Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 09.02.2010

Linux

Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOfficeorg Begun

Computerworld UK: "Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fa (...)

Linux

Alexandria Project Chap 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors

Standards Blog: "Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes u (...)

Linux

The kernel column by Jon Masters #83

Linux User and Developer: "As I’ve mentioned before, one of the longe (...)

Linux

How to get information from the Netscaler using Python and Suds

Linux Dynasty: "Recently I just started to use the Citrix Netscalers again (...)

Linux

Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline

Serverwatch: "Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line (...)

Linux

The KDE 43 System Settings - Part 3 - Computer Administration

Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to part 3 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Se (...)

Linux

8 of the Best Free Linux Geometry Software

LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is ava (...)

Linux

GNOME Boston Summit 2009

The GNOME Journal: "GNOME Shell-- Jon McCann from Red Hat ran the first She (...)

Linux

Sketchpad (beta) (HTML5 drawing program)

Colorjack: "Sketchpad uses the little-known [canvas] tag to provide users a (...)

Linux

Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack

Phoronix: "Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse enginee (...)

Multimedia

[$$] EA Narrows Loss, Gives Weak Outlook (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

EA Narrows Loss, Gives Weak Outlook Electronic Arts posted a smaller loss i (...)

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Electronic Arts outlook disappoints, shares decline (Reuters)

Electronic Arts Inc warned that fiscal 2011 earnings would miss Wall Street (...)

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Electronic Arts predicts fall in game sales (at FTcom)

Electronic Arts on Monday presented a pessimistic outlook for the video gam (...)

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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook (AP)

A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video (...)

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EA cuts losses, but forecast disappoints (at MarketWatch)

Electronic Arts' shares take a hit in late trading as the forecast for the (...)

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[$$] Dim Outlook for Electronic Arts (at RealMoney by TheStreetcom)

The videogame maker faces tough transition ahead to online distribution cha (...)

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On the Call: Electronic Arts (AP)

Electronic Arts Inc. reported fiscal third-quarter results on Monday. The c (...)

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Ferrari Races into Need for Speed SHIFT (Business Wire)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that, after a (...)

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Madden Maker Whomped After Hours (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

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[video] After Hours Action: Electronic Arts (at CNBC)

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MarketWatch First Take: Is EA trying to lowball Wall Street (at MarketWatch)

Electronic Arts Inc. and its top executives have certainly learned the pain (...)

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Tech Stocks: Tech stocks lose luster at the market close (at MarketWatch)

Amazon.com Inc. shares fail to hang onto earlier gains by the close of trad (...)

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Electronics Arts on Sale! (at CNBC)

The news from Electronic Arts bordered on dismal for the company's third fi (...)

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Electronic Arts (Barely) Beats The Street (Silicon Alley Insider)

Earnings and revenue are down sharply from last year, but the numbers were (...)

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EA Shares Fall as Outlook Disappoints (at CNBC)

The video game publisher's shares fell in after hours trading after the com (...)

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Electronic Arts Swoons As Outlook Disappoints (at Barronscom)

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Electronic Arts Posts Jump In Digital RevenueBut Overall Sales Fall (paidContentorg)

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Electronic Arts reduces loss in third quarter (at MarketWatch)

Electronic Arts Inc. reduced its net loss in the third fiscal quarter despi (...)

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EA Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Results (Business Wire)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Electronic Arts Inc. today announced preliminary fi (...)

Linux

A sensation of wonder about technological developments

Too Much Information: "It's a common thing to admire the way someone solved (...)

Linux

HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

Alp Toker: "I’m glad to announce the first release of our fully manag (...)

Linux

SourceForge turns off blanket blocking

The H Open: "SourceForge, the open source project hosting site, has announc (...)

Linux

Home, Events, and Ubuntu

Just Me, Amber: "I have been working with the SCaLE 8x coordinators, and th (...)

Multimedia

Electronic Arts Is Off Its Game (at Seeking Alpha)

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EA Shares Slump on Weak Profit Forecast (at TheStreetcom)

Electronic Arts saw its stock fall in after-hours trading Monday after post (...)

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Electronic Arts Inc F3Q10 (Qtr End 31/12/09) Earnings Call Transcript (at Seeking Alpha)

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2K Games Announces BioShock®2 Now Available Worldwide (Business Wire)

NEW YORK----2K Games announced today that BioShock®2, the highly anticipate (...)

