See, not everyone gets their own way ... this couldn't be more true for CS Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. BTW ... anyone knows who owns www.winston.com ?

BBC

"An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name. Richard Saville-Smith paid £70 for the name www.narnia.mobi so his son Comrie, 11, who is a CS Lewis fan, could use it for his e-mail address.

But the company which owns the rights to the late author's work lodged a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization. It ruled that the domain name should be transferred to C.S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd. "

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Is this true or false? Google buying Digg ... boy, these Google guys are buying anything and everything

CNet

"Social-news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in "final negotiations" to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources.

Google has been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the deal closes, if it closes, according to the report.

Representatives for Google and Digg did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Usually a "no comment" or the like is the response to questions about rumored acquisition negotiations. However, that was not the case in March--when the Digg takeover rumor mill was in full swing.

Rumors back in March that the social news site might be purchased by Google, Microsoft, or a major media company had whipped a sizable number of Digg users into a panic. Digg CEO Jay Adelson, perhaps in an effort to assuage those fears of having a corporate owner, posted a blog that month that seemed to go a little above and beyond the call to deny the rumors. "

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According to SanDisk ... Vista doesn't like SSDs. In fact, the performance was very poor, and it seems that Vista was not optimized for flash memory solid state disk. Excuses or fact?

Dailytech

Price cuts ... I just love price cuts.

Digitimes

"Intel recently cut the price for its server CPUs, including Xeon X3220, X3210 and E3110 price by around 12%. Prices for the X3220 and X3210 both dropped from an original price of US$224 to US$198, while the E3110 price dropped from US$188 to US$167, according to the company.

The price of the company's Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU dropped more than expected, falling 14% from US$224 to US$193."

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Shacknews

"Software giant Microsoft today revealed details concerning DirectX 11, the latest edition of its PC gaming graphics API.

Similar to DirectX 10, the software will be available only on Windows Vista and future versions of Microsoft's operating system. DirectX 11 will add new compute shader technology that Microsoft says will allow GPUs to be used "for more than just 3D graphics," allowing developers to utilize video cards as parallel processors.

DirectX 11 will support tessellation, a feature which can potentially assist developers in making models appear smoother when seen up close. Multi-threaded resource handling is also incorporated, making it easier for games to utilize multi-core processors in a user's machine.

Microsoft also disclosed that DirectX 11 will add features to existing DirectX 10-compatible hardware, though it was not immediately clear what those features may be.

A launch date for the new software was not provided, though Microsoft is expected to release more information in the near future. The bullet points, as provided by Microsoft, are listed below.

 - Full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future versions of Windows 
 - Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1 hardware, as well as support for new DirectX 11 hardware
 - New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor 
 - Multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines 
 - Support for tessellation, which blurs the line between super high quality pre-rendered scenes and scenes rendered in real-time, allowing game developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close."

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The battle of Britain begins ... well it's a mini one, and the battle ground is cyberspace ;)

BBC

"Tiscali has begun legal proceedings against BT after the telco sent letters to its customers hoping to persuade them to swap to BT's broadband service. The letter drew attention to rumours about the future of Tiscali's broadband service.

In a statement the firm said it had issued proceedings against BT "for defamation and malicious falsehood". The row illustrates the highly competitive nature of the UK broadband market as rivals vie for new customers.

BT has denied doing anything wrong. "Following media reports suggesting that Tiscali was up for sale we recently approached a number of Tiscali customers, and pointed out the benefits of our service," said a spokesman.

"We believe this is a legitimate and reasonable business practice - comparative marketing is an important aspect of a competitive market," he added. "

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The INQ

It's nice to know that SSDs are becoming ever faster and cheaper ... let's see if they'll replace desktop hard drives over the next few years.

Dailytech

OCZ held the upper hand with not only lower pricing for its Core Series SSDs, but also the advantage of faster read/write performance. Super Talent's MX SSDs clocked in with read speeds of 120MB/sec and write speeds of 40MB/sec. OCZ's Core SSDs feature read speeds of 120 to 143 MB/sec and write speeds of 80 to 93 MB/sec depending on the capacity of the drive in question.

With OCZ breathing down its neck, Super Talent worked a little magic on its MX drives. The 15GB and 30GB models now feature read speeds of 120MB/sec and write speeds of 60MB/sec. The 60GB and 120GB have the same read speeds, but now have write speeds of 80MB/sec."

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OMG! Foxconn to join the others by manufacturing notebooks for Sony. So your next Sony notebook is not a Sony ... but a Foxconn.

Digitimes

"With the low-cost notebook market starting to pick up, Japan-based PC vendors including Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC are all planning to launch their own low-cost notebooks, and Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reportedly set to manufacture the notebook for Sony, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

Japan vendors were originally conservative about the low-cost notebook market, but with low-cost notebooks having successfully made a clear market separation from mainstream notebooks, these vendors have decided to enter the market in the fourth quarter of this year, added the paper."

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Liquid Cooling now available on PSUs too ...

HardOCP

"We put the screws to Koolance's new 1300 watt power supply that takes advantage of being fully immersed in a non-conductive cooling liquid. Yes, we test at 100% load and 8-hour Torture Tests! Then we tear it apart to show you the insides. We almost cried.

... The concept of a liquid cooled power supply is on a purely theoretical level interesting as a liquid should have a higher specific heat capacity than air thereby proving to be better at cooling while being able to be quieter at the same time. This concept is embodied in liquid cooling of all forms but rarely is this concept taken to the extreme of actually immersing consumer level electronics in a non-conductive fluid as Koolance has done. Rather usually the cooling system employees tubing and heatsinks in order to move heat from the source to the radiator for dissipation and this system partially works by this method as this unit must be paired with a compatible Koolance liquid cooling system."

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