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Microsoft discontinues Windows 3.x licensing…watch out Vista–Just when you thought paintbrush would live forever, Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows 3.x.

Dell MP3 bundles sound pretty smart–Today, Dell began offering bundles of songs preloaded on new computers. An odd move at first glance, it actually makes sense when you dig into the playlists a bit.

LinkedIn makes social networking actually useful–LinkedIn made me a fan again today with the addition of the TripIt application.

Fixes for five more Windows annoyances–Turn off sound effects, put your desktop on the taskbar, make your mouse pointer easier to find, thicken your blinking cursor, and always show menus in folder windows.

Wireless provider announces plans to acquire a company that serves up Wi-Fi at a number of hotels, health care facilities, and even McDonald’s, in a move to expand its hot-spot presence.

CNN’s decision to use a “hologram” during its election coverage ruined the broadcast–for one, green screens and overlay images aren’t even real hologram technologies.

Wireless operators are about to foist additional costs on customers desperate for decent cellular coverage, and the crazy plan will probably work.

At an event touting Telstra’s “Next G” network in Australia, Microsoft’s CEO says he doesn’t understand Google’s revenue-generating strategy regarding the mobile operating system.

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Company unveils its service that uses real people to transcribe voice mail messages and send the text via SMS or e-mail.

Google.org’s Sonal Shah and former InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski are named to the president-elect’s transition team.

YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, a studio exec tells CNET.

In an interview, Windows core operating system chief Jon DeVaan answers some of the Windows 7 questions readers have had in recent days.