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IE 8 to feature WebSlices, Activities

Mary Jo Foley: The first beta of Internet Explorer 8, demoed at this week's Mix 08, delivers a number of new features, including WebSlices--which allows users to subscribe to content directly within a Web page.
Focus on Mix '08

General News

Ballmer: Microsoft is thinking green

At CeBit, Steve Ballmer says one of Microsoft's top goal is focusing on lowering energy consumption of PCs and other tech gear. But a new study says that vista is power hungry.
Photos update: New gear
Photos: Cryogenics at CeBit

Communications

AT&T;'s degrading service and my landlord's ban on Comcast

George Ou: As if getting 1200 Kbps downstream on a so-called 1500 Mbps service and all those outage problems weren't bad enough, my AT&T; DSL service has declined.

Companies

Parallels opens up Server Beta program

David Morgenstern: Parallels Server Beta is a virtualization product for Macs that supports 32- and 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X and Windows platforms.

Operating Systems

Costs: Wintel vs. open source

Paul Murphy: One of the true wonders of our age is the abiility of lots of otherwise reasonable people to tell you that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last for years.

Security

Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!

Jason D. O'Grady: A new study says that the nation's crime rate has gone up due to the theft of iPods. But there is also some evidence that a few Zunes may have been nabbed, too.

Products

What can you expect from a Draft-N router?

Rik Fairlie: The Draft-N router did offer modest gains in throughput and range when compared with my older "G" model. But is it a worthwhile upgrade?

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