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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* No Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops Until Next Year
* USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon’s 1-Click Patent
* New York Jumps Into Open Formats Fray
* U.S. Bans Some Cellphones For Patent Reasons
* Historic Shuttle Spacesuits to Meet Fiery End
* Company Aims To Patent Security Patches
* A Geek On Everest
* Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6
* A Field Trip To the Creation Museum
* Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl
* Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability
* In-Depth Look At Video Codecs
* Your Lord of the Rings Online Questions Answered
* Puncturing the “PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs” Myth
* Microsoft’s IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware?
* Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered
* The Economist on Apple, the iPhone, and Innovation
* A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5
* Xandros CEO Doesn’t Agree Linux is Patent Violator
* Second Life Arbitration Clause Unenforceable
* Vista Media Center Plus CableCard Equals No TV
* Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed
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| No Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops Until Next Year |
| from the buy-our-laptops dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 07, @21:26 (Intel) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]Might E Mouse writes “While Intel’s 3-series chipsets support
Robson/Turbo Memory, the general consensus amongst motherboard
manufacturers at Computex is that we’re [1]not going to see the
technology on the desktop until next year at the earliest. Working
modules are on display at the show, but they’re not going to be available
to buy for a while.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. mailto://wazmeup [Email address: //wazmeup #AT# gmail.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.bit-tech.net/news
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| USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon’s 1-Click Patent |
| from the patents-that-won’t-die dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 07, @22:43 (Patents) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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An anonymous reader writes “While the patent office had [0]rejected
earlier attempts by Amazon to get a continuation patent on its infamous
“1-click” patent, it appears that an impatient USPTO examiner has
[1]approved the continuation, apparently because of the [2]failure of
BountyQuest to come up with prior art. This continuation adds claims like
contacting the recipient of an order via e-mail or a phone call to obtain
additional info.”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://yro.slashdot.org
1. http://www.techdirt.com
2. http://yro.slashdot.org
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| New York Jumps Into Open Formats Fray |
| from the time-to-dance dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 08, @00:16 (Microsoft) |
| http://politics.slashdot.org
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[0]cyrusmack writes “Hot on the heels of the [1]bad news regarding the
defeat of all open formats bills, [2]New York has become the latest in an
area that has seen a flurry of activity already this year. In the article
on InfoWorld, it’s pretty clear that this bill is significantly watered
down from what other states have attempted to do this year. You can bet
Microsoft will be there in force, [3]just as it has been elsewhere.”
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.bytesfree.org/
1. http://it.slashdot.org/article
2. http://www.infoworld.com
3. http://www.bytesfree.org
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| U.S. Bans Some Cellphones For Patent Reasons |
| from the keeping-them-honest dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 08, @03:14 (Communications) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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runner_one writes “According to the New York Times, A federal agency has
[0]banned imports of new cellphones made with Qualcomm semiconductors
because the chips violate a patent held by Broadcom. The International
Trade Commission said today that the import ban would not apply to mobile
phone models that were imported on or before June 7.” Update: 06/08 13:05
GMT by [1]KD : [2]Glenn Fleishman notes that Apple’s [3]iPhone will be
allowed into the country, since it doesn’t use any 3G chips. He adds that
Apple “might have the most advanced smartphone on the market unless
President Bush or his trade representative overturn the ruling (which
they have the power to do).”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06
1. http://slashdot.org/~kdawson/
2. mailto://glenn [Email address: //glenn #AT# glennf.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
3. http://db.tidbits.com/article
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| Historic Shuttle Spacesuits to Meet Fiery End |
| from the burn-baby-burn dept. |
| posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 08, @07:20 (NASA) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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[0]collectSPACE writes “While some museums bid for [1]retired space
[2]shuttle orbiters, the real prize may be the spacewalking spacesuits,
at least if NASA’s plans for them hold true. The now-reusable
[3]extravehicular mobility units (EMUs) are [4]soon to become disposable,
allowed to disintegrate as they reenter the Earth’s atmosphere inside
spent cargo ships.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.collectspace.com/
1. http://republican.assembly.ca
2. http://www.wuforcongress.com
3. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov
4. http://www.collectspace.com
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| Company Aims To Patent Security Patches |
| from the winner-of-the-race-to-the
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @08:15 (Patents) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org
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[0]Jonas Maebe writes “Someone thought up another way to [1]profiteer
from the software patent system: when a security hole is discovered,
they’ll try to patent the fix in order to collect money when the affected
vendors close the hole in their product. The company in question is not
shy about its intentions: [2]Intellectual Weapons will only consider
vulnerabilities in high-profile products from vendors with deep pockets.
