PSA: The Computer Maintenance Department Scam Calls
Have you been getting those calls from people working in a call center from what sounds like India? You know, those people who claim to be from either the ...
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Microsoft Acquires Skype, Plans to Support Xbox, Kinect
Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a variety of Windows devices. Microsoft will also connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, ...
REPORT: Solution to Piracy is Lower Prices
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies argues that piracy can best be seen as a "failure of affordable access." Says that in countries like Brazil, Russia, or South Africa retail ...
Software Developers Try Lower Prices to Fight Chinese Pirates
Some finally realize it doesn't make sense to charge nearly US-style prices in a country with a paltry per capita GDP of $6,600 compared to $46,000 in the US.
The one ...
Halo Leaked on BitTorrent
The newest version of 'Halo Reach' has been leaked on many BitTorrent trackers. Hackers find a way to trick Microsoft's Xbox Live servers into allowing the game to be ...
Report – Windows 7 is ‘Practically Made for Pirates’
We're not entirely sure who would be more upset, copyright holders who have been desperately trying to install a three strikes regime everywhere in the world or Microsoft after they ...
Study: Windows costs $21.50 extra in “patent tax”
According to a calculation done by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLA), users of Microsoft Windows are paying as much as $21.50 more for each copy of the operating system ...
‘Microsoft sucks’, says top blogger
MICROSOFT’s formerly tame blogger has bitten the software company that made his name when it employed him as a “technology evangelist”.
Robert Scoble writes the Scobleizer web log, one ...
Gates sees a home server in your future
Having helped get PCs into most American's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server.
As part of his keynote address Sunday at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, ...
Why Vista might be the last of its kind
Imagine this: ne of the world's most powerful monopolies puts 10,000 people to work for five years to create one new product, and nobody is really sure if ...
iPod Video and Zune Compatible Video Glasses
Although quite modern and sleek looking, these video glasses could gain you more than looks from onlookers, maybe even some jealousy. Convenient movie watching with these lightweight (4.2 oz.) ...
Microsoft releases Vista to businesses
Microsoft Corp launched its first new computer operating system in five years Thursday, saying that despite delays, the product's emergence is perfectly timed for PC users who increasingly ...
Microsoft to pay Universal Music royalties on new Zune player
Microsoft and Universal Music have announced a new deal with one another that allows Microsoft to begin offering selections from Universal Music's vast musical library for download on its ...
Microsoft Plans Release for Office 2007
Microsoft has announced the completion of Office 2007 and will offer the software package on November 30th. Microsoft is also releasing the Vista OS and 2007 Exchange Server to ...
Microsoft completes Office 2007
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it has completed the software code for its Office 2007 suite and will begin to offer the world's most popular package of desktop software to ...
Microsoft among targets in online privacy complaint
Technologies used by Microsoft and other online advertising outfits to analyze user behavior threaten privacy and must be curbed, a pair of advocacy groups said Wednesday.
The Washington-based U.S. Public Interest ...
Windows XP Firewall Hack Released
Security researchers say hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable the built-in firewall on computers running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.
The code, which has been available on ...
Older Consoles Lift Game Publishers
The buzz in videogames is all about new hardware, including the imminent launch of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co.'s Wii consoles, along with the prospects for Microsoft Corp.'s ...
Microsoft takes legal moves against auction pirates
Microsoft Corp said today it is preparing 55 legal actions worldwide against sellers on auction sites who are hawking illegal copies of the company's software.
The actions are a mix of ...
Microsoft is banning 360 firmware modders
After several months of silence it was more or less accepted that Microsoft wasn’t going to do anything about the firmware hacks that allow Xbox 360s to play backups. Rather ...
