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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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Conde Nast to shutter teen site Flip.com (CNET)
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CNET - Conde Nast is throwing in the towel on Flip.com.
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Say It Ain't So: Apple Encourages Antivirus Software (PC World)
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PC World - After years of belittling-and rightfully so-Windows' lame security, Apple is quietly "encouraging" OSX users to try a little protection themselves. In a brief knowledge base article on its support site, Apple suggests that run...
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Chinese City Requires Net Cafes to Use Legitimate Software (PC World)
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PC World - Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province, has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated server software with licensed versions. Cafes that don't will lose their license to operate, but some are grumb...
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Clearwire, Sprint Close WiMax Deal (PC World)
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PC World - Sprint Nextel and wireless wide-area network operator Clearwire have completed a deal to create a new company and build a nationwide WiMax network with help from Intel, Google and three cable operators.
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Mobile Handset Market to Shrink in 2009, Says ISuppli (PC World)
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PC World - The global cell phone handset market will contract next year as consumers hang on to their handsets longer amid tough economic times, market-research company iSuppli said Wednesday.
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Oracle Contributes Data-integrity Code to Linux Kernel (PC World)
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PC World - Oracle has contributed data-integrity protection code, partly developed with the hardware vendor Emulex, to the Linux kernel, the vendors announced Tuesday.
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Britney Spears: More Interesting than Barack Obama? (PC World)
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PC World - Just when you thought she had disappeared into relative obscurity, Britney Spears is back. On Yahoo's recently-released list of the top 10 searches of 2008, Britney Spears takes the cake. In this election year, Spears managed ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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