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Chinese netizens get angry at a sex blog
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Chinese netizens get angry at a sex blog

The Internet user community in this country is very upset about the personal website of a person claiming to be a British teacher, on which recounts a series of abuse of…

December 13, 2018
Launched Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2
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Launched Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2

On August 31, Microsoft released a version of Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 with a lot of additional features added. The most prominent new feature in the latest versio…

December 13, 2018
Samsung demonstrated 4G technology
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Samsung demonstrated 4G technology

The Korean giant has had impressive performances for future mobile technology when transmitting wireless signals by speed

December 13, 2018
Launched Blu-ray DVD with 200GB capacity
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Launched Blu-ray DVD with 200GB capacity

The new 200GB Blu-ray DVD has twice the capacity of TDK's existing DVD of the same type - the current product has a capacity of 100GB - or equivalent to the ability to s…

December 13, 2018
Trojans appear to resolve the Windows patch
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Trojans appear to resolve the Windows patch

Websense has just released a newsletter warning users about a phishing scam that provides Windows patches via new email launched in the past week.

December 13, 2018
Microsoft is committed to continuing to support IE6
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Microsoft is committed to continuing to support IE6

Support for a five-year-old browser like Internet Explorer 6 will not disappear overnight, even if the IE7 version is released later this year - Microsoft's announcement…

December 13, 2018
DDR2 has finally dominated the DRAM market
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DDR2 has finally dominated the DRAM market

After a long delay, both Intel and AMD built products supporting DDR2 and turned it into the most commonly used memory chip in desktop and laptop systems.

December 13, 2018
Discover Firefox
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Discover Firefox

If you are using IE and are frustrated with its slow speed, being unable to block hateful pop-ups like WhenU keeps turning on every time you surf the web ... so think of…

December 13, 2018
9 out of 10 PCs are infected with spyware
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9 out of 10 PCs are infected with spyware

The latest anti-spyware report by Webroot Software shows that after the decline in 2005, the rate of spyware infection has started to rise again and reach a record high…

December 13, 2018