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			<title>Microsoft co-founder to donate fortune to charity</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:01 GMT</pubDate>
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	Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has pledged to donate the majority of his $13.5 billion fortune to charity. Allen&#39;s pledge came just weeks after his former business partner, Bill Gates, and legendary investor Warren Buffet both called on other billionaires to commit to giving away at least half their fortunes. &quot;I want to announce that my philanthropic efforts will continue after my lifetime,&quot; said Allen, who has already given about $1 billion to charity over the years.</p>
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	&quot;I&#39;ve planned for many years now that the majority of my estate will be left to philanthropy to continue the work of the foundation and fund non-profit scientific research.&quot; &quot;As our philanthropy continues in the years ahead, we will look for new opportunities to make a difference in the lives of future generations,&quot; said Allen, 57, in the statement.</p>]]></description>
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			<title>Google Updates YouTube Website For Mobile Devices </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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	Its YouTube website specifically for mobile phones as the company continues its push into handheld Internet market. In a blog post, the Mountain View, Calif., company said the update will make YouTube friendlier for touch devices, such as Apple Inc.&#39;s (AAPL) iPhone and smartphones running the company&#39;s own fast-growing Android operating system, such as Motorola Inc.&#39;s (MOT) Droid X. Google also said the site will incorporate social features such as the ability to &quot;like&quot; a video.<br />
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	The move comes as sales of smartphones have exploded, creating demand for mobile-oriented websites to deliver content over strained and slower cellular networks. Google said demand from mobile devices more than doubled in 2009 from the previous year and that its YouTube Mobile site currently serves more than 100 million videos per day. YouTube is currently the third-most-popular site on the Internet, according to industry tracker Alexa Internet, Inc. Google shares slid to $449.50 in after-hours trading after closing up 3.2% to $450.20.</p>
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			<title>Microsoft Kinect Marketing Material Leaks</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:50 GMT</pubDate>
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	The folks over at Kotaku&nbsp; managed to get their hands on some marketing material for Kinect, the motion-sensing camera/controller for the Xbox 360. There&rsquo;s a lot of purple going on in these images and a clear lack of a price tag so it won&rsquo;t offer any more information than we already know.</p>
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	<img alt="" src="http://itbuzzed.com/userfiles/2010/7/6/images/Microsoft Kinect Marketing Material Leaks.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 288px;" /></p>
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	However, from the looks of the novel boxes, a game may not be included with the camera. It does indicate that a bundle will exist that includes the new Xbox 360 250GB model with the camera, which I would guess at around $399. You can check out another shot after the break.</p>
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			<title>Microsoft to terminate support for old Windows XP</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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	<img alt="Microsoft to terminate support for old Windows XP." src="http://itbuzzed.com/userfiles/2010/7/5/images/Microsoft to terminate support for old Windows XP.jpg" style="width: 301px; height: 200px; float: left;" />An unsupported version of Windows will no longer receive software updates from Windows Update. These include security updates that can help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware.</p>
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	And other malicious software, which can steal your personal information. Windows Update also installs the latest software updates to improve the reliability of Windows-new drivers for your hardware and more,&quot; writes Microsoft.</p>
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	To continue support, Windows XP users need to install the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The company adds that customers running the 64-bit version of Windows XP with SP2 are exempt as there is no SP3 for the 64-bit version, and only those users will be eligible for support and receive updated until April 2014. Microsoft also ended support for all Windows Vista versions without any service packs on April 13th this year. To continue support, users were requested to install the Windows Vista SP2.</p>
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			<title> What went amiss with Microsoft&#8217;s Kin handsets? </title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:43 GMT</pubDate>
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	<img alt="What went amiss with Microsofts Kin handsets" src="http://itbuzzed.com/userfiles/2010/7/3/images/What went amiss with Microsofts Kin handsets.jpg" style="float: left; width: 277px; height: 200px;" />With Microsoft having recently announced its plans to discontinue its May-launched Kin handsets, there have been widespread discussions about what actually went amiss with the software company&rsquo;s ambitions of making its presence felt in the handset arena.<br />
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	Despite the fact that Microsoft is already a big player in the smartphone market with its Windows Mobile OS, the company intending expanding further with its own-branded handset &ndash; a move for which it acquired the Sidekick maker, Danger.</p>]]></description>
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			<title>Yahoo! Mail and top Android apps of the week</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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	<img alt="Yahoo! Mail and top Android apps of the week." src="http://itbuzzed.com/userfiles/2010/7/2/images/Yahoo! Mail and top Android apps of the week.png" style="width: 149px; height: 276px; float: left;" />Several big names launched Android apps this week, showing a strong end to June and a big start for July. Amazon released Kindle with Whispersync for Android, while Yahoo! finally got around to making a few apps for the Android Market.</p>
