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Article | 14/05/2008 Guinness confirms: GTA IV decidedly breaks records
A week after Take-Two first announced that GTA IV had broken launch day records, the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed on Tuesday.
Article | 14/05/2008 Pioneer to end Plasma display production
Japan's Pioneer plans to end production of plasma display panels as part of a restructuring program to return its operations to profit, it announced t...
Article | 14/05/2008 Facebook targeted by dodgy loan adverts
Facebook is accused of publishing rule-breaking adverts that push expensive loans to young people, it has emerged.
Article | 13/05/2008 'Sopranos', HBO shows whack flat-fee pricing on iTunes
Apple said Tuesday it is adding episodes from HBO's original programming to its pay-to-view iTunes online store, and will charge US$1 more than the us...
Article | 14/05/2008 New IBM blade billed as supercomputer for the average IT Joe
IBM Tuesday unveiled a new blade server based on the Cell chip that was originally designed to run a video game console.
Article | 14/05/2008 Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tue...
Article | 13/05/2008 LG launches 3G Prada phone
A year after it first went on sale, LG has unveiled a 3G WCDMA version of its Prada phone.
Article | 13/05/2008 ACS supports privacy laws, calls for e-mail safeguards
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on government to enforce rigid privacy laws on organisations which intercept employee e-mails.
Article | 13/05/2008 BlackBerry show fans high hopes
This week's annual conference for BlackBerry users comes at a critical time for the device's creator, Research in Motion.
Article | 9/05/2008 Microsoft's answer to Google Sky to launch at end of May
Microsoft will launch Worldwide Telescope, a tool for exploring images of the night sky, by the end of May, free to anyone who wants to use it, Micros...
Article | 9/05/2008 Microsoft talks up using printers to make drugs
In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model of health care, a top Mic...
Article | 13/05/2008 New Google Friend Connect tool helps sites be more friendly
Google is introducing a Web site tool called Friend Connect today that promises to extend the reach of social networks such as Facebook to any site th...
Article | 13/05/2008 NEC's rugged notebook ships overseas
NEC's rugged ShieldPro laptops are made to survive rough treatment but the biggest challenge is about to come: battling more established competitors i...
Article | 13/05/2008 Cellcrypt touts ultra-secure mobile calls
UK stealth mode startup Cellcrypt has started touting a new encryption system that sets out to solve a security problem most companies would rather no...
Article | 13/05/2008 Hackers create their own social network
Hackers now have their own social network, backed by GnuCitizen, a high-profile "ethical hacking" group.
Article | 13/05/2008 RIM's BlackBerry Bold beats Apple to the 3G punch
Amid swirling rumours about the impending announcement of a 3G iPhone, Research in Motion today introduced its slickest, speediest, most powerful, and...
Article | 13/05/2008 Google steps into data portability dance
Google is releasing a preview version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social networking features to their sites.
Article | 13/05/2008 iPhone out of stock 'company wide,' say Apple sales reps
The iPhone is out-of-stock "company wide," Apple sales representatives said Sunday. The outage has fueled rumors that the next-generation 3G model wil...
Article | 13/05/2008 Mozilla slates Firefox 3.0 RC1 for late May
Mozilla announced that it has stopped making changes to the first release candidate of Firefox 3.0 and is working to get that build to users by the en...
Article | 13/05/2008 Hackers hijack a half-million sites in latest attack
More than half a million Web sites have been compromised in a new round of attacks that hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users' PCs with...

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