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Microsoft's Windows XP mode for Windows 7 was seen as a way to "convince" businesses to adopt Windows 7. It virtually guaranteed that if you couldn't run it in 7, you could run it in XP mode. Problem was, it came ill-designed for such a task.

After all, it was intended to allow businesses to upgrade their systems to Windows 7 while not worrying about compatibility with older apps. At the same time, however, it required that the systems it was run on have hardware virtualization capability. That requirement confused many....

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 55, who had a liver transplant last year in Tennessee, made a surprise visit to Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital on Friday to promote a new legislative effort to expand the number of California organ donors.

While Steve Jobs described how his life was saved by the liver transplant, and said that patients with less wealth and fame should have the same opportunities, it's clear that can never be the case. Jobs' doctors advised him to enroll in a transplant program in Memphis, TN, where ...

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While there's no evidence that points to this developer's rant as the reason his app was pulled, it's undeniable that his game was pulled from the App Store soon after it. Game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple's app store "awful" and "horrible" (and worse) on March 10th at the Game Developer's Conference. This week, Apple kicked his game out of the App Store.

His game was "Zits & Giggles." It's a simple pimple-popping game for the iPhone and iPod touch, which reportedly the developers created as a "lark." In fact, since ...

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Google is eying a departure from China on April 10th, according to a report in The China Business News. The report came less than a week after a FT report that said that Google was 99.9 percent certain to leave China.

The site quoted an anonymous sales associate as saying (translated):

"I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google."

Google first threatened China with a halt to its censoring of its search results in mid-January. ...

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