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What does 'unlimited' mean?
When it comes to broadband, it almost certainly doesn't mean what you think it does. As SA Mathieson reports, ISPs are increasingly managing how customers connect. -
PS3 launch price is no fun for UK gamers
We have to wait longer for the new PlayStation to be released here - and we'll have to pay more for it too, says Steve Boxer. (And see this blog post too.) -
Bureaucratic nonsense of the government's money-go-round
Free our data: Ministers have revealed a glimpse of the carousel of payments circulating between state bodies to fund the national output of public-sector information. -
Why having fun is being taken more seriously
Aleks Krotoski: I feel slightly giddy when I can blow raspberries at naysayers who dismiss my years of fascination with Super Mario Bros as devoid of relevance to the real world. -
Games
On the reviewers' screens this week: WarioWare: Smooth Moves, WoW: Burning Crusade and Every Extend Extra - Newly Asked Questions:
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Has the DRM of the next-gen DVDs really been cracked?
Well, up to a point, says Kate Bevan. Copy protection seems to be intact, which the Hollywood studios and big noises in pop music will be glad to hear. -
What was The Feeling at the launch of Vista?
Wild excitement, obviously, given that Microsoft's slogan was 'The 'wow' starts now', says Jack Schofield.
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Has the DRM of the next-gen DVDs really been cracked?
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Read me first
Nicholas Carr: 'Miserable failure' Bush rehabilitated as Google steps in to defuse the Googlebombs. -
Reading on a screen is pleasurable at last
Victor Keegan: I don't often read the same book with one copy in each hand, but revisiting George Orwell's 1984 last weekend I made an exception. -
Technobile
Paul May: Windows is just like a sulky child - it wants its updates NOW and it will not take no for an answer. -
A picture paints a thousand invoices
Moves by big picture agencies to enforce their copyright can have expensive implications for careless web developers, says Wendy M Grossman. -
Fridges will stay dumb until chips are as cheap as chips
Charles Arthur: There's a popular - for reasons I can't follow - program for the Macintosh called Delicious Library, which like all the best internet ideas puts the onus of doing the work and investing the time on you, the user. -
A clear view of the future
Invisible electronics sound like science fiction - but developers are already working on them, writes Michael Pollitt. -
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