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Microsoft invites hackers to test Vista - After suffering embarrassing security exploits over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. is trying a new tactic: inviting some of the world’s best-known computer experts to try to poke holes in Vista, the next generation of its Windows operating system.
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AMD could be buying ATI for $5.5B?? - ATI is battling with Nvidia Corp. to be the No. 2 maker of computer-graphics chips behind Intel Corp. Buying ATI may help Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro in its efforts to keep taking market share from [...]
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Apple offers refurb iPod minis - For $149 for a 4GB
Why People Like Linux - Surprisingly, a large survey sample found people liked Linux for its user experience, because it’s challenging and fun to learn and reasons not related to Microsoft. The sample [...]
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Java Joy in Coffee Study - Men who drank more than six 8-ounce cups of caffeinated coffee per day lowered their risk of type 2 diabetes by about half, and women reduced their risk by nearly 30 percent, compared with people who did not drink coffee, according to the study in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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15 Jan
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iPod Firmware problems - Problems with non Quicktime encoded video on 60GB iPods with new firmware update
PS3 comments by a Sony employee deleted
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26 Dec
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Seagate launches 1-inch 6 GByte hard drive - Seagate yesterday launched a 6 GByte? hard drive that is targeted at the music player market and expands its smallest form-factor hard drive family.
Comming soon, Google Calendar! - Sunbird watch out, google is up to something and it looks as if it will be a new web [...]
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98% Polled Don’t Care About Legality of File Sharing - Only 2% of people who paid a fee to download music from the Internet cited that the contentious legal issues surrounding online music distribution concerned them. More evidence that the RIAA lawsuits have had no effect on consumer habits.
WPA Cracking Proof of Concept Available - [...]
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Music labels losing sales over DRM - It’s not news that consumers hate DRM, especially the kind that keeps Little Johnny from ripping that Velvet Revolver disc to his iPod on Christmas morning. What is interesting, though, is how little the major record labels care. As reported a few weeks back, Thomas Hesse, President of [...]