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AP - The Thai government said Friday it has lifted a four-month ban on YouTube after the popular video-sharing Web site's operator agreed not to allow videos that violate the country's laws or are deemed offensive to Thai people. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Ending court oversight of Microsoft's business practices in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of the new Windows Vista operating system, a group of states said in a filing Thursday. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Watching video online in small, fuzzy boxes is heading the way of rabbit ears. Link To Original Article

AP - Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Joe Mansueto, chairman of investment research company Morningstar Inc, has emerged as the top bidder for Time Inc's tech-oriented Business 2.0 magazine, the New York Post reported in its online edition on Friday, citing unnamed sources. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - The company manufacturing the One Laptop Per Child notebook played down the impact of component shortages in the industry, rebutting local reports that the shortages will affect supplies of the computer when it ships in October. Link To Original Article

BusinessWeek Online - Time was, if you wanted to use the global positioning system to get from one place to another, you had to spend $500 to $1,000 for a standalone dashboard-mounted unit from vendors such as Garmin (NasdaqGS:GRMN - News), TomTom, or Magellan. But lately, GPS is becoming a must-have feature on cell phones, with device makers including Research In Motion (NasdaqGS:RIMM - News) happy to oblige. RIM's BlackBerry 8800, for instance, includes a GPS chip that allows navigation from the palm of your hand. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Sun*has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS. Link To Original Article

Remember how I said that Moore's Law is "the full-employment act for computer pundits"? In the smaller niche of microprocessor journalism, there used to be another topic that was always good for a column: RISC vs. CISC. In the early days of computing, a CPU (central processing unit) was ... Link To Original Article

Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas Technologies, a start-up backed by the University of California that alleged Internet Explorer infringed a patent. "We're pleased to be able to reach an amicable resolution in this long-running dispute with Eolas and the University of California," the company ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Specialized blogs are all abuzz this week with rumors that Internet giant Google will soon launch the "Google Phone" or "GPhone," a cheap mobile phone equipped with a Google operating system. Link To Original Article

Update: Researchers at IBM will have two papers published in the journal Science this week detailing how it may be possible to use individual atoms, or groups of atoms, to store data or act as a transistor. The work revolves around harnessing magnetic anisotropy, a property of atoms. Something is ... Link To Original Article

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Editor's note: This blog was updated at 12:40 p.m. PDT with additional information from the Department of Justice filing and a link to Microsoft's report. With most of Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the government poised to expire this November, federal and state prosecutors overseeing the ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Banking giant HSBC has reversed a decision to scrap interest-free overdrafts for university graduates after a campaign launched on the Internet social networking site Facebook, it said Friday. Link To Original Article

Hi - does anyone know if its possible to change the default position of the "log on to windows" box? I have a user with dual screens complaining about it splitting across the 2, as its centered by default. Thanks, Tony

Hi - does anyone know if its possible to change the default position of the "log on to windows" box? I have a user with dual screens complaining about it splitting across the 2, as its centered by default. Thanks, Tony

Hello, I have this very strange problem. I recently re-installed Windows XP Pro and I was attempting to re-install the analog modem. I received a "blue screen" stating that there was an error " IRQ > or less than" and the next message stated that "AFD.sys was attempting to write to a ROM location" and I must reboot in the safe mode. I determined the culprit was the modem card driver (possibly a install over a previous install. I corrected that error and the system booted correctly with all the bells less one whistle: I received an error message whenever I tried to send a FAX, "TAPI error of unknown cause" or words to that effect. I replaced the modem card with …

Hello, I have this very strange problem. I recently re-installed Windows XP Pro and I was attempting to re-install the analog modem. I received a "blue screen" stating that there was an error " IRQ > or less than" and the next message stated that "AFD.sys was attempting to write to a ROM location" and I must reboot in the safe mode. I determined the culprit was the modem card driver (possibly a install over a previous install. I corrected that error and the system booted correctly with all the bells less one whistle: I received an error message whenever I tried to send a FAX, "TAPI error of unknown cause" or words to that effect. I replaced the modem ca…

I had XP and Vista in a dual boot config on 2 separate drives. I cloned my XP drive (needed a larger drive), removed the old drive, put in the new drive and had troubles so I obviously mucked up the bootloader and now only can boot to XP. I've tried EasyBCD and VistaBootPro with no luck. Exactly what do I have to do and where do I do it to add the info to allow me a choice to boot into Vista as well as XP? Thanks in advance.

I had XP and Vista in a dual boot config on 2 separate drives. I cloned my XP drive (needed a larger drive), removed the old drive, put in the new drive and had troubles so I obviously mucked up the bootloader and now only can boot to XP. I've tried EasyBCD and VistaBootPro with no luck. Exactly what do I have to do and where do I do it to add the info to allow me a choice to boot into Vista as well as XP? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, I'm trying to enable BitLock on a Compaq 6515b notebook which has built-in TMP 1.2. There are 2 partitions on it, one is 2GB and another is 30GB (both of them are primary partitions). The Vista Ultimate 64bit is installed on the 30GB partition. All drivers including TPM drivers are installed correctly and the notebook works quite well. But when I try to turn on BitLock in Control Panel, there is always no volume available for BitLock. Is there anything wrong with my settings? Thanks a lot. -- Regards, R. Yang - Windows Kernel Developer [Custom Dev and Consulting]

Hello I want to know if is possible to build a custom adm for to disable Help menu, and Favorites from windows explorer.(because with default template is impossible) Thanks

Hello I want to know if is possible to build a custom adm for to disable Help menu, and Favorites from windows explorer.(because with default template is impossible) Thanks