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Google Chrome OS available now at a BitTorrent near you

Google Chrome OS open source version was released on Thursday and already programmers have turned the code into a test version of the new OS that is set to officially debut at the end of 2010. The working Chrome OS has already appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org and Pirate Bay.

Ex-Vivendi CEO Messier testifies: Losses not fraud

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Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a U.S. jury he never, never, never committed fraud as he took the stand on Friday in a civil trial pitting international shareholders against the French conglomerate and former top executives.
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Why people won't use Google Chrome OS

As more details of Google Chrome OS came out on Thursday, people already took to Twitter and blogs to voice their complaints with the new OS and shared why they won't be using it when it launches at the end of 2010.
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Chinese cyber-spying grows against U.S: report

China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday.
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Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.
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Potential users find early faults with Google Chrome OS

Google revealed more details of its Google Chrome OS on Thursday - showing how lightweight and fast it is - but early reactions from blogs, Twitter and Facebook, show that potential users are already finding problems with it.
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Dell results below Street view, shares fall

Dell Inc posted quarterly revenue that fell a steeper-than-expected 15 percent, sending shares of the No. 3 maker of personal computers down more than 7 percent after hours.
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Digg's Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson give 5 tips for entrepreneurs

Digg founder, Kevin Rose and CEO, Jay Adelson offered some of their tips and advice on how entrepreneurs can set up a successful company online. Talking at the web 2.0 expo in New York on Tuesday, the duo said that Digg has grown so much since it first started in 2004.
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Google: YouTube Can Now Create Captions Automatically

YouTube can now automatically assign captions to video using speech recognition. Video publishers can now upload a transcript for their videos, which further helps the site add accurate captioning. Users can translate these captions into multiple languages too when watching videos.
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BofA Merrill cuts '10 global semiconductor growth view

BofA Merrill Lynch lowered its 2010 growth forecast for global semiconductor industry and downgraded ten chipmakers, including Intel Corp , turning more cautious on the group on expectations of a modest overshoot in global supply chain inventories.
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BofA Merrill cuts '1Boa0 global semiconductor growth view

BofA Merrill Lynch lowered its 2010 growth forecast for global semiconductor industry and downgraded ten chipmakers, including Intel Corp , turning more cautious on the group on expectations of a modest overshoot in global supply chain inventories.
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Sony pushes back profit margin target to 2013

Japan's Sony Corp pushed back an elusive target of an operating profit margin of 5 percent to March 2013, as it heads for its second straight loss and loses ground to overseas competitors.
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Sony aims for 5 percent profit margin in 3 years

Sony Corp aims to earn a 5 percent operating profit margin in three years by turning its struggling LCD TV and game operations profitable next year and launching 3D TVs and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
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China military says website had 230 million attacks

A website set up by China's Ministry of Defence this summer was hit by more than 230 million hacker attacks in its first month of operation, but none of the attacks were successful, state media reported on Thursday.
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All Blacks face dressing down over Twitter leak

Neemia Tialata and Cory Jane can expect a talking to from All Blacks coach Graham Henry after revealing on the social networking site Twitter they had been left out of the New Zealand to play England this weekend.
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NetApp profit, revenue beat estimates

NetApp Inc's quarterly profit and revenue beat Wall Street expectations as the data storage equipment maker slashed manufacturing costs and benefited from what it said was improving business sentiment.
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What do I do with Google Wave?

Google Wave is the future of communication but its ok if it takes you more than one try to understand the complicated web tool, said Gina Trapani, the founding editor of Lifehacker.com, a part of Gawker Media.
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Microsoft Unveils SharePoint, Office 2010 Betas

Microsoft rolled out the beta versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 that are available to download. Users can download the 2010 versions of Visio, Project, and Office Web Apps at www.microsoft.com/2010. Windows mobile clients are also available in beta via the Windows Marketplace.
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China orders Microsoft to halt some Windows sales

Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its Windows operating systems that include fonts designed by a local company, citing a violation of licensing agreements.
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Police make trojan virus arrests

Detectives have made the first arrests in Europe to tackle a trojan computer virus which is believed to have infected tens of thousands of computers across the world, London police said on Wednesday.
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Call of Duty game sells $550 million in 5 days

Activision Blizzard Inc said its video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 scored record sales of $550 million in its first five days, but the company is still concerned about weak consumer spending.
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EU ombudsman rebukes EU over errors in Intel case

The European Ombudsman rebuked European Union regulators on Wednesday for procedural errors in their antitrust probe of Intel but the censure will not affect a 1.06 billion euro ($1.58 billion) fine against the U.S. chipmaker.

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