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Viral/marketing campaign website Ourcolony.net has yet another teaser image for us, this time an image that may, or may not, be an in-game snap from a forthcoming Xbox 360 title. It may of course simply be taken from some kind of tech demo designed to show off the graphical grunt of the console. Either way here it is:We have to say that the scene is certainly vibrant with lush flora and

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Yahoo announced earlier today that its personal search engine was released for testing earlier today. Similar to Google's 'My Search History', the Yahoo service allows users to share their favorite websites via e-mail, IM, or a new tool called Yahoo 360. Yahoo said its service will also enable registered users to create their own search archive by saving their favorite webpages as well as search

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Nokia and Yahoo today announced an agreement that will pre-install a set of services into Nokia smartphone running Symbian OS. You will be able to check your email, use yahoo search for mobile and download ringtone, wallpaper and games. The first Nokia devices with Yahoo! internet services are the Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and the Nokia 6630. More devices will be announced on April 27. The existing

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NEC’s embedded DRAM technology will be incorporated in Microsoft's next-generation Xbox platform, the companies said today.NEC’s eDRAM graphics chips are manufactured in the company’s 300mm wafer fabrication facility and are to play a key role in the Xbox graphics subsystem, the companies said today, promising to deliver stunning high-definition graphics to the gamer's experience.“The

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"According to ZDNet, Microsoft plans to add the software equivalent of a 'black box' flight recorder to Windows. According to the article, 'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created."

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"When the LHC Computer Grid starts operating in 2007, it will be the most data-intensive physics instrument on the planet. Today eight major computing centers successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second on average for 10 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to seven sites in Europe and the US. The total amount of data transmitted during this

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Google's first-quarter profit increased by nearly six-fold as the online search engine leader's rapid growth continued to soar beyond analysts' expectations.The company's net income rose to $369.2 million ($1.29 per share) compared to $64 million (24 cents per share) in 2004. Google's total revenue increased from $651.6 million to $1.26 billion, which is a lot higher than Wall Street's prediction

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Microsoft has made a commitment to launch 32-bit and x64 versions of its Longhorn server operating system. There has been, for some time, agreement from Microsoft that there would be a 32-bit version of the client, as well as an x64 version, but as far as the server version went, even during last week things were undecided. However, now the 32-bit and x64 versions will go ahead. "We will support

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AOL has partnered with Cyota Inc. to identify and block access to suspected phishing sites through a continuous monitoring process.When a possible phishing site is identified, AOL limits access to the site and informs members who attempt to visit it that it is suspected of being a dangerous site. In addition to sites that are fraudulently attempting to spoof pages of the service, AOL is also

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Google has released My Search History (Beta). Login with your Google account (like your Gmail account), and a search history feature will be integrated right into the Google.com homepage. You can then retrieve pages you've previously found by either clicking on calendar dates, or by performing a full-text search.Article from Google Blog

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A security expert said that spammers are now using new techniques to mine p2p networks for e-mail addresses, and it proved to be a lucrative work. "All it takes is one person you know, who you've sent an e-mail address," said Reshef. "This friend of yours has your e-mail address somewhere in his files, likely in his Outlook .pst file. He doesn't know P2P, and rather than share just some songs,

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A new version of the Sober worm has been recently discovered by the companies producing security solutions. Some companies call this version Sober-N, while others called it Sober-M. The worm spreads through a .Zip attachment of an email message written in English or German.The infected emails are sent by an Internet surfer who claims he got the recipient’s address by mistake, trying in this way

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Now British websurfers can enjoy the Local and Map services offered by Google. Today Google Inc. unveiled Google Local UK and Google Maps UK. Allowing users in the UK to use innovative local business search and beautiful interactive maps.

