| List of software patents This is a categorized list of notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs, often labelled software patents. The patents are listed according to their effective filing date (i.e. priority date if a priority is claimed or filing date otherwise).Software patents cover a wide range of topics and there is therefore important debate about whether such subject-matter should be excluded from patent protection. List_of_software_patents
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| ALargeElk User_talk:ALargeElk
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| UnixWare UnixWare is a Unix operating system maintained by The SCO Group (SCO). Unixware is typically deployed as a server rather than desktop. Binary distributions of UnixWare are available for x86 architecture computers. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Novell. UnixWare is primarily marketed as a reliable, scalable, secure Unix server. UnixWare
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| Canadian Recording Industry Association Talk:Canadian_Recording_Industry_Association
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| Gmail Gmail is a free POP3, IMAP and webmail service provided by Google. In the United Kingdom and Germany it is officially called Google Mail.Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. Although over 100 million users Gmail
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| Port scanner port scanner is a software application designed to probe a network host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by hackers to identify running services on a host with the view to compromising it. Port_scanner
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| Acetone peroxide Acetone peroxide (triacetone triperoxide, peroxyacetone, TATP, TCAP) is an organic peroxide and a primary high explosive. It takes the form of a white crystalline powder with a distinctive acrid smell.It is highly susceptible to heat, friction, and shock. However the instability is greatly altered by impurities. It is normally stable when pure, but it dissolves quickly. It is one of the few explosives which is explosive when wet or kept underwater. Acetone_peroxide
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| Rambus Rambus Incorporated (), founded in 1990, is a provider of high-speed interface technology. The company became particularly well known for its aggressive intellectual property based litigation practices following the introduction of DDR-SDRAM memory. Rambus
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| Cory Doctorow Talk:Cory_Doctorow
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| Second Life Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Second_Life
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| Girls Aloud Girls Aloud are a girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles (including four number ones), two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for four BRIT Awards, winning Best Single in 2009 for "The Promise". Girls_Aloud
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| Linux kernel mailing list Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is the main electronic mailing list for Linux kernel development, where the majority of the announcements, discussions, debates, and flame wars over the kernel take place. Many other mailing lists exist to discuss the different subsystems and ports of the Linux kernel, but LKML is the principal communication channel among Linux kernel developers. It is a very high volume list, usually receiving between 200 and 300 messages each day. Linux_kernel_mailing_list
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| Chip and PIN Chip and PIN is the name of a government-backed initiative in the United Kingdom to implement the EMV standard for secure payments. There is also a similar initiative in Ireland called Chip and PIN Ireland. Chip_and_PIN
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| Wallhacking Wallhacking is the changing of wall properties in first-person shooters. Most wallhacks are used to make a map's walls at least partially transparent, allowing players to see through opaque objects. Wallhacking is usually considered cheating, analogous to maphacking in real-time strategy games, and can lead to kicks and bans from online game servers if discovered.Many FPS games provide weapons such as grenades that can kill unseen players, but such explosives rely on splash damage rather than direct hits. Wallhacking
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| Tomandlu User_talk:Tomandlu
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| PlayStation Portable The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the console was first announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E3North America on March 24, 2005, and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005.The PlayStation Portable is the first handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium. PlayStation_Portable
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| OpenSSI OpenSSI
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| Åland Islands Talk:Åland_Islands
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| Requested articles/Natural sciences Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Natural_sciences
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| Tomandlu User:Tomandlu
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| AllOfMP3 AllOfMP3, MP3Sparks and MemphisMembers are brands of online music store that were operated by Mediaservices, Inc, a company founded in 2000 in Moscow, Russia. The stores formerly sold music encoded in standard, non-protected audio formats at a significantly lower cost than other online music stores. AllOfMP3
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| To the 5 Boroughs To the 5 Boroughs is the Beastie Boys' sixth studio album. This album was released on June 14, 2004 internationally, and a day later in the United States. The album debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 with 360,000 copies sold in its first week. To_the_5_Boroughs
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| Meteor (mobile network) Meteor Mobile Communications Limited is a GSM and UMTS mobile telecommunications company in Ireland. They operate a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS(HSPA) cellular communications network under licence from the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), and were the third entrant in the market, after Vodafone Ireland and O2 Ireland. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Irish telecoms network, eircom, having been purchased for €420m in 2005. Meteor_(mobile_network)
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| Click (TV series) Click_(TV_series)
