It's Time to Face the Ugly Truth, SP3 or No SP3, the Clock Is Ticking for Windows XP
As 2008 has kicked in, it's now time to face the ugly truth. The clock is ticking for Windows XP. And while Microsoft may view this as a natural stage in the evolution of a product introduced all the way in 2001, a healthy proportion of end-users and businesses will fail to see eye to eye with the company on this one.
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5.1.2008 SP1 Won't Stop IT Execs From Closing Door on Vista
Microsoft Corp. says it has sold 42 million volume licenses of Windows since it released Windows Vista to enterprise customers last November. But the company claims to have no statistics on how many of the corporate users who are eligible to move to Vista have actually done so.
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11.9.2007 Microsoft tries to stop more Vista-capable e-mails from going public
Microsoft is trying to put the kibosh on more of its internal (and embarassing) e-mail messages around its Vista marketing plans going public.
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10.3.2008 Vista Aims to Stop Hackers Social Engineering Ploys
Microsoft maintains that by addressing the social aspect of IT attacks, the portion that can dupe even the smartest users into launching malware-laden attachments or clicking unknown URLs, Vista will improve PC security significantly.
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17.1.2007 Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harvesting User Data for Microsoft
There is a constant flow of communication between Windows Vista and Microsoft. A collection of features and services across Microsoft's latest desktop operating system exchange data with locations on the Internet, including those belonging to the Redmond company.
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19.8.2007 Windows Vista Stop Time Crack + Genuine file NEW CRACK
zapp2 report this next Windows Vista Stop Time Crack and Vista Genuine file NEW CRACK in
our forum. This is first Vista WGA crack.
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12.2.2007 Warner To YouTube: Stop The Music!
As the battle between YouTube and publishers such as Warner Music Group heats up, increasing numbers of video content publishers are finding that their videos have been stripped of their background music--or they've been removed entirely from the site.
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24.3.2009 Could a Patent Lawsuit Stop the Xbox 360?
An injunction that could disrupt the distribution of the Xbox 360 game console is possible because of a patent suit that Lucent Technologies has filed against Microsoft, according to attorneys who practice intellectual property (IP) law.
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15.4.2006 Microsoft Seeks to Stop Search Spam
Microsoft Research has embarked on a new project to automatically seek out search engine spam before it can be used to defraud advertisers on MSN, Yahoo and Google. Called Strider Search Defender, the tool combines two other projects from MSR: Strider Honey Monkey and URL Tracer.
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14.7.2006 Intel orders rival to stop making CPUs
Giant CPU maker Intel is pressuring smaller rival Via Technologies to exit the CPU market, industry sources in Taiwan claim.
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24.11.2006 Microsoft Urges Users Stop Using Safari In Windows Platform
Microsoft's security team is advising users to stop using Apple's Safari browser pending investigation into a quirk that allows miscreants to litter their desktop with hundreds of executable files.
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2.6.2008 Fix Windows 7 Hibernation Error STOP 0000000A0 INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR
There is still time for official Windows 7 release but bugs and system crash are already started appearing.
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9.9.2009 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 Microsoft Suggests XP SP3 RC2 the Final Pit Stop RTM Next
Release Candidate 2 could very well be the final beta stage of the Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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14.3.2008 Microsoft Suggests XP SP3 RC2 the Final Pit Stop RTM Next
Release Candidate 2 could very well be the final beta stage of the Windows XP Service Pack 3. At least this is what Microsoft is indicating.
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16.3.2008 How to Clear & Stop Displaying Windows Media Player 12 Frequent List in Windows 7
Windows 7 Start Menu is almost similar to Windows Vista however Windows 7 Taskbar aka superbar is way different from Vista & XP Taskbar. In Windows 7 Taskbar you have access to jump list and recently opened document list of Office word and for Windows Media Player you will get frequently played video list.
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20.7.2009 Windows 7 Just a Pit Stop to Windows 8?
With Windows Vista barely one year out the door and onto the shelves, and with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service pack 3 and Windows Server 2008 still in the oven, Microsoft is also focusing on building Windows 7.
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23.1.2008 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the Chinese come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however Vista Boot by gkend does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - lets see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008Nvidia's CUDA: The End of the CPU?
Lets take a trip back in time way back to 2003 when Intel and AMD became locked in a fierce struggle to offer increasingly powerful processors. In
just a few years, clock speeds increased quickly as a result of that competition, especially with Intels release of its Pentium 4.
