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Microsoft has said it will not sue Linux users with regards to the company's patent claims. " We're not litigating . If we wanted to we would have done so years ago," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's VP for intellectual property and licensing, in an interview.
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Security firms 'celebrate' 30 years of spam
Security researchers around the world are giving a tongue-in-cheek salute to the 30th anniversary of the first spam message.
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Fujitsu Services quits LAR status
The IT services giant said the business would be outsourced to a rival LAR later this year.
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Dell signs deal with Australian retailer
Dell has signed a deal to sell its products through Australian retailer Officeworks, offering laptops, desktops, monitors and printers in 104 stores across the country.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Nov 2005 20:47 UTC
Apple offered free licenses of Mac OS X for MIT's proposed $100,- (E85,-) laptop initiative, however, the proposal offered by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs was declined because the program was looking for open-source software, according to a new report.
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Japanese official demoted for logging more than 780,000 hits on porn sites
A Japanese civil servant was demoted for logging more than 780,000 hits on pornographic Web sites on his office computer over nine months, an official said Friday.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 29th Apr 2007 08:14 UTC
"After looking around and playing with Ubuntu 7, it's safe to say that the features, ease of use and stability of this distro may be enough to edge Linux desktops into corporate offices.
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COUNTING DOWN
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a town hall style meeting yesterday told the software giant's employees that he would announce his next move in the ongoing standoff with Yahoo! "in short order." Investors took Ballmer's comment to mean that an...
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DOW ENDS OVER 13K, RISES189
US stocks rose to the highest level since January as a rally in the dollar and better-than-estimated technology earnings prompted investors to shun commodities and shift into shares of banks, retailers and computer companies. Bank of America...
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News Microsoft's Blu-ray XBox Coming In September? New report says the order has been placed.
Washington, D.C. (May 2, 2008) -- Microsoft has placed orders for an XBox 360 console with a Blu-ray disc drive, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News.
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Dell signs deal with Australian retailer
Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com , Friday 2 May 2008 at 09:41:00 Retail strategy extended with Officeworks partnership Dell has signed a deal to sell its products through Australian retailer Officeworks, offering laptops, desktops, monitors and printers in 104 stores across the country.... > Read the full article
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'The Price Is Right' feels real
Computer gamer, come on down! You're the next contestant on "The Price Is Right." One of the most popular television game shows in history is now a downloadable try-before-you-buy PC game that looks, sounds and plays like the real deal — but without Drew Carey or Bob Barker.
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Microsoft to punt pensioner-proof PC
Slippers, pipe not included Miss Daisy will soon be able to drive herself around a PC, because Microsoft has announced plans to build a senior-citizen friendly PC.…
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Swiss start-up re-broadcasting UK TV channels
'We're not doing anything illegal' An internet start-up is re-broadcasting UK television from Switzerland without the stations' permission. It is re-broadcasting all five UK terrestrial channels online, but claims it is not breaking the law.…
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Email Spam is 30 Years Old!
Spam is celebrating its 30th birthday on 3rd May.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Aug 2006 21:02 UTC
AMD is strongly considering open-sourcing at least a functional subset of ATI's graphics drivers. It's time for X Window System, OpenGL, and client virtualization for which ATI binary drivers aren't available to escape the ghetto of the 1980s-era framebuffer.
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Adobe forges alliance with chip, wireless companies
Adobe Systems, maker of the Flash video software, forged an alliance with chip makers and mobile phone companies to make it easier to create applications that work across personal computers, mobile-phones and set-top boxes.
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NetSuite's Q1 loss narrows; sales rise 47%
NetSuite, the software maker majority-owned by Oracle's Larry Ellison, said its first-quarter loss shrank as more companies signed contracts for Internet-based accounting and sales programs.
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No conclusion for Rush
Rush fans love their band. Music critics, not as much. Despite a long and stellar career that began in 1968, Rush has yet to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Fans are peeved, as evidenced by Internet petitions created to get the band inducted. Guitarist Alex Lifeson appreciates the fans' efforts, but isn't upset that the band has yet to be inducted.
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Mozy online storage comes to Macs
The MozyHome online bac-up service became generally available on Thursday after a long beta test and the acquisition of its creator by EMC. MozyHome lets consumers back up the data on their desktops and laptops to a remote data centre, then recover it later if their systems crash.
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Yahoo could begin carrying Google ads within a week, as it waits for Microsoft to give up its acquisition bid or attempt a hostile takeover, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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Intel boosts Atom production
Early demand for an Intel chip that's being designed for small laptops and desktops is so much higher than anticipated, the company has been forced to ramp up pre-release production.
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Yahoo Names Best and Worst Hair Bands
Yahoo's Top List blogger Rob O'Connor took on "hair metal" this week, though his use the term is pretty loose. In two separate lists, he gave us his picks for the top 25 best and the 25 worst.
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INTTRA Expands Senior Management Team, Appoints Jeff Pattison Chief . (2º)
Information Officer 29/04/2008 12:30:00 Business Wire connection), INTTRA-Desktop (off-line PC application), or INTTRA-Act (web-based application).
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