Lawmakers in Venezuela are planning on creating a ban on the sale of violent video games. This effort is an attempt to fight the pervasive violent crime in the region–where dozens of people are murdered every week in the capital Caracas. Allegedly 100,000 people have been murdered since Hugo Chavez took office in February 1999.

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Google Apps, a suite of premium enterprise level applications, will allow corporate BlackBerrys to have some push and sync functionality. This functionality, Google Apps Connector, will allow Gmail messages to be pushed within 60 seconds. It will also allow syncing of in-box actions such as labels and message archiving. Another added functionality will allow users [...]

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The European Commission stated that it will pursue an investigation of the safety of Apple iPhones and iPods after reports that a couple devices had exploded. Apple was said to be cooperating with the investigation and the the consumer protection commission. The reports of the exploded iPhones and iPod came from both France and Britain. [...]

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Google is currently in the process of building a replacement of its 10 year old file system, Google File System (GFS). GFS was never intended to handle all the kinds of applications that it currently governs–apps like Gmail and Youtube. The system, designed in the 90s, was made for batch-oriented applications such as web crawling [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia, once fierce enemies in the mobile industry, have decided to team up–placing Microsoft Office software on Nokia cellphones. As phones are increasingly used to do things that once only computers would do, Microsoft is charging into the mobile landscape seeking to fend off the threat from Google. Google has posed a threat [...]

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Sharepoint by Microsoft could be described as a “jack of all trades / master of none”. While Microsoft sales have fell for the first time in history, Sharepoint has climbed. The software can be used to build websites, as content management for those websites, as a business intelligence tool for corporate business, as a collaboration [...]

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Home Depot has recently pledged 30 million dollars to build 5,000 homes for impoverished Americans over the next 5 years. The donation will be gifted through Habitat For Humanity and will focus on energy efficient and safe for the environment housing. http://www.donorbase.org/2009/08/home-depot-pledges-30-million-for-habitat-for-humanity/

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Microsoft will be moving it’s Azure headquarters out of Washington for tax purposes. The Azure data center is located in Quincy, Washington. Microsoft informed customers that applications would need to be moved from the Quincy data center. Soon Microsoft will roll out a tool to automate the move of applications to it’s San Antonio, Texas [...]

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For the first time ever, Microsoft has named two Linux distributions  as competitors to its Windows client business. This admission was filed in a report to the annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of the increased use of inexpensive netbooks which has been gaining huge popularity and the fact [...]

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The Mid-America Business Conditions index rose to 51.7 in July 2009 from June’s 49.3 (released Monday AUG. 3). This was the first time that the index rose above neutral (50) growth since 2008–showing a healthy expansion of the economy. The states surveyed were Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

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