Business, and Startups, in Second Life (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
Robert Curet, the owner of Little Wonder Studio in Burbank, Calif., has all the high-powered software you'd expect a modern toy developer to use: Rhino 4.0 for industrial modeling, Autodesk 3ds Max for animation, ZBrush for digital sculpting, and Maxon Cinema 4D for graphics, for starters. But one of his most recent creations didn't require any of them. Instead, Curet turned to the free tools ...
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Nepomuk and KDE to introduce the semantic desktop (NewsForge)
If you follow technology trends, you have probably heard of the semantic desktop -- a data layer for annotating and sharing the information in your computer. But what you may not be aware of is that the semantic desktop is not a distant goal, but scheduled to arrive at the end of 2008. And, when it does, the idea will probably be implemented through the work done by the Nepomuk project, and, ...
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WA News (The West Australian)
Academic criticism of the growing reliance on calculators in schools gathered pace yesterday as the head of mathematics at the University of WA threw his weight behind calls to ban the devices from the TEE and reduce their use in primary schools.
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Volunteers Needed (Savannah Morning News)
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Leave the laptop behind (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
For the IT worker, the phrase "desktop mobility" has many meanings. It can mean having a laptop computer. It can mean keeping all your data in the cloud so that you can access it at any time and from anywhere. It can even mean downsizing your work environment to fit on a PDA or a smartphone.
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