As a class, developers have had a fantastic year in 2010.
We've made headlines, grabbed the limelight, been vilified and glorified beyond all reason and gotten paid pretty nicely along the way. And the bubble of consumer…
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--Philip Ruppel is president of McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global publisher of print and electronic content and services for the business, scientific, technical, and medical communities.
Without a doubt, the e-book is practically the biggest...
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--India and South Africa are generally regarded to have the two strongest batting line-ups in world cricket at the moment, but that supposition was tossed on its head on the second day of the second cricket Test at Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead as 18...
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--Today in Tweet Beat, even 50 Cent has to shovel his own driveway. Plus, Hugh Hefner gives his sons—who are only four and five years younger than their soon-to-be step mom—every issue of Playboy for Christmas.
I want a hundred dollars per house. I...
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--Apparently sales are "slow" for Jennifer Aniston's fragrance.
An insider claims Jen didn't do any promotion for the scent, "no one knew where to find it and now everyone's lost interest." A quick Internet search shows it's sold out at most of the...
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--Australian model Abbey Lee and an apparently ageless Susie Bick — that would be Mrs. Nick Cave — star in the 72-year-old English photographer's delightfully bizarre new i-D spread. Full steam ahead for disability chic, chess, and lots of nudity.
You...
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--Scottish aid worker on shortlist of three for prize to recognise self sacrifice and charitable work
Linda Norgrove, the aid worker killed during a botched US rescue attempt in Afghanistan, has been nominated posthumously for a humanitarian award for...
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--In August the hip-hop star tweeted a British student, ruining his life. Are they still in touch?
Few people expected rapper Kanye West to join Twitter in the first place – on his blog he'd previously screamed: "EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED...
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--From broken bike chains to burning Range Rovers, 2010 leaves to posterity many fascinating exhibits
1 Andy Schleck's bike chain
Leading the defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador by 31 seconds before the 15th stage, Schleck ended it...
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--The result did not confirm that the days ahead belong to Arsenal, but they have a stake in the future. If Chelsea's display was spasmodic and clumsy, it was, at least in part, because they had no answer to the rhythm of opponents who might now be...
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--Cesc FÃ bregas and Theo Walcott were the axis on which Arsenal thrived while Chelsea's forward line had little to offer
Arsenal
Lukasz Fabianski Untroubled until Ivanovic trundled into the area to flick in Drogba's free-kick. The Pole was otherwise...
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--Blocks, socks and smoking toasters - a flavour of the items that have shaped 2010
21 The crossbar at Free State Stadium
"Nobody can tell me Germany were a lot better than us," moaned a deluded Frank Lampard after England's humiliating World Cup...
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