Spotted in a post by Hugh MacLeod – an innovative (and, today, hardly surprising) approach to building buzz about a movie by getting bloggers to talk about it. In return, they get free tickets to the US preview.

Dell will introduce a line of servers using the Intel dual-core Xeon, while AMD has increased the speed of its dual-core line.

Now here’s a kid that can write his own ticket. Marek Cygan, a student at Warsaw University, won the grand prize in Google’s 2005 Google Code Jam, a programming contest that attracted 14,500 A-one programmers from around the world.

Never pay for directory assistance again-or at least until some major communications company buys this thing and puts it to rest. Jingle Networks, Inc. has set up the first free nationwide consumer telephone directory assistance service by launching 1-800-FREE411.

As the Google Blog says, it was seven years ago that Google began operating out of Susan Wojcicki’s spare room.

The latest security update for the Mac operating system patches ten critical holes, ranging from potential privilege elevation to arbitrary code execution.

A Cisco access server is generally the last item a CCNA or CCNP candidate has on their mind when they’re putting together a home lab.

Google is joining the ranks of the Knights Templar, the Masons, the Illuminati, and Skull and Bones, effectively setting up secret invitation-only meetings with 400 elite attendees, including major media figures, who are all sworn to secrecy about next month’s Google Zeitgeist 05. Passwords will be used in lieu of secret handshakes.

The folks at Shop.com are yelling about getting Overstock.com in their online shopping mall. Overstock is an online discount retailer that cuts prices, in some cases up to 70%.

A number of retail advocacy groups filed suit today against Visa, Mastercard, Bank of America, Citibank, Bank One, Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan, Chase, Fleet Bank, Capital One, and other banks, charging collusive practices by setting credit card interchange fees at “supracompetitive” levels.

By now you can see it coming, almost as soon as Hurricane Katrina made landfall, scam artists were setting up their online piggy banks to collect the pennies of the unwitting. Rita, not quite the shrew that Katrina was, will no doubt see Rita relief scams, and an international “call to arms,” has been launched to flog the offenders.

The forthcoming release of version 8 will compete with Microsoft by being more compatible with Office formats while supporting the OpenDocument format.

One point of confusion for some CCNA and CCNP candidates is the difference between configuring a static default route and using the Cisco routing command ip default-network.

The majority share of global search owned by Google actually decreased slightly over the past two months.

The portal company has made another addition to its content offerings, by adding several financial columnists to Yahoo Finance.

Three weeks ago, Spamhaus accused Yahoo of hosting some 5,000 phishing sites, and now one has been using Yahoo’s logo to help steal login information.

A former lead interface developer of Internet Explorer posts a fascinating confession about “Why I switched to Firefox,” in which he admits his allegiance to Firefox.

Apple, Palm, and Hewlett Packard would like you to give the gift of increased value to their shareholders by picking up some cool new electronic devices.

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The folks at Google continue to tweak Google Personalized Search. They now allow users to remove search results they aren’t interested in. The deal is you actually have to have personalized your information and be logged in.

Edgar Bronfman Jr calls Steve Jobs and Apple ‘unfair’ when it comes to pricing all songs at the same 99 cent level.