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"Not every customer of the N97 is going to be a raving mobile genius. Some of them are going to be actual customers. In fact, let’s be honest — nearly all of the N97 users on the planet are going to be end-consumers with a soft spot for Nokia."
- Martin Bryant
via Bookmarklet
The site will also reportedly stop hosting and tracking torrents...
- Zee.
via Bookmarklet
The interesting question then is can mininova et al handle the surge?
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
“We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site,” said Hans Pandeya, CEO GGF. What could that result into, I wonder...
- Kirill Bolgarov
The website's lawyer has to be the worst lawyer in the history of law. He should be disbarred for losing that case, hell for that case even going to trial and not getting bumped during the discovery phase.
- Matthew DeVries
that's actually the judge on the right there btw
- Zee.
I am working on a business justification to present to my wife so that I can retire my 3 year old White MacBook and get the 13" MacBook Pro.
- Khürt Williams
Windows 7 ist ab sofort bestellbar: Branchennews | Microsoft accepts orders for Windows 7 from tomorrow on, 26. June - http://www.it-business.de/news...
"Microsoft will not be offering upgrade version of Windows 7 to Europeans. In the past Microsoft has given people already using Windows a chance to upgrade to a new version when it becomes available. While that option will be offered in the US, Microsoft said its efforts to comply with competition regulations meant it could not do so in Europe. European regulators dismissed the claim, saying the move limited choices rather than opening them up."
- Kol Tregaskes
via Bookmarklet
Microsoft's way of firing back at the EU for their regulations. In my opinion, these prices are ridiculous too. I think every Vista user should get a very cheap upgrade option, considering no one will be too excited to upgrade after the last fiasco.
- Brandon Titus
The only reason I'm running Vista is because (a) it came bundled wih my laptop and (b) MSDN Academic Alliance got me Vista for the Desktop. Otherwise I'd stil be running XP, no doubt.
- Roberto Bonini
Not a good start. More confusion. Shame because the reports for the actual performance of this new OS are good.
- Kevin Hatton