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	Here are the top new and performing apps of the week.<br />
	Managing accounts Yahoo! took a while to launch any Android apps, but they&rsquo;re finally here.</p>
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	Mail, Messenger and a homescreen search widget help you navigate your Yahoo! account, with easy toggles amongst the apps themselves. With a cross-app tactic, Yahoo has launched its free and centralizing apps the right way.</p>
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	Another bank has launched an Android app, adding to your secure finance options on the go. The free Wells Fargo app lets you view account balances and activities, pay bills and transfer money. There&rsquo;s also an ATM locator, with mapping and navigation tools.</p>]]></description>
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			<title>Microsoft Kills its Kin</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:04 GMT</pubDate>
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	<img alt="Microsoft Kills its Kin" src="http://itbuzzed.com/userfiles/2010/7/1/images/Microsoft Kills its Kin.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px; float: right;" />Microsoft&#39;s Kin, the range of social networking handsets targeted at teens which was released&nbsp; just two months ago in U.S., will be killed by the company, according to CNET.</p>
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	The Kin range included two handsets, the Kin One and the Kin Two, both of which are currently available on the Verizon network in U.S. The phones were expected to reach receive.</p>
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	A European launch soon which now seems to have been canceled. Instead, Microsoft will be focusing more on its more important Windows Phone 7 platform, expected to be out later this year.</p>]]></description>
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			<title>Google's Chrome Pushes Past Apple's Safari</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:58 GMT</pubDate>
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	Google must be cheering this week, as Apple fumes. The Chrome browser surpassed Safari&#39;s share of the U.S. Internet surfing for the first time last week. It&#39;s still only third, but this certainly won&#39;t help to simmer down the growing Google-Apple rivalry. Here&#39;s the data via PCWorld:</p>
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			<title>Pakistan court wants Google, Yahoo, YouTube blocked</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:02 GMT</pubDate>
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	A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material. Judge Mazhar Iqbal ordered Pakistan&#39;s Telecommunications Authority to block the websites due to &quot;material against the fundamental principals of Islam and its preaching.</p>
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	<img alt="Pakistan court wants Google, Yahoo, YouTube blocked" src="http://itbuzzed.com/userfiles/2010/6/24/images/Pakistan court wants Google, Yahoo, YouTube blocked.jpeg" style="width: 433px; height: 300px;" /></p>
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	Pakistan shut off Facebook for nearly two weeks last month in a storm of controversy about a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad and has restricted access to hundreds of online links because of blasphemy. Iqbal announced a short version of the order in the eastern city of Bahawalpur on Tuesday and released a written detailed order on Wednesday, lawyer Latif ur-Rehman.</p>
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	But while the PTA quickly implemented the earlier ban against Facebook in May, regulators told AFP on Thursday that they had yet to receive the latest order. &quot;We have not yet received any directives from the ministry of information technology. The ministry is the decision-making authority.<br />
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	The ministry was not immediately reachable for comment. Iqbal called on the PTA and information technology ministry to submit detailed reports to the court next Monday. Retired civil servant Siddique Mohammad had petitioned the court through Rehman for the ban on nine websites -- Google, Yahoo, Amazon, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Islam Exposed, In The Name of Allah and Bing.<br />
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	A spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan warned that the order could strangle Internet access for millions. &quot;If implemented the decision will choke Internet users. It will seriously impact millions of Internet users in Pakistan who use search engines for email, education, business and other productive purposes,&quot; said Wahaj-us-Siraj. &quot;Courts are not a competent jurisdiction to handle technical issues. The issue should have been handled by the PTA,&quot; he said.</p>
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	Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous and the row sparked comparison with protests across the Muslim world at the publication of satirical cartoons of Mohammed in European newspapers in 2006.</p>
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	When a Facebook user decided to organise an &quot;Everyone Draw Mohammed Day&quot; competition to promote &quot;freedom of expression&quot;, it sparked a major backlash among Islamic activists in the South Asian country of 170 million.</p>
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			<title>Microsoft offers iPhone devs Windows Phone 7 cash</title>
			<link>http://itbuzzed.com/article.asp?articleid=90752</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:27 GMT</pubDate>
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	Microsoft is throwing cash at iPhone gams developers in a bid to increase the number of applications for its yet-to-launch Windows Phone 7. A report from Pocket Gamer says that Microsoft is contacting successful iPhone developers and offering them &quot;substantial&quot; amounts of money &ndash; up front &ndash; to port their software to Windows Phone 7.</p>
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	Microsoft refused to comment directly on the claims. Instead, it offered a round-about statement saying the company provides what it called &quot;limited&quot; financial support &ndash; &quot;most commonly in the form of an advance on revenue&quot; among numerous other resources.</p>]]></description>
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