In addition to new notebooks on Tuesday, Apple announced that the latest market research data from NPD indicates that the iTunes Store recently surpassed Best Buy to become the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart.
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Apple today announced that iTunes is now the number two music retailer in the US, trailing only Wal-Mart.* The iTunes Store — now with over 50 million customers — has sold over four billion songs. In fact, it sold an incredible 20 million songs on Christmas Day 2007 …

A new study from IBM Institute for Business Value study found that less than half (43 percent) of clients of are steadfastly loyal their US wealth management firm. And more than 40 percent do not consider their firm a “trusted advisor” to help them meet their financial goals.
The study, “Building Client Advocacy: New Opportunities for Wealth Management Firms,” comes as firms are scrambling to differentiate themselves and meet changing client demands. “Wealth management firms have attempted to become more client-centric and respond to their clients’ needs and …

The latest edition of the IBM Journal of Research and Development examines some of the many applications of massively parallel computer systems, specifically the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. The incredible power of supercomputers means scientists and engineers are able to model research that was beyond reach only a few years ago. Massively parallel systems such as IBM Blue Gene/L are beginning to have a significant impact on geophysical imaging for oil and gas reserves, the discovery of new drugs, nuclear fusion, neurophysiology, and climate simulation. And while …

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YouTube has been blocked by Pakistan’s government because it contained “blasphemous content, videos and documents”. Shortly after, Pakistan shutdown YouTube globally by (possibly accidentally) hijacking their IP space via BGP!
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The Borg is moving forward: “Some aspects of the two cultures will naturally merge quickly and some will remain unique in the near-term and merge more slowly over time.”
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Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system. Best of all, it’s easy to install and use!
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It seems Stage6 will be shut down on Feb 28th 2008. According to the blog post by a DivX employee, it is simply a matter of the site becoming too expensive to maintain. I’m deeply saddened by this: some channels alone have so many documentaries that they’ve become veritable historical archives.
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I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, …

No, MetaRAM is not a modern-day version of “Memory Doubler” from the DOS days. Instead, the new fabless semi company has some hardware tricks up its sleeve that let it massively increase DDR2 DIMM capacities.
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“And last but not least, we have finally run natively Linux on the Nintendo Wii through Team Tweezers’ twilight-hack (http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack). We have released a small usbgecko-enabled Proof of Concept mini-distro to prove it.” It still needs drivers for the fancy Wii hardware…but regardless, it’s Wii Linux is here.
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