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Facebook wins in court.
AT&T Security Service for Consumers.
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Galaxy Windstorms.
FCC Cracks down on Reporting.
Senators not Happy with ICE Response.
Pirate Bay Server Upgrades.
Alt Operating Systems.
AIM AV.
Microsoft to buy Nokia.
New DJ tools.
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WordPress App.
ChromeBook Thoughts.
TAX on SD Cards!
Leica Art.

Nokia today announced two new smartphones, the E6 and the X7, both sporting the latest version of Symbian, codenamed “Anna”. The Nokia E6 adds to the business range and the Nokia X7 excels at games and entertainment. The new Anna software has new icons and usability improvements, including better text input, faster browsing and a refreshed Ovi Maps.

“We are further strengthening Nokia’s smartphone portfolio with these two new devices, both of which offer a more beautiful and intuitive user experience that will soon also be available for the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01,” said Jo Harlow, head of Nokia’s Smart Devices business. “With these new products and more Symbian devices and user enhancements coming in the near future, we are confident we can keep existing Nokia smartphone customers engaged, as well as attract new first-time and competitor smartphone users.”

The E6 takes over from the E71 and E72, coming with a keyboard and hi-res touch screen. Designed as a premium device with glass and stainless steel, it offers the business user access to Microsoft Exchange, Communicator and Sharepoint.

The X7 features a 4″ display which is great for games and movie playback. The 8 megapixel camera rounds out the features, with HD video capture. Also constructed from glass and stainless steel, it’s a solid device, albeit with an unusual design. It will come preloaded with Galaxy on Fire HD and Asphalt 5 HD games.

These look like good phones but are these Symbian’s last hurrah before Windows Mobile 7?

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Apple and Google are Killing our Companies.
Mobile Penetration.
iPhone Secret Symbols.
Where did Kilogram Originate.
Metered Billing on Hold.
IP Address does not Equal a Person!
Plasma Bullet?
HTML5 pushed to 2014.
Twitter trends Origination Points.
3 New iPhone Styles?
Twitter to cut developers off at knees?
Can Nokia Survive?
Tablets Everywhere but no Apps!
Are Adobe Air and Flash Winning?
Facebook Sim Card!
5 Great VPN’s?
iPhone Telephoto Lense.
The 9th Planet is it out their.
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FIOS + Iphone = Savings
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Mini Nuke Power Reactors.
iPhone Voicemail Save Hack.
Qualcomm, Netflix and Android.
USB Crypto Device.
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P2P for Good Uses.
isoHunt attacked by Music Industry.
Windows Phone Apps.
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This week, it’s the turn of Nokia’s N97 mini to come under the harsh glare of the GNC spotlight.  Now over a year old, the smartphone market has changed significantly in the last 12 months, so how does the N97 mini stack up against the current offerings from Android, Apple and Palm?

As the name suggests, this is smaller version of the N97. At just over 11 cm tall, 5 cm wide and about 15 mm deep this is a small phone and would have been the smallest smartphone on release. Unfortunately, the Xperia X10 mini probably holds this crown now. The styling of the phone is simple without being utilitarian but does feel a little dated compared with the latest offerings from htc and co. The resistive touchscreen is 3.2″ with 640 x360 pixels and looks clear and detailed.

Continuing in the long-established tradition of Nokia Communicators, this is a side-slider (or horizontal slide) with a bit of a difference as the screen tilts up as well. This is a great feature as when the phone is on your desk with the slider open, it’s really easy to see what’s on the tilted screen. Unfortunately, there’s no chance of typing while the phone is on the desk as it wobbles too much. If there just been a little bump below the camera, it would have stabilised it beautifully.

Other than that little issue, the keyboard is good to use. The keys are flat and slightly rectangular with plenty of space round them. You’d need very large fingers to have a problem hitting more than one key at a time.

