By Terri Schwartz
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Zack didn’t like computers.

At age 3, he was diagnosed with severe autism. His parents decided to send him to a specialized school, where he could get one-on-one attention. It was there that he was first introduced to computers. [...]

By Aaron Anderson
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Dell, the personal computer giant was slapped in mid-May with a lawsuit from the state of New York for “engaging in bait and switch financing tactics and failing to provide their customers with adequate customer service.”
The lawsuit, filed by New York State Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo, accuses Dell and its money arm, Dell Financial [...]

By Manuel Uribe
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Germany’s Max Planck Institute has recently done testing that illustrates practices that cable Internet users have suspected for some time now — major US Cable ISPs, Comcast and Cox, are blocking peer-to-peer network patterns.
The Institute, spurred on by a CNET report showing that Comcast defended its blocking of BitTorrent P2P traffic to the FCC “as [...]

By John Guilfoil

McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they’re calling “Downloader-UA.h,” which is spreading by masquerading as a media file.
“The malicious MP3 music or MPEG video files have appeared on popular file-sharing services such as Limewire and eDonkey,” Avert Labs said [...]

By MJ Paradiso
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10 tips for improving email productivity

By John Guilfoil
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Averatec announced Tuesday the availability of two new semi ruggedized laptops in their new Voya series.

By John Guilfoil
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Apple proudly boasted on Thursday that their highly successful iTunes Store has passed Wal-Mart as the top music retailer in the US.
iTunes has sold over four billion songs to over 50 million customers since opening in 2003.
“We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music retailer in [...]

By John Guilfoil
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The WordPress Development Blog announced Wednesday that the second release candidate for the upcoming WordPress 2.5 is available for immediate download.
The developers also release a video screencast as a sneak peak of what users can expect with 2.5.

“2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 pingbacks and [...]

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Apple announced Tuesday that Safari 3.1 has been released for Mac and Windows systems.
“Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2,” Apple said in a statement. “Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the [...]

By John Guilfoil
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IOGEAR has released a hardware-based virtual desktop solution that lets users access their computers from any Internet connection without the need for managing and configuring software.
The PCPortal also allows users and IT pros to connect to a cluster of machines by interfacing the device with a KVM switch.
“In the event a computer is not functioning [...]

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