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Mozilla launches Firefox 3.5, claims using Internet Explorer is so - HEXUS.net
Mozilla has released the final version of its Firefox 3.5 browser, following a number of beta releases over the past nine months. The browser, available to download at Mozilla.com

BA saves £2m as tech staff work for free - ZDNet UK
IT workers at British Airways have saved the company more than £2m by working for free or taking unpaid leave amid forecasts of a slump in airline IT spend this year. Techies were

Sun’s VirtualBox 3.0 exits betaland - Channel Register
Only two weeks ago, Sun Microsystems quietly kicked out two quick betas of its VirtualBox 3.0 desktop and sometimes server-virtualization hypervisor, and today, the product is

trouble cd booting - Amiga World
Hello, today i wake up and i decide to install a third linux version on my amigaone..this time Squeeze unfurtunately my cdrom player don’t work well anymore so it refuse to boot

Brother HL-5370DW printer review - PC Advisor
Brother’s HL-5370DW monochrome laser printer may be slow, but it’s an economical choice for home use or for a small workgroup. The Brother HL-5370DW is inexpensive; it has lots of

Stallman warns of Mono ‘risk’ - ZDNet UK
GNU project founder Richard Stallman has called on developers to pull back from Mono, arguing that increasing use of the open-source toolset could prompt legal action by Microsoft

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How to prevent a computer disaster - This is Money
With home computers increasingly becoming a ‘life-storage’ facility, holding family photographs, music and TV downloads, as well as CVs and financial spreadsheets, the financial

Sonnet drops Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 price by $100 - MacWorld UK
Sonnet Technologies has announced that it has reduced the price of its Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 to $199.95, cutting the price by $100. What’s claimed to be the fastest 2-port

Ovi Suite 2.0 in beta, unifies desktop experience - All About Symbian
A beta version of Ovi Suite 2.0 , Nokia’s new look application for Windows PCs, has been made available via Nokia Beta Labs. The beta version, which is Qt based, is ‘totally new

Security Research: Jailbroken iPhones leave users more vulnerable - MacWorld UK
Jailbreaking an iPhone leaves users vulnerable to attack by stripping away most of the handset’s security protections, a security researcher warned on Thursday. “If you care about

Apple to patch Apple iPhone SMS flaw - PC Advisor
But iPhone is more secure than Mac OS X - Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root

Going private is the way to go for shy companies-Barron’s - The Guardian
NEW YORK, June 28 (Reuters) - A column in Barron’s suggested that companies go private if they were hesitant to reveal any details about their business. One example it discussed

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STOCKS NEWS US-Markets open lower as investors doubt recovery - Reuters UK
Major U.S. indexes opened lower on Monday, as investors assessed the potential strength of an economic recovery, while energy shares were pressured by lower oil prices. The Dow

Your guide to the BBC News Pop-up Player - BBC News
The BBC News (pop-up) Player is a Watch or Listen icon which launches a player in a separate internet window and requires Real Player or Window Media Player to work. Please bear in

Steve Jobs - the man at Apple’s core - BBC Technology
As news breaks that Apple boss Steve Jobs has had a liver transplant, Maggie Shiels looks at what might happen when he returns to work. Apple refused to comment on the story in the

STOCKS NEWS US-Walgreen results weigh on peers in premarket - Reuters UK
Shares of drug store companies fell in premarket trading on Monday, after Walgreen ( WAG.N ) reported third-quarter earnings that missed expectations. The company’s results were

Apple boss Steve Jobs back at work - PC Advisor
CNBC’s Jim Goldman said the Mac guru reported for duty at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters on Monday. Goldman said he met a wall of silence when asking the company’s PR machine about

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Big Brother reaches a new low as Noirin licks glamour girl Sophie’s - Daily Mail
After spending the last few weeks living on top of each other the Big Brother housemates might have thought they couldn’t get any closer. But they reached a whole new level of

Allardyce returns to Bolton Wanderers with £5million bid? - FansFC.com
Blackburn Rovers Football Club have been linked with Kevin Davies. Rovers boss Sam Allardyce signed the powerful forward for Bolton Wanderers in 2003, and the 32-year-old has since

The sisters - The Guardian
Alittle over 100 years ago, a daughter was born to Winchester schoolmaster Archie Wilson and his wife, Ethel, and they named her Jean. Three months ago she celebrated her birthday

Labour hamstrung by broken treaty promise - Times Online
I doubt whether Gordon Brown’s interview with The Guardian was intended to smoothe the way for his early retirement, but it has been taken that way, particularly by other

Afghan firefight shows challenge for US troops - The Guardian
Associated Press Writer= NOW ZAD, Afghanistan (AP) â?? Missiles, machine guns and strafing runs from fighter jets destroyed much of a Taliban compound, but the insurgents had a

5 Literary Walks: Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh - Times Online
Ian Rankin leads the way down a dark, stone stairway into the bowels of his city. He takes a turn, passes under the massive stone arch of a bridge and, after walking another 50

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SP 2 supports ECP3-70 and ECP-95 devices - Electronics Talk
SP2 is an important update for users of LatticeECP3 devices and also includes support for new LatticeXP2 devices. Mike Kendrick, manager of software-product planning at Lattice

Microsoft’s Windows 7 price gamble opens door to Linux - Channel Register
Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth is itching for a clean fight with Microsoft on netbooks. Shuttleworth once told The Reg he can’t wait for Windows 7 on this sub-laptop class of

Red Hat releases Fedora 11 - ZDNet UK
Red Hat has officially released Fedora 11, a Linux distribution for developers that is a testbed for features for its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product. The new

Snow Leopard to boot Windows out of the enterprise? - PC Advisor
It could be that a real battle is brewing between operating systems. Apple will fire first by releasing Mac OS X 10.6, known as Snow Leopard, in September. Microsoft’s response

X3: Terran Conflict - gamesindustry.biz
EGOSOFT, a renowned developer of acclaimed computer games for PC, Mac and Linux, announced today that the 2.1 update patch for X3: Terran Conflict is now available for download

Who’s Online - Amiga World
No I am not bashing anything, but the joint work gone into the site, from daniel and myself has brought a valid web site for most broswers. So If MSIE can not view transparencies

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