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- Illusionist Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy" returned to his home Monday to continue his rehabilitation under the care of a team of doctors and therapists. |
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- Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has been moved out of intensive care as he recovers from the crash of an all-terrain vehicle two weeks ago, his family said Tuesday. |
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- May God's blessings be upon each and everyone of you, now |
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- I am glad that things are looking up. :) |
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- Beautiful ring! And for someone not able to take pictures of |
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- LMP I don't know what to tell ya, but I did |
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- I've never sold anything on eBay. However, as a gift for participating in a development focus group for the game, I recently received a copy of NHL Rivals 2004 for the Xbox. As I don't have an Xbox, don't want... |
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Outdoors (Dec 24 2003 03:57 GMT) - Got your ticket . check the playlist ' |
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- Sick child in hospital with unamed malady in "the Wink". Wants Paul O'Neill to hit two homers in a game and catch a ball in his cap.... |
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- Released British hostage Mark Henderson is expected to arrive home from Colombia on Christmas Eve. |
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- Many workers are too tired to enjoy Christmas because of the long hours they have to put in, a union says. |
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- The new Cure box set, Join The Dots, is being released January 27, 2004 and I've already pre-ordered my copy. Have you? I'm very excited to own this gem! Unlike this one chick who wrote a negative review on the... |
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- Sunday 28th December 2003 Laroz & Redline with regulars Dr B & Alias Tickets: Free entry |
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- Sunday 4th January 2004 DJs: Heath Myers, Hugo, Alias, Dr B Tickets: Free entry |
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- Sunday 11th January 2004 DJs: Coombaya, Hugo, Alias, Dr B Tickets: Free entry |
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- Sunday 18th January 2004 DJs: Steve Barr, Hugo, Alias, Dr B Tickets: Free entry |
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- Sunday 25th January 2004 DJs: spir, Aaron Smiles, Brad Daniels, Alias, Dr B + more |
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- Saturday 7th February 2004 Two full days of the best in music and blues from more than 30 international and local acts, including Bryan Ferry, Chicago, The Pretenders, Bonnie Raitt, The Wailers, Renee Geyer and Tony Joe White. Live: All live performances Market style stalls, a 26 metre high Ferris wheel and food and wine areas will all add to a full non-stop weekend of fun and entertainment. Info: www. |
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- A hand-held device designed to identify drivers impaired by drugs, alcohol or excessive tiredness, is being evaluated by the British police. |
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- Legal experts say the most recent lawsuit filed against Microsoft indicates that the software giant's legal troubles are not necessarily over despite its accommodation with the Bush administration and its settlement of several other suits. The $1 billion lawsuit filed late Thursday by RealNetworks cites new evidence suggesting that Microsoft's business practices have remained unchanged. |
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- E-mails were central to their romance. She lived in Australia, he in Buffalo, Minn. They met online, sharing an interest in dreams. After a few months, e-mails were flying furiously in each direction. They occasionally think fondly about the e-mails that brought them together -- and about how to preserve them. |
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- A lawsuit over riches and arms achieved while playing an online video game might sound bizarre, but the Chinese court that heard the case has ordered the video game company to return the virtual booty to the 24-year-old who filed the suit. Li Hongchen protested after the items were stolen by a hacker in February. |
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- Within six months, Philips Electronics expects to release a new interoperable digital rights management (DRM) system. That will be good news for music consumers currently befuddled by a hodgepodge of schemes promoted by the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Napster and RealNetworks. |
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- Imagine buying the latest Lord of the Rings DVD and discovering that the cameras, lights, special effects and editing tools used in its making had been included at no extra charge. Or finding your favorite CDs crammed with virtual recording studios, along with implicit encouragement from the producer to remix the music, record your own material and post it all on the Internet. It might seem far-fetched except to computer game developers. |
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- If you're at home reading this, the odds are that your personal computer is probably running some version of Microsoft Windows. And if you're at or on your way to work, chances are just as good that you will be sitting in front of a Windows-based machine. The truth is that, according to sales figures, over 90 percent of all desktop computers run Windows. |
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- Security concerns are prompting chief information officers (CIOs) to consider moving from Microsoft to open source on the desktop, according to a report from investment house Merrill Lynch. A survey of 100 CIOs (75 in the US and 25 in Europe) found that 58 percent were looking at open source because of its better record on security. |
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- Sun has just rolled out its first Linux-based desktop software and is working to secure deals with governments and businesses to deploy it, but the company isn't targeting Microsoft, a Sun executive said Thursday. "First and foremost, the objective of the Java Desktop System (JDS) isn't to go after Microsoft," said Peder Ulander, Sun's director of marketing for Desktop Solutions. |
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- Microsoft is offering greater access to its intellectual property in a bid to increase interoperability and innovation in the market. The firm said it would begin to make its intellectual property available at "fair and reasonable terms" to any company, potentially even competitors. |
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- Imagine having a singer with a world-class voice at your disposal, any hour of any day. She's just standing at the ready, game to perform whatever silly song you might make up for her: a ballad about her love for you, a tribute to your best friend's golf game, a stirring rendition of the evening's dinner menu. |
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- Miss Muffet no longer fears that spider that sat down beside her in that famous nursery rhyme. In fact, she's become downright fond of it. That's because Miss Muffet, in this case, is a real person with a real phobia of spiders, and she's learned how to conquer that fear with one of the newest gadgets in the psychologist's toolbox -- virtual reality. |
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- Continuing to dispel uncertainty over its dedication to open source, software maker Novell has released a road map for the Mono development project -- an open-source effort to write Linux and Unix applications for Microsoft's .NET framework. Novell published the Mono timeline, which indicates developers will get the first version of the tools in the second quarter of 2004. |
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- As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Borland announced Enterprise Studio 7 for Java, an application lifecycle management system designed to help unify development teams and speed creation of business applications. The company's new software brings together three products into one unified environment with modules for designing, developing and testing code in a single system. |
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- Microsoft has released its first voice-control software for Pocket PC devices that run the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system. While there are many third-party applications available to control Pocket PC devices by voice command, Microsoft hopes its own Voice Command software will transform PDAs and mobile phones into "virtual personal assistants." |
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- Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft released previews of the software. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation development tools code-named Whidbey are as many as two to three years from arriving. |
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- The makers and distributors of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series are being sued by the victims and family impacted by a June shooting spree that left one man dead and another woman injured. An attorney for the plaintiffs told TechNewsWorld that the Tennessee boys responsible for the shooting are being sued along with their parents. |
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