ShareBy Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Capturing the essence of open source software, a group of students in Copenhagen posted a beer recipe on the Internet and invited everyone to develop, brew and sell their product. The open source beer is an experiment in applying modern open source ideas and methods on a traditional real-world product. The [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The escape pods I usually think of are, of course, futuristic ones like in Star Trek (say the ones on Voyager that they used and then seemingly had re-appear the next episode. Much like their unending supply of shuttlecraft).
After watching a documentary on 9/11, Jonathan Shimshoni [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
An entry yesterday on the Google Base Blog reveals plans to allow people to buy and sell items on Google Base using their Google Accounts. By the way, apparently signing up for a Google Account doesn’t give you Gmail, but the reverse seems to be the case. I never [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Readers may recall our earlier story on AOL and Yahoo (AOL will be first) starting email postage services, which will result in email thus postmarked being treated differently, bypassing the spam filters and being labeled “AOL Certified E-mail” in AOL’s case. The liberal political group MoveOn.org started a petition [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
What is the Origami Project? Where’s Waldo? Who Watches the Watchmen (Sorry, I had to throw that in; it’s one of my favorite graphic novels of all time)? Microsoft has registered a website called “The Origami Project“, and rumors abound as to its meaning. Taking a [...]

ShareBy David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Has it been that long already? A decade is a long time, especially in the computer gaming industry. From 1995 to 2005 we’ve seen some tremendous advances in the industry on all fronts. One series that has always been leading the way in the real-time strategy genre is [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The U.S. District Judge ruling over the RIM and NTP case, James Spencer, did not issue an immediate ruling over the popular BlackBerry service.
During the hearing, lawyers for NTP asked Spencer to issue an updated $126 million judgment as soon as possible against the BlackBerry manufacturer, covering all of the [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Despite Apple shutting down a pair of MacOS for PC sites, it didn’t take long for 10.4.5 to be cracked. The 10.4.5 update was released last week … besides including some fixes it also included more code to prevent running on non-Apple PCs, but today a hacker named [...]