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Journal Journal: Windows XP to be retired in 2008 1

Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008. Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers. A poll by US market research firm Harris Interactive found that only 10% of those questioned were planning to upgrade to Vista in the near future. All versions of XP, including those made for media centre or tablet PCs, are affected by the decision. System shock Microso
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RIMM's LEGO Machines Test Blackberry 69

LEGO - my - Crackberry writes "Matthias Wandel is an engineer at Research in Motion (RIMM), the company that makes the Blackberry. What did RIMM turn to for testing the antenna reception of one of its 900MHz devices? LEGO machines. Specifically a device made of LEGO that could rotate a Blackberry about its horizontal & vertical axis in a pre-defined pattern."

Comment Re:Value is in the eye of the beholder (Score 0) 91

That would only be true if there was a limited supply of gold in the game. With the developer able to control how much gold theres is in the game at the flick of a few bytes on the server, virtual gold is worthless to them. However between players it can have some real $ value if one of them is trying to get ahead.

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