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MS unveils Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer
With 5 fully programmable program-specific buttons, the Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer gives users the same features of the Intellimouse Explorer, but allows for wireless freedom, with up to 6 feet of range.
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TechIdea to publish USB 2.0 market report
Tech Idea's bi-monthly report on the latest of the USB industry keeps readers up to date on numerous topics, including: USB technology updates, analysis of current events and the effect of each on the market, market trends by market segment, factors affecting market growth, analysis of leading USB companies, new applications and ideas of USB 1.1 and 2.0, and tips to develop market forecasts and strategies for growth.
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Thanks Clutch for this one: An emerging high-speed Internet standard in Europe holds potential for faster download speeds and broader availability for many U.S. businesses--if they're willing to wait a while.

Although DSL speeds vary widely, the new G.SHDSL could be two to three times faster than most versions of DSL targeted at business customers. The G.SHDSL standard also can deliver data farther than earlier DSL technologies, which are limited to a relatively short distance.

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DeltaThree said Monday that it is in the final stages of negotiating a deal for software leader Microsoft to deliver Internet telephone services to consumers via Microsoft Messenger.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, DeltaThree said it believes its services will be made available to the public through Microsoft's instant-messaging service in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001, and the agreement should be finalized in the next several weeks.

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What's the cost of little or no competition?

For some Microsoft customers, it's paying as much as 107 percent more for the software they buy in volume.

As previously reported by CNET News.com, Microsoft on Oct. 1 will dramatically change how it licenses software to its largest customers. That change will drive up what they pay for products such as Office XP or Windows 2000 between 33 percent and 107 percent, according to market researcher Gartner.

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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will call its upcoming desktop processor the Athlon XP in what seems to be an odd marketing coincidence.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD next month will release a 1.5GHz Athlon desktop processor. But unlike current chips that merely go by the name Athlon, the new chip and its successors will carry the XP suffix, similar to Windows XP, the name of Microsoft's next operating system.

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WASHINGTON--For the second time in a week, Microsoft and the government received an extension in an important court filing.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extended the deadline to 12 p.m. EDT on Friday a joint status report originally due Sept. 14.

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Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted the latest news about ABIT's motherboard roadmaps plus some specifications of the eight upcoming motherboards

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At least 600 employees of IBM Malaysia were asked to vacate their offices here early Wednesday morning after a bomb threat.

Several bomb squads started combing the area shortly after employees were notified about the threat around 11:45 a.m. local time, according to an IBM Malaysia representative.

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In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crash two planes into the World Trade Center, bringing both 110-story towers down. Explosions also rock the Pentagon and spread fear across the nation.

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UKGamer.net has posted a interview with Intel which was held at ECTS.