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• Meatloaf With Extra Sheep (On The Side)

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: Wine, Settlers Of Catan, Gateway Games, Entertaining, Food, Board Games, Session Reports

  ones I typically play. The gateway game I usually reach for in such situations is Settlers of Catan. You can say all you want about weaknesses in the game after hundreds of plays, but there's just something about Settlers that sparks an interest in those new to the hobby. As James put it in response to a comment about liking board games: "I

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• AOL Help: A Fix and a New Look

  Published: August 14, 2007, 12:09 pm

  Tags: 502 Gateway, 502gateway, 504 Gateway, 504gateway, Aol Help, Aol Support, Aolhelp, Aolsupport, Tech Support, Techsupport

  were getting 502 or 504 Gateway errors when accessing AOL Help. The Help team looked into it and found the glitch, which happened about 15% of the time.It's been fixed, and I confirmed this with several users who had reported this to me. * New Look for AOL Help: The AOL Help team did a complete makeover of the AOL Help Web site. AOL Help:

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• Gateway heads into China with help from distributor

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:05 pm

  Tags: China, Digital China, Digitalchina, Gateway

  brief pilot progam in June, Gateway's announced that it's making its first major push into China, with the company teaming with Digital China, Inc. to offer its systems nationwide. While Gateway isn't getting specific about exactly what systems will available, it is saying that it'll be offering a "new premium line," which will consist of

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• Morning Eye has moved and grown

  Published: July 16, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Allergan, Art Money, Blizzard Entertainment, Boeing, Broadcom, Ceradyne, Church Vs Corporation, Conexant, Disney, Downey, Economic Life, Edwards Lifesciences, First American, Futures Predictions From Sports To Politics, Gateway, Health Care Costs, Homebuilding Companies

  OCRegister.com has a new home for up-to-date news that matters to Orange County investors, consumers and businesses. It's Orange County Business News, which expands on what I launched with the Morning Eye blog. I'll still contribute regularly, but now I'll do so along with the team of Marketplace reporters from the Orange County Register. The

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• Acer to acquire Gateway: so long cow spots?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Acer, Acquisition, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Emachines, Gateway

  agreement to acquire Gateway. The acquisition has been approved unanimously by both boards and is expected to close by December 2007. You know, following the usual international, anti-trust approvals. Sure seems like a win-win what with Gateway steadily losing market share (but still tied for third largest PC maker in the US) while

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• Poll: Banish Gateway's spotted cow branding?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Acer, Cow, Gateway, Poll

  about Acer's acquisition of Gateway left us wondering about the fate of Gateway's Holstein branding in the hands of Taiwan's Acer. Those spots were once proudly synonymous with Gateway's unexpectedly low-tech, Iowa roots -- an idea worn thin after the dot com bust. So what's your take, bring out the sledgehammer or spare that heifer for another

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• Gateway plans to acquire Packard Bell BV

  Published: August 27, 2007, 1:56 pm

  Tags: Acer, Gateway, Lap Shun John Hui, Lapshunjohnhui, Packard Bell Bv, Packardbellbv, Pb Holding Company, Pbholdingcompany, Right Of First Refusal, Rightoffirstrefusal

  According to reports, Gateway will be exercising its right of first refusal (or ROFR) to acquire control of Packard Bell BV by nabbing all of the shares of the PC-maker's parent company. The computer giant first gained the ROFR in Summer of 2006, in an agreement made with the former owner of eMachines, Lap Shun (John) Hui. Apparently, Mr. Hui

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• Mediostream sues Apple, Acer, Dell and Gateway

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Acer, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Lawsuit, Mediostream, Patent, Patent Infringement, Patentinfringement

  than Apple, Acer, Dell, and Gateway. According to The Inquirer, Mediostream says those companies infringed on patent number 7,009,655-B2, which was issued to the company on March 7, 2006 and describes a "method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium." While Mediostream doesn't seem to have a whole lot to say on

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• Gateway unloads Professional business segment on MPC

  Published: September 5, 2007, 11:26 pm

  Tags: Gateway, Gateway Professional, Gatewayprofessional, Mpc, Mpc Corporation, Mpccorporation

  DesktopsThe shakeups at Gateway just seem keep on coming these days, with the planned acquisition by Acer and the seemingly imminent takeover of Packard Bell now being followed by the sale of Gateway's Professional business segment to MPC Corporation. According to Gateway, the sale, valued at some $90 million, is being done in order to

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• ASIA: China National Petroleum Corp. and The Gateway Pipeline Project

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:42 am

  Tags: Canada, Gazprom, Shell Rozneft, Syria, Petrocanada, Ioc, Cnpc, Encana, Gateway Pipeline Project, Petrokazakhstan, Enbridge, Total, Sinocanada, China, Ecuador, Steven Gilliland

  up our involvement in the Gateway Pipeline Project, he told a scrum of reporters following his presentation. We didn't renew the MOU with Enbridge. We took the decision last year. Earlier, Enbridge executive vice-president Richard Bird told the forum that Gateway plus the second phase of Alberta Clipper are still in planning.

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• Unhappy Gateway shareholders sue over Acer's buyout

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:12 am

  Tags: Acer, Buyout, Gateway, Legal

  had strong feelings for Gateway, but never discount the power of cash to get those hearts a-beating: unhappy with the $710M Acer's paying for the company, two different groups of Gateway shareholders have filed suit, alleging that company executives should have held out for more scratch. Acer was planning using the Gateway acquisition to

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• Gateway busting out artsy all-in-one PC next week?

  Published: September 20, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: All In One, Desktop, Digital Life, Digitallife, Gateway, Gateway One, Gatewayone, One

  under: Desktops Gateway is passing around an invite to New York's Digital Life attendees, promising the grand unveiling of... something. The invite is tagged with a cute little "Gateway One" logo, or maybe it's "One Gateway," and all signs are pointing towards a new all-in-one PC with decent aesthetics. Also, breakfast will be served, so

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• PCs: Promo Teases Sleek Gateway One All-In-One PC

  Published: September 26, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: All In One Pc, Gateway, Gateway One, Pcs

  18 hours, Gateway will unveil "Gateway One, the sleek all-in-one PC." At least, that's if you believe this teaser site and the fact that Gateway is holding a press conference tomorrow at 9am at the DigitalLife expo in NYC. Wait, WTF? According to the site's timer, the news will actually pop at 6:45am EST, so set that alarm clock. Will this be

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• PCs: Gateway One All-In-One PC Revealed

  Published: September 26, 2007, 2:40 pm

  Tags: All In One Pc, Gateway, Gateway One, Pcs

  Gateway's been acting all mysterious about its upcoming one-piece PC, and now the cow's out of the bag (with no spots anywhere in sight), revealing the Gateway One, a 19-inch all-in-one desktop box that's just 3.6 inches deep. The long-chinned PC will be available in three models, two of them retail versions and one available only online, and all

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• Gateway's One all-in-one desktop breaks cover

  Published: September 26, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: All In One, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Gateway, Gateway One, Gatewayone

  morning spilled out info on Gateway's new "One" PC, which Gateway was teasing us about the other day. Due to be announced tomorrow at Digital Life, the Gateway One is a sleek little all-in-one number, rocking a slot-loading DVD burner, a bunch of inputs and even wall-mounting capabilities. No word on screen size, but it looks spacious enough.

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