Fighter Garou ? Mark Of The Wolves headlines this week?s Xbox Live Arcade update, it has emerged. The latest in the Fatal Fury series, it follows the story of legendary wolves ...

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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp ( MSFT.O ), the world's largest software group, is still open to a partnership with search engine giant Yahoo Inc ( YHOO.O ), Chief ...

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Redmond has cut off access to its Microsoft Security Essentials beta, less than a day after offering the free security app to John Q. Public on a first-come, first-served basis ...

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NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp ( MSFT.O ) on Wednesday unveiled its Hohm website designed to help residential power consumers save money and reduce their ...

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Microsoft's limited but free-of-extra-charge anti-malware scanner has performed creditably in early tests. Independent testing lab AV-test.org put Microsoft Security Essentials ...

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Traffic lights will communicate directly with cars, if an Intel research project comes to fruition. Also, "my taillight will communicate with your headlight," says Intel's Vu ...

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Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, has an "excellent prognosis" after receiving a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital, the doctor in charge has confirmed ...

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Adobe didn't provide many details on the vulnerability but wrote that it is remotely exploitable, meaning a hacker could use it to infect a computer with malicious software over ...

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ThinkPanmure analyst Vijay Rakesh has pointed out that Amazon's list of best-selling laptops is now dominated by netbooks or minibooks such as the 8.9 inch Acer Aspire One ...

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Credit default swaps are "instruments of destruction" that should be outlawed, billionaire investor George Soros said on Friday. Soros said the asymmetry of risk and reward ...

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Business intelligence has enjoyed a boom despite the less than healthy state of the global economy. According to analyst house Gartner worldwide revenue for technology related to ...

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Microsoft bowed to pressure from European regulators and announced it would release its Windows 7 operating system in Europe without its Internet Explorer web browser. The US ...

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Microsoft said regulatory wrangling has prompted it to strip Internet Explorer Web browsers from copies of its Windows 7 operating system to be sold in Europe. The US software ...

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Microsoft's plan to strip out its Internet Explorer (IE) browser from Windows 7 in Europe, due for sale in the fall, is designed to force the European Commission's hand as it ...

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ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. state of Mississippi settled an anti-trust suit with Microsoft for $100 million on Thursday and said businesses, individuals, schools and local ...

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(Corrects first paragraph to show Windows will be sold in Europe without Internet Explorer) BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday a move by ...

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The stilt-walking, fire-breathing founder of Cirque du Soleil is set to become Canada's first space tourist later this year. Quebec-born billionaire Guy Laliberté will make a 12 ...

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Increasingly, though, it's looking like a search engine really is just a search engine and that there's very little to differentiate Microsoft's Bing from Google - other than one's ...

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BOSTON (Reuters) Microsoft Corp is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp ...

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Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software. The potential faults were brought to light by ...

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Adobe has released patches for 13 holes in its popular Reader and Acrobat software products, some of them critical. In a security advisory issued on Tuesday, the software maker ...

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Microsoft Corp issued software to fix a record 31 security flaws in its programs, and Adobe Systems Inc warned that glitches in its products could let hackers take control of a ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Reuters) - An Internet search deal between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp could provide important benefits in scale and yield up to $700 million in cost ...

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EA boss John Riccitiello has been talking about the motion control, surely the most fashionable gaming subject of the moment. Referring to Microsoft's Project Natal , Riccitello ...

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The announcement of Microsoft' Project Natal and Sony's demonstration of the PS Eye's evolution may have surprised some people, but not it seems Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata ...

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The Bing offering, an update to Microsoft Live Search, is already getting noticeably more attention than its never-taken-to-the-prom predecessor, according to a report released ...

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Most little girls of Karina Oakley's age are chatterboxes, just like her. But few can talk as much sense. The toddler has just been found to have an IQ of 160 - the same as Stephen ...

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Microsoft has released updates for Office 2008, Office 2004, and its Open XML Convertor that focus on security. The software maker says that the Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.9 and ...

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Microsoft yesterday issued 10 security updates that patched a record 31 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Excel, Word, Windows Search and other programs ...

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Mac laptops and PCs could see software performance gains with parallel programming tools built into Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X 10.6, which was introduced by the company ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert wanted by the United States for "the biggest military hack of all time" begins a final attempt Tuesday to avoid extradition. Lawyers ...

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LONDON - Microsoft's Bing has some ground to make up before it ever catches Google, but the new kid on the block may be the sweeter deal for advertisers, as research shows Bing ...

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Apple aimed to make hot-selling iPhones even more appealing, premiering a speedier new model complete with a video camera and slashing the price of its predecessor to 99 dollars ...

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Microsoft's chief software architect has branded Google's Wave collaboration effort as "anti-web". Ray Ozzie told a speaking engagement in California late last week that Wave ...

