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On the heels of the introduction of free SkypeOut in the U.S. and Canada, Skype and the Skype partner ecosystem continue to offer even more free services for Skype consumer and business users.

What would you like: Castle in Provence? Queen Victoria's vacation home? Palace in Poland?

New Windows driver model to enable sharing the GPU.

Looking for new music based on what you like? These services should help.

Ask.com, which owns the most popular stand alone web based feed reader, Bloglines, has just rolled out its long awaited new blog search engine.

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are commonly used to prevent bots from accessing a site, but are they also preventing humans?

See Windows Vista. See Windows Vista run. Run, run, Windows Vista.

Anti-virus leader Symantec Corp, under threat from Microsoft's entry its territory, has launched a counter-attack with the announcement of a new consumer PC security service to be branded Norton 360.

Harold Varmus won a Nobel Prize for changing how we think about cancer. Then he overhauled the NIH. Now he’s battling to make all scientific research free and universally available.

Investors think having USD35billion in the bank is too much. Time to go buying again?

They're not crazy about IE7, but they're not building their own browser. Yet.

New service joins Google, MSN, YouTube and other video download services.

Apple has started their "Take-back" program in the US. You can return computers (from any manufacturer) to them for recycling.

How does giving Java away add to their profit?

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals will help DBAs and dev teams track and manage their databases.

What features do you need to consider an app professional? (Does not crashing count?)

If you were to buy one to three books for coding, what would you choose?

Symantec has delivered fixes for a high-profile flaw in its corporate antivirus products that could be exploited in an Internet worm attack.

Google adds Australia and New Zealand (finally) to their mapping engine. Chris -- I can see your house from here.

The Nintendo Amusement Park attempts to recreate the Super Mario Brothers experience, enabling players to jump 12 feet in the air, and smash Goombas.

Four years ago, he became the second human in history to journey into space as a "tourist." Now, closer to home, he's expected to make a mark with the release of Ubuntu Dapper Drake, which may well challenge enterprise Linux frontrunners Red Hat and Novell and change the enterprise Linux landscape.

Go evaluate and try out the bits at the Office website.

OneCare includes firewall, antivirus and backup software, as well as computer maintenance tasks.

Two identical browsers, one IE7, the other IE7+. No, I don't see any chance of confusion.