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Microsoft has been gauging public reaction to a possible ‘Xbox Next PC’ device, encompassing current and next-gen Xbox and PC software support and multimedia functionality.
Microsoft has been using a Californian market research group to conduct studies into the consumer appeal of a hybrid Xbox and PC gaming device, according to CNN/Money’s latest Game Over column.

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We are all familiar with the google bombs, while this may not be new, I thought I’ll post it down (write it down… does that work?) anyway. We all remember the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” search term that leaad to this funny page. For those of you who are not familiar with it type in
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Atari and Stormfront Studios, under license from Hasbro, Inc., have announced plans to develop Forgotten Realms®: Demon Stone™, an action adventure game set in the popular Dungeons & Dragons® world. Designed by Stormfront Studios, creators of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Demon Stone will now be available for the Xbox® videogame system
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Security software maker Zone Labs updated its desktop firewall, adding new features that aim to block viruses. The antivirus features will be offered in the commercial version of its basic free product, Zone Alarm, and as part of a comprehensive security suite, said Fred Felman, vice president of marketing of Zone Labs, an independent
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Apple Computer confirmed that it is splitting the company into two divisions, one focused on the Mac and the other focused on iPod digital music player.
An Apple representative confirmed the move, which was first reported on Wednesday in the New York Times. John Rubinstein, the senior vice president who currently heads all hardware development,
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Remember those times, while coding or designing when you need to define a specific property but just can’t remember the exact name or syntax? If you have memory shortages, you do. So just to make things easy, here is a quick reference to all CSS properties. If you design a CSS template you might want
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Anyone who went to Apple’s site to watch the trailer for the new Pixar movie ‘The Incredibles,’ might have noticed something interesting. Now instead of ‘Quicktime Required’, the site says ‘iTunes 4.5 Required.’. Quicktime is the codec library (and more) that happens to power iTunes, and is installed together with iTunes. But you don’t
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Hardened-PHP is the first public patch for PHP which adds security hardening features. It is meant as a proactive approach to protect servers against known and yet unknown weaknesses within PHP scripts or the engine itself. It enforces restrictions on include statements, adds canary protection to allocated memory and other internal structures and protects against
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Opera Software released a new version (7.50) of its Web browser, an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer favored by some advanced users. Why does advanced users do not use Mozilla, is beyond me, but they might have their own secretive reasons or they got burned by old versions of Netscape (for some, choosing a
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Users of Moveable Type already know about the recent changes made to the free edition of the software and license. Now, you can have only ONE user, no more group blogging, no more guest posting. If you want of get the full version you need to shell out $69.95 and thats the introductory price the
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The leading web search engine, Google, that attracted a loyal following in part because its simple Web site is uncluttered by obtrusive graphical banner ads, has now decided to sell the sort of ads it scorned.
The graphic ads will not appear on Google.com for now. But they will appear on the sites of other Web
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The U.S. Department of Energy has unveiled a new plan toward realizing its grand ambition of building the world’s fastest computer. It will provide US$25 million in funding to three private-sector development partners: Cray , IBM and Silicon Graphics .
Their mission? To build a 50 teraflop (50 trillion calculations per second) science research supercomputer
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This is a treat for designer and everyone who loves to have fun with fonts. searchfreefonts.com features a huge index of font created by designers from all over the world. Most of the fonts are in English, though it’s possible to find fonts also in other various languages. If you created any fonts yourself you
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Sony extended its Vaio brand of computers to include a new digital music/video player. The Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1 contains a 20GB hard drive, and marks a major shift in Sony’s portable music strategy, which to date has centred on solid-state and MiniDisc Walkman products.
The new player sports a 2.2in, 320 X 256 26,000-colour LCD and
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Deciding piracy is a lesser evil than potential virus contamination, Microsoft has decided to allow all XP customers, whether using a legitimate or pirated copy, the right to run Windows XP Service Pack 2 when it ships later this summer. As some of you may know, this wasn’t the case with XP SP1. “It
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Bad new to eMule user. The eMule software can be crashed by remote users sending a variety of malformed requests.
It is reported that a remote user can send a series of specially crafted requests to cause the eMule service to crash. The requests include a negative Content-Length POST request, GET requests with many characters and/or
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There is a report out there stating that Apple is adding a second iPod supplier. Ji-Haw will join existing supplier Cheng Uei Precision (Foxlink tradename) as a supplier of the successful music player.
According to the write up, Ji-Haw will commence shipments in the June-July time frame. The aim of adding a second supplier is to
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Mac and Back is a tale of a person moving from PC to Mac and back again, or actually the story only begins with his coming back to PC. On his earlier journey he fell in love with the mac and became a full fledged mac supporter. Now he moved back to PC and so
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Plaxo is a software designed to keep your address book updated and make it essier for you and your “contacts” update eachothers details.
When using Plaxo you will be prompted to choose which people from your address book you want to get updated contact information from. Plaxo, on your behalf, sends a simple email message to
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The 18-year-old German who confessed to creating the “Sasser” computer worm launched a new version meant to limit the damage just before his arrest last week, investigators said Monday.
Authorities who have questioned Sven Jaschan got the impression his motive was to gain fame as a programmer or tried to drum up business for his mother’s
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Seems like Microsoft is trying a new approach in its dealing with its old time rival - Apple. Have a look at Microsoft’s new patent and you decide what is it really.

Rob Enderle discuss the idea of Apple leaving the PC market and concentrating in the consumer electronics and other markets. Is this even comprehendible? The innovative, sleek Macintosh gone?

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, is expected to unveil the next version of the Apple Operating System, codenamed Tiger, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference next month. This new release will bring the Apple Operating System up to version 10.4.
Mac OS X is developed around an open source UNIX operating system, which uses BSD standard high
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I’ve been asked today about using SSI’s so here’s a very breif eplanation and example.
Many things can be done with SSI, upto the level of a mini scripting language but we will not go that far. Actually the only part of SSI I will discuss now is the inclusion of a second (or more) file
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WORM_SASSER is still big news and it’s not as nearly contained as we hope.
It was first detected on May 1, 2004, and variants A through D have been under detection since May 3, 2004. This worm is regardedas high risk to Windows users. It can cause LSASS to crash and force Windows to restart.
The
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