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Netbooks: Small, Cheap -- and Fast? (PC World)
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PC World - Linux distributor Good OS and BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies each have plans to make netbooks speedier devices, the vendors said at the Netbook World Summit in Paris on Monday.
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Estonian ISP Cuts off Control Servers for Srizbi Botnet (PC World)
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PC World - An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts.
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A Bold Proposal to Curb Retail Video Games Shrinkage (PC World)
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PC World - What if a game had to be activated at the store before you could use it?
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Yahoo shares climb on news of possible buyout bid (AP)
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AP - Yahoo's stock surged more than 6 percent Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive is trying to raise enough money to buy all or part of the struggling Internet company.
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Memo to Microsoft: Enough With The Bribery (PC World)
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PC World - Microsoft is trying to sweeten the deal in its bribery -- er, sorry, promotion -- to get you to use its Live.com search engine. The company has just announced plans to make its Cashback program even more instant. Am I the only...
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Nokia device to challenge RIM and Apple next year (AP)
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AP - Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is launching a new phone next year that is designed to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerrys at the high end of the market.
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Sierra Wireless to Buy Wavecom (PC World)
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PC World - Sierra Wireless, a maker of networking cards for PCs and other devices, has agreed to acquire French M2M (machine-to-machine) wireless vendor Wavecom for €218 million (US$275 million).
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Unisys Exec Takes Helm of Open Solutions Alliance (PC World)
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PC World - The Open Solutions Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that pushes for the adoption and interoperability of open-source software, has named an executive of the giant systems integrator Unisys as its new president.
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Singapore's StarHub Offers Femtocell Service (PC World)
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PC World - Singaporean operator StarHub is rolling out a femtocell service that allows mobile subscribers to make calls at home using their broadband Internet connections instead of the cellular network.
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Murdoch biographer: MySpace is for '(expletive) cretins' (CNET)
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CNET - Michael Wolff, whose new, lascivious Rupert Murdoch bio The Man Who Owns The News has taken the New York media industry by storm, stirred up some social-networking class warfare in an interview Monday with BusinessWeek's Jon Fine.
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Rockstar Using SecuROM for PC Grand Theft Auto IV (PC World)
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PC World - Thou shalt not offend law-abiding computer gamers with frivolous strictures, I think that's a commandment somewhere. Whether CD/DVD copy protection tool SecuROM counts as frivolous, feckless, or downright frightening is debata...
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Microsoft Releases Next Wave of Windows Live Services (PC World)
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PC World - Microsoft has released a new wave of Windows Live services that adds more social-networking qualities to its set of online services.
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Open-source Developers Set out Software Road Map for 2020 (PC World)
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PC World - A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday.
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In Mumbai, Bloggers and Twitter Offer Help to Relatives (PC World)
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PC World - Bloggers pitched in offering information and other help to people worldwide as Indian police and commandos battled it out Thursday with armed terrorists in two top hotels and a residential complex in south Mumbai.
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Tech Sells on Black Friday (PC World)
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PC World - The Nintendo Wii was the number one selling item this Black Friday, and tech sales in general blasted through grim economic expectations.
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