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I bought a Gateway GT5628 Quad Core Desktop (refurbished) for a good deal from buy.com. The desktop's configuration is

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According to the CoreBrand Power 100 2007 study,
which polled about 12,000 U.S. business decision-makers, Microsoft
dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful U.S. company
brands in 2004 to number 59 last year. In 1996, the company ranked
number 1 in brand power among 1,200 top companies in about 50 industries.

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WordPress team has released WordPress 2.5 2 days ago, after 6 months of development. Here are some of the new or changed features in WordPress 2.5.

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OpenOffice.org team has released OpenOffice 2.4 today. OpenOffice 2.4 includes lots of new features and bug fixes. Here are some of the new features added to OpenOffice 2.4.

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Mozilla has updated Firefox web browser with few security fixes. Firefox 2.0.0.13 contains the following security fixes.

• XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
• Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect
• Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
• HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
• Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
• JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution

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I had a Magellan Roadmate 760 GPS unit. It was good, but it was pretty bulky and the mounting cradle was unstable. I ordered the new maps ($80) for the Roadmate 760 unit. Once I received the map DVD, I started the update process. The map update process didn't complete and I was left with a non functional unit. Restarting the unit didn't work and there's no way to reset the unit back to factory setting. I found by Googling that lot of people had the same issue (map update) with that unit. I then called Magellan support. The call went to their support center in India. The support person asked me the series of questions they were told to ask and then transferred me to a tech specialist. He asked me the same set of questions and then told me that their system to generate the return authorization was down and told me to call back the next day. I read in the forums that most of the people got the same statement from the Magellan tech. I then called the support again the next day and the call again went to India. The support guy asked me the same set of questions again and then transferred me again to the tech supervisor. She then generated a RA# and gave me the address to where I was told to send the unit. I had to pay for the shipping.

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India will vote against Microsoft's OOXML being adopted as a standard by the Geneva-based international standards body, ISO, where representatives of member countries are slated to decide on the matter by March 29. The decision was taken at a standards committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards.

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SUN Microsystems has started offering Ubuntu Linux in their small and medium business server lines.

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Google spreadsheets has got some cool new features. Here is the list:

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Ubuntu team has released Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron beta. This beta includes lots of bug fixes. A couple of old caveats carry over from alpha into beta with a new addition. The newer bug is related to resizing partitions using Live CD.

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