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Pluto has been demoted. The celestial body, long known as one of the nine planets of the solar system, will now be considered a “dwarf planet,” the General Assembly of the 2006 International Astronomical Union ruled in a vote Thursday in Prague, Czech Republic. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be… Continue reading Pluto No Longer a Planet

You gotta love the litigousness of youth — especially when there’s an iPod involved. A spat over a missing iPod resulted in a lawsuit in Wheaton, Illinois, when 14-year-old Shannon Derrik sued her (now former) friend Stephanie Eick for losing her brand new iPod. It seems that Shannon made the fool mistake of lending her… Continue reading 14-year-old girl sues friend over missing iPod

Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker’s Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. Online vandals, apparently operating from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting Mitnick’s Web site on Sunday and replaced his front page with one of their own. As a result, four Web… Continue reading Kevin Mitnick Web site hacked

As Justin Bills walked across his condo’s parking garage on a Sunday morning last fall, he noticed shattered glass surrounding his car. Through the empty window frame, he noted the iPod he left in a car charger the night before was missing. That same morning, two other tenants in the Provo, Utah, complex discovered their… Continue reading iPod – The Most Stolen MP3 Player

Open source software has spread far beyond Linux and is gaining enormous momentum, according to a newly released IDC study. The study, which analyzed IDC surveys from over 5,000 developers in 116 countries, finds the use of open source is increasing at a such a rate that it represents the most significant all-encompassing and long-term… Continue reading The Real Impact of Open Source