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I currently run Microsoft Windows Vista Business, with Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.6001.18000). I’ve been using IE7 since its beta stage (on Windows XP to begin with) and have never had this problem… After I upgraded to Windows Vista, I’ve noticed serious memory leak / problems with the browser. IE has been running for about 3 [...]

Police helping a German man track down a nuisance caller discovered his tormentor for two years was a faulty card payment system in a hairdresser’s shop. The 58-year-old man in Frankfurt did not recognize the Hamburg number that kept ringing him and had it blocked. After several months, he got tired of paying for the [...]

An Italian man was jailed for more than two years for putting pornographic pictures of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet and sending them out in more than 15,000 emails. The 32-year-old man had created a Web site that appeared to show his ex-girlfriend offering sexual favours and erotic games, with her phone number also on [...]

If you are like me – an audio gadget fanatic – then you’re going to be in love with the Buddha Machine. It’s a simple device that contains a bunch of audio loops, an amp and a speaker. The Buddha Machine is a project started by audio artists Christian Virant and Zhang Jian. They’ve put [...]

A drop in reputation scores for hundreds of prominent Web sites this week has bloggers buzzing that Google has tweaked its PageRank algorithm. Although Google hasn’t admitted to tweaking PR (PageRank), which appears in the Google Toolbar and is Google’s system for weighing a Web page for its relevance to a specific query based on [...]

Korg’s original Electribes appeared in 1999, and caused uproar. Musicians everywhere tried to get their hands on these ultra portable, pattern-based step programming and tweak-friendly knobbed devices. In 2001, Korg released the first of the Electribe family, designed as an all-in-one dance music production device. This device however, was split into an ES-1 synth device, [...]

YouTube has secured an agreement with the UK societies that collect royalties for 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers to legitimise the use of recorded music on Google’s popular video-sharing website. The agreement to license 10m pieces of music to YouTube – in return for a flat fee which has not been disclosed – is the [...]

Apple has invented a novel method of disabling stolen iPods – by preventing them from charging. The company has filed a patent for a technology that recognises when a device is plugged into an unauthorised computer and, if it is, prevents any further charging. Every portable gadget with a rechargeable battery has a charging circuit [...]

Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against casino gamblers who won big on a slot machine that had been installed with faulty software. The machine at Caesars Indiana credited gamblers $10 for each dollar they inserted because the software wasn’t designed for U.S. currency, state police said. More than two dozen people played the machine before [...]