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Mac monomaniacs trying to make sense of Apple’s pending switch to Intel now that IBM has announced new dual-core and low-power versions of its PowerPC 970 processor would do well to read Ars Technica’s rumination on the matter. Based on information from insider sources, the report suggests that the inspiration for Apple’s X86 switch wasn’t [...]

Federal antitrust regulators have a few questions for Adobe about its planned purchase of Macromedia. On Monday the Department of Justice requested still more information on the companies’ products in authoring, design and vector graphics illustration. While the DOJ’s request might seem, at first glance, cause for concern, analysts say it’s routine and unlikely to [...]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini must have choked on this cornflakes this morning after learning of a European Commission raid on Intel’s offices. Early this morning, EC officials descended on Intel offices in England, Germany, Spain and Italy, searching for evidence that the chipmaker used unfair business practices to persuade clients to buy its microprocessor [...]

“There is the obvious issue that it is devaluing the perceived value of music. You are also leading the public to think that it is fine to download and own these files for nothing.”

– Anthony Anderson, managing director of the Naxos classical music label and apparently a disciple of the free market school of music [...]

Phishing attacks are on the rise, according to a new survey from Gartner, and the trend is ominous because phishing victims are often tricked into divulging sensitive information to criminals. In the 12 months ending in May 2005, an estimated 73 million U.S. adults who use the Internet said they ”definitely” received a phishing e-mail, [...]

Netflix’ long awaited move into the video-on-demand market (see “TiVo, Netflix spotted making out in back row“) may be in the offing. Hacking Netflix reports that an apparent technical cockup at the DVD rental service’s Web site Friday briefly exposed a registration screen for a “Netflix Player.” Wrote one Hacking Netflix reader: [...]

The all new Sesame Street and Celebrity Jeopardy: Kick Me (Quicktime movie)

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