But the clock speed race would soon hit a wall. After riding the wave of sustained clock speed boosts (between 2001 and 2003 the Pentium 4s clock
speed doubled from 1.5 to 3 GHz), users now had to settle for improvements of a few measly megahertz that the chip makers managed to squeeze out
(between 2003 and 2005 clock speeds only increased from 3 to 3.8 GHz).
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19.06.2008A new alarm clock speakerphone for iPhones and iPods
Appropriately enough for the week of Apple's 3G iPhone launch, iHome Wireless today started shipping its first Bluetooth-enabled Alarm Clock Radio
Speakerphone with support for iPhones...
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12.06.2008Why you can't have Vista SP1 yet: Microsoft fixing driver problem
Despite being released to manufacturing last week, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not being made available to all customers because Microsoft is
trying to resolve an issue in which hardware devices may stop functioning after SP1 is installed...
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12.02.2008Windows Vista Shutdown Fix
The Vista™ Operating system can experience delays during shutdown if running a managed service that was designed with a ServiceBase.OnShutdown
method that does not explicitly call the ServiceBase Stop() method on system shutdown. This update facilitates quicker system shutdown by explicitly
setting the service state to stopped after calling their OnShutdown, if the service has not already called the Stop() method.
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15.11.2007AMD Boosts Dual-Core Opteron Past 3.0 GHz: Will It Be Enough?
Yesterday's launch by AMD of
dual-core Opteron processors
at the 3.0 GHz and 3.2 GHz
clock speeds substantiates
what company officials had
been saying at an analyst day
meeting the week before: Maybe
clock speed no longer matters
in the consumer desktop space,
but it's still a factor in
the IT department...
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08.08.2007Bill Gates sees processor clock speeds to top out at 10 GHz
Less than a year from his
previously announced departure
from the company he
co-founded, the Bill Gates
today outlined his vision and
opportunities for
Microsoft.
According to Gates, there
are currently six trends,
which will be determining
Microsoft and its product
strategy for the years to
come. In a rather unusual way,
he mentioned the dramatic
changes in the way the
hardware engines that will be
fueling new applications are
engineered.
The fact that performance
advances have shifted from a
pure increase of clock speed
to increased parallelism was
described by Gates as a
challenge. He believes that
parallel execution will be
the primary way silicon power
will be delivered down the
road and not so much the fact
that there is more clock speed
available. According to Gates,
microprocessors will get to 10
GHz, but not much further
() even 5 to 6 years out...
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26.07.2007Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR3 memory clocks fall short
When AMD first launched the
Radeon HD 2600 XT, we were
told that versions of the card
with GDDR3 memory would have
an 800MHz memory clock. Cards
are now available on the
market, but with the exception
of factory "overclocked"
models, 700MHz seems to be the
memory clock of choice. In
fact, every stock-clocked
Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR3 on
sale at Neweggincluding models
from HIS, MSI, Asus, and
Powercolorfeatures a 700MHz
memory clock.
When asked whether the
memory clock spec for the
Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR3 had
changed, AMD provided the
following response:
The HD 2600XT GPU and
its GDDR3 reference design are
qualified at 800MHz memory
speed. Partners are encouraged
to follow the reference
design. We do allow our AIB
partners to manage their own
specifications to some degree
including memory
configuration. Our AIB
partners compete with one
another so it is in their
interest to have competitive
performance and specs.
Graphics card makers
juggle clock speeds all the
time, particularly on budget
models. However, when everyone
seems to have settled on the
same slower, 700MHz memory
clock, one has to wonder
exactly how competitive
performance and specs have
anything to do with it.
The bottom
line is that the Radeon HD
2600 XT GDDR3's memory clock
is effectively 100MHz lower
than AMD claimed at the
product's introduction.
Caveat emptor.
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10.08.2007OEMs to Continue Shipping XP
If you already own an XP license and are still hesitant to switch to Vista, Microsoft's "downgrade rights" policy, which initially began to be
exercised in 2001, may be in your favor if you would still like to purchase a machine running Windows XP after the June 30, 2008 deadline when
Microsoft will stop offering the operating system. OEMs such as Dell have said that they still have no plans to stop offering XP as an option:
"Dell has the ability to exercise 'Windows Vista downgrade rights' on your behalf in the factory if your business is still reliant upon
Windows XP and you'd prefer to have Windows XP Professional preinstalled on your PCs," according to their new downgrade policy section for XP.
"Downgrade Rights means that anyone with a Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate operating system can downgrade to Windows XP
Professional provided they have the media for Windows XP Professional."
