How much does it cost to run a computer in 2009?

Here's something that has always hung around in my mind, but I never got around to looking up the answer. How much will running PCs add to your power bill?Anandtech posted an article where they calculated the cost of running a PC per hour.* For a middle of the line system, they...

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Google Book will be up and running again after $125 million settlement

Last October, Google ended up paying a $125 million settlement to the Authors Guild for copyrighted works it had scanned onto its Google Book Search project. The Project seemed like a very great idea, scan every book ever printed so that anyone could view them on the web. Google had scanned over 7 million books before the Author’s Guild said what they...

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Windows Internet Explorer 8

Windows Internet Explorer Version 8 is designed to be faster and more convenient. Some of the features that make it faster are accelerators, enhanced navigation, increased performance, instant search and web slices. For example with web slices it allows you to keep up with frequently...

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