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'Why not try nude female midgets?' says Microsoft Adcenter
Keywords no one bids on for a reason
Microsoft Adcenter helpfully sent me a link to lists of low-cost keywords I could advertise on, categorised by sector, to ?unlock new customers?. I had a quick look through the ?sport and rec? list. Here is a small sample:?
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US, EU tech trade row gets serious
Formal objection made
The US has made a formal request for the World Trade Organisation to review technology import definitions which it accuses the EU of using for protectionist purposes.?
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Another day, another iPhone fix
It's a bug's life
Version 2.0.2 of firmware for Apple's iPhone was made available yesterday, offering improvements on 3G reception for some, but not fixing the crashing applications Steve is promising to sort by September.? 
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UK MoD tries to resell surplus Eurofighters to India, Japan
Supersonic chickens coming home to roost
Analysis Reports indicate that British officials have been in talks with several far-flung nations with a view to offloading scores of enormously expensive Eurofighter jets which the MoD has ordered but cannot pay for - or even use.?
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PS4 and Xbox 720 due by 2012, says Crysis firm
Just our guess though, we don't know anything!
The president of game developer Crytek has predicted that the successors to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will appear within the next three to four years.?
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Intel lets slip first dual-core Atom
SCC adopters wish they'd waited
IDF Intel has quietly introduced its first dual-core Atom processor, the 330, and a new motherboard to go with it.?
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The robot at the border: UK bets big on face scanning
Home Secretary tells us where to stick our faces
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is taking risks with public safety, whilst simultaneously condemning thousands of airline passengers to long delays this winter. That is the fear expressed by a spokesperson for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), in reaction to government plans to test new face recognition software at airports.?
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Big UK resellers confident despite world's gloom
?Everyone?s a winner, Rodney?
Customer demand for vitualisation, security and unified communication technologies has helped large UK resellers outgrow the European IT market over the past year.?
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Intel's Atom laptots 'are here'
Sings Calpella too
IDF Intel gave its increasingly crowded mobile chip range an airing at IDF Tuesday, showing systems running on its mobile quad core chips and on the Calpella platform due to launch next year.?
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HP makes things personal again in Q3
Computers and currency do their thing
In a world of financial doom and gloom, sales of PCs are offering a glimmer of light. Don't believe us? Just look at Hewlett-Packard, which on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations and forecast healthy sales in the current period.?
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Gag order lifted for students who hacked subway card
MIT students free to discuss gaping holes
Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates are once again free to publicly discuss gaping security holes in the Boston subway system after a federal judge refused to renew a gag order requested by transportation officials.? 
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Intel does SSD flash dance
Now with Dynamic Wear Leveling
IDF Full of what we call "self mettle," Intel has championed its "highly anticipated line" of big daddy solid state drives (SSDs).?
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WiMax to cover 1 billion by 2012, says Intel
A truly olympian task
IDF Craig Barrett banged the drum for WiMAX in the opening keynote of IDF today. But only quietly, and not for very long.?
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Intel's Barrett goes for Washington on education, innovation
'Teachers are the ultimate tools'
IDF Intel chairman Craig Barrett got political at the opening of the Intel Developer Forum this morning, taking aim at the US? records on education, healthcare and investment in R&D.?
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Microsoft dashes hopes for 'major' Windows server upgrade
2008 sticking around
Microsoft has re-committed itself to an interim release of its Windows server operating system, countering reports it had planned to go straight to a major release instead.?
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