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    UK investigates online pricing, behavioral advertising 16/10/2009 04:12:00

    The U.K.'s competition authority launched two studies on Thursday that will probe behavioral-advertising pricing strategies and if some pricing practices could potentially mislead consumers.
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    Mozilla bumps up Firefox 3.1 to 3.5 10/03/2009 08:43:00

    Mozilla on Friday announced it will dump Version 3.1 as the name of the next edition of Firefox and instead call it Version 3.5.
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    Mozilla patches eight Firefox bugs, six critical 06/03/2009 07:49:00

    Mozilla Corp. has patched eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox, half of them critical memory corruption flaws in the browser's layout and JavaScript engines.
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    Cybersecurity report offers Obama assorted recommendations 09/12/2008 08:06:00

    A congressionally sponsored study conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, made public on Monday, recommends everything from the creation of a the National Office for Cyberspace outside the authority of the Department of Homeland Security to maintaining "sufficient manufacturing capabilities" at home to supply components and software that is not dependent on a global supply chain.
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    Seinfeld ads end as MS to reclaim 'I'm a PC' slur from Apple 19/09/2008 08:25:00

    The long, oft-baffling "teaser" ads" by Microsoft featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates that kicked off two weeks ago are abruptly ending, the company said late Wednesday, as part two of its US$300 million Windows marketing rehab campaign begins.
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    Simplify your desktop with docking, tabs, and macro software 08/08/2008 08:58:53

    You want to live in harmony with your PC, but Windows is very rigid. So step out on the road to Utopia with any of these three approaches: a clever launching dock, a folder organizer, and a far-reaching macro program.
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    Preview: Fable 2 07/08/2008 17:13:17

    Fable 2 is the follow up to the oft maligned Xbox game, Fable. In Fable 2, players take control of a hero and is set loose in a world chock full of people and various adventures to pursue. You can choose to play the game however you like, but your actions will have consequences and will ultimately alter your entire persona.
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    Regulators halt BBC's Kangaroo video service 02/07/2008 15:16:05

    Internet TV service Project Kangaroo has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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    The quotable Bill Gates 23/06/2008 11:02:37

    Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be enough for anybody," which he supposedly said in 1981 to note that the 640K bytes of memory in IBM's PC was a significant breakthrough. Or his alleged comment that if General Motors "had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving [US]$25 cars that got 1,000 miles per gallon."
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    Microsoft's ODF support points to OOXML challenges 27/05/2008 08:33:26

    Microsoft's plan to include ODF support in its Office suite next year reflects continued challenges for the OOXML file format, as the industry moves ahead with adopting ODF and sorts out OOXML's troubles.
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    The 10 most important technologies you never think about 09/05/2008 11:13:39

    The late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
 
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