In use as phone, I thought that the call quality was good to excellent as I could hear people very clearly. The people at the other end of the phone commented that while they too could hear me very well but sometimes the microphone also picked up other noises, such as the phone rubbing against my face.

Moving onto the software on the N97 mini, it’s all very similar to that found on the E5 last week. Too similar in some instances, in that the non-touch screen Nokia heritage is often evident by having two choices displayed on the screen in the same locations as the (non-existent) buttons. Instead of pressing the buttons, you tap on the screen.  Clearly this is a great way of getting software onto the phone without having to recode for the touchscreen, but at times it felt like a missed opportunity.

It was also evident at times that the OS on the E5 was just a little bit more up-to-date. For example, making a data connection on the E5 was handled without leaving the requesting application, whereas on the N97 mini, if no data connection was present, the application would tell you to establish a connection before running the application.

In terms of the applications available, the two phones were largely identical. Email – check; QuickOffice – check; Adobe PDF reader – check; music player – check; YouTube – check; and so on…  Some features were missing such as the dual Personal and Business modes (though you can have two Home screens) and some of the setup wizards were less comprehensive, but not much in it.

The Home screen does take advantage of the touchscreen, with the ability to rearrange the icons and applets by simply dragging them around.  It’s not completely free-form in that there is snap grid.  Applets can also be downloaded and added to the home screen. With the weather here in the UK, the first app I tried was AccuWeather which delivered further bad news.

Further, Ovi maps is much improved through the use of the touch screen as it makes moving around the maps and selecting options easier. The GPS tracking was quick to lock-on to locations, even when inside, though your mileage may vary.

The web browser on the N97 mini is also much better than that on the E5. Most websites rendered well, particularly when in landscape mode and it was much easier to scroll round the webpage using your finger.

The N97 mini also comes equipped with dual cameras. The main 5 MP (2584 x 1938 pixels) camera is in the normal place on the back, but there’s also front-facing camera for video calls. It’s only 640 x 480 pixels.  Regrettably, I wasn’t able to actually try out a video call.

The Ovi Store has loads of applications for the N97 mini, both free and paid-for. Downloading and installing is a doddle as is updating software when new versions come out.

A quick mention about the touchscreen. It’s only a resistive screen, rather than the newer capacitive screens, though frankly you’d be hard pushed to tell.  I wasn’t sure until I discovered that styluses worked. Personally, I think multitouch is overrated so if you’d rather have a screen that works with a stylus, the N97 mini is for you.

I really liked using this phone in landscape mode – it kind of felt more natural – but this showed up one irritating bug.  Normally, the phone doesn’t auto-rotate but assumes that if you have the keyboard open, the phone should be in landscape and if the keyboard is closed, the phone should be in portrait mode. There is a setting to auto-rotate the screen display and the screen rotates to match the orientation. The bug is that if you are in landscape mode with the keyboard out, when you actually close the keyboard, the screen always changes to portrait mode before taking a couple seconds to revert back to landscape. Not a big deal I know, it’s annoying when you’ve merely opened the keyboard to enter a web-address and now you want to read the page with the keyboard closed.

Overall, the N97 mini is a good phone even 12 months after release. It’s certainly not in the same league now as the Windows Phone 7, Android, Apple or even Palm offerings but if you are a long-time Nokia user wanting a small touchscreen phone, this is a great choice. You can get it free on a £25 per month 24 month contract or direct from Nokia for £289. There’s also a limited edition gold-plated variant at £479.  No really.

Thanks very much to Nokia for the loan of the N97 mini.

The Nokia E5 is a non-touchscreen smartphone with a split personality, bringing business features to the social networking crowd.  It’s an interesting idea but are the features let down by lack of touch?  Let’s find out.

The E5 is a candy-bar phones with a 320 x 240 2.4″ screen above an alphanumeric keyboard.  Separating the two is Nokia’s trademark arrangement of softkeys, four-way rocker and answer / reject keys.  There are also two additonal keys for “home” and “email” in the middle.  The phone is 11.5 cm by 6 cm by 13 cm (ish) and weighs in at 126g according to the specs.  Consequently, it feels solid in the hand and appears to be built to the usual Nokia high standards.  I found the “chalk white” colour of this model attractive and a change from the fingerprint prone glossy finishes.  The E5 is available in four other colours.

