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    Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.

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    Bluetooth promises the world, or the operation of all within it -- that is, if you can get it to work in the first place.

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    Can the world's biggest software giant take down the world's best-selling encylcopedia? We put the two educational references head to head in our Australian review.

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