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I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this topic but I could not find an answer for this anywhere: since upgrading from Windows Vista 64bit to Windows 7 64 bit, whenever I'm watching a video on YouTube I hear advertizements running in the background that have nothing to do with the...

Well so far the commercials through the first quarter were not funny or impressive to say the least.

1) I posted an inquiry to this forum about 2 hours ago and note that my thread is the only one that nobody has responded to, so my first question as a new user is, "How long should I wait before exploring other options to try to solve a problem?" I expected that a forum moderator would have at...

The principal engineer for Nokia's WP7 and WP8 devices has demonstrated, in rather frank detail, how to pirate Windows 8 Metro apps, how to bypass in-app purchases, and how to remove in-game ads. These hacks aren't exactly easy, but more worryingly they're not exactly hard either. Source...

On July 7, 2012, members of our forum team gathered on Skype to discuss Windows8Forums.com and Windows7Forums.com activities and events. Several guest enthusiasts joined us during this nearly three hour webcast. As promised, nothing was left uncensored or non-discussable, and the discussion gets...

I have no smart phone, so not familiar with how the Apps you can download for free work. In my case, the app was on a Kindle Fire. But after a couple of weeks, I started seeing advertising on the screen. Is this fairly normal for the free apps? Do paid apps not behave this way?

This advert for IE9 has recently started showing on UK TV. Looks pretty cool IMO...

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Today's changes may seem enormous to some of our normal members. But they have been done to improve traffic and streamline the site. You will find that core functionality is easily accessible and still around. We will be testing the current look for a little while with this platform. Some of...

Bad news coming over the forum wire. Due to the unforeseen circumstances of economic worldwide recession and a massive drop in visitor levels according to both our independent analytics data, as well as internal monitoring data, we have taken the unusual and emergency steps of enacting...

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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said a "gang of four" rules technology today: Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. The four companies are "exploiting platform strategies" to create enormous value both for consumers and shareholders, he said here today at...

Google’s Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Link Removed, contains an unexpected $500 million charge for the first quarter that wasn’t reported in the company’s quarterly results. The filing says the charge was taken this month, and applied to the quarter ended...

Foot traffic at Microsoft's retail stores must far lower than expected if the company has decided to start going door-to-door. This evening Microsoft will kick off a new advertising campaign intended to persuade consumers to upgrade their old "good enough PCs" to new ones running Windows 7. More...

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, just two years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the...

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