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This morning, Peer-to-peer content distribution company BitTorrent today announced
partnerships with eight media companies to make their film and television programs available for download.

As Microsoft touted Windows Vista's improved security at the operating system's US launch on Thursday, Sophos has said that a third of the month's top 10 exploits can successfully infect a Vista-equipped PC.

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Sophos: One-third of November's malware can breach Vista
Although Vista's integrated email client stopped all 10 pieces of malware that made November's list of most common threats, three bypassed Vista's built-in defenses when a third-party email client was used.


BitTorrent does digital download deal
Film and TV video from eight studios, including 20th Century Fox, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, and Starz Media, will be available on the peer-to-peer network.


Microsoft defends WGA changes as 'small burden'
Microsoft says the changes to its anti-piracy software would have little impact on customers using legal copies of Windows XP.


Study: Violent video game exposure affects self-control
The differences were associated with emotional arousal and controlling behaviour.


Turbolinux proposes mobile Linux for consumers
Turbolinux will market a portable media player that works emulated virtual CD-ROM to boot Linux on PCs to establish user's own Linux environment..


Virtual worlds as Important as the real world
A new study shows that more women than men now are on the Internet, online communities are become key parts of our lives, and more people are surfing the Net at work.


Developers jump on Java bandwagon
Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35 percent since the spring, says a poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research company Evans Data Corp.


Microsoft launches Vista, Office; 30 more products on the way
Microsoft plans to spend more to promote the new products than it devoted to its landmark Windows 95 and Office 95 software 11 years ago.


Microsoft to give away 30,000 copies of Vista, Office 2007
The free software will go to developers who register for at least three Webcast training sessions.


Strontium scheme enters atomic clock race
A new kind of atomic clock is 40,000 times more precise by virtue of suspending strontium atoms in a lattice of laser light.


Sun, Nokia, Ericsson form telecom equipment alliance
The three vendors will assist telecommunications firms and service providers by developing a common telecom infrastructure platform.


The quad-core war begins: AMD launches quad FX
AMD's dual-socket, multicore desktop platform is designed to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Vista, which also officially launched on Thursday.


No iPods for North Korea
The Bush administration reportedly plans to strike back at North Korea's Kim Jong Il for testing nuclear missiles by denying luxuries to the leader and his political allies through trade sanctions.
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