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Prison terms on tap for 'pre-release' film pirates

News File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, under a US bill that's slated to become the most dramatic expansion of online piracy penalties in years.

25 April 2005, 14:34

Dell backs down over 'bloatware'

News Dell has finally relented on the issue of 'bloatware' -- the often unwanted programs that come pre-installed on a new computer. Dell is notorious for selling its PCs and laptops with a varied assortment of programs pre-installed, ranging from...

25 June 2007, 11:12

Mac cloners offer software updates

News Psystar, a Florida-based company that last month began selling generic PCs with Apple's Mac OS X operating system pre-installed in the US, has addressed one of the major shortcomings of the systems by offering bug fixes and software updates.

Tags: mac os, operating system, pre, automatic updates

29 May 2008, 9:50

Dell brings Linux PCs to the UK

News Dell has launched two PC models with a pre-installed Linux operating system in the UK. According to Dell, the launch was a result of pressure from users of its IdeaStorm forum -- 30,000 of them advocated the idea that systems should come with Linux...

8 August 2007, 9:33

Dell takes baby steps towards Linux

News Dell has acknowledged that 83,000 users have urged it to sell PCs with Linux pre-installed, but it has fallen short of accepting their suggestion. But it stopped short of offering pre-installed Linux, and instead said it would certify some of its...

27 February 2007, 8:40

Lenovo to launch Linux ThinkPad laptops

News Lenovo is to offer a Linux operating system pre-installed on its ThinkPad laptops. ThinkPad T Series laptops will come pre-installed with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in the fourth quarter of this year.

7 August 2007, 10:31

Dell's Linux PC launch hits rocky ground

News Dell announced on Tuesday that it would launch two PCs with a pre-installed Linux operating system on Wednesday. He said the 530n will cost £399 and the 6400n will cost £329 and they will both come with the Ubuntu Linux distribution pre-installed.

9 August 2007, 9:52

IE 7 beta is within sight of the public

News Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, said in a posting on Microsoft's IE blog this week that his team will publicly release an updated pre-release build of IE 7 for Windows XP before the end of March 2006.

9 December 2005, 10:35

We want Linux, say Dell users

News Nearly 40,000 users have used the Dell IdeaStorm Web site to promote the suggestion that Dell should: "Offer the three top free Linux versions [Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu] for free pre-installation on all Dell PCs".

21 February 2007, 9:08

Intel upgrades Centrino wireless chipset

News Next-generation equipment based on 802.11n will offer throughput of up to 300Mbps, compared with a maximum of 54Mbps at present.n hasn't yet been certified, but several vendors are already shipping pre-certified kit.

3 October 2006, 10:00

News.blog: YouTube to share revenue

News To make this work, of course, the video-sharing giant must now pre-screen the 100 million videos it presents daily. That's an interesting move given that part of YouTube's success is attributed to its original stance not to pre-screen videos, thus...

29 January 2007, 9:38

Death knell sounded for cassettes

News In 1989, at the height of sales of pre-recorded music cassettes, 83 million such tapes were bought by UK shoppers, while 1990 saw 95 million blank tapes shifted. This year, Currys expects to sell less than one million blank tapes and envisages...

9 May 2007, 12:28

3 reveals low pricing for X-Series

News The mass market is pre-pay. In order to get the majority of the market onto something like this you would first need to persuade them to migrate from pre-pay to contract," said Delaney, who added that operators had always been largely unsuccessful...

4 December 2006, 9:13

ASDA halves pay as you go mobile prices

News Vodafone announced increases after rivals T-Mobile and O2 raised their pre-pay call charges this summer. O2, which has 11.5 million pre-pay customers, has doubled its minimum call charges for customers who have not upgraded to a new tariff.

Tags: pre, customers, plan, war

22 August 2008, 9:33

No more queues with RFID pub tables

News Those using the system can buy their snakebite-and-black using RFID chipped cards, with both a pre-pay and billing options. This even comes pre-programmed with a list of cheesy chat-up lines -- such as 'that's a nice shirt, it would go well on my...

20 September 2006, 11:10