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Dell Recalls 4.1 million batteries because of fire threat

Dell is recalling 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could erupt in flames, the company said today. This will be the largest safety recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry.

 

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Google Code Jam

Think you can compete with the world's top programmers?
Here's your chance to prove it, compete in the Google Code Jam 2006 competition and show who's best.

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Microsoft

Microsoft to Tighten the Genuine Advantage Screws

Microsoft is expanding its anti-piracy program, by building more 'Genuine' checks directly into Windows Vista, and is expanding the program to target not just consumers, but PC makers and system builders.

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Google to continue storing search requests despite AOL

A security breakdown, disclosed earlier this week, publicly exposed about 19 million search requests made by more than 658,000 AOL subscribers during the three months ended in May.

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said the privacy concerns raised by storing search requests won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.

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One In Three Users Are Victims of Viruses, Spyware, or Phishers

The odds of becoming a victim of viruses, spyware, or phishing in 2006 are about one in three, Consumer Reports said Tuesday in its annual report on the Internet. Read More
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Web 2.0 trends

According to Gartner, AJAX, mashups, location-aware software and sensor mesh networking are among the key emerging technologies set to have a significant impact on businesses over the next 10 years.

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The battle between Vista and Leopard

With the many delays that plague Microsoft Vista and the recently announced new version of the Mac OS X operating system Leopard the battle between the two operating systems has begun.

 

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Microsoft about the third dimension in search technologies

Microsoft scientists have some new techniques for analyzing search relevance that can improve the algorithms used to rank results

 

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Apples Time Machine

Apples upcoming operating system, Leopard, will feature a backup system with a brilliant name: Time Machine. This new feature lets uses an inovative interface to let users search for the last time they saved a document, picture or any other file on their Mac.

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Adobe

10 Years of Flash, Adobe looks ahead

Adobe Systems celebrates the 10th anniversary of Flash. The company is trying to make Flash more of a general-purpose application development platform, one that focuses on video delivery, applications for mobile devices, and Web applications that run outside the browser. 

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