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Kirk Skaugen, Intel vice president, said that the hardware maker will not follow the software developments anymore, instead it will lead the market.

"We learned our lesson in waiting for software. We did this 64-bit thing that was perceived to be a little bit late relative to the market. So we will get the hardware out there as soon as it's ready," Kirk Skaugen of Intel's Architecture Group told a group of analysts and reporters gathered in San Francisco Tuesday morning for the rollout of the Xeon 7500 and 6500 series (née Nehalem-EX) server processors.

In a move to protect privacy of the Internet subscribers in the United States fierce competitors Microsoft and Google have joined their forces and teamed with over 20 other technology providers and lobby groups from the right and left of US politics to update a US privacy law. The law was written in 1986, which was not even the start of the era of the web, email and mobile phones.

Internet becomes more and more popular among the young people and so are social networks and more than ever before. eMarketer estimates that in 2009, 15.5 million US Internet users ages 12 to 17, or 75% of all online teens, will use social networks. In 2013 this number will increase to 17.9 million, or 79%.