Earlier on I referred to the split personality of the phone.  Fundamentally, there are two modes, one called Business and one called Personal.  Each mode can be configured independently so that, for example, you can have a serious workplace view with corporate greys and a sensible background in the Business mode but wild colours and a risque image for your Personal mode.

With regard to the basic functions of a phone, everything that you’d expect is there.  Call quality was good and the contacts database was comprehensive with lots of fields.  It’s possible to sync with Ovi Contacts, storing your contacts on the Internet and making it easier to switch between Nokia phones.

Email-wise, Nokia provides connectors to Exchange, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and generic POP3 / IMAP accounts.  Unfortunately, it only seems to be the email components provided by these services – it didn’t seem to be possible to pull contact or diary information.

With regards to media, the E5 comes with a radio, music player, video player, the ubiquitous camera and a podcatcher, which I was pleasantly pleased to see. There’s also a Facebook client which is quite usable and you can easily see what your friends have been up to and respond to them.  YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, Friendster and hi5 apps are also installed for your pleasure.

On the business side, QuickOffice provides the requisite Microsoft Office compatibility and there’s also a .pdf viewer from Adobe.  There are other apps such notes and unit converters.

There’s a whole section devoted to Ovi Maps, which is a basically a GPS with maps and navigations.  I didn’t severely tax it during the test but it appeared to be competent enough with directions and didn’t get me lost.

Other useful features are the wizards that take you through the steps to, say, setup email accounts or connect to WiFi.  However, if you do make a mistake, such as a mistype which you don’t notice during the wizard, can be difficult to correct because there are just so many settings scattered across different areas.  Case in point, if you want to delete an email account, it’s not in the email app, it’s in Control Panel, Settings, General, Email.

Surfing the web…..not so good.  If you’re on a website such as the BBC, where the content is specially formatted for mobile devices, it works fine.  Going to a general web site, such as GNC, it makes an fair attempt to render the page and there’s a kind of zoom view that allows you to see where on the overall page you are. Not great but not bad for such a small screen.  Surprisingly, you can have multiple web pages open at the same time and you can switch between them quite easily.

Acknowledging that people sometimes use their smartphones as torches, you can actually toggle the camera flash by holding down the space bar in the Home screen. Great feature which I hope other manufacturers copy!

The battery life was good – I used the phone for a couple of days and never had to the charge the battery which I thought was pretty good.  Obviously the smaller screen helps and it has a fair sized battery (1200 mAh).

There are loads of other features that I simply didn’t have time to play with fully – Home page customisation, chat, push-to-talk, the ovi store, downloading apps, 5 megapixel camera.  There is a lot to this phone.

In terms of money, in the UK it seems to be selling on contract for about £15 month on a two year contract or £200 on pay-as-you-go, which is probably where it needs to be priced to have any chance of success.

Overall, this is a competent phone with plenty of features at a mid-range price. The business and personal modes are a nice touch and give it some differentiation. However, I wonder where a non-touchscreen smartphone fits into the world of iPhone and Android, especially when trying to appeal to the social networking crowd.  To me, it just feels out of date. Anyway, if you are looking for a non-touchscreen smartphone, the E5 packs plenty of features and is definitely worth considering for the apps, connectivity and ovi maps GPS at a fair price.

Thanks to Nokia for the loan of the phone.

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IDC‘s latest press release on mobile phones and smartphones in Europe shows the sector grew 8% in the past year, that smartphones represent over a quarter of all phones shipped and that current leader Nokia is losing market share.

The total mobile market grew 8% year-on-year with over 42 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2010.  Of this, smartphones were 12 million units, representing 28% of the market and up 57% on last year.  Mobile phones actually dropped 4% showing the trend towards the more powerful devices.

