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Amazon Says Thanks For 10 Years

World e-tailer Amazon has announced plans for celebrating its up coming tenth birthday. As a way of saying thanks to the millions of users who’ve bought from the company, they will be hosting a concert with music from Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Add comment

Google Goes Head to Head With PayPal

[url=http://www.reuters.com]Reuters[/url] is reporting that Google is planning to offer an internet service similar to PayPal. Add comment

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent. Add comment

Sun begins open-source Solaris era

Sun Microsystems has released Solaris as open-source software, a move that's central to the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend off rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. Add comment

Hacker Breaches Credit Card Database In Arizona

Mastercard has said that over 40 million card accounts were exposed to potential fraud last Friday due to a security breach that occurred at a third-party processor of payment card transactions. Add comment

ratDVD: The best way to distribute DVDs online?

OCCASIONALLY, some software crops up on the Interweb and you're amazed. Add comment

Oz court case exposes lack of fairness

An Australian teen is being prosecuted for having alleged to have linked to the MP3 WMA Land site. Add comment

Guitar Hero rocks out soundtrack

Red Octane strums out partial list of songs to be included in the guitar sim; Jimi, Red Hots, and Sabbath among them. Add comment

Debate over game violence boils over in Japan

Osaka Prefecture becomes third area in Japan to join the ban on "violent" video games to minors; retailers irked by GTAIII ban in Kanagawa. Add comment

NEW ForceWare 77.40 Beta 64-Bit

Another new set of Nvidia ForceWare drivers has hit the web today in the shape of 77.40 Beta for Windows XP x64. Add comment

Adobe Releases 7.0.2 Patch For Acrobat And Reader

Adobe yesterday released patches for security vulnerabilities found in Adobe Reader 7.0 and 7.0.1, and in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and 7.0.1. Add comment

Microsoft To Train Bangladesh Youths

[url=http://www.businessweek.com]BusinessWeek[/url] is reporting that Microsoft will provide computer training to more than 2,000 disadvantaged youths in rural Bangladesh over the next year. Add comment

Microsoft Shares More Clues About Longhorn Server

Microsoft is continuing to drop new clues about what users can expect in Longhorn Server, the version of its Windows Server product slated to ship in 2007. Add comment

NEW ForceWare 72.14 WHQL for MCE

A new set of ForceWare drivers have made it onto the web today in the shape of 72.14 WHQL for Windows XP Media Center Edition. They should also however work just fine on Windows 2000 and XP. Add comment

NEW DivX 6 Released

A new version of the popular codec DivX has been officially released. Add comment

Microsoft Sues U.S. Stores Over Pirated Software

Microsoft sued four small software retailers in California and Virginia on Wednesday for selling pirated software. Add comment

XP May Catch Up to Win 2000 by Year’s End

Windows 2000 remains the dominant desktop operating system in corporate IT, but it could be overtaken by the end of the year as larger organizations update their PC inventory, according to a new report by AssetMetrix Research Labs. Add comment

PC Makers Snub Windows Without Media Player

Four major PC makers have no plans to sell the media-player-free version of Windows, which Microsoft was ordered to offer by Europe's competition commissioner. Add comment

Microsoft China Blocks Words ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’

The users of Microsoft's new China-based internet portal were recently blocked from using the words ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘human rights’ in a move by the software giant to please Beijing. Add comment

Battlefield 2 Demo Review & Tweak Guide

A couple of articles relating to the recent release of the [url=http://www.short-media.com/extendednews.php?n=3673]Battlefield 2 Demo[/url] have hit the web today. The first is from [url=http://www.firingsquad.com]Firingsquad[/url] which reviews the demo. The second is a tweak guide, from yes you've guessed it, [url=http://www.tweakguides.com]Tweakguides.com[/url]. Add comment

NEW ForceWare 77.50 Beta

Hot on the heels of the recently made available [url=http://www.short-media.com/extendednews.php?n=3672]77.30's[/url], an even newer set of Nvidia ForceWare drivers for Windows 2000 and XP has hit the web. Add comment