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Well, it looks like another Dell laptop went up in flames.  I wonder if I should worry that this blog post is being written in a Dell Inspiron.

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I think David Hasselhoff almost needs his own category in this bog. Anything connected to him ends up being funny.

True story: David Hasselhoff showed up at Wimbledon last month without a ticket. When guards gave him a hard time and wouldn’t let him in, he responded, “You should let me in. Do you know who I am?” When they said they didn’t [I’m so sure! -ed.], he responded with one simple phrase: “I am The Hoff,” quickly doubling up with the warning “Don’t hassle The Hoff.” At this point they gave him a ticket and happily ushered him in. True Story.

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So, They first say that they will force their buggy web browser upon the masses and now they offer a tool to block the web browser from being installed automatically?  I think Bill may be going crazy.

Microsoft on Wednesday released a tool that will let enterprises indefinitely postpone upgrading to the new Internet Explorer 7 browser when it debuts later this year.

Although IE 7 for Windows XP remains in beta testing, the company wanted to offer the blocker now, said Gary Schare, director of product management for IE, because of lessons learned.

“We issued a blocker for Windows XP SP2 after the fact, but it was late in the game,” Schare said, talking about a tool that Microsoft rushed into customer’s hands in 2004. “With IE 7 we want to give enterprises ample time to deploy the blocker toolkit so that they can test IE 7 on their timeline.”

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An agreement that gives the U.S. sway over Web addresses and domain names will soon expire, but Uncle Sam seems reluctant to cede control.

It looks like AMD’s recent price cuts have Intel running scared.  Intel’s announced that it will cut it’s prices by more then half.  If this price war continues, I’ll be forced to upgrade soon.

Intel slashed prices on some desktop PC microprocessors by more than half today, raising the stakes against rival Advanced Micro Devices, which cut prices earlier this week.

Users should see the price reductions translate into substantially lower prices for powerful desktop PCs in coming months. The microprocessor is the most expensive component inside a PC, and both Intel and AMD have cut prices on some of their most powerful chips.

Intel marked down the price of its Intel Pentium D processor, the 960 that runs at 3.6 GHz, to $316, down 40 percent from $530 in early June, according to a new price list published today on its Web site.

The company also chopped prices on some of its Intel Pentium 4 processors that support hyper-threading technology. It marked down the 3.6-GHz version of the processor that has an 800-MHz front side bus to $183, down 54 percent, the 3.2-GHz model of the chip by 61 percent to $84, and the 3-GHz version by 58 percent to $74.

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