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...beta form, the addictive, low-tech time waster was introduced just last month and has quickly amassed a worldwide cult following. Created by a programmer with the screen name ~fsk who claims to be from the small European country of Slovenia, the digital amusement first showed up Sept. 23 on deviantART, an online community of artists, designers, photographers and art lovers . "This is a project I did for illustration class," states ~fsk in a brief intro. "It's not a game, it's a toy... there are no goals to achieve and there is no score...
...says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind at the nightclub, it would be the ultimate in tech gadgets. The W850i is available at the online stores of many mobile-network operators. For the W950i, visit www.sonyericsson.com...
...Canada or Mexico who are dreading the day when they'll be required to carry their passport with them every trip may get a reprieve. They'll still have to carry a unique ID as of June 1, 2009, but they'll have the option of using a high-tech alternative approved by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which lets an immigration agent know a person's identity even before he or she gets to the booth...
...DIED. Ray Noorda, 82, known as the "father of network computing," who took over flailing tech company Novell in 1982 and led it to dominance in networking software that allowed users to share files and printers; in Orem, Utah. Noorda coined the term "coopetition"-companies making products that work together. But he famously engaged in a long, ultimately fruitless battle with Microsoft-which in the 1990s devoured much of Novell's market share-that helped prompt his retirement...