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In the news this week.
 Windows Vista release date has been moved to January 2007.

The French Government and Apple
Apple says the copyright law working its way through the French parliament amounts to nothing less than "state-sponsored piracy".
The lower house of the French legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that would force Apple to make its downloads work on all digital music players and not just on the its iPod.

The 2006 Game Developers Conference in Full Swing
In San Jose, Calif More Than 12,000 Game Makers have Gathered to Talk What's Next in Interactive Entertainment.

StopBadware.org's First Report
targets Kazaa, Mediapipe (a Download Manager)SpyAxe a spyware app, and Waterfalls 3 a screen saver.

European phishing gangs targeted
Microsoft is launching legal action against 100 phishing gangs based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
By the end of March, 53 cases will have begun said Microsoft, with all 100 filed by the end of June.

Chinese Crackdown
In China the government has made another token crackdown on Internet porn, piracy.

Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox has a new alpha release called "Bon Echo"

 The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This weeek it goes to Stephen Huff the Publish-ME.com jerk of League City, TX
He is up to his old tricks again of modifiying PADS. You should check this jerks website to see if yours have been modified then complain to both him and his ISP.
The sites are:
http://www.pickabooger.com/
http://www.jerkaload.com/
http://www.stinkything.com/
http://www.publish-me.com/

News from Henk Devos of SharewareBlogs.com  Claria, one of the leading Adware/Spyware companies, is said to be converting to a decent company. In the process, they are trying to sell their GAIN software. GAIN has been one of the worst annoyances for many years. What?s already for sure is that the database containing all data collected from users running GAIN will be deleted.

Google has launched their new Finance site: finance.google.com. Take a look at the web site and try it out. Search for your favorite company, and experiment with the interactive graph and linked news stories. You?ll also see the company?s key people and a lot of other information, including blog postings, all in one page. Pretty cool!

News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions
Is the quality of software decreasing? - Beware of the cold call SEOs - Judge tells Google to hand over data - Kosmix again - Vista and spyware - You had better get over to Dave's site and get Google AdWords lesson 03 - ad position part 01 (the theory) - Dave has many other interesting items on his blog especially a must read about Overture and PPC fraud.

 Our guest this week is Nikos Bozinis of [xplorer²]. Nikos's company develops xplorer² a file and information manager that adheres to the philosophy "efficiency through simplicity". Without reinventing the wheel, it integrates the best features of Windows' shell architecture in a small, resource efficient package that's instantly familiar to work with.

This interview was held in Brussels at ESWC.