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Weekly Ten (3-29-2010)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:58 AM PDT

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Hacking March Madness

It's March Madness, college basketball season in America, and for Nicky Gold that means one thing: time to bet. The twentysomething player sits down at his shiny wide desk in a sweeping loft, and fires up his PC. A Red Bull condenses in arm's reach. Gold boasts five monitors in his home office, each filled with windows from dozens of sports sites.
More @ IEEE Spectrum

2. Google Apps Still A Tiny Business -- Only $50 Million A Year -- But Microsoft Should Be In Major Panic Mode

The demand for Office 2010 appears to be strong, and most companies that spoke to Nick Wingfield of the WSJ for an article about the Apps-Office 2010 clash said they never seriously considered using Google.
More @ BusinessInsider

3. Fragile Dreams on the Wii: originality has its price

There isn't another game quite like Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon on the market. Recently published by XSEED here in the States, it's a blend of adventure, role-playing, and survival horror genres that is simultaneously fascinating and tedious. It's a title with stellar production values, an excellent story, and play mechanics that hover somewhere between solid and tedious. As a result, this is a game that—if nothing else—is truly a unique experience.
More @ ArsTechnica

4. LEGO automatons

More @ HackaDay

5. The iPad Cometh, and So Do the Linuxy Contenders
With the iPad coming, many FOSS fans are dreaming about what riches may come in the Linux tablets that surely will follow. However, there's still plenty of skepticism about the desirability of owning a tablet -- any tablet.
More @ LinuxInsider

6. The Story behind the Nigerian Phishing Scam
In the 1990s, Africa's richest countries in terms of resources -- Nigeria and Zaire -- had dictators who were pushed out of power, leading to an international publicity campaign to freeze international bank accounts of their families and friends.
More @ PCWorld

7. Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 12 Server
This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 12 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
More @ HowtoForge

8. You Could Easily Swallow This 32-GB MicroSD Card

More @ Wired

9. Red Hat soars with fat profits, design wins
Enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat announced fourth-quarter financial results showing a 15 percent increase in revenues year-over-year. In other Red Hat news, the company announced new JBOSS and SOA tools, tipped a collaboration with IBM on cloud technology, and revealed customer wins with the Symbian Foundation and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
More @ LinuxDevices

10. Top 10 Geniuses of 10 Fields of Human Activity
This is another list of human endeavors but it covers ten of the most important aspects of human life through all history – it is not specifically modern, or ancient. While most will agree with the selections, there may be some dispute – if so, be sure to tell us in the comments. I have chosen one book for each item on the list for further reading – this is also connected to the competition running on the list.
More @ Listverse