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Microsoft finally have closure as the man behind the sales firm ITAC, Barry Omesuh, is sentenced to up to nine months in jail per sentencing and must pay £2.5 million in damages to Microsoft after an overwhelming battle against piracy.  The Manchester based distributor, ITAC, who are now out of business, were behind selling ‘grey’ [...]

Google have brought their browser, Chrome, out of Beta status.  But wait a minute, the browser was only launched 100 days ago…doesn’t that seem a little fast to be pulling the software out of Beta labelling? Take a look at Gmail.  That is still a Beta project and it’s been with us for four years.  [...]

A while ago, Netflix decided to “go pro-Mac/Windows support” and allow their video streaming to be controlled by Microsoft’s Media Player, Silverlight, and threw their copies of Windows Media Player out of the window.  The new Silverlight streamer allowed Windows Media Player movies to be streamed by Macs the world over, making quite a few [...]

F5 Networks are set to release two new products in the coming week that will improve moving and managing unstructured data.

RealNetworks has announced it new US$30 RealDVD system, which allows users to legally make digital copies of any disc, including its artwork and extras. It seems unReal (sorry…) after the numerous battles with DVD pirates and the like, but fear not legal film fans…there are strict limitations in place. Pirates all over the world will [...]

For Microsoft, Vista is barely out of the box, and XP is still the operating system of choice for many, but a blog run by two of the computer giant?s senior engineering managers is already talking about Windows 7, even though is not scheduled for release until 2010. Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, plan to [...]

A security researcher has discovered a couple of major flaws with Nokia?s mid-rage handsets, which allow him to remotely install malicious application with unprecedented capabilities. He?s keeping the details to himself though unless someone is willing to give him EUR20, 000. The issues are apparently with Nokia?s series 40 platform, which is the proprietary OS [...]

Those clever folks at IBM have come up with something rather cool: ?Pensieve?. In a blatant nod to the Harry Potter memory machine, scientists have come up with a way to help you remember every face, name and phone number you encounter, by using data from your mobile devices to build and store connections from [...]

? With the help of screen-reader software, blind people can use a computer, but those products can cost more than US$1000, so you won?t see them in public libraries or at internet cafes. ? A new web-based application called ?WebAnywhere? has been developed by a computer science graduate at the University of Washington ? and [...]

Japanese electronics manufacturer Pioneer unveiled a new 400GB optical disk on Monday ? that?s enough to hold most peoples hard drives. One downside though ? its not re-writable. The crafty chaps at Pioneer created the worlds first 16 layer disk, with each layer holding a massive 25GB. Sadly do to the read-only aspect, the information [...]