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The leadership of Data Centre players in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will meet in early June in Abu Dhabi, to discuss their future strategies in the region and beyond ...

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Matthew d'Ancona takes down from the shelf in his office a piece of treasured memorabilia, sealed in glass: "a totally unintelligible but authentic letter" written by Sir Edward ...

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MICROSOFT is to launch the ultimate computer game, banishing handheld controls and allowing players? gestures to dictate the action on screen. The new entertainment system, which ...

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Microsoft recently announced that it be providing a virtualised copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions. The ...

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EU antitrust regulators are expected to say this week that Intel Corp illegally paid computer makers to postpone or cancel the launch of products containing chips made by its main ...

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AP Business Writer= NEW YORK (AP) — Financial stocks dragged Wall Street lower Monday as traders worried that last week's rally was overdone. Investors who had been focused on ...

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An Apple app developer believes that the future of the Apple TV lies in video gaming built on the success of the iPhone and iPod touch. Appy Entertainment co-founder and brand ...

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Microsoft will release up to 10 test updates tomorrow to computers running the near-ready version of its upcoming operating system, Windows 7. The company will spit out the updates ...

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Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama administration official says the Justice Department is going to more aggressively investigate big companies that improperly ...

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Google's Android operating system is gaining support in the mobile industry, with 8 million Android phones to be sold in 2009, up 10-fold from a year ago ...

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft is on track to release its new Windows 7 operating system in time for the holiday shopping season, an executive said on Monday, confirming talk that ...

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Microsoft's been playing the tease on Silverlight 3. The company's been slowly upping the ante on expectations, promising "major enhancements ", while outsiders who traveled to ...

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Associated Press Writer= LONDON (AP) — He won't be allowed to call himself Sir Ted, but U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has been awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain. Prime ...

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According to a recently released AP-GfK poll, 32% of Americans are crazy. Oh, sorry. The poll actually revealed that 47% of those asked worry "a lot" or "some" about the ...

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Yahoo! is "not opposed" to doing a deal that would potentially sell its search business, chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen said on Wednesday. But he said the search business ...

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Microsoft on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against TomTom, alleging that the GPS vendor's in-car navigation devices infringe on its patents. Microsoft is alleging that TomTom is ...

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Comment These guys could make it. VMware could be another Oracle, another supplier whose steel is tempered by the furnace heat of Microsoft competition, instead of weakening and ...

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Despite a new-found love for cloud computing , Microsoft isn't ready to put traditional on-premises software out to pasture just yet. With the development of its online operating ...

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Yahoo's executive vice president for connected devices Marc Boerries is to leave the company due to personal reasons. It's not yet known who will replace Boerries, who was ...

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Microsoft's Xbox project has long been seen as not just an attempt to own the console space but also to act as a Trojan horse, putting a device at the heart of the digital living ...

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London, UK ? February 26, 2009 ? iolo technologies, the PC tune-up experts behind #1 best-selling System Mechanic®, announced today that the newest version of the flagship ...

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Microsoft has filed two separate patent-infringement actions against TomTom, including claims relating to the GPS navigation company's use of the Linux kernel. In complaints filed ...

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch navigation systems company TomTom said on Thursday Microsoft had launched a patent lawsuit against it in the United States, but denied it had breached ...

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Microsoft is continuing in its attempt to change the consumer's opinion of both itself and its Windows operating system. At the forefront of that challenge is Microsoft's ...

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Microsoft on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against TomTom, alleging that the GPS vendor's in-car navigation devices infringe on its patents. Microsoft is alleging that TomTom is ...

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Microsoft has released a near-final version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) for its TechNet and MSDN subscribers. The firm said that it would make the release candidate of ...

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Apple iPhone users looking for their nearest friends need only to glance at their screen, thanks to the addition of location functionality to Palringo?s rich messaging ...

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The annual Davos political and business summit started Wednesday with new warnings over the gravity of the global recession and the impact of the damage already done. The avalanche ...

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Computer software giant Microsoft has revealed even worse than expected quarterly results and warned that profit and revenue will almost certainly drop through the next two ...

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TORONTO - The Toronto stock market's winning streak extended to a fourth session on Wednesday as financials continued to rise after reports that a "bad bank" could be created in ...

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Mark Shuttleworth's looking forward to a good, clean fight with Microsoft on netbooks that raises Linux's game once Windows 7 is released. The founder of popular Linux distro ...

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This functionality, which will allow people to use the Gmail interface when disconnected from the internet, has been expected since mid-2007 . That's when Google introduced Gears ...

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SAP is slashing 3,000 jobs worldwide to cut costs, as its 2008 net profit fell two per cent after the economy plunged late last year. The German software giant, which is the world ...

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