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by Stan Beer
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The Finnish creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has lashed out the latest draft version of the general public license GPL, which governs the Linux kernel because of restrictions on the use of digital rights management (DRM) in systems.
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by Stan Beer
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US-based internet security firm SurfControl has warned email users to be on the lookout for an email phishing scam that appears to be a message from Microsoft.
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by Stan Beer
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Two reports over the past week, plus one in the previous two weeks, add to the growing recognition that the internet browser space is the theatre upon whose stage the battle for IT marketshare will be fought in future.
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by Stan Beer
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Finally, Apple can afford to feel a little safer in France because a law which could have forced the company to make the iTunes music store compatible with music players other than iPod has been watered down.
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by Stan Beer
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The release of Intel's new Core 2 dual-core range of processors combined with price cuts to older products has effectively pulled the rug out from under AMD, which has been fighting desperately to counter Intel's moves in the past week.
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by Stan Beer
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Microsoft, which expects its entertainment and hardware division to continue losing money until 2008, admits that its Zune music player will take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make an impact in the music player space.
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by Stan Beer
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Australian-based music file sharing site Kazaa will follow in the footsteps of Napster and become a legal download site. In the process, Kazaa will pay more than $100 million in an out of court settlement to the major recording companies.
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by Stan Beer
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A clear majority of computer users say they have no plans to move to the Windows Vista operating system when it is released to the market, according to a recent poll.
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by Stan Beer
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Where there is smoke there is fire - or so the saying goes. Over the past 24 hours, Microsoft has been desperately trying to damp down smoke signals that it is planning to cut Xbox 360 prices by US$100 to combat the release of the Sony PlayStation 3 in November.
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by Stan Beer
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Korean electronics giant Samsung is gearing up to release a 4GB flash drive specifically designed to boost the performance of PCs running Windows Vista, due to be released early next year.
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by Stan Beer
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Semiconductor market leader Intel has thrown down the gauntlet to its ankle biting rival AMD, unveiling 10 new processors spanning its Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme range for consumer and business desktop and laptop PCs.
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by Stan Beer
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It seems that Microsoft wants users to upgrade to the Internet Explorer 7 browser so badly that it plans to make the upgrade part of its automatic updates program for Windows XP. However, they will be able to say no if they wish.
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by Stan Beer
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Heavy metal band Metallica was one of the last holdouts against the digital age of music. Not any longer. Now that there is big money to be made selling music through online download channels, the rock band has joined the iTunes stable.
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by Stan Beer
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UK carrier BT and Hollywood studio Universal Pictures have signed an agreement which will enable BT broadband users to download movies to buy.
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by Stan Beer
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AMD has gone in hard to defend its marketshare in the wake of some earth shattering dual-core chip releases by Intel due this week. First it cut prices to less than half on some processors. Then it followed up with the US$5.4 billion ATI acquisition. Now it has strapped two dual-core chips together in a high performance system which can be had for less than US$1000.
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by Stan Beer
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In what is being described as one of its biggest and most strategic acquisitions ever, HP has agreed to pay US$4.5 billion for applications management software vendor Mercury Interactive. HP had previously been in a hotly contested bidding war for the company with storage vendor EMC.
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