Let’s be thankful for yet another way software patents are used to
promote science and the useful arts.”
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.ffii.org/
1. http://securitywatch.eweek.com
2. http://intellectualweapons.com
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| A Geek On Everest |
| from the high-adventure dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @08:54 (Media) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]mysterious_mark writes “Recently I was recruited by Altitude Films to
be the IT geek for a filming expedition to the north side of Mount
Everest. I have written an [1]account of my experience. It is a tale of
high latency, low bandwidth, blown hard drives, and frozen fingers.
Summit day is June 14th. See the [2]expedition’s site for the overall
picture (caution: total Flash site).”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.kahrlconsulting.com
1. http://www.ueverest.com/camp
2. http://www.ueverest.com/
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| Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 |
| from the pioneers-with-arrows dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @09:35 (Networking) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]netbuzz writes in to note that some early adopters of Microsoft Vista
are reporting [1]problems with Vista’s implementation of IPv6. An
example:”‘We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that
do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6,’ says one user. ‘We will send
a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted.
We’re seeing this with Window’s Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed,
this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer
functions return to normal.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com
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| A Field Trip To the Creation Museum |
| from the dinosaurs-were-vegetarians dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @10:19 (United States) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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Lillith writes “The anti-evolution [0]Creation Museum opened last weekend
and [1]Ars took a field trip there and took lots of pictures. ‘There were
posters explaining just how coal could be formed in a few weeks as
opposed to over millions of years, and how rapidly the biblical flood
would cover the earth, drowning all but a handful of living creatures.
The flood plays a big part in the museum’s attempt to explain away what
we see as millions of years of natural processes. There was also an
explanation as to why, with only one progenitor family, it wasn’t
considered incest for Adam and Eve’s children to marry each other.’
(Myself, I liked the picture of the velociraptor grazing peacefully next
to Eve, who is wearing some kind of dirndl, in the Garden of Eden.)” The
reporter posted [2]more photos from the museum on Flickr.
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.creationmuseum.org/
1. http://arstechnica.com/article
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos
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| Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl |
| from the far-from-a-dead-zone dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @10:58 (Power) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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The [0]wilderness is encroaching over abandoned towns in the Chernobyl
exclusion zone. One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the
contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and
wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to
whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive
environment: “Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University says the mice and
other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have
shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels. But Timothy
Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a biologist who studies
barn swallows at Chernobyl, says that while wild animals have settled in
the area, they have struggled to build new populations.”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://apnews.myway.com
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| Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability |
| from the over-to-the-dark-side dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @11:37 (Microsoft) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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[0]AlexGr sends us to Todd Bishop’s blog in the Seattle PI for news that
Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its [1]Director of Linux
Interoperability and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab.
“…his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community. In
an e-mail late Thursday night, a Microsoft representative said the role
will be filled by Tom Hanrahan, who was most recently the director of
engineering at the Linux Foundation, the group created through the recent
combination of the Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development
Labs.”
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto://alexgr [Email address: //alexgr #AT# verizon.net/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource
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| In-Depth Look At Video Codecs |
| from the jaggies-and-artifacts dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @12:19 (Software) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]johnsee writes “Atomicmpc has an incredibly in- depth look at [1]a
wide range of video codecs. It looks not only at their inner workings,
but also shows the quality produced by each at a variety of settings and
situations.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.thetrailermash.com/
1. http://www.atomicmpc.com.au
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| Your Lord of the Rings Online Questions Answered |
| from the balin-bifur-bofur-bombur-borin
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @13:01 (Lord of the Rings) |
| http://interviews.slashdot.org
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Last week we asked you for questions to pass on to Turbine CEO Jeff
Anderson, about their recently released Lord of the Rings Online
Massively Multiplayer Online Game. There were a ton of great queries, and
unfortunately Mr. Anderson had only a limited time to spare for us. Over
the phone we still managed to discuss a wide variety of topics,
including: their use of the license, lessons learned from the Asheron
games, World of Warcraft impact on the genre, what Tolkien would have
thought, and whether or not they’re working on a Linux/Mac client. Make
sure to give them a look, and many thanks again to Mr. Anderson for
taking the time to speak with us.