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27.04.20082GHz Barcelona to compete with 2.33GHz Clovertown
During a chat with AMDs Steve
Demski, product manager for
Opteron line, we learned that
the companys upcoming
Barcelona processors will
launch at 2.0GHz and, more
interestingly, will compete
with Intels Xeon 5345
processor, which is clocked at
2.33GHz.
When
asked about the clock
frequencies Barcelona will
launch at, Felipe Payet,
worldwide channel market
development manager in AMDs
server/workstation product
group, told us that we dont
think thats necessarily all
that low.
Payet then went onto
explain the reasoning behind
that statement
tends
to lag in terms of pure clock
frequency, but that doesnt
mean we lag in performance.
Given the fact that we use a
HyperTransport and direct
connect based design, clock
frequency is no longer an
indication of
performance. ..
winbeta.org - 27.07.2007
Weather Alarm Clock 1.5
Get things done and don't
forget your umbrella using
this customizable clock with
the exact time, alarms,
calendar, current weather
conditions, forecasts and
different skins.
Weather Alarm Clock is a
replacement for the standard
Windows system clock that
offers the following:
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an integrated weather
information (current and 5 day
forecast), no ads, always at
hand
- custom alarm
functions to get organized
with
- a time
synchronization function to
observe the time
- an
easy to read clock display
with a variety of different
skins to choose from
- a
time zone function to
co-ordinate your time with
friends or colleagues around
the world
- a skinnable
calendar with alarms
integration to track
appointments and events
easily
- a function to
shut down your computer to go
to bed in time
- a hourly
bell to keep track of time
more easily
And
this is all in one without
having to run separate
programs to get the same
information and functions.
neowin.net - 04.11.2006
Windows Vista Performance, Responsiveness, and Reliability Update Available (KB943899 v2)
This update improves performance, responsiveness, and reliability of Windows Vista in various scenarios. This update resolves the following issues on
a Windows Vista-based computer:
- You receive a "Stop 0x000000A0" error when you try to switch the computer to the hibernate state.
- You receive a "Stop 0x0000009f" error when you switch the computer to the hibernate state or to the standby state. Or, you receive this
Stop error when you resume the computer from the hibernate state or from the standby state. This problem occurs on a computer that has a wireless
network connection.
- The disk does not spin down after a specified time of inactivity.
Additionally, this update can help
improve performance when you perform operations that are related to large disk I/O. After you apply this update, you may notice up to a 15 percent
performance improvement in some copying operations and when moving some large files.
winbeta.org - 12.02.2008
FTC Asked to Stop Microsoft's AdCenter
A pair of consumer advocacy
groups yesterday petitioned
the US Federal Trade
Commission for "injunctive
relief" - in effect, for
an order to stop Microsoft
from developing technology for
its AdCenter online
advertising platform, that
they claim invades the privacy
of unsuspecting users...
betanews.com - 03.11.2006
Stop The Spread Of Vista SP1 Misinformation
Microsoft wants you to be
informed about the current
state of the Windows Vista SP1
beta,
"There will be a Windows
Vista service pack and our
current expectation is that a
beta will be made available
sometime this year. Service
packs are part of the
traditional software lifecycle
- they're something we do for
all Microsoft products as part
of our commitment to
continuous improvement, and
providing early test builds is
a standard practice that helps
us incorporate customer
feedback and improve the
overall quality of the
product."
"Service packs are just one
example of the work we do to
constantly improve the Windows
experience. We also deliver
improvements to Windows via
Windows Update, which is an
excellent channel for
providing our customers with
the most significant updates
as they happen. And, since
Windows Vista launched, we
have continued working with
partners to improve overall
device coverage and
application compatibility.
There are now more than 2.1
million supported devices and
more than 2,000 logoed
applications for Windows
Vista. We think customers will
have a great experience using
Windows Vista today."
"Spread
the word to stop
misinformation."
jcxp.net - 20.07.2007
Inside Windows 7 -- what we know so far
You’d be forgiven for missing it, but Vista turned a year old last month. November 30, 2006, marked the official launch of Vista to the business
community: the first part of an odd two-stage liftoff which was followed two months later, on January 30 2007, by the mainstream consumer launch at
which Vista became available to one and all.
(Unfortunately for Microsoft, the number of people who bought Vista was much closer to
‘one’ than ‘all’. The majority of ‘sales’ of Vista have been from Microsoft to its OEM partners for pre-loading on
new systems, and even then several companies chose to offer buyers a choice between XP and Vista rather than foist the shiny new OS onto the public.
Just because they bought a new PC didn’t mean they wanted to ditch their familiar old OS, especially when they had all the drivers and software
and everything worked pretty well on the whole, thanks all the same.)