Overall, Nokia still rules the mobile market, with just under 33% of the market in the first quarter but this is down 9% in the year.  Samsung runs a close second with 29% of the market.  No-one else has anywhere near the  market share of these two.  Even Apple and RIM only have 7.0% and 5.6% respectively.

Looking at just the smartphone market, Nokia is still out front with nearly 41% market share, but again this is well down from 57% last year.  Apple is second with 25%, closely followed by RIM with 20%.

HTC comes fourth with 7.5% and consequently, Android outsold Windows Mobile for the first time.  No sign at all of Palm’s WebOS devices which anecdotally have only sold well in Germany.

To honest, anyone familiar with the space doesn’t need IDC to tell them that Nokia is struggling.  Partly it’s because the smartphone range isn’t great, but I think Nokia just isn’t hip anymore.  Forgive me if I’m being shallow but Apple = cool.  Blackberry = cool.  Android = cool.

The full tables are in the press release but they’re not labelled very well.  The first table is the total mobile phone market, the second table is the smartphone market.

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Automated Ramen Maker
Compuserve RIP
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SSD Hard Drives and Moore’s Law
Auto Building Linux Machines on Massive Scale
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Adult Material hurting Japan Mobile Companies
Justice Department to look at AT&T & Verizon?
Goldman Sachs Grand Theft Code?
Auto Calculating SSN’s?
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iPod Touch Camera Coming?
Microsoft Warning on IE Vulnerabilities
Battery Measurement App for iPhone
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Gaming community and death threats
RIAA tells Federal Judge to remove illegal Audio Recordings?
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Artificial Voice
Planet Distance

Show Notes:
Apple Plugs Security Issues
Patch Tuesday on the Way
Danish ISP Fight back
Shuttle off to ISS
Google Challenge IT Administrators
Comcast Changes TOS
Podcast Fresh
Urban Outside
Progress to ISS
Google Traffic
Google Phone Demo
Internet is a Copy Machine
Nokia N82 is King
Wizzard goes on AMEX
Telephone Mania
Cable and Broadcaster Fight FCC
anySIM
iPhone Safari Exploit
Vista SP1 on BitTorrent
NEC Offer Vista to XP Downgrades
Undersea Cable Repairs
Best World Travel Laptop
Save XP yea Right
Danish Keystone Cops
Universal ID’s for BC
Openid Grows
Increase Blog Subscribers
Perian Rules
Do not Call Permanent
AT&T 3G to Expand
AOL Dial-Up on For Sale Block
Mistakes in Starting a Business
Deposit Checks from Home!
eMarketer 18 Million Podcast Listeners
PodcasterTips.com
ThisisJustin

First show of 2008 back in the saddle and ready to head to Vegas. Lots to cover tonight and I appreciate your iTunes Reviews of the show!

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The 2008 CES coverage starts next week you will want to check here at least daily for new coverage. I will be live blogging many of the events and we may even live stream some CES Coverage.

Listener Links
Pocket Projector
WiFi Virus
1981 PC Hacked!
Generation Lost
Webware Hits and Misses
Peru OLPC

Show Notes:
TSA Facecrimes
Tree’s not breathing as much CO2?
Bypass Disabled IE
20 Best iPhone Apps
Linux Switch Tips
IPv6 Coming
Bizarre Google Maps
Cool Space Image
Facebook OWNS your Data
Banned for Life for taking Picture
Dell LCD Crystal Monitor
DRM and HD Monitors out of Control
Powramid Kreative Power
Belkin RockStar
N95 and YouTube
New DUI Tool
Om Malik Best Wishes
Podcasters and FOIA
Survive CES 2008
Become a Celebrity
Scoble and Facebook Data
Plaxo Blows It
Youngest Exoplanet
Deep Impact Flies By Earth
NASA gets their Money

Special Edition of the Geek News Central Podcast recorded during the 24hr Podcast. All the regular great coverage plus the live components which were a lot of fun.

