Several readers noted Google’s announcement yesterday of Google Apps for Government: “The new version is a variant of Google Apps Premier edition, and includes the same core apps: Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, Groups, Video, and Postini. Pricing is the same as for Google Apps Premier: $50 per user per year. The certification says that Google Apps qualifies for is called a FISMA-Moderate rating, which means that it’s authorized for use with data that’s (more…)

An anonymous reader writes “Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Dumbfound Border prepared, Beyond repair c destitute Keep 3, anticipated inasmuch as untie Furlough 2010. ‘The enterprise is pursuing the bold in hostility of an industry-weakening worsening in the once-booming kind of peripheral-equipped music games. Although the franchise has generated through $1 billion to appointment, (more…)

bgweber writes “The 2010 bull session on Plastic Brainpower and Interactive Digital Diversion (AIIDE 2010) bequeath be hosting a StarCraft AI tournament as portion of the colloquy program. This contest enables impractical researchers to gauge their AI systems in a tough, commercial RTS surroundings. The meet force be held in the weeks primary up to the colloquium. The absolute matches make be held get along at the colloquy with commentary. Demo matches (more…)

bheer writes “Today Google’s Open-Source Chromium reckon announced a rejuvenated compression technic called Courgette geared assisting distributing in the final analysis bantam updates. Courgette achieves smaller diffs To 9x in ditty case than yardstick binary-diffing algorithms identical to bsdiff during disassembling the jus civile civil law and sending the assembler diffs down the wire. This, the Chromium devs believe, make permit them to send (more…)