So now the clock is ticking on Windows 7.0, the successor to Vista
(which was officially Windows 6.0, following Microsoft’s lead of counting iterations of the NT-based kernel rather than actual client
editions).
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neowin.net - 13.12.2007
Is Microsoft 'capable' of stopping Vista Capable lawsuit?
Microsoft would dearly love the Vista Capable lawsuit to just go away, but once the wheels of justice start grinding, can any amount of grease stop
the squeaky wheel?
Microsofts Vista Capable class action lawsuit is in the news again, this time because Microsoft wants an
appeals court to reverse the decision to have granted the case official class action status.
The whole situation bubbled up
because a number of consumers felt duped by the Vista Capable sticker that implied a computer with such a label would be able to run Vista, presumably
at least the Home Premium version of Vista with the fancy Aero graphics, instead of the Vista Home Basic version which had no such capability.
winbeta.org - 11.03.2008
MSI Brings Turbo Button to GeForce 8600GT
MSI has announced its new NX8600GT Twin Turbo, which uniquely features dual video BIOSes, each containing different core and memory clock settings.
Users can switch between the two clock speed profiles with the press of a turbo button placed on the metal expansion bracket above the DVI ports. With
the stock speed profile, the NX8600GT Twin Turbo operates at 540 MHz core, 1400 MHz memory and the shader clock operates at 1450 MHz. A press of the
turbo button raises the clock speeds up to 580 MHz core, 1600 MHz memory and the shader clock receives a boost to 1508 MHz. MSI claims a 20%
performance boost in 3DMark06 with a press of the turbo button. Other notable features of the NX8600GT Twin Turbo with 256MB of GDDR3 memory include
dual dual-link DVI, HDCP compliance, HDMI output capable and component video output.
neowin.net - 29.08.2007
ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.1 Adds Vista Support
Check Point Software today
released ZoneAlarm Internet
Security Suite 7.1, a
Vista-compatible version of
its flagship security suite.
Vista-compatible versions of
ZoneAlarm Antivirus and the
popular free ZoneAlarm
Firewall are also available.
Past versions of
ZoneAlarm's products have
relied on Microsoft's TDI
(Transport Device Interface)
to track network behavior.
Windows Vista retains support
for TDI, but introduces the
new Windows Filtering Platform
(WFP). While porting to Vista
using TDI would have been
easier, Check Point chose to
support WFP for this
Vista-compatible version. When
installed on Windows 2000 and
XP, however, version 7.1 will
still use TDI.
Check
Point is the first major
security vendor to make use of
the Vista-specific Windows
Filtering Platform. Company
representatives explained that
Microsoft will stop fixing
problems with TDI in the
future, so by utilizing WFP,
users can be prepared for
Vista threats...
winbeta.org - 14.06.2007
XP's death sentence may be commuted
Continuing his tour of Europe, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company may reconsider its decision to stop selling the XP operating system in
June, though he denied Vista was playing a role in that decision...
betanews.com - 24.04.2008
Intel Penryn processors with up to 4 GHz?
Intel plans to initially
release nine desktop
processors with the 45 nm
Penryn core, with clock speeds
eventually scaling up to 4
GHz, according to a report
published by Digitimes
today.
Citing industry sources,
the publication said that
Intel will be rolling out five
dual-core ("Wolfdale") 45 nm
processors with clock speeds
of 2.66, 2.83, 3.0 and 3.16
GHz as well as one more CPU
with an unknown clock speed.
All dual-core CPUs will sport
a 6 MB L2 cache.
There also will be
four quad-core processors
("Yorkfield"). Three of
these processors will be
clocked at 2.5 GHz, 2.66 GHz
and 2.83 GHz, with the fourth
number being unknown at this
time. The low-end 2.5 GHz
quad-core will be running on a
6 MB L2 cache, while all other
quad-cores will be equipped
with 12 MB...
winbeta.org - 17.08.2007
Japanese group wants Google to stop Street View
Google received another request on Friday to stop its Street View service, this time from a group of Japanese lawyers and professors who say the
service violates their right to privacy. Talking to Reuters, Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor of constitutional law at Sophia University in Tokyo, said,
"We strongly suspect that what Google has been doing deeply violates a basic right that humans have. It is necessary to warn society that an IT giant
is openly violating privacy rights, which are important rights that the citizens have, through this service." Tajima heads the Campaign Against
Surveillance Society, a Japanese civilian group that wants Google to stop providing its Japanese Street View service and to delete all saved images.
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neowin.net - 19.12.2008
