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Two weeks after it last handed a new build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to several thousand invitation-only testers, Microsoft Corp. today posted that version for public downloading. Want to try it out? Here’s how: Uninstall RC1 if you have that first, download the reg patch from http://tinyurl.com/2mflo7 , then run windows update to get it.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — February 20, 2008 —AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has open sourced it’s AMD Performance Library (APL). Now referred to as “Framewave version 1.0,” the goal of this new open source project is to further enable the performance-optimized APL and expand its functionality beyond the existing core media capabilities, ensuring developers have an accelerated conduit to …

TOKYO, Japan -20 February, 2008 – Symbian Limited today welcomes NTT DoCoMo’s launch of the FOMA F905iBiz which is based on Symbian OS™ and started shipping in Japan today.
Symbian OS is the global market-leading open mobile operating system for smartphones.
The FOMA F905iBiz, aimed for corporate-use handset, is manufactured by Symbian customer Fujitsu Limited and includes the MOAP® platform compliant with …

Handset Leaders Including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Confirm LiMo as the Unifying Force in Mobile Linux
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 11, 2008 — LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, unveiled today the first wave of handsets using the LiMo Platform™—the world’s first …

Google’s $625 million acquisition of antispam and data security company Postini is finally bearing fruit. The search giant announced a new security service today: for $3-25 per year, corporate clients can use Postini’s spam filters and security features as a means of protecting their own e-mail systems against data loss, spam, and other risks.
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Blizzard Entertainment, owners of World of Warcraft, announced this morning that the game now has more than 10 million paying subscribers around the world. Blizzard said today that those 10 million paying subscribers include 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe.
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