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		<title>Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft plans to offer hardware vendors significant price cuts on Windows XP licenses for low-cost computing products, but the deal will only be available for computers with low hardware specs. This tactic is part of Microsoft&#8217;s strategy to stifle adoption of Linux by computer manufacturers that are targeting the budget market, where low cost and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The platform wars are going mobile. Whether it’s the iPhone, Blackberry, Android or Windows Mobile, the mobile platform that will win in the end will be the one with the best and broadest collection of applications. To give developers a little extra financial motivation, funds are being set up to invest in them. Google announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More iPhones at Apple Store - 3G Imminent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined to say “not much.” Apple rarely telegraphs its moves this far in advance. However, since O2 in the UK has stopped selling iPhones and a number of folks have had trouble buying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/12/no-more-iphones-at-apple-store-3g-imminent/</link>
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		<title>Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself: spammers want to find you on your cellphone.
Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological devices. Some industry executives, along with consumer groups and security experts, are concerned that unwanted text messages on phones will be an even greater headache than unwanted computer messages.
Cellphone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/12/spam-moves-to-cellphones-and-gets-more-invasive/</link>
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		<title>Facebook, MySpace work with states for predator safeguards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the commotion over the rise of social networking sites, parental groups and government bodies have been asking for someone to think of the children. In response to rising concerns that Facebook and MySpace have become beacons for sexual predators and bullies, these two leading sites have agreed to add over 40 new safeguards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/09/facebook-myspace-work-with-states-for-predator-safeguards/</link>
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		<title>Google turns Postini into Google Web Security for Enterprise</title>
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Google has been boosting its Google Apps product suite as fit for corporate use for months, with new security and deployment features arriving on a regular basis. The company&#8217;s latest endeavor, Google Web Security for Enterprise, is now available, and promises to provide a consistent level of system security whether an end-user is surfing from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Viacom can sink the pirates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sumner Redstone, who controls the twin media giants Viacom and CBS, is leaning on Internet service providers and online media outlets to do his heavy lifting. Speaking at the Seoul Digital Forum 2008, the 84-year-old media mogul came down particularly hard on YouTube, equating the video platform with piracy and demanding that ISPs and web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/09/how-viacom-can-sink-the-pirates/</link>
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		<title>Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys Rupture For $30 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[hawn Fanning, best known for founding Napster, has a new job. He will be working at Electronic Arts, which is about to buy his social-network-gaming startup Rupture for $30 million, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. His co-founder Jon Baudanza will also join Electronic Arts. We first heard of a possible deal back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/09/shawn-fanning-finally-gets-a-real-payday-electronic-arts-buys-rupture-for-30-million/</link>
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		<title>Google: We Like Yahoo, and We Like It Independent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will you do a search advertising deal with Yahoo? How will you do it in a way that avoids antitrust objections? Are you relieved that Microsoft withdrew its offer for Yahoo?
The questions were asked again and again by a group of reporters meeting with Google’s top three executives Thursday. Eric Schmidt, the chief executive, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/09/google-we-like-yahoo-and-we-like-it-independent/</link>
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		<title>HTC unveils new HTC Touch Diamond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The device has some pretty nice interface tech that they&#8217;re calling TouchFLO 3D that heavily emphasizes one-touch browsing and single-finger dialing. They emphasized web accessibility, zoom-in navigation with &#8220;just one hand&#8221; and not too many fingers. As expected, the device is loaded with Windows Mobile 6.1, a VGA screen and HSDPA 7.2, among other nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/07/htc-unveils-new-htc-touch-diamond/</link>
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		<title>A $500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest iteration of the hit video game franchise, racked up first-week sales of $500 million, Take-Two Interactive, the game’s publisher, plans to announce on Wednesday. The report exceeded the sales expectations of analysts.
The company is expected to report it sold six million copies of the graphically violent game, 3.6 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/07/a-500-million-week-for-grand-theft-auto/</link>
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		<title>Craigslist CEO: eBay lawsuit reeks of hypocrisy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craigslist&#8217;s CEO Jim Buckmaster believes that eBay&#8217;s lawsuit is an exercise in hypocrisy, in no small part because the online auction giant has taken many of the same measures Craigslist did in order to protect itself. Buckmaster made yet another post to the Craigslist Blog over the lawsuit, addressing some of the points that eBay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/06/craigslist-ceo-ebay-lawsuit-reeks-of-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<title>Israeli private investigators used spyware to steal commercial information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses should be on their guard against agencies who offer them information on their competitors, following the jailing of a team of private investigators who used spyware to steal information on behalf of legitimate companies.
According to media reports, four members of the Israeli Modi&#8217;in Ezrahi private investigation firm have been sentenced after they were found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.soft-go.com/blog/2008/05/06/israeli-private-investigators-used-spyware-to-steal-commercial-information/</link>
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		<title>Google Ends Microsoft’s Yahoo Search</title>
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Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then to a sudden breakup this weekend by the same player.
It was Google, in the odd dual role of both unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.
Google’s phenomenal rise, after all, prodded Microsoft, the dominant technology company for more than two decades, to court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Chief Says Microsoft Was the Stubborn One</title>
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People involved in relationships that end abruptly often have grossly conflicting accounts of what went wrong. On Monday, Jerry Yang gave his version.
In an interview, Mr. Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and chief executive, addressed Microsoft’s surprise $44.6 billion bid to buy his company and the three-month corporate tussle that ensued.
He said he was open to selling [...]]]></description>
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