Noting Sun's swing toward software, the Silicon Valley rumor mill is wondering whether Sun will sustain the 19-year-old Sparc chip program.

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"The core gamer market is probably too tempting for them to leave for the other guys, " said Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Baird Equity Research, noting such consumers tend to buy new software more often than casual gamers.

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We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.

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It's also worth noting Livestream isn't constraining the Studio software to its own web platform, meaning that, as is the case with the HD500, streams can also be shared to third-party places like Ustream, Akamai and, you guessed it, YouTube Live.

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With USA Today reporting that Delta Airline, JetBlue and American Airlines are considering following suit with similar social networking functions, and The New York Times noting that tech start-ups are piling into the market for software that matches flyers on the basis of personality, career and interests, social networking (and, as an extension, matchmaking) is seeping ever deeper into the fabric of our everyday.

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