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    Ubuntu 9.04 beta: quick look 28/03/2009 12:03:00

    So far there have been six alpha releases of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.04, due for final release next month, and late yesterday the one and only beta release was made available for download. From this point forward there's a release candidate in mid-April, before the final release is made on the 23rd.
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    Bad Symantec update leads to trouble 11/03/2009 09:51:00

    Symantec says a buggy diagnostic program spurred a rash of Norton antivirus user complaints late Monday and Tuesday morning.
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    Google amends Chrome license agreement after objections 04/09/2008 09:03:00

    Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.
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    $12 Indian 'TV computer' a knockoff of 80s Nintendo system 12/08/2008 14:30:46

    Can a 20-year-old gaming console be the way to offer truly low-cost computing to Third World students?
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    New exploit poisons patched DNS servers, claims researcher 12/08/2008 08:56:07

    Patches meant to fix a flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) don't completely protect the Web's traffic cop from attack, a Russian research claimed Friday.
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    Firewall pioneer wanted a 'super-secure' blogging service ... so he's built his own 07/08/2008 10:29:22

    Bill Cheswick -- best known for writing "Firewalls and Internet Security" in 1994 and his earlier work at Bell Labs -- doesn't want to let commercial blogging software within hacking distance of his hardened Web server. A self-described Apple fanboy, Cheswick does want to host his own blogs, however, one about his job as lead member of the technical staff at AT&T Research and another about personal stuff, "if I can tell the difference."
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    Google is doing WHAT? 08/07/2008 08:20:38

    With a skyrocketing stock price, fanboy hysteria and -- most importantly -- really useful products, Google is the prima donna of tech for the new millennium.
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    FAQ: Office 14 and Microsoft's support for ODF 28/05/2008 10:37:02

    Changes were made to OOXML between Ecma's approval a year and a half ago and ISO's approval this spring. Microsoft won't support the ISO version until Office 14 arrives around the end of 2009. Is this a big deal, as Microsoft critics such as Andy Updegrove claim?
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    Blu-ray beats HD DVD -- now what? 20/02/2008 09:55:34

    So the high-definition DVD war's over, and to the victor go the spoils.
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    Microsoft narrows scope of Home Server bug 31/12/2007 11:04:36

    Microsoft Corp. product managers Friday claimed that a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server crops up only when the system is under an "extreme load," but also defended their decision to sound a general alarm before they had completed their investigation.
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    First Passport, now fraud: former MS employee charged 10/12/2007 08:02:06

    The former Microsoft employee associated with the company's notorious December 1999 Hotmail outage has been charged with fraud.
 
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