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Listener Links:
Interesting Trekkie Podcast
For those of you with Ink Issues with Printers
CSS Selector Test
IE Passes Acid2 Test
Airline Travel Resource
Microsoft vs Google over Office

Show Notes:
Mark Cuban Facebook Strategy
Doug Kaye on real Time Web
Congress finally to equal playing field in Radio
23 iTunes add on’s
OLPC Unboxing
Real Blue Man
Deep Impact new mission approved
Compaq and HP Bricking Bug
Stupid guy gets what he deserves
Unix Admin Pleads Guilty on Power Grid Sabotage
Nokia N96 in the wild
Micorchip can detect Tumors
A really good WiFi picture frame
IE8 and Browser Wars
Kent Nichols Ask a Ninja Blog
Digg is DOA
Steal my Content and Pictures Please
Think Secret and the Apple Gestapo
S3 as a end user product
Bet Winner NYT versus Weblogs
FCC Votes to Relax Ownership Rules

Cool Things I found
Six reasons to slow down eating
Fuel Economy and big Cars
Tires with Microchip Sensors
Don’t like shoes in the house?

I have made the announcement on when I will do the 24 hour Marathon show. Set your calendar it will be Dec 21st

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Listener Links:
Radio QRM Podcast
Kodak Easyshare 5300
Dell Color Laser 3110cn
Five Tips to avoid Printing Pitfals
Choosing a compact Inkjet Printer
RSS via Notepad
On the Media
Remember Pearl Harbor
Firestore
Kadoink’s phonecast lines

Show Notes:
Nokia and OGG
Busted for Pirating
Photoshop Contest and Winners
Voip on iPod Touch
FCC 210,000 Towers need Generators
Canadian DMCA
NASA Night Shinning Clouds
Wiimots
ArtiGo Mini PC Kit
Some OLPC Shipping
Workaround for Zune 3 Play Rule
Sony OLED unboxing and Breakdown
Amazing Looking HTPC
Voyager 2 #1
Voyager 2 #2
Hidden MP3 Player/Recorder
Dubai Life
Whats a Blog?
Watching Online
Buzz on Marc
Future Safe Archives
Naughty Company Western Digital
Linked in going more Social?
NYT Readership
Media Player Users Beware
Transistor turns 60!!!
NAV 11 for Leopard
UK Wind Turbines
ISP inserting messages on Google Pages
Singing Songs for Charity told to pay up by PRS

Gems I Found:
Lake Mead

Two major rants tonight: Realistic privacy expectations in new media and signing exclusive podcast advertising contracts. Plus, a lot of great tech news and information.

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Listener Links:
Dorthy iLife08 Video
Metric Conversions
Zune running iPhone Fake or Real
AMIE Street
NYT Lowers some Walls
Amazon Payment system for Developers
HDTV Worth Waiting For
Linspire – Indiana University — Listen to show
Flashlight that makes you throw up

Show Notes:
Spam Blogs
AOL will Kill Digg Clone
Google Deletes Own Blog as Spammer
MAC vs PC in Cost
Circuit City and No Refunds
Oklahoma Students Fight Back
Apple Strategy
iPhone Touch Screen Issues
Ford almost got my vision correct
Sprint + Nokia N800
iMac teardown
Apple Wireless Keyboard
Xbox 360 has HDMI
NASA Asteroid Buster mock up
Vonage Financials
Google Evil News Walled Garden
Be careful Jason!
Endeavor STS-118
Search Engine Privacy Improvements?
Big File Transfer
Hitachi Blu-ray Camcorder
iLife08
Low Marks on Video Downloads
DRM Stripped from Netflix Movie Stream
Universal Music DRM Free Test

I get on the soapbox over Verizon and the FCC along with getting you up to date on the latest online radio information.

