Rumors of Pratchett Film. kongjie writes "The BBC reports on the rumored possibility of Terry Pratchett's novel Wee Free Men being made into a Hollywood film, with Raimi attached to it. This would be the first, although in the past his stuff has made the television screen." [Slashdot]

 

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Get the Picture. Data visualization software is helping companies make decisions by making sense of mounds of information. [ESRI.com: News]

 

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...who let this one in???...Vive la France!. The Rotting Dog Blog No cheese, no monkeys, no surrender [The Register]

 

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Wi-fi slow to enthuse consumers. Most people are not taking advantage of the freedom offered by wireless net access in laptops, a study has found. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Some European mobile users ready to ditch landlines.

(InfoWorld) - One in five European cellular users say they'd consider getting rid of their landline phones in favor of their cell phones, according to a study released by Strategy Analytics on Thursday.

Already 19 percent of homes in Western Europe exclusively use cellular phones, Strategy Analytics said.By Nancy_Gohring@idg.com (Nancy Gohring). [InfoWorld: Top News]

 

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...it is all about the links...I went to a geek dinner in SF tonight, spent a bunch of time talking with Om Malik, Kevin Burton and Matt Mullenweg. Matt told me that WordPress.Com has a blog stats page for every weblog, I had never seen it, but when I got home I checked it out, and it's pretty cool. FYI, the post that got so many hits on Jan 12 appears to be the mystique of desktop web servers, and rightly so. ";->" [Scripting News]

 

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