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Microsoft has released to the public a near-final version of a major update to its Windows XP operating system.
As of Wednesday, the ‘Release Candidate’ for Windows XP Service Pack 3 was available as a [...]

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La Canada Flintridge (CA) - Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, part of NASA’s Neart-Earth Object Program, who jokingly refer to themselves as “the Solar System Defense Team”, are tracking a 160 foot diameter asteroid that has a 1 in 75 chance of striking Mars. The asteroid, dubbed 2007 WD5, [...]

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Agrees TO SHARE DATA ON WINDOWS WITH GROUP
Microsoft, whose software powers about 95 percent of the world’s personal computers, reached an agreement on licensing terms that will allow open-source products to connect to the Windows operating system.
Microsoft will license proprietary information on how Windows shares files and printers with the non-profit Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, [...]

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Yahoo China lost another round in a legal battle as a court in Beijing upheld a ruling that the company is infringing on copyright laws by allowing pirated music to be downloaded, according to the industry group suing Yahoo China.
“The ruling against Yahoo China is extremely significant in clarifying copyright rules for Internet music services [...]

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Mozilla has announced the availability of Firefox 3.0 Beta 2, the second beta of the Firefox 3 open source browser.
New features in this Beta 2 release include:
* Enhanced location bar which matches against page titles and addresses from your local history, your bookmarks and your tags.
* Improvements to security, stability, compatibility and performance based in [...]

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Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc agreed to a settlement worth $31.5 million to resolve accusations that the companies promoted illegal Internet gambling, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
The companies were accused of receiving money from online gambling businesses to advertise illegal betting from 1997 through 2007.
As part of the settlement, the companies will [...]

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Can an untested Silicon Valley startup with the slightly embarrassing name Ribbit take on corporate giants like Microsoft and Avaya?
On Monday, Ribbit, based in Mountain View, Calif., will announce a telephone web service intended to make it possible for programmers to add telephone features to any Web page. This isn’t just a widget for talking [...]

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The Palm operating system may be losing ground, but it’s not dead yet. Today Verizon Wireless updated its lineup of Treo cell phone-PDAs with the Treo 755p, an EVDO smartphone based on version 5.4.9 of the Palm operating system. Sprint has had the 755p in metallic red and blue since last spring; Verizon’s version is [...]

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However, the company has yet to begin production on the set.
A top Samsung executive says the next wave of High-Definition TVs will offer eight times the picture resolution.
That’s according to an article by The New York Times.
Scott Birnbaum, a Samsung vice president for LCD sales, says his company expects to produce displays that offer a [...]

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