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How much can artists expect to benefit from Microsoft's Zune MP3 player?Microsoft recently agreed to pay a royalty to Universal Music, which with acts like U2 and Jay-Z is the world's most successful label, of more than $1 for each sale of each Zune sold.Universal promised it would "pay half of what it receives on the devices to its artists." But is that really going to happen? Given my

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Zone Labs, a division of Check Point Software Technologies, is planning to release tomorrow a public beta for ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7.0. This is the upgrade to the 6.0 product, which ranked sixth in our All-in-One Security suite round-up earlier this year. While we haven’t looked at it yet, version 7.0 looks promising since Zone Labs is integrating the top-performing Kaspersky

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Citibank Singapore is offering a new way for credit-card holders to make payments -- using their fingerprints instead of credit cards.Citibank this month began rolling out biometric payment systems in Singapore that allow Citibank Clear Platinum credit card holders to pay using their fingerprints. "It's an investment for our future," said Anand Cavale, vice president and business director of

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Toshiba plans to release in January an 8GB high-speed Secure Digital (SD) memory card, according to Martyn Williams, IDG News Service colleague reporting from Tokyo.The card will support the "class 4" high-speed data writing specification of the SD Card Association and be able to record data at 6 megabits per second, say Toshiba representatives. That kind of speed plus the high capacity of the

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Four weeks after beating Wall Street estimates for financial earnings, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will lay off 375 workers, according to published reports.The move will weed out redundant positions caused by AMD's acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies on October 25, analysts said. It could also give AMD extra resources in its competition with rival Intel. The layoffs were

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Yes, it's 1999 all over again. Web start-ups are cropping up with names like Bebo, Squidoo and Moblabber. Start-ups like YouTube, less than a year old and unprofitable, are being sold for $1.65 billion. And the business plan known as Free has returned. You know, "We lose money on every transaction, but we'll make it up in volume."One of the most surprising participants in Web Bubble 2.0 is AOL,

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Did you ever wonder what different types of effect certain fruits had on your body? I did a little research on Bananas and found some pretty interesting facts. Some of these facts could possibly help you live a healthier and longer life.Anaemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of haemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anaemia.Blood Pressure: This unique tropical

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Google has made available a new "Click-to-Call" service that will automatically connect users to business phone listings found via Google search results.In order for this feature to function, the user must provide their telephone number so that Google can bridge the free call between the business and the user (including long distance calls).An obvious issue with such a service is that there is no

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Making the leap to HDTV is a no brainer: Go to the superstore, settle on a size, pick a model with the best picture for the price, and pay the cashier. Piece of cake, right? Wrong. For lots of reasons. Like how do you know if you’re getting the highest definition picture possible. Or whether that hi-def DVD player you’re thinking of buying as well will connect properly to your new HDTV. Knowing

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Kentucky Fried Chicken reckons it's the first company whose logo is visible from space after piecing together a huge mosaic of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert.The pic of the Colonel comprises 65,000 one-foot-square painted tiles laid out on a plot near Rachel, Nevada. Gone is Sanders' traditional suit, replaced by a with-it and happening red apron.Black helicopter aficionados among you will

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Read Sony’s explanation of PS3, Blu-ray and HDTV. Compatibility, formats, and what you need for Playstation 3 High Definition gaming.According to Sony, a new world of incredibly detailed games and movies awaits us - but to enjoy it to its full potential, you’re going to want to view your entertainment from High Definition media on a High Definition screen. These two aspects of PLAYSTATION3

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Intel has earned the right to lay it on four-cores thick. The chipmaker today officially released versions of its four-core server and PC chips. The appearance of the 'Clovertown' and 'Kentsfield' processors gives Intel both a marketing and raw performance edge over AMD, which doesn't plan to fire up its own four-core gear in earnest until 2007. So, those looking for the best of the best will

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Dial-up Internet service provider United Online said Thursday it is entering the broadband market.The company, which sells dial-up service under the NetZero and Juno brands, will offer a new service, called NetZero Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), using infrastructure leased from Verizon Communications. The service will be sold within Verizon's DSL service area.United Online's broadband play is yet

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(Reuters) SAN FRANCISCO - Web search leader Google Inc.'s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising.Schmidt said Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and using the Web on these devices, advertising

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Zune, the new digital music player from Microsoft, is not compatible with the software giant's new Vista operating system.Buried in the Zune website, Microsoft admits that the player is not compatible with Vista and gives no information as to when it will introduce a patch or update enabling the player to do so.Instead, users are asked to "check back soon for updates".Microsoft is set to launch

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Fans of high-end boutique PCs were shocked when the biggest of the corporate conglomerate PC vendors, Dell, purchased Alienware. The company had become quite successful by catering to high-end PC gamers and enthusiasts, and seemed to promote a corporate culture that was, for lack of a better expression, the anti-Dell. Besides, didn't Dell already have its XPS line of high-end gaming PCs? The

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A shipwrecked first-century vessel carrying delicacies to the richest palates of the Roman Empire has proved a dazzling find, with nearly 2,000-year-old fish bones still nestling inside clay jars, archaeologists said Monday.Boaters found its cargo of hundreds of amphoras in 2000 when their anchor got tangled with one of the two-handled jars.After years of arranging financing and crews,

