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Microsoft Windows' infamous "blue screen of death" has become synonymous with an operating system crash or freeze, but that's nothing compared with what users of pirated copies of Vista worldwide can expect from now -- a black screen of darkness.
In an..
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A contrite Google Inc. canceled a party that irked eBay Inc. and -- according to a source -- prompted the online auction firm to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week.
On Monday, Google announced it would throw a party in B..
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EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be seen in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
However, eBay kept its AdWor..
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People have been arguing online about how much more expensive Macs are than PCs -- or not -- for more than a decade (and in print for years before that). These discussions usually involve some hard facts but also some persistent myths. As a longtime Windo..
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A new inexpensive nanoglue that becomes stronger as it heats up could redefine the way computer chips are made and even pave the way for Spiderman-esque web-shooting devices in the near future, according to its creator.
Developed by a group of US resea..
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Mac users, whether casual or fanatic, aren't taking the bad news sitting down. When Apple Inc. announced Thursday that it will delay the release of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" by four months, they jumped on their soapboxes -- the Internet's forums and news st..
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Microsoft Corp. will soon submit to an international standards organization a new photo format that offers higher-quality images with better compression, the company said today.
The format, HD Photo -- recently renamed from Windows Media Photo -- is ta..
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What does Apple's iPhone have in common with the failed Apple Newton of more than a decade ago? Nothing. Yet.
But I was reminded of the Newton lately and how, despite its current hot streak, Apple doesn't have an unblemished record when it comes to int..
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Here's the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It's time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries. Early in January, Steven..
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Microsoft is losing consumer operating system market share to Apple for many reasons, but most of those reasons can be oversimplified thus: Mac OS is simple, and Windows is complicated...
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Unless you've recently emerged from a coma, you know the consumer versions of Microsoft's new Vista operating system ship Tuesday. Over the next few weeks, NBA star LeBron James will try to convince you to move to Windows Vista as part of Microsoft's m..
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In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Thursday declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property...
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Computer World
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If Democrats take control of the U.S. Congress after Tuesday's election, expect lawmakers to make relatively few major changes in technology- and telecommunications-related law. However, Net neutrality and government surveillance programs could be except..
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Apple Computer Inc. said today that it's adding a red 8GB version of its tiny iPod nano to its popular line of digital music players, offering to donate money to charity for every player it sells...
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PC manufacturers that expected to get their hands on the final version of Windows Vista today will have to wait a couple more weeks for the operating system, according to sources familiar with Microsoft Corp.'s plans...
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Today Mozilla is officially releasing Firefox 2.0. Truth be told, the final code is no different from last week's Release Candidate 3 code, so I've had time to play with it. I'll give my initial impressions here, but I'd also like to hear what you thi..
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Criticized in the past for an initiative that would require the company to collect and catalog personal information about its customers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released an internal document about how it protects customers' privacy in the hopes that o..
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