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WIndows 7 finally out

hungarian33 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:02:34 -0800

Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time.

Book Reports

lear0524 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:26:35 -0800

Essayontime offers strong and incisive academic writing that is tailored to fit the precise area of research students desire.

Apple cuts copy protection on iTunes

petergusztav — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:43:51 -0800

Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection.

Wikipedia makes 6 million U.S. tax free

hungarian33 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:52:21 -0800

The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said Friday it has met its $6 million fundraising goal for fiscal 2008.

Facebook to start having nudity?

hungarian33 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:45:14 -0800

Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies.

Chinese Software pirates get jail sentance

facebook — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:40 -0800

The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least $2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft Corp.

Urbanbaby.com going down big time ??

funnymonkey — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:14:11 -0800

Internet startup UrbanBaby.com was very successful in its infancy.

That was until it tried to change its website and got spanked by its users.

Largest E-Shopping site to open in China

funnymonkey — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:54:36 -0800

A new Internet shopping mall is opening in China next month that will take payments in the widely used China UnionPay Co. cards for Japanese products, company officials said Friday.

Wal-Mart to start selling iPhones

funnymonkey — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:29:40 -0800

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it will start selling Apple Inc's iPhone on Sunday, but the popular cell phones that can surf the web will not be priced as low as some anticipated.

Nintendo Wii to offer movies as wll

funnymonkey — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:58:59 -0800

Dentsu Inc, Japan's largest ad agency, said it would team up with game maker Nintendo Co Ltd to launch a video distribution service on Nintendo's wildly popular Wii console.