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Judge Revokes Microsoft MP3 Ruling

There were a lot of relieved companies yesterday after a Federal jury dismissed all 19 of the claims made by Alcatel-Lucent, declaring that Microsoft didn’t infringe their patents. The previous ruling was made against Microsoft who were ordered to pay a whopping $1.5bn.
Glad to see that common sense prevails sometimes.
More: Zdnet

6Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Is Norton 360 Security Worth $79.99?

I was stunned to see that Symantec’s latest security offering, Norton 360 will cost $79.99. The service comes ‘packed’ with antivirus, antispyware and firewall technologies as well as backup features and several tune-up tools for Windows PCs. It also includes:
‘technologies to protect online transactions in addition to techniques to block traditional threats from [...]

28Feb2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Xbox 360 To Be Silenced Through Software Update?

Can one of my German readers translate this page for me please. According to Kotaku it says that the Xbox 360 is going to be made quieter through a software update. I really hope so as one of the reasons I don’t tend to use my Xbox 360 as an extender is becuase [...]

23Feb2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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22% Of Windows Installations “Non Genuine”

According to information released by Microsoft, 22% of systems validated using Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) proved non-genuine External Link.
Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent. 56,000 reports have been made by customers of counterfeit [...]

26Jan2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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What XP Did For Us

I toyed last night with installing Microsoft Vista RC1 or RC2 as my main operating system, given that the trial licence period would see me through until Vista is officially available to the general public. As I dithered over the decision, it made me realise how attached I’d become to Windows XP over the [...]

14Oct2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4Bn

Adobe is to buy Macromedia in a stock transaction valued at $3.4bn (£1.8bn) that will see the formation of a content-creation behemoth.The $3.4bn deal, expected to close by the end of the year, could signal the end of Fireworks, Freehand and GoLive
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18Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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