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Festival goers prepare thyselves: this year's music line-up is guaranteed to perforate eardrums.

There's a host of comedians you just can't afford to miss at the Fringe this year.

Street artists who play to the public on pathways, alleys and verges during the National Arts Festival will stand taller this year.

Andrew Buckland, a Festival stalwart and South African physical theatre icon, recently returned from a year-long contract performing with the celebrated Cirque du Soleil company in Las Vegas, in the Beatles-themed entertainment spectacular, Love.

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It's not hard for Americans to work themselves into a lather over the state of broadband in this country, which is improving but still not on par with the 100Mbps fiber lines widely offered in countries like South Korea and

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Microsoft's recently relaunched search engine, , has managed to win the company some market share during its first month of operation. According to numbers gathered by StatCounter, Microsoft gained a full percentage point during the month of June, stealing bits

the P2P online video service once hailed as the new way to watch TV, has announced that it's ditching its consumer video offerings. Instead, the company plans to offer services to other media companies—such as cable and satellite providers—as a

The Obama administration came to office with promises of greater openness about government activities and improved technical capabilities. On Tuesday, the US CTO, Vivek Kundra, announced a new Web resource that promises to allow citizens to track IT spending across

There are many reasons for Chicagoans to poke fun at the northwest suburb of Schaumburg, but the existence of red light cameras soon won't be one of them. Officials expect to get rid of Schaumburg's sole red light camera in

Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski gave his first to the whole Commission staff on Tuesday. He promised to "green the agency, and improve overall operations of the FCC—running efficiently, communicating effectively, and opening the agency to participation from everyone

A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and (just for good measure) vicarious infringement. Not content to be loud and proud about its

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