This story continues at:
http://interviews.slashdot.org
Discuss this story at:
http://interviews.slashdot.org
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| Puncturing the “PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs” Myth |
| from the used-to-be-true dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Friday June 08, @13:42 (The Almighty Buck) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org
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[0]jcatcw writes “The [1]recently converted Scot Finnie [2]went notebook
shopping. At the high end of the notebook spectrum, in order to get
comparable power and features, a Dell machine comes in $650 over the
Apple, and it was clunkier and weighed more. Sony couldn’t beat the Apple
either. Midrange and low-end machines, though, turn out to be pretty
comparable, with more choices in the PC arena but some good values if you
happen to want what Apple has decided you need. So, if you’re talking
name-brand hardware, it’s just no longer the case that PCs are cheaper
than Macs.”
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com
1. http://apple.slashdot.org
2. http://www.computerworld.com
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| Microsoft’s IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware? |
| from the consider-the-source dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @14:22 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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[0]eldavojohn writes “According to Google, Microsoft’s server software is
[1]at least twice as likely to host viruses or malware. The reason why?
‘Google reports that IIS is likely used to distribute malware more often
than Apache because many IIS installs are on pirated Windows versions
which aren’t configured to automatically download patches. (Even pirated
Windows versions can automatically receive security fixes, however.) Our
analysis demonstrates how important it is to keep web servers patched to
the latest patch level,’ Google notes.”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://barsukmusic.blaireau
1. http://www.windowsitpro.com
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| Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered |
| from the oh-genes-not-jeans dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @15:03 (Biotech) |
| http://science.slashdot.org
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[0]gollum123 writes “A major [1]advance in the genetic understanding
behind several of the world’s most common diseases is being reported by
the BBC. A study tested some 17,000 people to find genetic markers for
the various diseases. ‘They found new genetic variants for depression,
Crohn’s disease, coronary heart disease, hypertension, rheumatoid
arthritis and type 1 and 2 diabetes. The Wellcome Trust Case Control
Consortium (WTCCC) involved 50 leading research groups analyzing the DNA
from 2,000 patients for each of the seven conditions and 3,000 healthy
volunteers. One of the most exciting finds was a previously unknown gene
common to type 1 diabetes and Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory
bowel disorder, suggesting that they share similar biological pathways.’
There is also [2]disease by disease data at the BBC.”
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto://kaal7ik [Email address: //kaal7ik #AT# gmail.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi
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| The Economist on Apple, the iPhone, and Innovation |
| from the talking-bout-idea-germination dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @15:42 (Apple) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org
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portscan writes “This week’s Economist has [0]a special report on Apple,
Inc. and innovation. ‘The fourth lesson from Apple is to “fail wisely”.
The Macintosh was born from the wreckage of the Lisa, an earlier product
that flopped; the iPhone is a response to the failure of Apple’s original
music phone, produced in conjunction with Motorola. Both times, Apple
learned from its mistakes and tried again. Its recent computers have been
based on technology developed at NeXT, a company Mr Jobs set up in the
1980s that appeared to have failed and was then acquired by Apple. The
wider lesson is not to stigmatize failure but to tolerate it and learn
from it: Europe’s inability to create a rival to Silicon Valley owes much
to its tougher bankruptcy laws.’ There is also an article on the
[1]business of the iPhone and the future of the company. ”
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.economist.com
1. http://www.economist.com
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| A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 |
| from the alpha-beta-awesome dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @16:21 (Mozilla) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article
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abhinav_pc writes “PC World is reporting that [0]Mozilla today made an
early testing release available from [1]its Firefox 3 browser. This alpha
version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the
anticipated Places feature for bookmarks. Firefox 3 alpha 5 also features
a [2]new password manager. A new crash reporting system called
[3]Breakpad is also now available in some Mac OS X and Windows builds but
is not yet supported on Linux. ‘Places will also be less likely to lose
data in the event of program or Windows crashes. In fact, according to
Connor, “We haven’t figured out how to make Places lose data.” For
backwards compatibility and manual backups, Firefox 3 will save bookmarks
