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Intel on Tuesday reported better-than-expected earnings for its fourth quarter, thanks in part to stronger sales of high-end processors for PCs and servers.

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Intuit has added an uninstaller feature for those users who are worried about the long-term effects of the Macrovision SafeCast/C-Dilla DRM software on their systems.

"As of today, we're going to give them an uninstaller," said Scott Gulbransen, director of corporate communications for the company. "We listened to that issue."

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Unlike its relatively sparse sibling, which appears much like an erector set on steroids, the ER-2 is a fully realized robot, encased in a hard-shell cladding. The ER2 includes wireless networking that allows it to be controlled from afar, an object recognition system that lets it maneuver around obstacles, and a gripper arm that allows it to carry things from place to place.

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Messages posted on Internet newsgroups and other online forums complain about the company's use of product activation, with many users saying they've decided to switch from TurboTax to one of its competitors. "I've used this program for many years, and it is an excellent tax program, but the new activation scheme makes it a poor choice now for me," says a post on Amazon.com (the site invites consumers to rate the products it sells).

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Al Zollar is leaving his post as general manager of IBM's Lotus Software division to head the company's iSeries division, IBM officials confirmed this morning.

Zollar, the first IBM executive to run Lotus, will be replaced by Ambuj Goyal, currently general manager for solutions and strategy at IBM's Software Group.

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In the latest move to court consumer electronics manufacturers, RealNetworks on Thursday is introducing content security technology that supports disparate digital media delivery standards, including MPEG-4 and MP3.

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Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

A federal judge in Kentucky has scheduled a hearing for Thursday in the case, which Lexmark filed against Static Control Components in an effort to slam the brakes on the toner cartridge remanufacturing industry. Lexmark is the No. 2 printer maker in the United States, behind Hewlett-Packard, and manufactures printers under the Dell Computer brand.

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Intel on Tuesday announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.

The new chip family, which includes the processor formerly known by the code name Banias, was designed to help manufacturers build notebooks that use less power and offer extended battery life, along with better wireless networking capabilities.

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IF "DVD Jon" Lech Johansen, creator of the DeCSS DVD descrambling program, had been tried in a U.S. court instead of in Norway, he may have been found in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But a bill reintroduced in the U.S. Congress would allow consumers to defeat anticopying measures on digital content in some cases.

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Consumers are prompting a new trend in mobile computing: the "desknote."

By taking home large numbers of notebooks based on Intel Pentium 4 desktop processors over the holidays consumers have legitimized a trend toward larger, more powerful notebooks that offer somewhat lower prices than more traditional laptops. Many industry observers had dismissed these so-called desknotes as a flash in the pan when it began early last year.

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IBM will help Advanced Micro Devices develop future chip technologies, the companies announced Wednesday, an alliance that will better insulate AMD from the growing risks of making processors.

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