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  • Roxio sells software division, focuses on Napster

    Roxio said Monday that it will sell its consumer software division for US$80 million and focus wholly on its Napster digital music business in the future.

  • Google millionaires: From Mountain View to the wine bar

    Sometimes, it's not easy to leave the Googleplex. Even for the many millionaires among the search giant's pre-IPO employees, there's great appeal to a workplace that prizes creativity and rewards its employees -- of course, there's also the cachet of working at one of the hottest tech companies in the world, a virtual Shangri-La for the geek set.

  • Microsoft's Zune to rival Apple's iPod

    After trying for years to compete with the iPod through an array of partners, Microsoft confirmed Friday that it plans to directly go after Apple Computer with its own rival, Zune.

  • 'Unprecedented' Australian music piracy case hits court

    Lawyers for music industry players claimed Stephen Cooper received "hundreds of millions of hits" per year to his allegedly illegal music download site, "mp3s4free", as the long-awaited court case against the retired policeman kicked off at the Federal Court in Sydney today.

  • Yahoo composing music download plan

    Yahoo, rethinking earlier plans, is quietly exploring ways to develop a music download service as archrivals Microsoft and America Online place bigger bets on digital song sales.

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  • Can Yahoo do content?

    The Web portal's plan to become a major Internet content player is treading water, despite its Hollywood credentials.

  • Windows 7: A first look

    Check out this photo gallery for the first official screenshots of Microsoft's successor to Vista Windows 7. The software giant debuted Windows 7 to the world at its Professional Developers Conference in the United States this week.

  • Windows 7: Official screenshots

    Check out this photo gallery for the first official screenshots of Microsoft's successor to Vista, Windows 7. The software giant debuted Windows 7 to the world at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in the United States this week.

  • How to 'hide' on the Web

    Web site operators and corporations are playing game of I spy, you spy with covert cloaking trick.

  • Security solutions tout early warning signs

    Experts recommend the leading brands of malware warning solutions, along with strategies on how they can be deployed most effectively.

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  • Microsoft slams iPhone as irrelevant

    Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.

  • Roxio taps Fanning for Napster take two

    Former file-swapping wunderkind Sean Fanning has signed up to help CD-burning technology company Roxio build a reborn Napster service--but with a difference.

  • What next for the Internet?

    Despite showing occasional signs of strain, the Internet has become an integral part of all kinds of business and consumer technologies. How will it change in the years ahead to meet with new demands? We identify some key areas to watch out for.

  • Microsoft goes 'gold' with Win XP

    Microsoft hosted a celebration on Friday marking the release of Windows XP to PC manufacturers, but the big question is whether the public will take to the software.

  • Video games will smash movies

    Movies and books are legitimate ways to tell a story, but what about video games? With current technological advances, what's to stop companies from making a realistic, interactive story that you can play? ZDNet's resident gamer, Darren Gladstone, talks about the future of entertainment.

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