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		<title>Microsoft Patents &#8220;Avoid Ghetto&#8221; Feature For GPS Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has been granted a patent for its “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices. A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.” Created for mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TellMe vs Siri</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Charting the upgrade path from DOS 5.0 to Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re old enough to remember tweaking your Autoexec.bat and tackling IRQ conflicts, days when launching Windows required typing &#8220;win&#8221; at a command prompt, prepare for a blast of nostalgia. YouTuber Andrew Tait (aka &#8220;TheRasteri&#8221;) took a freshly minted VMWare instance and spent what looks to be a full day running through every version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Kinect drivers released. Adafruit pays $3k bounty to hacker, $2k more to EFF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The swell hackers at Adafruit Industries have declared a winner in their cash-prize contest to reverse-engineer the Microsoft Kinekt controller and release a free/open library that would let hardware hackers incorporate it into their own projects. The winner is a fine gent named Hector, who says, &#8220;Here&#8217;s my take on the Kinect driver. Supports depth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has just released its Kinect camera, a USB device that allows you to control your computer with gestures. It incorporates a motorized pivot, an RGB camera, depth-sensor and multi-array microphone &#8220;which provides full-body 3D motion capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition capabilities.&#8221; The Adafruit Industries people are offering a $2,000 bounty to the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google&#8217;s Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola and its use of Google&#8217;s Android phone software is awfully familiar. Microsoft used the same tactic against Linux when the open-source software reached critical mass in the data center and threatened to derail the growth of Microsoft&#8217;s server business seven years ago. After name-calling failed to slow Linux, Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s DRM makes your computer vulnerable to attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The msnetobj.dll library is an ActiveX control used by Microsoft&#8217;s DRM; it is intended to prevent the owner of a computer from saving or viewing certain files except under limited circumstances, and to prevent the computer&#8217;s owner from disabling it or interfering with it. As if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, it is also vulnerable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft celebrates Windows Phone 7 RTM with funeral parade for BlackBerry and iPhone</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/microsoft/celebrates-windows-phone-with-funeral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone&#8217;s dead, long live the Windows Phone. That must be the genius proclamation that incited Microsoft to celebrate Windows Phone 7 reaching RTM status with the incomprehensible procession you see above. An elaborate parade, replete with hearses and black capes, was organized last week to denote the passing of the BlackBerry and iPhone into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to kill IE6 support for Chat on IE9 beta day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am torn between my hate of IE6 as a web developer and my hate for Facebook as a human. Facebook has announced that it will soon end Internet Explorer 6 support for Facebook Chat. The kill date is September 15—the same day Microsoft plans to release the first IE9 beta. Today&#8217;s announcement comes just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W7 Theme for Ubuntu brings Windows 7&#8242;s familiar GUI to Linux</title>
		<link>http://landofthefreeish.com/linux/w7-theme-for-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The W7 Theme is a free script that skins your Linux desktop with a familiar Windows 7 look and feel.]]></description>
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