Nintendo DSi will be free on April 5th, but if you want to be active in your quest to score one, you can pre-order yours nowadays from Amazon River and GameStop. [Amazon, GameStop (black) and GameStop (blue) via Kotaku]

We proclaimed the first advert release of OpenSolaris - targeting high speed developers and development teams (not consumers...). OpenSolaris focuses on developers wanting to be emancipated from proprietorship software system models, United Nations agency see start and status in in operation systems as a source of noncompetitive advantage.

If Solaris 10, OpenSolaris's elderly blood brother, is for IT departments prioritizing carrier grade firmness concluded fast start, OpenSolaris targets the right opposite - developers, from high demonstration computer science to social networking, that rate a constantly bracing confidant filled with community innovations (and ZFS-based machine-controlled offensive) concluded an static statement fair game. Go to OpenSolaris.com to transfer a free copy, or click on the OpenSolaris logo to have a bootable CD delivered to you (free of charge). Or if you want a simpler way of hard it out... just go to Amazon!

We also proclaimed a partnership with Amazon, done which we've ready-made OpenSolaris, alongside MySQL and Glassfish, easy with advert support on Amazon's pliable computer science cloud. From where I sit, this is a deep change in the commercial enterprise - the world's least democratic info is nowadays easy, and commercially founded, as a cloud service. As is the fastest organic process Potable instrumentality, and a redefined OpenSolaris for the modern world.

The handed-down software system commercial enterprise, first revolutionized by open source, close by software system as a service, is nowadays embarking on a third turning change... structure as a service.

Sure feels like the clouds square measure parting.

(And again, if you'd like a free copy of OpenSolaris transmitted to you on a bootable, "live" CD, just click on the OpenSolaris logo above.)

We reported the Author's Guild's argumentative kindle about the Kindle 2's text-to-voice feature, claiming it violates sound book copyrights. It's an controversial position, but Amazon River has lost in the lead and caved to the literary man.

Amazon has supported down for the Guild's richness rather than for some judicial condition, since it's beautiful clear that a robotic reading isn't the European as an sound book. "We strongly disbelieve galore rights holders will be more than homely with the text-to-speech feature if they square measure in the driver's seat," Amazon River said.

But instead of removing the feature, Amazon River has simply ready-made it elective, so publishers can determine for themselves what's best for their object. That instrumentation it's probable the much-advertised (though not necessarily much-loved) feature is exit to be too functional for Elicit 2 owners. We're not thrilled, since the Gild has no real judicial leg to stand on and seems to requisite Amazon River more than than Amazon River needs them, but point again, we're not fancy-pants authors. [CNET]

I'm a fancy-pants write and I say this is crap! -JC

Not lone does Amazon River sell you video games for cheaper than their sell contest, but accordant to Webware, they'll nowadays buy back old games for MORE monetary system than either Gamestop or Game Crazy.

Amazon launched the service twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval, and square measure currently acceptive concluded 1500 titles, spread out concluded assorted platforms. Webware put unneurotic a table of no of the large, more than past releases, and it shows that Amazon River offers $2-$3 more than for games on average. Even better, is that transportation is free, to that redundant realise won't be offset. Don't know about you, but I'll take a small indefinite quantity redundant bucks where I can get it. [Amazon via Webware]