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Articles published in 2006:

Gamasutra
"Analyze This": Wrapping Up the Year in Gaming
12/19/06
As the year 2006 winds down, the analysts take time to reflect and look back at how the industry fared this year...
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": Handicapping the 2006 Holiday Gift-Buying Season
11/27/06
With the official launches of the PS3 and Wii this month, the holiday gift-buying season for the video games industry has begun. We asked several analysts, those who have taken part in this column throughout the year as well as new contributors, to give a general rundown on how the race among the big three game companies will play out. This will be the first holiday retail season in which all three next-generation consoles will be on the market (albeit one of them - the PS3 - in very limited quantities).
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": Are Gamers Really Saying "I Want My HDTV!"?
10/9/06
Are Microsoft and Sony emphasizing HDTV too much, not enough, or just enough? Has Nintendo made a mistake by not providing HDTV resolution for the Wii? Microsoft intends to sell an HD-DVD add-on player for the Xbox 360. But the device won't be used for game content, just for playing movies. Standalone HD-DVD players will likely come down in price. So, practically speaking, what's the point for Microsoft?
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InformationWeek
Interview: Malcolm Yates Of Ubuntu Linux Vendor Canonical
9/27/06
The company behind Ubuntu, one of the fastest-growing Linux distros, is moving from small business users to enterprise deployment.
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InformationWeek
Interview: Chris Lyman of Fonality
9/25/06
Fonality is a startup firm that is shaking up -- and opening up -- an IT market niche once dominated by a handful of vendors: Offering proprietary products at very high prices.
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": The Current State of the PC Game Business
9/11/06
What is your general take on the PC games market? Is it healthy, in trouble, becoming irrelevant to the bigger picture of the gaming industry, or flat-out confused right now? For example, there seems to be growing interest by PC game developers for online content distribution (a la Valve's Steam) and MMOs -- essentially leaning away from selling a boxed product.
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": Will 'Casual' Games Dominate the Future of the Industry?
8/3/06
Nintendo is betting on a more "casual gaming" experience for the Wii, and Microsoft has found success in Xbox Live Arcade. "Simpler" games have already achieved enormous success on the Nintendo DS. (Over on the PC gaming side, for several years now, Web games such as Yahoo!'s gaming service have done extremely well, and EA's The Sims franchise has been a long-time staple for that company.) So could casual gaming be the future for the entire video game industry?
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InformationWeek
Brazilians Reap Benefits Of IBM's Long-Haul Linux Strategy
7/25/06
Big Blue offers Brazil's promising but inexperienced open-source developer community an asset that could prove even more valuable than cash: knowledge.
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": Does Microsoft Need Japan to Make the Xbox 360 a Hit?
7/19/06
Microsoft has been having an absolutely miserable time with the Xbox 360 in Japan. So how important should the Japanese market be in its overall strategy for the 360? What do you think Microsoft specifically did wrong in Japan? Can they fix things before (or during) the arrivals of the Wii and PS3?
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": E3 2006 Aftermath -- Redemption for Sony?
6/2/06
Everybody already knows about the positive buzz that Nintendo and Microsoft had at E3 2006, but what were some of the other, perhaps under-reported, things that you noticed at E3 -- good or bad? And speaking of bad, how bad do you think things are for Sony and its PS3? How critical is it for a company to have a good showing at E3?
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InformationWeek
IBM Ups Linux Ante In Brazil
5/24/06
Big Blue will invest $2.2 million on a Linux R&D center in Brazil -- South America's largest economy and a key overseas battlefield against Microsoft Windows.
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Make: Volume 06
Tech-Nomading From Shore to Ship
5/22/06 (available at magazine newstands)
Steven Roberts' workshop is a mess. Nestled in the quiet woods of Camano Island, a small community situated by the Puget Sound, about a 90-minute drive north of Seattle, Washington, the exterior of this 3,000-square foot building looks like a typical warehouse and the interior a two-story barn. Miscellaneous electronics, computers, gadgets and tools are everywhere -- on shelves, on work tables, on the floor.
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Linux Pipeline
Review: Project Management -- Outside The Lines
5/22/06
Almost every type of enterprise application, from business intelligence to sales-force automation, now includes at least one open-source option; some of them, such as the popular SugarCRM platform, are quickly gaining ground against established, closed-source competitors. Another promising open-source enterprise application, Project-Open, is just starting what its creator hopes will be an equally successful journey into the IT mainstream.  
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Gamasutra
"Analyze This": Online Game Services for the Next-Generation Consoles
5/3/06
They are relied upon when someone is required to distill the intricacies of this industry to people who are not totally familiar with it beyond knowing who Mario or Lara Croft is. They are the professional analysts, whose day job it is to research, follow, advise their clients, and opine to the media about, specifically, the gaming business. 
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Networking Pipeline
Secure Your Network Beyond The Firewall
4/17/06
Sure, network firewalls will help protect you against a wide variety of threats. But if your security plans stop and start with a firewall, you're in big trouble. So network security extends beyond simply setting up a "good enough" firewall. There are other things you need to consider to help secure your network, and not all of them are tied directly to the network itself. Here are six tips from the experts to give you help. 
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Linux Pipeline
Linux Web Conferencing: Share And Share Alike?
3/13/06
The Web conferencing market nowadays offers plenty of choices -- but relatively few surprises. With so many companies selling look-alike services, cost and reliability are now the most important factors for most customers so many companies selling similar services that nowadays few things stand out among them. Subscription price and connection reliability are the important factors for most customers, but interest in being able to use another operating system, including Linux, during a Web conference session is growing.
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OSDir.com
The Revolution Will Be Televised... With Open Source
1/30/06
There has been hype growing over the idea of distributing video on the Internet in a vaguely TV-broadcast-like way. Broadcast Machine covers the production-side of a two-step process: It's a Web site app, written in PHP, for prepping a video file for "broadcast," and initiating, seeding and announcing the torrent link for it. DTV is the front-end that people use to watch the video. And, like a real TV viewing experience, DTV also lets the couch potato "channel surf" through a selection of video that's available to watch.
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OSDir.com
From Analog to VoIP: Asterisk Brings Telephony Together Under One Open-Source Platform
1/12/06
Six years ago, Mark Spencer started his own Linux technical support business. Unlike other tech startups at the time, he spent his money frugally. Spencer had to; he didn't even have enough to pay for an office PBX system, which can cost up to several thousands of dollars. "I had about $4,000 to start it out with, and I wasn't about to buy a phone system, so I figured I'd just make one," Spencer says.
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Articles published in 2005...