WIndows XP expires on June 30

June 29th, 2008

XP will spell eXPiry. Microsoft will stop selling the XP version to retailers and PC manufacturers from June 30.

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Goodbye and god bless you Bill Gates!

June 28th, 2008

Bill Gates is one of the most influential and wealthiest people the world has ever seen. He’s a ruthless businessman who built Microsoft into a software empire that would dominate office and home computing around the world.

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MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates

June 28th, 2008

“Now that Gates has ‘retired’ from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, ‘We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji’s group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog,’ said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange and a fo

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Weather no match for new car

June 27th, 2008

HSV Dealer Team driver Rick Kelly said his new VE Commodore, which debuts at Hidden Valley next week, performed well at a recent shake-down.

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Little mythbusts ethanol

June 26th, 2008

TeamVodafone engineer Campbell Little says there are about “four million” things on the internet both singing the praises of ethanol fuel and criticising it to its death.

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Look Fast - Aerox Team Yamaha Race Replica

June 26th, 2008

The latest in a serie of Valentino Rossi MotoGP the series of Yamaha M1. The Aerox Team Yamaha Race Replica features circuit style and an high output liquid cooled two stroke 50cc motor, brembo brakes, high grip 12″ tyres, and colour decals straight from the race versions.

At just over Euro 2,500 it is not inexpensive but it is defin

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Microsoft To Let Other Companies Build, Release 360 Consoles

June 26th, 2008

We’ll tell you what’s up with Microsoft: new hardware options. It may sound totally insane, but word has it that Microsoft may begin allowing third-party manufacturers to create Xbox 360 hardware. And we’re not talking about peripherals, people; we mean hardware that runs 360 game discs created by someone other than Microsoft.

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Indianapolis Not on 2009 Provisional F1 Calendar

June 25th, 2008

The FIA has unveiled the provisional calendar for the 2009 season, confirming the arrival of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the absence of a race in the United States.
The season will begin again in Australia in late March and will finish in Abu Dhabi in November. The calendar will have 19 races, one more than this year.

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GeForce 177.40 beta drivers ready for download

June 25th, 2008

These new drivers are dated June 16 and come with support for the GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards, the recently-introduced GeForce GTX 280 and 260s and a few more, yet unreleased, 9 generation and GT200-powered cards.

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Tyre change for Darwin

June 25th, 2008

A new, more sustainable control tyre will be introduced to the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Hidden Valley.

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