ShareBy Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Microsoft will soon be pulling the download link for the latest beta of Windows Vista, beta 2, it is scheduled to end today.
In case you weren’t aware, we are only providing a limited number of copies of Windows Vista Beta 2 – either download or physical copies – and we’re fast [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
You may recall my earlier story about a proposed complete cell phone ban in Lawrence, Kansas. Well, strengthening that proposal, a study by the University of Utah has determined that people who use cell phones while driving, even with a hands-free setup, are as impaired as drivers who [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Microsoft is continuing to improve the ability to handle feeds with IE7 beta 3, including update all functions, more ways to mark a feed as read and even posted some keyboard shortcuts. And with some features such as the easy feed discovery, I think feeds are going to become a bigger [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Alice wrote earlier about the problems some users are having with their MacBooks, and a possible solution. At the time of writing, however, if wasn’t clear if the solution (nail polish remover) worked on MacBooks as well as iBooks. Well, although AppleCare representatives indicate Apple is still investigating, it [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
A lawsuit that is seeking class action status is claiming that Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool is spyware, saying that it violates laws against spyware.
The suit by Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle, seeks class-action status for claims that Microsoft didn’t adequately disclose [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
In what I originally labeled “hilarious” and “ironic”, the Virgin chain of stores in France has been fined for illegal downloading and selling of a Madonna song, “Hung Up.”
The store’s online portal, virginmega.fr, was ordered by the Paris Tribunal de Commerce to pay 600,000 euros, or $754,000, in damages for downloading [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Responding to criticism of its new WGA Notifications program, Microsoft has made some changes to the software and released a new version. The updated software no longer checks in every time the PC boots. They have also given guidelines to remove the application, which had previously been uninstallable and [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
I find it amusing, sad, incredible and simply a bit of a headscratcher that the companies involved in giving birth to the next generation of the DVD format are about to repeat history. The silly, relatively recent history that is the VHS vs Betamax format war. On [...]