AFP - A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than two billion dollars’ worth of fake Microsoft goods, the company said.
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Reuters - IBM and Japanese office equipment maker Ricoh Co Ltd (7752.T) will start sharing each other’s sales network this year and promote their servers and printers together, the Nikkei business daily said on Thursday.
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PC World - The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet.
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AFP - It wasn’t a very Happy New Year for owners of Microsoft’s Zune.
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CNET - Facebook has sprouted pages that pay tribute to notorious mafia bosses, and relatives of mafia victims are none too happy about that fact, according to the U.K. publication Times Online.
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AP - Happy New Year from Microsoft Corp.: Your Zune is dead.
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AFP - Microsoft warned owners of 30-gigabyte Zune music players on Wednesday that they may experience “issues” with the model as Zune owners around the world reported that their devices were freezing up.
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AP - The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least $2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft Corp. software were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms of up to 6 1/2 years, in what is believed to be the harshest penalties yet under China’s tightened piracy laws.
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AP - For her college interview, Avery Cullinan put on her best outfit but didn’t bother with shoes. She sat in her living room, smiled into her computer’s webcam and told an admissions officer more than 800 miles away that Wake Forest University was right for her.
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NewsFactor - Which retailers will thrive in 2009 and which will have an uphill battle? A survey of customer satisfaction during the holiday season may shed light on those issues.
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