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Grand Theft Auto IV has created a frenzy of news stories, including

rave reviews
worries over an effect on Iron Man ticket sales
probable record sales
did I mention rave reviews?

Ah, but the one that has gamers hot under the collar: freezes.
Owners of both Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles are reporting freeze issues with the [...]

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Close only counts in horseshoes, right? Well, although a number of sites are saying that Windows XP SP3 is available for download, it’s not quite there. The reason is a glitch between the service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System.
“In order to make sure customers have the best possible [...]

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Rumored since last week, and revealed by the typical Apple Store outage, updated iMacs are here. Same prices, better specs.
And what are those better specs? Well, as Apple trumpets in their press release, for starters, buyers can now get the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors (up to 3.06 GHz), a faster [...]

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Despite all the skepticism from the media, Psystar has produced a video that purports to show “the triplets,” three Open Computers running Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X Leopard.
The video is posted on their website, but a copy has also been uploaded to YouTube.
The Open Computer running OS X is [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
A little more than a year since it was brave enough to backtrack on its Vista-only policy on consumer PCs, Dell is again breaking ground.
We know that Microsoft has set June 30th as the drop-dead date for Windows XP (despite their statements yesterday). Despite the fact that after June 30th, manufacturers [...]

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Wednesday, in a post on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Microsoft announced that they had begun automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1. What this means if that if you have Windows Updates set to automatically download and install on your PC, Windows Update will automatically download SP1 to your PC, after [...]

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Hopefully you read that title the way Steve Ballmer probably meant to say it on Thursday. You know, emphasis on the “HAVE” in a sarcastic way. Although I’m sure he didn’t say it that way, he probably wanted to.
Speaking at a news conference in Belgium, where he was to [...]

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In Monday’s post-earnings analyst / media conference call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that Netflix users can expect a “modest monthly premium” if they want to rent Blu-ray Discs. Formerly the rental of high-definition discs was bundled into their normal fee.
Hastings said that since Blu-ray discs cost more, and since consumers [...]