Man, we can bet there's some serious celebrating going on at the Buffalo offices today. After being barred from selling its networking gear here in America last June, Buffalo has finally been freed from its CSIRO-given chains. Who's to thank? A federal judge who has stayed the permanent injunction in the ongoing US patent litigation, which opens the doors for the company to sell "IEEE 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11n compliant products in the United States." Finally, we USers can look forward to buying helicopter inspired routers on our home turf.

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Yahoo director and major shareholder Carl Icahn, in an SEC filing, outlines the reason for his recent increased stake in the struggling Internet search company.

This article focuses on accessing the GAL details from Microsoft Exchange in an ASP.NET application.

Google Readers got a brand new look, and extra functionality to boot. Gone are the blues, and in is a new look that look and new ways to get at your news.

An open-source mobile operating system from the Symbian Foundation wont be ready until 2010. In the meantime, it must find a way to crack America.

Dell is continuing its push into the Australian retail market, announcing a deal with The Good Guys to sell its consumer range of PCs and notebooks through the 87-store chain.

The most family orientated of the three big players in electronic games has been rattled by a controversy with a racial epithet contained in the popular Animal Crossing game....

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Hey, everyone. It’s time again for the weekly PlayStation Store update.
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Qore Annual Subscription ($24.99)
Qore: Presented by the PlayStation Network is a monthly interactive video production covering the world of PlayStation. Qore provides its audience with exclusive behind-the-scenes access to developers and their games, from both the SCE Worldwide Studios and the third-party community, where the audience member can freely navigate through the content.
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Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer ($9.99)
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LittleBigPlanet Kabuki Actor (free)
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File size: 1.04 MB
Age of Booty Map Pack 1 (free)
Download the new ”Oasis” and ”Slow and Stead” maps! These maps are available in the 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 playlists.
File size: 100 KB
Age of Booty Map Pack 2 (free)
Download the new ”Tight Passage” and ”Tug of War” maps! These maps are available in the 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 playlists.
File size: 100 KB
Age of Booty Map Pack 3 (free)
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Far Cry 2 Fortunes Pack ($9.99)
Ramp up the terror with the Far Cry 2 Fortunes Pack. Loaded with 3 new weapons, 2 new vehicles and 4 new multiplayer maps. You get:

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• All-terrain Vehicle
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GRID 8-Ball Additional Content ($9.99)
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Guitar Hero World Tour
For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com

• “1979″ by The Smashing Pumpkins ($1.99)
• “G.L.O.W.” by The Smashing Pumpkins ($1.99)
• “The Everlasting Gaze” by The Smashing Pumpkins ($1.99)
• The Smashing Pumpkins Track Pack ($5.49) - Downloadable Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour featuring ”G.l.o.w.”, ”1979”, and ”The Everlasting Gaze” by The Smashing Pumpkins.

File sizes: 36 MB - 45 MB (singles), 121 MB (track pack)
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2
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• For You I Will ($1.49)
• Friends in Low Places ($1.49)
• Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door ($1.49)
• Midnight Train To Georgia ($1.49)
• Unwritten ($1.49)

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NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM Pack 4 (free)
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Rock Band
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• “Hay Poco Rock N Roll” by Platero y Tu ($0.99)
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• “Are You Dead Yet?” - Children of Bodom ($0.99)
• “Tutto E Possibile” - Finley ($0.99)
• “Tempted” - Squeeze ($0.99)

File sizes: 17 MB - 40 MB
SOULCALIBUR IV Customization Equipment 3 ($1.99)
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Game Videos (free)

Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer Trailer
File size: 63 MB (HD)
Prince of Persia Dev Diary 2
File size: 221 MB (HD)
Prince of Persia Dev Diary 3
File size: 214 MB (HD)
Mercenaries 2 Blow It Up Again Trailer
File size: 43 MB (HD)
Facebreaker Audition Video #4
File size: 83 MB (HD)
Facebreaker Audition Video #5
File sizes: 82 MB (HD)
BAJA: Edge of Control - Launch Trailer
File size: 190 MB (HD)
Savage Moon Trailer
File size: 52 MB (HD)
Resistance 2 - Last Hours
File sizes: 91 MB (HD), 158 MB (1080)
Life in LittleBigPlanet: Ep 4
File size: 180 MB (HD)
LittleBigPlanet WELCOME TO MY WORLD Video
File size: 103 MB (HD)
PS3 Themes

Lingerie Girls Theme ($1.49)
File size: 6.77 MB
University of Florida Theme ($1.99)
File size: 5.15 MB
European Highlands Theme ($1.49)
File size: 6.25 MB
Bloodwork Theme ($1.49)
File size: 5.71 MB
Atomic Acid Theme ($1.49)
File size: 5.4 MB
Metal Battalion Maidens Theme ($0.99)
File size: 3.38 MB
PS3 Wallpaper (free)

Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer Wallpaper 1
File sizes: 220 KB - 660 KB
Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer Wallpaper 2
File sizes: 264 KB - 977 MB
SOULCALIBUR IV Holiday Hilde Wallpaper
File sizes: 2.99 KB - 1.09 MB
SOULCALIBUR IV Holiday Ivy Wallpaper
File sizes: 233 KB - 881 KB
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Downloadable Games

* Archer Maclean’s Mercury ($9.99)
* Brain Challenge ($9.99)
* Super Stardust Portable ($9.99)
* Everyday Shooter ($9.99)
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It’s been awhile since I put together a list of random stuff I’ve found on the web and cool tips that have made their way into my inbox. So today I’ll try to make amends with an extra-long list:

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics is keeping track of all the layoffs. Why don’t you as well?
• Forbes is offering up its take on the Cogent-Sprint peering fight story I broke a few weeks ago. It is worth a read.
• Yahoo may have sold Kelkoo off for $57 million, much less than the $126 million sale previously reported. Damn, they spent $600 million buying France-based Kelkoo in 2004.
• Sarah Tavel of Bessemer has some excellent analysis as to how, much in the same way Wal-Mart and “category killers” like Staples have shuttered mom-and-pop stores, the same is happening online. Her story, “The Staples 2.0 Effect,” is one to bookmark.
• Make VoIP calls via Truphone on your iPod Touch. What’s not to like about this?
• My friend David Isenberg is ready to rock with the 2009 edition of F2C: Freedom to Connect conference in Washington, D.C., in March 2009.
• 3G be damned, the wireless industry is printing money with SMS. About $190 billion in 2008, according to Portio Research. That number is going to surge to $330 billion by 2013, they say.
• There were 174 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) at the end of the third quarter, up three percent over the second quarter and 19 percent higher than the same quarter last year. More on the VeriSign web site.
• The State of Spam and Internet Security Threats by Messagelabs is available here.

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The Atlas of True Names contains maps with very literal place names.

Called the "Atlas of True Names," the new map traces the etymological roots of European and global place names and then translates them into English. The "City of Boatmen" is also known as Paris. Should you travel to the Land of the Fire Keepers, you'd find yourself in Azerbaijan. And Italy comes from the Latin word vitulus, which means "calf."

New York is "Wild Boar Village", Chicago is "Stink Onion", Great Britain is "Great Land of the Tattooed", and Grozny is "The Awesome". However, Language Log notes that some of the translations should be taken with a grain of salt. (thx, andreas)

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