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An Invisible Abomination
$10.00 DSL
More Apple iPhone
PhotoSynth
Pidgin IM
ScrubIt

Show Notes:
iPhone Apps
Recording Skype
Prince CD Giveaway
Hydrogen at Scale
Nuclear License
Court Decline Internet Radio Appeal
RIAA Make XM Pay
Microsoft to buy Facebook
Online Radio Saved
People Copy DVDs Not
Quicktime Upgrade
Verizon Condemns FCC
Lapworks
Lawn Chair Balloonist
Shuttle Rolls to Pad
Sony Sues Rootkit Developer
TP Article
Zillow
More Sprint
Media Rights Technologies Idiots
Skype Nokia N800
Hawaii Telescope
Secret iPhone Codes
Gelato

This show is full info from start to finish and some great comments at the very end of the show. Off to NYC Saturday and will be in Michigan on Thursday..Show schedule talked about in the show.

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Mobile Twitter
Penn Machine
Data Breach
J.P. Web Submission your gonna Laugh
ClearPlay.com DVD Filtering
Treo 755P
www.senduit.com

Show Notes:
SAT
Facebook Ads
Unconfernce
Vista Doing Good?
Ustream.tv new Features
Internet Radio Blues
MPAA Math
G5 Coolant
OxyContin
Zune Wireless Syndication?
PC World Editor
Joost Home run
Hubble Replacement Revealed
NASA Dark Matter
DRM = DCE = Are they Kidding
Senate Streaming Bill
Google Game
SEO Dont Sweat
Nokia Energy Savings
Linked In who’s Reading
HD Radio Distortion?
Old Links
Fake Rolodex FIne
Google Background Checks Ok
Pump up the Bandwidth!!
Vonage may be Ok
Google Analytics

Next stop the Windy City and a special podcast from Chicago with the RawVoice Crew and Mom. Great show tonight with lots of great links and tidbits

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10 Vista Myths
Meizu M8
Meizu M8 #2
Bootlegging Bootleggers Bootlegged
NeoShooter
Are you a Minesweeper Adict?
NAB Podcasting Summit

Show Notes:
Do you care about RSS?
IDG to go Digital
OS X on Windows Machine Possible!
WiFi for Criminals
Walmart Sleeping with Microsoft
Google Radio Ads
Google Supplemental Index?
Using DOS in Vista
400 Million in Podcast Ads?
Nokia Video Podcatcher
YouTube Classic Shows
APOD
Google helps Pirates get Rich!
Nokia E90
Steve Jobs DRM Bait
$100 EMI DRM Challenge
Firefox Support Site Version 2.0
Get Traffic without Search Engines!
Azuerus calling home to Mama or the RIAA?
Cell Phones DRM PlayforSure
P2P Effect on Music Sales
Javascript Widgets, Plugins etc
Veoh Re-Launch
ISS temp loss of Power!
Saturn Moon Spray?
Beta Test Windows Home Server
Given MP3 by Mistake
Universal and no Fair Use!
BestBuy.com Website Escapades

Fun Friday show with enough content to last the weekend. Make sure you check back this weekend were gonna have a special video to put online details in the show.

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Listener Links:
Shuttle Processing Pictures
Deep Linking

Show Notes:
Windows Vista Pricing
Free T-Mobile Hotspot Service
backupHDDVD Developer Interview
mobileFaker
Saturn
Mars
URL Fixer
AVVENU
Day at Digg
Amazing Photo
93 Year old Blogger Reflections!
Un-Cease
Zune +90 Days
Google Video Look Ahead
Mods 2006
Pirate Bay Interview
CES Picks Sci American
iTunes Everywhere
Car PC
Nokia N800
Vista on iMac
The Hype Machine
Video Search
Microsoft Search?
Thunderbird 2 Beta 2
Shuttle Launch
Ares Rocket on Schedule
150 Million Botnet PC’s
Cisco Security Patches
Quickbooks Vista Issues!
Vista Launch Specials
New Record Label Biz Model
AACS admits Hack
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