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Symantec Corp., yesterday released the public beta version of its 'Norton Internet Security (NIS) 2005 AntiSpyware Edition', which provides protection from spyware and adware.According to the company, the beta version is being designed to provide real-time detection and automatic removal of spyware from users' computers and prevent new spyware risks from impacting the PC in the future. In

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Seagate Technology announced late yesterday an expansion of its notebook hard disc drive line, bumping capacities up to 120 gigabytes (GB).Highlighting Seagate's notebook product line are 7,200- and 5,400-rpm models that provide the highest capacities available -- 100 GB and 120 GB, respectively -- in laptop drives.The three new models are the Momentus 7200.1, offered in capacities up to 100 GB

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Microsoft Corp. announced it will extend the capabilities of its new Office Live Communications Server 2005 to wireless devices including those running its Windows Mobile platform, as well as BlackBerry gadgets from Research In Motion Ltd.Under the new offering, Microsoft said it will develop software for wireless devices to access various Communications Server functions, including instant

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A British judge today ordered five ISPs to name another 33 music file sharers. The individuals concerned had uploaded more than 72,000 music files to the internet, according to a statement by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), which sought the court order as part of its broader legal offensive against illegal downloading on P2P networks.The ISPs concerned have two weeks to give the UK

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New Halo 2 multiplayer maps will be available on April 25th on Xbox Live.The Bonus Pack - comprised of Containment and Warlock, is free. Log into Xbox Live, go to the download content menu item and get 'em. The Killtacular Pack, comprised of Turf and Sanctuary, is $5.99 US (local prices will vary by country) but for the patient, it too will be available for free on June 28 th .

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Version 1.0.3 of Firefox fixes a number of Javascript and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, as well as other flaws in the browser.Version 1.0.3 Fixes:Javascript "lambda" replace exposes memory contentsjavascript: PLUGINSPAGE code executionShowing blocked javascript: popup uses wrong privilege contextCross-site scripting through global scope pollutionCode execution through javascript:

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Infinity Broadcasting with Hewlett-Packard will bring a new service to cell phones. The service called Visual Radio will allow users to listen to local FM radio stations on their cell phones. Along with this service extra data and media will delivered to their phones about the broadcast currently running. This is an effort to take share away from Satellite radios and help local radio broadcasters

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Apple announced on Sunday afternoon an update to its Final Cut Pro HD video production suite, including all new versions of the award-winning suite's components. The suite contains the company's popular Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro for audio editing, Motion 2 for animation, and DVD Studio Pro 4, which has been updated to include support for high-definition DVDs.The latest update to Apple's

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"The state Public Utilities Commission voted 3 to 1 behind closed doors late last week to pull out of its appeal of a Federal Communications Commission rule designating so-called voice over Internet protocol as an interstate service beyond state control.California's was the first of several state utility commissions to appeal the FCC order, leading to the combining of the cases in the U.S. 9th

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A 19-year-old Los Angeles woman has sued AOL saying that a former monitor of its "kids only" chat room seduced her online when she was a lonely teenager, persuading her to send him nude photos of herself and to engage in phone sex.The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, also says that Matthew Wright sent sexually explicit videos of himself and planned to drive to California to meet the

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Who oogled first? A Long Island entrepreneur against Internet giant Google Inc may hinge on just that, according to papers filed this week in federal court. The suit filed by Google in US District Court in Brooklyn takes issue with disabled Holtsville businessman Richard Wolfe’s Internet shopping site, Froogles.com, which he said he registered in December 2000. The site has links from 700 online

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Cisco Systems, Inc. yesterday announced its decision to acquire a privately held firm, Topspin Communications, for $250 million and exclusive options.Topspin Communications makes server fabric switches for large data centers and research facilities where a number of servers are linked together to manage substantial data load. Before the acquisition, Topspin provided InfiniBand switching solutions

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Wireless broadband technology WiMax is getting serious attention from both fixed and mobile telecom operators, but it will take years before a mass market of consumers will use it, Intel said on Friday.Sean Maloney, head of Intel‘s mobility unit, said many trials were under way, but the actual deployment of mobile WiMax would not start this year."You‘ll probably see things at the back end of 2006

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Two Moscow-based Intel employees have setup a Wi-Fi hotspot near the North Pole, according to Intel.The hotspot, which Intel says is the first in the Arctic region, was installed at the Barneo ice camp, which is about 80 kilometers from the actual North Pole, the company said in a statement. The camp is a complex of tents north of the 89th parallel.The camp is situated on an ice cap and is in

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China is the world‘s leading censor of the Internet, filtering web sites, blogs, e-mail, and online forums for sensitive political content, according to a study released Thursday.The OpenNet Initiative said that China employs thousands officials and private citizens to build a "pervasive, sophisticated, and effective" system of Internet censorship."ONI sought to determine the degree to which

