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Windows 7 Not for Most IT Pros

After conducting a new survery, it has been revealed that Windows 7 is already not very popular. Supposedly 84% of IT pros aren’t even considering a Windows 7 upgrade when it is released in the next year or so. Also, about half are apparently looking into alternative OS.

Sweden “Scared” By Anti-Piracy Law

A law brought into force to make it muhc easire for copyright holders to prosecute and go after file-sharers seesm to have caused a major drop in Internet traffic.

Prison Guard Dismissed over Facebook Incidents

Upon discovering that a 27 year old prison officer has 13 criminal friends on the social networking site Facebook, he was sacked.

Teen Steals YouTube Music Videos

A 15-year-old has created a free-music service by nicking YouTube’s music videos.

eBay Add-on Infected with Trojan

Google has warned users of a third party add on for eBay used by many sellers that it is potentially malicious after being infected with a trojan.

Google Users Suffer Problems with Gmail

Tuesday saw mass disruption for business and consumer users alike as they were hit by a mail outage on Google’s popular emial provider.

Notebook Stolen in Facebook Row

A youth now faces criminal charges after snatching a notebook in Starbucks from a man in order to feed his facebook addiction – check his profile. The man reported told him to couldn’t check it causing the teenager to go mad.

Microsoft Under the Spotlight Once More With Antitrust Violations

The latest lawsuit aimed at the Sotfware giant microsoft alleges anti-trust violations for fees charged to downgrade to XP from Vista

Facebook Returns to Old Terms of Use

Facebook, the well-known and very popular socail networking site recently announced privacy policies which have been met with disapproval from many of its 150 million users.