Microsoft Launched Anti-piracy Campaign in 49 Countries
In its bid to clamp down on rampant software piracy, Microsoft Tuesday announced a global initiative under the banner of ‘Global Anti-Piracy Awareness Day’ that will include educating consumers as well as enforcing legal action.
Even though the initiative was rolled out in 49 countries, Microsoft’s director of intellectual property in Australia told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that the Redmond-based software giant would not be able to solve the problem fully ever.
“Are we able to solve absolutely every problem? No… there are some people who will always not want to pay for something and there are always people who will want to exploit,” she said in an interview to the Australian newspaper.
The program, launched in 49 countries spanning six continents, aims to combat the trade of pirated and counterfeit software. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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In today’s news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 “Yorkfield” processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHzfront side bus. The new chip breaks down like this: You get a faster front side bus, lower operating temperatures, and new SSE4.1 instruction sets. On the other hand, the L2 cache has been halved (6MB vs. the 12MB of higher-end quad-core CPUs). The gentlemen over at the End User blog, a new Amazon.com gadgets blog by its employees, report that testing proves that the smaller L2 cache still doesn’t hold the Q9300 back from beating its predecessor, the 65nm 2.4 GHz Q6600.