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Microsoft has released the public beta of its disk-to-disk backup product, Data Protection Manager. The product is designed to make backups easier than simply backing up to tape. Disk-to-disk backup completes images in significantly less time, meaning much less downtime for systems during backups."Our whole goal with DPM is to shrink the operational costs associated with IT professionals having

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Google said Tuesday that it has launched more services available to users of mobile devices.Specifically, users will have access to driving directions via SMS messages. In addition, they will have access to local business services, the company said in a statement. Google already has a mobile version of its search capabilities.Using the driving directions capabilities, users send a query as a text

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Hundreds of students at 18 universities nation-wide have had lawsuits filed against them by the RIAA for filesharing over Internet2." The official RIAA Press Release and commentary at MSNBC is also available. From the article: "i2Hub has been seen as a safe haven, and what we wanted to do was puncture that misconception," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "This has been a subversion of

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Intel has won the initial leg of a horse race to get the first batch of dual core x86 64-bit processors into the hands of OEMs.The chipmaking giant said it has been shipping its Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840, Intel's first dual-core processor-based platform, to PC makers. The company is in Taipei, Taiwan this week for a local version of its Intel Developers Forum.The new Pentium

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A Virginia circuit judge has sentenced a convicted spammer to nine years in jail, the first custodial sentence to be issued to a bulk emailer in the United States. A jury was convinced that Jeremy Jaynes of North Carolina fell foul of a law only enacted two weeks ago.The spammer, together with his sister (who was sentenced to a small fine) and an accomplice (who was acquitted) was indicted by a

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Yesterday Google added yet another useful tool to their Labs section. All you do is type in your location (City, State) and Google's Ride Finder will "find a taxi, limousine, or shuttle using real time position of vehicles."Another useful and innovative tool from Google!

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The effort is timely because of growing concerns both among consumers and Congress over the recent incidents of identity thefts.The new Microsoft products will include ways for computer users and businesses to identify themselves online, exchange data and guard against software that can steal personal information, the Journal said.The new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will introduce a

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According to Japan Today, the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent infringement over controllers used with PlayStation game consoles. In the ruling handed down Thursday, the federal court also ordered Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Entertainment America Inc. to

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The FCC’s just decided that you can’t get naked without paying a little extra, and we’re not making some dumb joke about the Super Bowl, either. BellSouth won a big decision on Friday when the FCC voted 3 to 2 that federal telecommunications laws do not require telcos to offer standalone DSL service. Apparently they didn’t like that state regulators in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and Louisiana

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If you get a message from a buddy asking you to click on a link to a Yahoo! page, better to delete the message or ask for clarification from the sender. Why? well it could be a spim message(spamming on IM). Phishers have now set their sights on the world of instant messaging (IM). The first target is the Yahoo! Messenger.The Phishers send an innocent looking message from someone on your contact

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The Mozilla Foundation has preemptively patched its Firefox Web browser to guard against attacks that could conceivably exploit a hole in Netscape-era legacy code.The code was used by Netscape engineers as a method to animate GIFs, but lacks protection against specially crafted images that can be used to execute arbitrary code. The exploit was first disclosed by Internet Security Systems."To

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Beginning in late April, Yahoo will upgrade free users to the new storage limit of 1GB, up from its current 250MB. The company said it will take about two weeks for all Yahoo Mail users to see the boost.Yahoo's storage upgrade comes one week after Google started offering Gmail accounts to random visitors of its home page. This has led to heightened speculation in news articles and blogs that

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Security threats that try to steal confidential information or compromise IT systems continued to increase during the last six months of 2004, according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec Corp. Businesses suffered an average of 13.6 attacks per day in the second half of last year, up from 10.6 daily attacks in the first six months of the year, the report

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It seems that Google Print results are beginning to appear on searches. For those who don't know, Google has been scanning from libraries from some of the world's greatest universities in order to compile a freely accessible online library. An easy way to turn up these results is to simply type "book", and then whatever you want to search for. For instance, book origin of species will turn up the