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Tuesday Look Ahead: Wall Street Sell-Off Not Over Yet (at CNBC)

Stocks stumbled in Monday's final hour, signaling traders that the market's (...)

Multimedia

Convera Corporation Files Certificate of Dissolution, Trading of Common Stock to Cease After Februar

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Hardware

Opinion on the iPad Plummets Post-Intro

Following its introduction, twice as many people don't want an iPad, while (...)

Linux

GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 910 (Karmic)

Ubuntu Geek: "Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I coul (...)

Linux

Top 10 Super Bowl tech ads

Computerworld: "What were the best Super Bowl ads from tech companies in ye (...)

Linux

OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study

Good Gear Guide: "Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does (...)

Linux

Add Cloud Storage to OpenOfficeorg with SMECloud

Worldlabel: "Cloud computing is all the rage these days. But while the idea (...)

Linux

10 Ways that Enterprises use Linux

Daniweb: "The world's largest technical support, software and hardware comp (...)

Multimedia

SkillSoft Introduces SkillSoft Leadership Advantage for Busy Executives (Business Wire)

NASHUA, N.H.----SkillSoft PLC , a leading SaaS provider of e-learning and p (...)

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[$$] Futures Gain; Coke, Molson Rise (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

Futures Gain; Coke, Molson Rise Stocks are expected to open sharply higher (...)

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EA down after outlook raises questions (at bizjournalscom)

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One in Six US College Students Receive Blackboard Connect Messages for Campus Safety and Success (

Blackboard Inc.'s mass notification system now serves 3.6 million college s (...)

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Rovi and Samsung Align Technologies to Enhance Music Discovery for Portable Devices (GlobeNewswire)

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Rovi Corporation announced today that Samsung will u (...)

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Tuesday Look Ahead: Wall Street Selloff Not over Yet (at CNBC)

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Linux

HP Launches First Quad-Core Itanium Systems

Serverwatch: "Intel launched what will be its largest server and storage re (...)

Linux

Dell Ubuntu Order Experience

Baablogic: "Let me start off by saying hats off to Dell for giving us Ubunt (...)

Linux

Power Up Linux GUI Apps

Linux Magazine: "Windowing interfaces to Linux have lots of advantages. Onc (...)

Linux

Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux

Computerworld: "Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patchi (...)

Linux

BM Ups Its Processor Power to 7

Hardware Central: "During an event late last month celebrating the completi (...)

Linux

KDEorg Relaunched for Software Compilation 44

KDE.news: "The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the (...)

Linux

The application is the new the operating system

The Open Road: "If you're a Google Nexus One user, you experienced a bit of (...)

Linux

The Bruno Knaapen Technology Learning Center is Established

Blog of Helios: "As we've written about this week, The Christo Rey Catholic (...)

Linux

Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition

Jamie's Random Musings: "I'm still more of a Gnome desktop user than KDE, b (...)

Multimedia

[video] News Hub: Electronic Arts Sends Mixed Message [40 min] (at MarketWatch)

Video game maker Electronic Arts narrows its losses in the third quarter, b (...)

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EA Forecast Might Be Too Conservative (at Forbescom)

Game maker's effort at managing expectations draws (...)

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Electronic Arts shares dive after 4Q forecast (AP)

Shares of Electronic Arts Inc. tumbled Tuesday after the video game maker o (...)

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Electronic Arts: Misplaying The Earnings Game, Stock Swoons (at Barronscom)

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Earnings Preview: Activision Blizzard to report 4Q (AP)

Activision Blizzard Inc., the video game publisher behind "World of Warcraf (...)

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EA shares fall as forecast disappoints investors (at MarketWatch)

Electronic Arts shares retreat after the video-game publisher issues a disa (...)

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Electronic Arts Receives Artful Beating (at TheStreetcom)

Electronic Arts is taking a severe beating Tuesday morning after the compan (...)

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Electronic Arts Needs Change Investors Can Believe In (at Minyanvillecom)

Here are three suggestions. (...)

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Electronic Arts Down After BUYINSNET Report Predicted Weakness After Earnings (GlobeNewswire)

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, a provider of unique t (...)

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GameStop: Credit Suisse Downgrades, Sees Value Trap (at Barronscom)

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Hardware

Microsoft Denies Windows 7 Tied to Battery Issues

Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky takes to the blogs to clear the (...)