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Microsoft on Tuesday launched the second edition of its consumer-oriented Windows XP Media Center Edition.
Called Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, the operating system was designed in conjunction with hardware providers for integrated digital entertainment centers, facilitating music downloads and movie subscriptions among other entertainment-oriented features.
Hardware companies rolling out XP Media Center-based systems, some [...]

The graphics company announces faster versions of its cards and a deal that will bundle Half-Life 2 with the new cards.
ATI today announced its newest graphics cards, the Radeon 9800 XT and Radeon 9600 XT. Both are faster versions of the current Radeon 9800 Pro and 9600 Pro and are scheduled to be in stores [...]

Hollywood’s major film studios announced on Tuesday they are ending their long-held practice of sending videotapes and DVDs of Oscar contending movies to Academy Award voters in a bid to thwart copyright piracy.
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Reuters - Cable operator Cox Communications Inc. will make high definition television channels available in 85 percent of its market by the end of the year, Chief Executive Jim Robbins said on Tuesday.
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“On the same day New Zealand IT industry heavyweights filed an objection to Amazon’s bid to extend its “1-Click” patent to New Zealand, Amazon was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,629,079 for conducting e-commerce using multiple shopping carts, whose inventive features include the addition of items to multiple shopping carts with only two mouse clicks.” [...]

Gannett News is running a story about David Bradley, the IBM engineer who, in 1980, coined Ctrl-Alt-Del. Interestingly, he meant for it to remain a developer-only tool, not something for end users, and certainly not to have Windows users change their passwords or logoff. He also says he chose those keys specifically as it’s not [...]

Whether they’re surfing cyberspace or getting homework help, playing games or listening to Internet radio, today’s “wired youth” are going online more often, spending an average of four days a week on the Internet. According to a recent America Online/Digital Marketing Services, Inc. online survey conducted in Opinion Place among more than 2,000 kids aged [...]

As Austin “Danger” Powers would say… “Do these make you Horny!” Yes, they are very hot looking and sexxxxxyy..
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Microsoft and Gearbox have covertly released a patch for Halo: Combat Evolved, a PC first-person shooter (like you didn’t know already) due for release today in the US of A. This 3.67MB updates only strings.dll and the Halo.exe but apart from that, specific changes are not mentioned.
You can either download through the in-game auto-updater (that [...]