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Intel Corp has officially launched its first desktop quad-core processor, codenamed Kentsfield, with new systems boasting the CPU set to be announced today. But for the average enterprise user, two plus two will not add up to four.In launching Kentsfield, Intel beats rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc to the quad-core punch. But AMD's forthcoming quad-core CPU, due mid-2007 or so, may end packing

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Google has completed its $1.65 billion stock acquisition of popular video-sharing Web site YouTube."We are excited to have closed the acquisition in order to begin collaborating to offer the best in quality and depth of content, user experience and new business opportunities for our partners," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement issued late on Monday. "YouTube and Google will

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Six major airlines are to fit aircraft passenger seats with iPod docks, Apple announced today. US carriers Continental, Delta and United, along with Air France, Emirates and KLM, will begin adding iPod connectors during the middle of next year.Of course, what's not yet clear is which class of traveller will get iPod connectivity, but we suspect it'll be those whose seats command higher ticket

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) new PlayStation 3 game console has problems when playing about 200 software games from previous versions of the machine, the Sankei daily reported on Tuesday. Sony started selling the latest version of its blockbuster game console in Japan on Saturday, and video game magazine publisher Enterbrain has said it sold 88,400 units of the console in the first two

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Eating red meat may raise a woman’s risk of a common type of breast cancer, and vitamin supplements will do little if anything to protect her heart, two new studies suggest.Women who ate more than 1½ servings of red meat per day were almost twice as likely to develop hormone-related breast cancer as those who ate fewer than three portions per week, one study found.The other — one of the longest

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A Singapore teenager charged with hopping onto his neighbour's wireless internet connection faces charges punishable by up the three years imprisonment. Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, is the first person to face charges under Singapore's Computer Misuse Act, the Straits Times via AP reports. The teenager also faces a possible fine of up to 10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,425) if convicted despite the lack

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This isn't the first time fast food workers have tampered with cops food, but this time the cops didn't stop at arresting the offending employees. This time they're suing the restaurant.Two Isleta Pueblo tribal police officers went through a Burger King drive-thru in Los Lunas, New Mexico on October 8th. Officers Mark Landavazo and Henry Gabaldon were in uniform and in a marked patrol car.When

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Major electronic voting machine problems occurred in at least six US states during the country's midterm elections, underscoring that system failure, not fraud, is the biggest issue facing future races, voting-rights activists and technologists said this week. Machine problems delayed voting in many precincts in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, requiring election officials to keep the

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Campaigners have projected a huge world map showing areas where internet speech is suppressed onto the Yahoo! France building in Paris to highlight the portal's snitching against cyber-dissidents in China. The action yesterday by media rights organisation Reporters Without Borders fingered Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan,

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Firefox Web browser co-creator Blake Ross said terminology is just one of the challenges for the future success of the free, open-sourced software. With the recent release of Firefox 2, the Key Biscayne, Fla., resident and 21-year-old Stanford University student sat down to talk about the future of the only Web browser that comes close to competing with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and how it's

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Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos. In this disease, malignant cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the

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"Nobutoshi Kihara, the engineer behind the Walkman, has left Sony. In the late seventies, one of the co-chairman of Sony, Morita, requested the audio division create a portable tape player capable of playing his operas while he was on transpacific flights to the US. After less than a year, the Walkman was released to the public and revolutionized the music industry."Times have changed

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It is no wonder that health authorities usually recommend the eating of two or three servings of fish per week for most people. This is because fatty, cold-water fish contain healthy omega-3 fats (DHA and EPA). Rich sources of these marine omega-3 fats are sardines, salmon, mackerel, and fresh tuna. There is some evidence to show that poor dietary intakes or low blood levels of these omega-3

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Universal Tube, a company that sells pipe making machinery, has embarked on a lawsuit against YouTube, claiming that the video sharing site has disrupted its business thanks to the similarity in the two company's web addresses. Universal Tube's website resides at www.utube.com, and it seems that plenty of wannabe YouTubers, fluent in text-speak, but less adept at typing out full words, are

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Yes people, this was our former "Defense Secretary".. Bush is next.

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Several MySpace pages offer what appear to be YouTube videos that trigger the installation of adware when played, a security company has warned. The sexually explicit videos can be found on a number of user pages on the MySpace social-networking Web site, Websense said in an alert Monday. They look like YouTube videos, but are in fact hosted on a copycat "Yootube.info" Web site, Websense said

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Google has admitted that three posts on the Google Video group blog on Tuesday evening were contaminated with the Kama Sutra (AKA Kapster-A) worm. The offending posts have now been deleted. It's unclear how many subscribers to the 50,000 member list became infected as a result of the SNAFU. Google advises cocerned subscribers to run an anti-virus check. The Kama Sutra worm is a mass mailiing

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For a proper immersive gaming experience, you can have multiple monitors, but without a decent surround system, you won't jump when that screaming Revenant comes around the corner, or have advanced warning when a virtual Shelby Cobra is downshifting past you. The fine folks at Creative Labs created these new wireless THX® Certified speakers for ultimate 5.1 audio on the PC. Ideal for gaming, home

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That's the logic behind the GVLM1928 and GVLM1728, a pair of two-screen LCD monitors that Soyo announced on Thursday. Each monitor, quite simply, ships with two screens, which the company is touting as an aid to productivity. The double-19-inch GVLM1928 will be priced at $1199, while the double 17-inch GVLM1728 will be priced at $999. Both will be sold at D&H, Office Depot, and directly from Soyo

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JAGSHEMASH!!Hello, My name A' Borat.. I like you! You like me?

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