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Internet Security Systems (ISS), an Atlanta based Security research firm, has issued a warning to users deploying McAfee antivirus software, concerning a serious flaw that poses a threat to a user's confidential information.According to reports the flaw was detected in several versions of McAfee's products. The company website claims that the vulnerability involves a flaw in the processing of LHA

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Yahoo took a step back Friday and told ZDNet Australia a pledge by a representative in its Australian division for full support of Firefox was "factually inaccurate." According to a representative from the American arm of the company, there are "so many different products" on its network that it is likely there are some products which would not work with the open-source browser.Yahoo was the

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Google launched Code.google.com, a site for external developers interested in Google-related development. "It's where we'll publish free source code and lists of our API services," Google said as it unveiled the site, adding: "We really care about free and open source software (F/OSS) at Google, and this site is one aspect of that affection."Source: Linux World

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Yahoo has purchased online photo-sharing service Flickr, less than a week after the Internet giant launched a beta test of a new blogging tool.Vancouver, British Columbia-based Flickr lets users upload digital photos from computers and camera phones, put together photo albums, and post photos to blogs, among other things.Joanna Stevens, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo, confirmed

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On Monday Google officially launched Desktop Search 1.0. The beta version of the program first launched in October, and now version 1.0 adds the ability to search PDF, music, video, and image files. In additio, Desktop Seach 1.0 supports the Firefox and Netscape browsers and the Thunderbird and Netscape e-mail clients. To top it off, Google is making APIs available to software developers in order

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Antivirus company F-Secure announced that it had found a new virus affecting Nokia Series 60 based smartphones late Monday. The virus spreads through MMS (Multimedia Message Service) when it is opened. Called CommWarrior, it searches the phone user's address book for numbers to replicate itself.F-Secure believes that the virus has its origins in Russia as the text within the file, "OTMOP03KAM HET

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Over the weekend MSN Messenger users were bombarded with messages to visit a web site that when visited, infected their computer with a virus.The new worms making the rounds this week are known as Kelvir.a and Kelvir.b. The worm installs a file that opens a backdoor to your PC, allowing an attacker to gain access to your machine without your permission.Kelvir spreads by messaging all users on

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From GoogleBlog:" Looking for a multiplex near you? Use "movie:" followed by a U.S. zip code or city/state to find theaters and showtimes in your area (a search for [movie: Mountain View, CA], for example, will show you what's playing near the Googleplex). You can also just search on "movies," "showtimes" or the title of a current film, and your top result will be movie-related info for your area

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. keeps pushing the envelope in processor innovation and performance improvement, but it can't break down the wall at Dell Inc., which continues to pass on using non-Intel processors in its product line.This week AMD demonstrated a dual core version of its Athlon 64 processor for desktops, which it plans to introduce in volume later this year. A week earlier, AMD

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A fake e-mail claiming it’s from the FBI is going around online. And it’s infected with what’s probably the Sober.K worm.In an announcement, “The FBI today warned the public to avoid falling victim to an on-going mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users receive unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI,” says a statement.“These scam e-mails tell the recipients that their Internet use has

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The world's first virus that specifically targets mobile phones has made an appearance in the United States. Called Cabir, the virus initially appeared in the Philippines about eight months ago. Since then, it has spread to twelve countries and could eventually threaten a significant portion of the 1.5 billion cell phone users worldwide."It's interesting (the Cabir variant) has now been found in

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Intel announced Sunday several additions to its line of Pentium 4 processors, all of which include 2MB of secondary cache, twice that of the current line of P4 processors. Also included with the new chips is the same technology included in its mobile processor line, which is designed to limit power consumption. The processors will range in speed from 3 to 3.6 GHz with an 800Mhz bus. The top of

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Popular TV/hotel heiress famous for her infamous sex tape, has been drawing some other unfortunate attention.It appears hackers have taken a large interest in the young model. A large quantity of telephone numbers and other data, such as cell phone snapshots are spreading around the web like wild fire.Paris Hilton's address book kept on T-Mobile Sidekick has been hacked and is now popping on the

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The recently launched .IN country code internet domain name Registry services set up by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has opened the real-time registration for the general public from today. The official Internet domain .IN for the country will now be available to anyone who wants it. Today, within an hour of opening, nearly 24,000 domain names were registered successfully. Tens

