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Briton will die in US jail for killing family
Neil Entwistle will die in an American prison after being handed two life sentences the day after a jury found the former computer programmer from Worksop guilty of the double murder of his wife, Rachel Entwistle, and their nine-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose.
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Facebook Ordered To Accept Stealing Allegations Settlement
Facebook Inc.'s long and embarrassing legal tussle with three men who accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social networking concept may soon end, now that a judge has ordered the parties to accept the settlement they reached.
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Microsoft rolls out VMware rival early
BOSTON - Microsoft has started selling its new server virtualisation software about six weeks ahead of schedule, putting pressure on market leader VMware.
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Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains
(AP:NEW YORK) The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.
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Microsoft rolls out VMware rival early
BOSTON - Microsoft has started selling its new server virtualisation software about six weeks ahead of schedule, putting pressure on market leader VMware.
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Intel not keen on full Vista rollout
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker and decades-long business partner of Microsoft, has no immediate plans to roll out the software giant's Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
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Domain name shakeup may bring new net goldrush
Concerns that new names could increase potential for internet scams and profiteering of imposters
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Students more interested in sex than law shocka
Two randy law students have unwittingly entertained the profession this week with details of their sex lives. AboveTheLaw reports that this Gmail chat conversation below was found on a computer at Washington College of Law:
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AP At The Crossroads: Newspapers Feel 'Betrayed' By Online Focus
The Associated Press began some diplomatic work this week, as it started presenting details of its new pricing model to its U.S. newspaper members. The AP claims that the new structure, which has been fought over for years, will return $21 million to its members next year. Specifically, under the Member Choice plan, as it's called, the AP says newspapers can get an estimated $13.6 million in ...
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InterVideo has added new Personal Video Recorder (PVR) capabilities and DVD burning functionality to its InstantON technology, a Linux-based media-centric operating system that it hopes to license to PC makers as a dual-boot option.
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Get ready for .smith, .sports or .love on the Web
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet regulators on Thursday voted to relax rules on domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web.
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After facing a chorus of criticism from computer enthusiasts, Sony BMG has released a software patch that removes controversial cloaking technology found in copy protection software the company has been shipping with some of its CDs.
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Sony will definitely launch its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console this year, though the company still has not decided on a launch date nor pricing for the console, said Tetsuhiko Yasuda, managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment Asia.
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P2P traffic is dominating the Internet these days, according to a new survey from ipoque, a German traffic management and analysis firm. ipoque's "preliminary results" show that P2P applications account from anywhere between 50 percent and 90 percent of all Internet traffic.
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Microsoft launches Hyper-V against VMware
Microsoft has officially launched its new server virtualisation software, which is intended to take market share away from rival VMware.
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Rule change sparks domain name rush
.sex, .paris, .pepsi ... regulators allow creation of thousands of new internet domain names.
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250 ways to save money on cell phones, PCs and other tech
A list of blogs and articles that can help save money on gadgets, cell phones, PCs and more.
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Anyone into downloading pirate movies from the internet over the last few years likely knows that the label ‘maVen’ on a video release was usually a mark of a high quality ‘cammed’ movie.
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No Surprise: Powerset Sells Out To Microsoft
A reported price tag of $100 million will deliver the much-hyped Powerset and its natural language search technology to Microsoft. read more
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Yahoo confirms Google commitment
Yahoo embraced its planned advertising partnership with Google amid reports that it had revived talks about a possible deal with Microsoft.
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In Federal Trade Commission filing, Microsoft has advocated the adoption of a more comprehensive framework to protect consumer privacy online.
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Yahoo shakes up management
After foiling a Microsoft takeover - much to shareholders' ire - CEO Jerry Yang shifts managers' duties to try to make the site more appealing to advertisers.
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Activision is adding drums, bass guitar, and microphone to its popular Guitar Hero video game. Samsung, a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its one terabyte EcoGreen F1 hard drive with low power features.
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Genuitec sets IBM, Java tools
Genuitec, maker of Eclipse-based developer tools, has unveiled upgraded IDEs for IBM WebSphere and Java as well as assistance for utilizing the new Eclipse Ganymede project release The company this week introduced MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition , an application lifecycle management platform and IDE for IBM WebSphere. In this version, users can run multiple WebSphere server instances and ...
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George Ou compares Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice 2.2
in memory and CPU usage using the OOXML and ODF file formats. The conclusion according to Ou: "We can see that the OpenOffice.org ODF XML parser (while vastly improved) is still about 5 times slower than Microsoft's OOXML parser.
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