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RON DENNIS is preparing to bow to the pressures of McLaren’s agonies and end his figurehead role with the team before the new season begins in just over two weeks.

The Woking-based team, which Dennis built into one of the most successful in grand prix racing, scorned suggestions from Spain yesterday the 60-year-old had been forced to quit because of his role in what the sport’s governing body saw as a cover-up in the investigations into stolen Ferrari material last season.

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MICROSOFT was fined £630 million by the European Commission today for anti-competitive behaviour.
The company has now been penalised a record £1.2 billion by Brussels for unfair competition in the computer market.

That amounts to more than half Microsoft’s annual turnover.

Today’s penalty was for breaches of EU competition policy dating back to March 2004.

Microsoft charged “unreasonable” prices for access to crucial software information to enable its rivals to operate in a market dominated by Microsoft.

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The EMBRIO Advanced Concept is a one-wheeled recreational and commuting vehicle for the year 2025, designed by the Canadian company Bombardier Recreational Products. Although the riding position is similar to that of a motorcycle, the vehicle uses sensors and gyroscopes to balance up to two passengers on a large single wheel whilst driving. Specifications and pictures of this weird motorcycle are showed below:

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Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

With its new features and enhanced tools, Windows Server 2008 has enjoyed a better reception than Windows Vista and has been deployed by a number of companies in beta, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.

“The product has been designed to handle substantial data loads. It’s been made over time far more robust than its predecessors. It’s been designed from the ground up to use virtualization technology, terabyte-level and above data storage. It is the first server product from Microsoft designed from cradle to grave to be large enterprise-class.

“It is vastly improved and demonstrates substantial work done on the product since the 2003 drop,” he added.

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Alright readers, get ready to have your minds proverbially blown!Imagine you are shopping in a grocery store,strolling through the aisles, when all of a sudden the cereal begins talking to you.You step back, and look around.No one else seems to notice.You move forward again and hear the commercial persuading you to select and purchase Lucky Charms.Have you finally lost the last little hold you had on sanity?Or is it a hypersonic sound beam, intended for your ears only?

Chances are, in the near future, supermarket shelves will be lined with these sneaky sound systems, but they aren’t just for use in advertising.This ultra-cool technology remotely transfers sound waves in tightly focused “columns” of sound.Once directed to and landing on any surface, (ie. ceilings, floors, walls, paintings, sculptures, advertisements, or even people!) they instantly become a source of sound.The sound waves can then be processed and heard by only people in the direct path of the audio.Surprisingly, the sound seems to come from inside the head, as it acts like a speaker while transmitting the sounds to the brain.
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