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Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of contributory copyright infringement, and each sentenced to a year in prison.
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One in seven billionaires calls Moscow, New York or London home. Here's how much some high-end items and services stack up in each of these very rich and very expensive cities, according to information compiled by global luxury lifestyle group Quintessentially and Forbes Russia.
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Relatives of an eccentric doctor received a dream bequest when he left them a garage containing a 1937 Bugatti.
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Johannesburg - South African petrol pump prices will fall by between R1.34 and R1.37a litre, or 18 percent, and diesel prices will drop by about 20 percent from January 7, the government said on Friday.
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TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
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In honor of what appears to be the end of an era with yesterday’s announcement that Steve’s Macworld keynotes have come to an end, here’s a tribute to some of the last quarter century’s greatest Stevenotes.
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Two decades and a half ago today, Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft's first operating systems. Oh, it wasn't for sale yet—no, no, it's still only 1983 and we wouldn't see Windows on store shelves until 1985.
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