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| National identity card (United Kingdom) The United Kingdom National Identity Card is a personal identification document that it is proposed will eventually be issued to all residents of the United Kingdom. The card requirement was established by the Identity Cards Act 2006. National Identity Scheme is now in procurement with contracts for ‘Card Design & Production’, ‘Application & Enrolment’, ‘Passport Design and Production’ and ‘National Biometric Identity Service’ expected to be awarded during 2009. National_identity_card_(United_Kingdom)
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| National identity card (United Kingdom) Talk:National_identity_card_(United_Kingdom)
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| Botnet Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software. It is important to note that while botnets are often named after their malicious software name, there are typically multiple botnets in operation using the same malicious software families, but operated by different criminal entities. Botnet
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| Octopus card Talk:Octopus_card
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| BBC Online BBC Online (located at the URL bbc.co.uk) is the brand name and home for the BBC's UK online service. It is a large network of websites including such high profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on demand video and radio services co-branded BBC iPlayer, the pre-school site Cbeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize. BBC_Online
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer (briefly known also as RealOne Player) is a proprietary cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.The first version of RealPlayer was introduced in April 1995 as RealAudio Player, one of the first media players capable of streaming media over the Internet. RealPlayer
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| Trusted Computing Talk:Trusted_Computing
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| Bob Bemer Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bob_Bemer
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| MontaVista Software MontaVista Software is a software developer that develops embedded Linux system software, development tools, and related software. Its products are targeted at other corporations developing embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, mobile phones, and other electronics devices and infrastructure.MontaVista is based in Santa Clara, California and was founded in 1999 by James "Jim" Ready (previously at Mentor Graphics and creator of VRTX) and others. MontaVista_Software
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| Yahoo! Mail Yahoo!_Mail
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| Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide Methyl_ethyl_ketone_peroxide
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| Blue Peter badge A Blue Peter badge is a much coveted award for Blue Peter viewers, given by the children's television programme for those appearing on the show, or in recognition of achievement. They are awarded to children aged 6 to 15, or to adults who have appeared on the show.The badges were introduced to the programme by editor Biddy Baxter in 1963 from an idea by Blue Peter producer Edward Barnes. Blue_Peter_badge
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| List of banned video games This is a list of video games that had been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments have been criticized for banning games for many reasons, in that such bans violate rights, increase piracy, inhibit business opportunities, and that users can still purchase or download such games online. This list is not exhaustive in total, nor is it exhaustive for any country mentioned in particular. List_of_banned_video_games
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| Prem Rawat Prem Pal Singh Rawat (Hindi:Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice that he calls Knowledge. At the age of eight, he succeeded his father Hans Ji Maharaj as leader of the Divine Light Mission (Divya Sandesh Parishad) and as the new Satguru to millions of Indian followers. He gained further prominence at thirteen when he traveled to the West to spread his message. Prem_Rawat
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| Jane Fonda Talk:Jane_Fonda
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| QinetiQ QinetiQ () (, as in kinetic) is an international defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former UK government agency DERA when it was split up in June 2001 (with the smaller part becoming Dstl). The Chief Executive at inception was the present day Chairman Sir John Chisholm. The current CEO is Graham Love. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. QinetiQ
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| Broadcom Broadcom Corporation is an American supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications. Founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli (chairman and CTO) and Henry Nicholas, it became a public company in 1998 and now employs over 7,185 people worldwide.Broadcom is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. Broadcom
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| Dave Winer Talk:Dave_Winer
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| Hypertext Talk:Hypertext
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| Rogue wave Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, and extreme waves) are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners. In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Rogue_wave
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| Gary Kremen Gary Alan Kremen (born 1963) is an entrepreneur who founded personals site match.com, and registered several premiere domain names in the early days of the internet, including sex.com, jobs.com, housing.com, and autos.com. Born in the Chicago area, he graduated Niles West High School in 1981, then graduated with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1985, and a MBA from Stanford University in 1989. Gary_Kremen
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| X-47 Pegasus X-47_Pegasus
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| Netsky (computer worm) Netsky_(computer_worm)
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| Sea Dart missile Sea Dart or Guided Weapon System (GWS) 30 is a British surface-to-air missile system designed by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and built by British Aerospace (BAe) from 1977.It was fitted to the Type 42 (UK and Argentina) and Type 82 guided missile air defence destroyers and Invincible class light aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy. Sea_Dart_missile
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