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    Government attempts to censor Internet sites are useless because people can still use e-mail or other means to spread banned information, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates said.

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    A German teenager accused of creating an Internet worm that affected millions of computers, including Australian rail services, goes on trial today charged with sabotage.

  • Microsoft offers reward for capture of MyDoom author

    Microsoft promised today to pay a US$250,000 (AU$330,000) reward to anyone who helps authorities capture and prosecute the author of a fast-spreading computer virus that causes victims to launch an electronic attack against Microsoft's own Web site.

  • Malaysian software pirates unveil copies of Longhorn

    Malaysian software pirates are selling copies of the next generation of Microsoft's flagship Windows operating system -- years before its official release and at a fraction of the expected price.

  • Microsoft hires Seinfeld for ads

    Microsoft is to pay comedian Jerry Seinfeld US$10 million (AU$11.47 million) to star in an advertising campaign for its Windows Vista operating system.

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