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Microsoft Corp. has filed 117 lawsuits against unknown Internet site operators who used “phishing” schemes to obtain personal and financial information from unsuspecting consumers, the world’s largest software maker said on Thursday. Often scam artists pose as banks or other legitimate businesses, sending out millions of e-mails or pop-up Web advertisements with requests that the [...]

Starting today, you too can be a next-generation optical disc pirate. MemoryTech is the first company to introduce a low-cost HD DVD production unit with support for all HD DVD formats. They haven’t said how much it will cost, but it is reportedly the “first system for mass production facilities that supports the full HD [...]

I had thought, perhaps, that the TiVo users were getting a bit worked up over the TiVo pop-up ads that are in testing, because last I heard they only take up a quarter of the screen. Matt Haughey took this found this picture of it in action, though, and now I get the ire. That’s [...]

Now Google’s faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. The search engine takes advantage of Mozilla’s precaching technology to load the top search result as soon as the results page is displayed which allows for near instant load times for your top search results. This is not currently available in IE or other browsers.
With [...]

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it has released a number of 64-bit operating systems to manufacturing, including Windows XP Professional, in time for a scheduled release in late April.
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Has Microsoft killed production of the Xbox in anticipation of the launch of the
Xbox 360 later this year? Microsoft revealed last week
that there was indeed a shortage of the consoles because of their “surging popularity” (hmmmm…), but now SPOnG is
“confirming” that Microsoft has ended production of the orginal Xbox altogether and isn’t planning on making [...]

Turns out there is a very unfortunate downside to using a biometric fingerprint scanner to lock and unlock
your car doors: when thieves want to steal your car they’ll simply cut off the necessary digit and go to town. Which is
exactly what happpened to an accountant in Malaysia by the name of K Kumaran who was [...]

On Tuesday, Intel unveiled its high-end “Truland” platform, which consists of the first 64-bit Xeon MPs and the new E8500 chipset.
feedburner.com

Eidos announces that LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game for PS2, PC, and GBA is shipping to stores across North America and will be in stores Saturday.
warcry.com

LONDON, 30 March, 2005 – The countdown has begun to the release of ‘24: The Game’ on PlayStation 2. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced an exclusive licence deal with Twentieth Century Fox to bring the acclaimed show ‘24’ onto PlayStation 2. Set to become the biggest action adventure game of the year, ‘24: The [...]