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"Opera Software filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers. The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Is what makes people and the society move. Windows is a brand that most out there take it for the computer itself. And Microsoft is pushing the brand even further (look to Windows Live Messenger, Windows Mail, Windows this, Windows that).
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Facebook to help some programmers, punish others
Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 8th Mar 2006 18:13 UTC
C# 2.0 is just out and Microsoft is already working hard on the next version of C#, version 3.0. In this post , Niek describes a few of the new language features that will be introduced in this version.
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Wi-Fi Comes to Crowne Plaza Auckland
Auckland 24 July 2008 – Crowne Plaza Auckland, in the heart of the city, is now offering Wi-Fi internet access for its guests.
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He’s Mulder, she’s Scully
This time, no aliens. The last time “The X-Files” played on theater screens, way back in 1998, audiences were mostly dumbfounded by the maze of plotlines involving FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully’s battle against alien invaders and their human co-conspirators. (Viruses? Bees? Secret Arctic bases? Martin Landau?) And even diehard viewers of the Fox network’s TV series were puzzled by some ...
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Ballmer's memo on Johnson's departure
CEO Steve Ballmer's message to Microsoft employees on the departure of senior executive Kevin Johnson and a divisional reorganization.
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LinuxForums reviews SUSE 10.1 , and concludes: "Everything worked perfectly and the system seemed to be very stable. The boot splash, the login managers, the installer and the desktops were customized with a unified SUSE look and feel that made them beautiful and very professional.
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Andrew Ziem takes a close look at Microsoft Word performance in a benchmark with 4500 measurements in 5 categories covering 6 versions and 12 years of releases to determine whether Word has become slower or faster over the years.
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60,000 homeless after violence in Sudan oil flashpoint: HRW
UNITED NATIONS, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - An estimated 60,000 civilians are still unable to return home more than two months after fleeing the violence in the oil town of Abyei in south Sudan, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report obtained Wednesday.
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Shhh. We have a product but it’s a mystery.
Here we go again, pandering to the Apple hype machine. The company says it has something that can’t be matched. What? What is it, dammit?! So, we have to guess. They won't tell us, a short sign that something is up because, when they deny something, reality proves to be what they were denying. They denied designing a phone for so long and look what happened there. So, we have to guess. Or, ...
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Internet firms in piracy crackdown
Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government-backed drive to clamp down on illegal downloading of music and films, it has been revealed.
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2008 British Auto Show: A Carry-On Bentley That Runs Microsoft Vista
LONDON, England — Well, the company's name is honest: Ego Lifestyle, a Dutch company, is showing a Bentley-themed laptop computer at the 2008 British Auto Show . For those who want to carry a Bentley around with them at all times, this notebook computer is the next best thing.
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Becoming a locavore
Lisa Sherrodd’s habit of eating locally started 10 years ago when she traded a computer for a goat.
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Ask Neil
Jerome wants to know if it’s safe to use a computer during a thunderstorm?
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Study: Online banking possibly dicier than assumed
SAN FRANCISCO -- Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows.
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Get ready for no-tax shopping
Savvy shoppers, take note. The stroke of midnight Aug. 1 will mark the kick-off of South Carolina's annual sales tax holiday, designed to reward consumers with tax breaks on their back-to-school purchases. Certain items, including computers, clothing and shoes, will be exempt from state taxes.
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Extent of Mendte's snooping made tabloid tidbits a federal case
The feds were wary. The proposed investigation had a tabloid taste. It was early spring, and Paul Rosen, a lawyer for the disgraced former CBS3 anchor Alycia Lane, had just approached the FBI with sensational suspicions that someone at the station had hacked her e-mail.
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Mark Your Calendar
LC Industries, a not-for-profit job training facility for the blind in Durham, posted this news about its monthly recycling drive at share.triangle.com. To see more community events or to post your own, click on "Events." For more inform
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Facebook expands open platform formula
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stepped onstage on Wednesday like a social-networking evangelist, painting a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jul 2005 16:57 UTC
Microsoft's decision to call the next version of its OS Vista might have a raised a few smiles last week but one Redmond resident is less than impressed.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Feb 2006 21:41 UTC
"Nearly two years ago Microsoft announced that Windows Vista would sport a so-called 'tiered' graphical experience.
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 14:55 UTC
In my house today, all of the computers are Macs. This is a long way away from three and a half year ago, when I said that Jaguar could not replace my PC . We're chugging along happily running Tiger, just as productive as before, and enjoying every bit of eye candy.
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Gunman robs Reading store
A man with a pistol robbed a computer store in the 400 block of North 13th Street on Wednesday night, Reading police said. The man, who had black pantyhose over his head, took about $300 during the robbery shortly before 6, police said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th May 2006 15:22 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"The words coming out of Microsoft are quite bullish, but the numbers aren't, at least according to Wall Street. The problem is those words won't match reality mainly because MS does not grasp the situation it is in.
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