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Reuters
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IBM on Monday said it would start offering free word processing and other office software, joining a growing group of companies with free applications challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.
IBM said it would offer document, spreadsheet and presenta..
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Yahoo News
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Google announced on Monday that it would provide free online communication services such as e-mail and Internet telephone calling to universities in Kenya and Rwanda.
The Mountain View, California-based Internet search engine giant said it had partnere..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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The future of mobile phones is free - to consumers willing to watch targeted forms of advertising, according to the vision of web search leader Google Inc's chief executive, Eric Schmidt...
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BBC News
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Three major record labels have denied signing deals allowing their music to feature on a new file-sharing service offering unlimited free downloads.
The service, Qtrax, boasted it would carry up to 30 million tracks from "all the major labels".
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BBC News
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Social music site Last.fm has launched what it describes as the world's biggest free music service.
It is promising to pay unsigned artists royalties every time a user streams a track to their computer.
The website has done deals with the four major..
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BBC News
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Fans of Beyonce, Britney Spears and the Foo Fighters will soon be able to download tracks from these artists that lack copy protection.
Sony has announced a deal to put its entire catalogue of tracks on the Amazon MP3 store by the end of January.
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BusinessWeek
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Readers had their own favorites—and some quibbles with our list of the best things you can get gratis on the Net
There's no such thing as a free lunch, even on the Internet. That's the cynical way a large portion of BusinessWeek.com readers responded..
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MSNBC
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After a trickle of updates and "betas" bearing the Windows Live moniker, Microsoft Corp. is ready to start promoting its official package of free desktop programs for e-mail, instant messaging, blogging and sharing photos.
The programs are "essentially..
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BBC News
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Mobile phone provider 3 has launched a new handset that will allow users to make free calls over the internet via telephony service Skype.
Users will also be able to use Skype's instant messaging service, 3 said.
But while people using Skype on thei..
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Los Angeles Times
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SanDisk Corp. introduced Monday a service for downloading free and advertising-supported video from the Internet, which could compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes.
Milpitas, Calif.-based SanDisk said its new system, called Fanfare, served as a companion to..
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Los Angeles Times
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If you're displeased with the way a company treats you, you're free to air your feelings in public, right? Not necessarily if you receive high-speed Internet access from AT&T Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc.
Buried deep within both companies' volumi..
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Los Angeles Times
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IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, tax 'em. That seems to be Microsoft's thinking in regard to the "free and open-source software" movement. The Windows powerhouse had complained for years about open-source programs cribbing its intellectual property, but this month..
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Los Angeles Times
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IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, tax 'em. That seems to be Microsoft's thinking in regard to the "free and open-source software" movement. The Windows powerhouse had complained for years about open-source programs cribbing its intellectual property, but this month..
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MSNBC
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Getting free games is as easy as going on the Internet.
No, I don’t mean casual games and I don’t mean out-of-print stuff. I’m talking about triple-A games — new stuff and old favorites.
Internet “pirate” sites offer “cracked” versio..
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BBC News
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A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed.
Primarily aimed at children, Scratch does not require prior knowledge of complex computer languages.
Instead, i..
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Alter Net
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The next digital divide could introduce a new era in racial profiling.
A couple weeks ago I moderated a panel discussion about free wireless Internet access in San Francisco. Speakers included people who work on tech projects for the city, activists fr..
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Los Angeles Times
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Customers of Apple Inc.'s iTunes store will soon be able to play downloaded songs by the Rolling Stones, Norah Jones and other top-selling artists free of the copying restrictions once imposed by their label.
EMI Group, the world's fourth-largest recor..
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Yahoo News
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Apple's marketing machine has done it again.
While the biggest names in tech were in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show in January showing off new gadgets and gizmos, Apple gambled it could extract attention in San Francisco for a sneak-peek de..
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Bloomberg
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Apple Inc. predicted that 10 million customers will pay at least $499 to buy an iPhone next year because they realize most free mobile phones are worthless.
``A lot of people pay zero for the cell phone. Guess why? That's what it's worth,'' Apple Chief..
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Extreme Tech
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Don't want to spend money and installation hassles on new storage hardware for your precious media? Whether it's for sharing memories in the form of digital photos and videos over the web—or just practical documents you want to protect against that all-..
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