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Ink cartridges lie to you
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
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A study by TÜV Rheinland slams ink cartridge manufacturers for lying to customers in order to get users to buy replacement cartridges when they don't need to:
That's the first problem. Printers routinely report that they are low on ink even when they aren't, and in some cases there are still hundreds of pages worth of [...]
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Dell bundles expired software on notebooks
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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I guess you get what you pay for ...
A friend of mine needs a laptop and asked for my advise on which laptop to get. First question I asked her is “what’s your budget?”. She gave me an answer so I look-up for any deals for her and we found some deals but she end [...]
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Apple announces Safari for Windows
Monday, June 11th, 2007
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Yawn ...
Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft's Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple "dream big" and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys.
Mr Jobs was speaking at a conference of developers for Apple products in San [...]
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iPhone could be fantastic for malware
Monday, June 11th, 2007
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I'd be wary of leaping on the iPhone bandwagon - if Steve Jobs is right and Apple do shift 10 million of these by the end of 2008, that's a huge platform ripe for malware attack .
Let’s make a few assumptions. First off, let’s assume that Steve Jobs is bang on right and the iPhone will [...]
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Google slammed over privacy
Monday, June 11th, 2007
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Privacy International has slammed Google (open letter to Google here ) over privacy and the blogosphere has gone nuts with commentary .
I've read the report by Privacy International and I have to admit that I think it's a sloppy piece of work. However, it doesn't change the fact that Google is seen by many as being too [...]
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Norton AntiBot screenshot
Friday, June 8th, 2007
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I've just installed the pre-release version of Norton AntiBot ... nothing new to report but here are a few screenshots:
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