research and Markets: Armed Forces Modernisation Programme to …

Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Indian Air Training and Simulation Market Assessment” to their offering. The air training and simulation market in India is in a growing stage. The major participants operating in the market are CAE-Macmet, Thales, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), BAe Systems and Rheinmetall. …

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The ticking clock on Xbox LIVE Indie Games

Back in November of 2008, for my very first event coverage as a representative of Destructoid, I had the opportunity to be at the launch of the then-called Xbox LIVE Community Games. While many of the games on display were a little underwhelming, a large portion of games showcased were of high […]

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Chris Csikszentmihayli and a Complex Vision of Citizen Media

Chris Csikszentmihayli opens the morning’s session at MIT’s Knight News Challenge conference with an overview of his view of the world - “It’s my view from MIT - MIT wouldn’t endorse it, they’ve been quite specific about that,” he quips, a reference to the university’s unfortunate decision not to grant him tenure. […]

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Area education briefs: Top scholars named at OSU-Mansfield

MANSFIELD — The Ohio State University-Mansfield presented honorary awards to students at the Honors Convocation held May 21 in Riedl Hall. Outstanding Achievement Awards were given to students in each of 11 academic discipline groups: Anthropology and sociology, Mariagrace Flint. Art, music and theatre, Shawna Schonauer. …

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A Beginner’s Guide to Free Software Programming Languages

Curious about programming, but having trouble getting started because you’re confused about all those languages? This article will give you an overview of the most common desktop languages you’ll see in free software today. C and C++ You might call C the king of Linux programming languages. … […]

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RNAcache: Up to 100x Faster Application Performance with …

Overview: Enterprise data centers are struggling with large data sets with real implications for application performance, cost and competitiveness. While memory capacity has grown, distributed data center architectures require that many servers have access to the same data sets, often TBs in size and too large to fit in memory of any […]

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Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market. In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through […]

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Global Business Intelligence Software Market in Retail Industry …

Global Business Intelligence Software Market in Retail Industry 2008-2012 (M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/33e74e/global_business_in) has announced the addition of the “Global Business Intelligence Software Market in Retail Industry 2008-2012″ report to their offering. …

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PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, June 25, 2009

PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, June 25, 2009 Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/ SF38008 06/25/2009 00:01 …

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Dreaming Through Nightmares

CommentDreaming Through Nightmares A New York Times editorial reports on and comments on a rally in support of the DREAM Act this week. “We were caught between exhilaration and despair on Tuesday as we watched more than 500 young people in caps and gowns gather in a park a few steps from […]

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athenahealth to Present at the Jefferies Third Annual Healthcare …

athenahealth to Present at the Jefferies Third Annual Healthcare Conference WATERTOWN, Mass. –(Business Wire)– athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services for physician practices, announced today that it will participate in the Jefferies Third Annual Healthcare Conference in New York. …

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