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Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own mail engine and harvesting potential e-mail targets from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, has started spreading quickly.Last summer, a MyDoom variant pumped so many queries into Google that the search engine was unavailable or very slow for large periods of time. The same variant of MyDoom also

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Researchers from Intel Corp. have created the first continuous laser beam using silicon components, a development the chip maker called a major scientific breakthrough that could herald significant advances in communications and medicine.In a paper to be published on Thursday in the journal Nature, Intel's Photonics Technology Laboratory reported a way to overcome the primary hurdle to using

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REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 17, 2005 — As a precautionary measure and out of concern for consumer safety, Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will voluntarily replace the power cords on 14.1 million Xbox consoles worldwide.The replacement power cords are designed to protect consumers and their Xbox consoles from rare electrical component failures that can pose a fire hazard. Fewer than one in

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Microsoft Corp. will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the world's most popular Internet browsing software, with new, built-in security features, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.In a speech at a major security conference here, Gates said Internet Explorer 7.0, with new anti-spyware features, will be released for preliminary testing this summer.The move comes three years after

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Content protection software maker Macrovision announced Tuesday a software solution that could help curb the problem of illegal copying of DVDs.The software, called RipGuard, plugs up a hole created by the popular DeCSS software. DeCSS allows the user to break the already present copy protection and make near-perfect copies of the discs for uploading to P2P networks or re-burned onto recordable

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One of the only BitTorrent hubs willing to battle the major movie studios has been shut down by Hollywood.A notice from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has gone up on LokiTorrent, saying a court order has grounded the site. "You can click but you can't hide," the notice reads. "There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them." The site's operator gave

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As many as one in every four spam e-mails advertises Viagra, said drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and software giant Microsoft Corp. who have teamed up to fight the slew of spam e-mails hawking Viagra that invade consumers' computers.On Thursday, the firms said they have filed 17 lawsuits against defendants involved in the sale and distribution of the erectile dysfunction drug.Consumers often mistakenly

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The GameCube has finally truely been hacked. There have been previous soft-mods for the GameCube by exploiting PSO and streaming game image files. Now over a year after the first hack, the first GameCube mod chip is released, the Viper GC. After soldering four wires to the mod-chip and GameCube, you can easily play back-up copies of your GameCube games, however some types and brands of DVD-R's

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IN WHAT could make for the blackest of black Fridays, an asteroid a quarter of a mile long has been given the highest risk of hitting the Earth ever conferred on a heavenly body. The threat posed by object 2004 MN4 has been graded by astronomers as level four out of ten on their warning scale - the first asteroid ever to be graded higher than level one. This means it has a one-in-45 chance of

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A REPORT said that China claimed a "great leap forward" on future Internet technology after eight government bureaux said they would adopt CERNET2. The People's Daily reported Wu Jianping, director of Cernet, as saying while China was a learner and follower in the development of the first wave of the Internet, CERNET2 is a "first mover" for the next generation. The organ said CERNET2 connects

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AMD has an updated processor roadmap available on their website. The roadmap details AMD's processor plans throughout next year, but with the timeline segmented into six-month blocks, it's hard to draw any firm conclusions on any release dates. The roadmap reveals a few interesting bits of information, most notably that dual-core Opteron and Athlon 64 FX processors won't arrive until the second

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"Associated Press says that telecoms have always considered expanding into digital television since the broadband infrastructure is already in place. But now they are putting billions of dollars into actually building such systems. "If everything goes as planned, the telephone industry will be all about television in 2005. TV over your home phone line. TV on your cell phone. Few topics have been

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A Web worm that identifies potential victims by searching Google is spreading among online bulletin boards using a vulnerable version of the program phpBB, security professionals said on Tuesday. The Santy worm uses a flaw in the widely used community forum software known as the PHP Bulletin Board (phpBB) to spread, according to updated analyses. The worm searches Google for sites using a

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NitroOnline is a project that is currently being developed that will allow Nintendo DS owners to play Wireless enabled games via the internet. It will require a wireless router, and a wireless card in your PC or laptop to communicate with your Nintendo DS.

