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Microsoft may be targeting Notes users, but they won’t be switching without a fight from IBM.

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A Capcom executive speaks candidly about digital distribution, DRM, and action games on the PC when dealing with low sales of its PC Devil May Cry IV port.

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It appears that AMD’s engineers in Dresden, Markham and Sunnyvale have been making lots of trips to little island of Formosa lately - the home of contract manufacturer TSMC, which will be producing Fusion CPUs. Our sources indicated that both companies are quite busy laying out the productions scenarios of AMD’s first CPU+GPU chip.

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Melissa Batten, 36, a software development engineer in Microsoft’s Xbox division, was murdered by her estranged husband, who then shot himself to death, earlier this week.

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The US Court of Federal Claims has ruled that, when crafting the DMCA, Congress left the US government immune to any claims of infringement under the statute. So when the Air Force cracked some code to avoid an expiration date, it apparently acted legally.

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Plug your iPhone into iTunes and upgrade. Not sure what all it fixes yet, but hopefully quite a bit.

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The internet has been ablaze with news about the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability over the last week or so, especially in light of some vendors’ taking their sweet time with supplying a fix.

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In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple’s standards.”

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Sales of Grand Theft Auto have been halted in Thailand. On Monday, a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver in attempts to recreate a scene from GTA reports Reuters. The game’s Thai distributor is pulling GTA from Thai game shops and replacing them with other games.

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