LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It sure helps to have the “Guitar Hero” franchise. On Wednesday, two big video game companies reported quarterly earnings, with Activision Blizzard impressing investors while THQ depressed them.

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “The RIAA, unhappy with the Court’s decision setting aside its 2,000 jury verdict over .76 worth of song files, and throwing out the legal theory on which it was based, has made a motion for permission to file an appeal from the Judge’s order, in Capitol v. Thomas. Normally, only final judgments are [...]

Matt_dk writes “The U.S. space agency NASA says it plans to fix the Hubble Space Telescope by remote control this week. The Hubble stopped beaming information to Earth about two weeks ago, when a data unit on the telescope completely failed. Scientists Tuesday said they will bypass the failed unit and switch to a back-up [...]

Nothing butches up your wounds like an official duct tape band-aid.
Nexcare Duct Tape Bandage One Size
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An anonymous reader writes “Microsoft’s Mike Nash came forward today in a blog post on the Windows Vista Blog and revealed the official name for Windows Code Name ‘7′ as simply ‘Windows 7.’ The reasoning, by Mr. Nash, is that Windows 7 is ‘the seventh release of Windows.’ As much wonderful sense as this makes [...]

NVIDIA wants to see more software developers using CUDA, but password-cracking probably wasn’t one of the GPU manufacturer’s target markets. Software manufacturer and hack-friendly Elcomsoft, on the other hand, thinks the two are a perfect fit.
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Wikimedia is moving all 400 of its servers from Red Hat and Fedora to Ubuntu 8.04.
After reading the article in its entirety, a few thoughts were going through my head. First, was why not CentOS? Wikimedia mentions that they are running different versions of Red Hat and Fedora, which is a problem in itself that [...]

An anonymous reader writes “Blogger and ex-Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony reports that Michael Robertson has been sued by a Linspire shareholder to get to the bottom of what happened to Linspire’s assets. One hundred shareholders have been left uninformed as to what happened to the company and its assets after Linspire was sold to Xandros [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A false Internet report that Apple Inc’s Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack briefly slammed his company’s stock on Friday and raised fresh questions about the delicate relationship between traditional and new media.

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Wired.com tweaks Aviation.com’s list of the greatest innovations of aviation in the past 100 years.
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