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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by announcing the first public release of Windows 7.
The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study finds.

In what it describes as one of the most thorough ever tests, the regulator finds the average UK broadband speed is 3.6Mbps.



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