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BILOXI, Miss. – The Grand Casino’s Island View Hotel was demolished Sunday to make room for a new resort on the waterfront property. Workers used 400 pounds of explosives to take down the 12-story hotel, which housed 500 rooms, retail shops and a restaurant before Hurricane Katrina damaged the building …

Cut-rate PC/hardware Windows XP Starter Edition bundles aren’t Microsoft’s only solution for bringing computing to the masses. Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled a new financing program designed to make PCs more affordable to emerging-market customers on May 22, the day before the kick-off of its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in …

Citing Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) lapses under a landmark antitrust settlement, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to extend by two years its oversight of some of the company’s business practices until at least November 2009. Microsoft has already agreed to the lengthier scrutiny by the Justice Department and 17 …