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You seen this ploy. It happens repeatedly on sites such as eBay. A shady seller will offer an item for a real reasonable price. When you check carefully, there is an outrageous shipping fee attached. And this is a similar scheme that is being used with Windows 7:
“The free Windows 7 [...]

The irony is striking. Microsoft is in the security news for its free computer security package. The emphasis is on the “free“:
“… Microsoft said the software would be available to anyone who wanted to use it and downloading it would not involve registering with the software firm or having a limit on [...]

Everyone will suggest doing a backup (or several backups) to avoid a computer disaster. If the backups are done on a partition of the same hard drive, the backup protection is limited severely. If there is a major diaster with that main hard drive, it could impact every partition. All the backups [...]

Lotus Symphony from IBM offers an alternative to Microsoft Office. It has received stellar reviews:
“… Today, of course, Microsoft Office is dominant, while Lotus Symphony has become largely a forgotten footnote to history. And that’s too bad, because IBM Lotus Symphony (as it’s now called) is quite a powerful office suite–and amazingly [...]

PCMag has made its best software for 2009 list. The programs listed in this compilation are free:
“…there’s no reason that what’s running on that pricey PC should cost a darn thing. Not in this day and age of amazing freebie software and Web apps. That’s why every year PCMag.com presents a look at the best [...]

ChaCha wants to turn your cell phone into an information centre. It is not a search function in the traditional sense. It is more like having a dialogue:
“ChaCha is like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every [...]

Are you overwhelmed with things-to-do? There is a way to remind yourself of those important things or those “have-good-intention” items. The service is PingMe:
“PingMe takes a unique approach to keeping track of things you need to do - it’s mobile and interactive. Just create a Ping, set a date and you’ll receive a [...]

‘Tis the season to waste some time. This might be a quick distraction if you are studying for those end-of-term exams or trying to finish that paper assignment. Here are some games and, best of all, they are free:
link: These great games will cost you nothing
The usual disclaimers apply to this situation: [...]

It is not a notion that is being proposed by some start up company. It is a federal government agency. Free internet is an idea put forth by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC):
“The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is likely to consider a plan this month to auction public airwaves with a mandate that [...]

The newspapers have had a rough time. There is dwindling circulation and advertisers are going to the internet. On top of that, The New York Times has to deal with pranksters. Some citizens of New York City were surprised to read the headline “Iraq War Ends”:
“…In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands [...]