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Blingo, a new search company, offers users a chance to win prizes while they search. Such prizes as digital cameras, Amazon.com gift certificates, music CDs, iPods, and other various prizes. All you have to do is search, and you could be randomly selected to win a certain prize. Company officials said Blingo will offer hundreds of prizes a month while they are testing the service, then thousands

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Microsoft Corp. has acquired antispyware vendor Giant Company Software Inc. in New York for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft, which announced the acquisition today, will use Giant's intellectual property and technology assets to provide Windows users with new tools for protecting against spyware. A beta version of a spyware protection tool based on Giant's technology will be available for users

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Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday said sales of songs bought from its market-leading iTunes online music store had topped 200 million, a figure that was about in line with what some analysts had been expecting. Since the store's launch in April 2003, the pace at which songs have been selling has accelerated, said Eddie Cue, Apple's vice president of applications for Cupertino, California-based

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Internet overseeing organisation ICANN has rediscovered its love of top-level domains, announcing this week that it has put another two through to final approval stages, as well as approving the document that will be used to decide the new owner of all .net domains next year. A special meeting of the Board yesterday resolved that both .jobs and, more controversially, .mobi had passed all the

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Hollywood movie studios on Tuesday sued scores of operators of computer servers that help relay digital movie files across online file-sharing networks. The copyright infringement suits expand on a new U.S. film industry initiative whose first targets were individual file-swappers. The defendants this time run servers that use BitTorrent, now the program of choice for online sharers of large

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The libraries of some of the biggest academic institutions in the world have joined forces with Google to digitally scan library books and make them searchable online, Google announced Tuesday. The move follows several other recent, similar initiatives from the company. Google has been branching out to deliver targeted, specialized Web search engines. On the heels of delivering its recent

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MozSource, the independent company that operates the Mozilla Store and the Netscape Store, has announced the launch of its new high-quality, affordable technical support service for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla 1.7. Available from http://support.mozsource.com, end-user email support for the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird email client and the Mozilla 1.7 Internet suite will be

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Advanced Micro Devices and IBM have collaborated on new strained silicon technology, which stands to boost transistor speed. In a statement ahead of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, the two companies called the technology a "breakthrough process" that will speed up transistors by 24 percent without increasing power levels. The strained silicon technique will work

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Microsoft Monday debuted a preview of its long-anticipated desktop search as part of a toolbar suite that integrates with Windows, Internet Explorer, and the company's Outlook e-mail client. The new tools put Microsoft into the race for the title of desktop search champ with rivals Google and Yahoo. Google rolled out its Desktop Search application in early October, while last week, Yahoo

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Thomson, one of the core backers of the Blu-ray Disc format for high-definition video discs, plans to offer players supporting the rival HD-DVD format and disc duplication services for both formats, it says The company is one of Europe's largest electronics brands and a founding member of the consortium that is promoting the Blu-ray Disc format. The format and its competitor offer several times

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According to Slashdot Mozilla Firefox has reached the 10 million downloads. This is a major increase since version 1.0 has publicly been released. It also seems that the Spread Firefox website is down because it has been slashdotted (as of posting time).

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The rapid growth in online game playing will put pressure on broadband networks to evolve, according to research published this week by Sandvine. The Internet traffic-monitoring company said Tuesday that Microsoft's "Halo 2"--a popular first-person shooter game--has boosted traffic on Xbox Live as players rush to compete over the Net. Sandvine's latest statistics showed that Xbox Live traffic

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Game fans stood in lines through a chilly Tokyo night to be among the first in the world to get their hands on Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable, the consumer electronics firm's first handheld game machine. About 200,000 of the sleek black devices, able to play movies, music and games, went on sale early Sunday morning as part of a drive by Sony to loosen rival Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s iron grip on

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Google Suggest quietly debuted this week on the company's Labs site, which showcases Google features that "aren't quite ready for prime time," according to a message on the site. When someone starts typing a request into the search box, a drop-down menu appears with suggestions as to what that person could be looking for. For instance, typing in "Mi" generates a list starting with "Microsoft"

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Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it will begin testing a free desktop search service in early January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly profitable search-related advertising. Desktop search, which helps excavate information buried on computer hard drives, is seen as the next frontier in the booming search sector that has generated billions in revenues from ads generated by Web

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