in the traditional bookmarks.htm file when it closes. For other bookmark
upgrades, Mozilla is planning to enable bookmark tagging, and is
considering building its own synchronization client into the browser
capable of backing up and sharing bookmarks. ‘”
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comment
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article
1. http://www.mozilla.org/project
2. http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske
3. http://code.google.com/p
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| Xandros CEO Doesn’t Agree Linux is Patent Violator |
| from the on-the-up-and-up dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @17:00 (Microsoft) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org
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[0]whitehartstag writes with a link to a Network World article about
[1]statements from Xandros in the wake of their Microsoft deal. Xandros
CEO Andreas Typaldos made a point of stating that they don’t believe
their product violates any of Microsoft’s patents. Nor, he said, did the
software giant share with them exactly which patents they believe Linux
violates. Just the same, he’s disappointed with the reaction they’ve
received from the open source community. “Feedback from the Linux
community has been on the order of ‘you shouldn’t really be talking to
the devil.’ Linux and open-source advocates believe it is a big issue and
say the Xandros deal, and another signed by Novell with Microsoft last
year, erodes open source licensing provisions especially around
intellectual property issues. Indeed, the Free Software Foundation is
rewriting its GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 to prohibit such
patent deals in the future.”
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org
Links:
0. mailto://whitehartstag [Email address: //whitehartstag #AT# yahoo.com/ - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.networkworld.com
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| Second Life Arbitration Clause Unenforceable |
| from the furries-have-rights-too-you
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @17:43 (The Courts) |
| http://games.slashdot.org
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[0]NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “In a decision that could have
far-reaching implications, a federal court in Pennsylvania has held that
the California arbitration clause in the ‘take it or leave it’ clickwrap
agreement on the Second Life website is [1]unconscionable, and therefore
unenforceable. In its [2]decision (pdf) in Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc.,
No. 06-4925 (E.D. Pa. May 30, 2007), the Court concluded that the Second
Life [3]‘terms of service’ seek to impose a one-sided dispute resolution
scheme that tilts unfairly, ‘in almost all situations,’ in Second Life’s
favor. As a result, the case will stay in Pennsylvania federal court,
instead of being transferred to an arbitration forum in California.”
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://recordingindustryvspeop
1. http://bnablog.bna.com/techlaw
2. http://pub.bna.com/eclr/064925
3. http://secondlife.com/corporat
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| Vista Media Center Plus CableCard Equals No TV |
| from the that’s-some-bad-math dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @18:30 (Windows) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org
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notthatwillsmith writes “ATI’s internal CableCard readers are finally
available, and Maximum PC got hands-on time with a couple of
Vista-powered systems built using the FCC-mandated technology. The short
version? [0]It doesn’t work. From the article: ‘The tech told me he’d
receive training direct from Microsoft, but none of it covered internal
tuners. We both agreed that the process should be the same, since the
only difference is that the slots are inside the case, versus in an
external box. The tech then proceeds to install the CableCards, connect
the tuners to coax line, fire up the PC, and begin the software
configuration. This step involves activating the TV Wonder with a
product-activation code, and calling the Comcast office to exchange some
information. We should have had a picture at this point, but we didn’t.’”
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org
Links:
0. http://www.maximumpc.com
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| Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed |
| from the trillian-for-the-win dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday June 08, @19:39 (Communications) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl
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[0]mikemuch writes “It’s been a while since AOL stopped trying to jam
third-party IM clients, and their use is now a fairly common desktop
experience. ExtremeTech has posted a roundup of [1]free alternatives to
the standard IM software from the big boys — AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and
MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger. The products are a mixed bag, some of
them Web 2.0-based, like the excellent [2]meebo and the ad-heavy
[3]eBuddy. Most give you combined message windows with tabs. GAIM is now
[4]Pidgin, [5]Meetro tries to get you chatting with locals, and
[6]Trillian, now at version 3.1, remains the client to beat.”
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments
Links:
0. http://www.extremetech.com/
1. http://www.extremetech.com
2. http://www.meebo.com/
3. http://www.ebuddy.com/
4. http://linux.slashdot.org
5. http://www.meetro.com/
6. http://www.ceruleanstudios.com
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