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It’s sex. It’s free. What more could you want? Admittedly, it’s soft-core, but Playboy and parnter Bondi Digital Publishing have unveiled PlayboyArchive.com. It’s a 53-year archive, with one issue from each year, completely digitized (including ads), viewable and searchable. Did we mention free? If you’ve managed to avoid Microsoft’s Silverlight to this point, you’re going to have to install it if you want to view the archive, though. The issues cover the years 1954 through 2007, Bondi Digital Publishing, who

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has frequently commented on the so-called “Apple Tax,” which is what is referred to as the premium people pay to buy Apple products. On Thursday, at the McGraw-Hill Companies’ 2009 Media Summit 2009 in New York, Ballmer told people just what exactly that premium gets a consumer. NPD noted that Apple retail sales fell 16% in February, with NPD analyst Steve Baker asserting that the higher prices associated with Apple products are hurting sales in these recessionary times. It should

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The U.S. software industry is pushing for a greater role as government officials develop a policy to ward off attacks on the nation's communications infrastructure, a trade group said on Friday.

The Business Software Alliance, which represents companies including Microsoft Corp and Dell Inc., told White House officials this week the government should share more threat and attack information with the industry. It submitted a set of recommendations to Melissa Hathaway, the acting senior director for cyber space at the White House, this week, the group said.

Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service. The street-mapping facility launched amid a fanfare of publicity but now the firm has been forced to pull some of the images after complaints. It is thought the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick.

A spokesperson for Google told the BBC that anyone could have their images removed if they asked. “We've got millions of images, so the percentage removed was very small,” Google's Laura Scott told the BBC. Street View first launched in the United States in May 2007 and is already available in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain and Italy. The Netherlands version of the service also launched on Thursday, bringing the total number of countries covered to nine.

A whistle-blower organization claims a secret list of Web sites that Australian authorities are proposing to ban includes such innocuous destinations as a dentist's office. Australia's government denied that the list published by renegade Web site Wikileaks.org was the same as a blacklist run by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, or ACMA. However, a manager at the dentist's office said the ACMA had confirmed her site's inclusion on the ban list.

The list in question is provided to the creators of Internet filtering software that people can opt to install on their computers. But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has proposed mandating that Australian Internet service providers implement the list, which would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Several Internet providers are conducting trials of the filter through June. The authority says the list largely contains the addresses of Web sites promoting child pornography and sexual violence, but it has refused to release its contents publicly.

Opera is bypassing handset manufacturers and going straight to U.S. wireless carries in an attempt to further the distribution of its popular mobile web browser. The move isn’t completely new for Opera Software. In fact, Opera currently has license agreements with European carriers Vodafone and T-Mobile. Through these agreements, the Opera browser is placed on the carrier’s mobile phones. An Opera spokesperson revealed Opera’s plans to announce several U.S. carrier deals at the upcoming CTIA Wireless conference

According to figures released by CyberSource Corporation, the airline industry has experienced significant online fraud. In fact, the airline survey commissioned by CyberSource reveals that airlines worldwide lost more than $1.4 billion to fraudsters in 2008. That figure is roughly equivalent to 1.3% of worldwide airline revenue. Online fraud can occur in several ways. Generally speaking, fraudsters use stolen credit cards to buy a ticket for themselves or they act as a travel agent to purchase a ticket for

It’s no secret that Dell has been spending a few of its research and development dollars in the mobile department, but until now, we’ve yet to actually hear from Texas how close it was to releasing a tangible product. Accordig to a new report from Barron’s, it’s close enough to have shown at least two products to a number of US carriers. Unfortunately for Dell, it seems the results were less than spectacular. In fact, we’re hearing that Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros., has stated that Dell was met with