Maximum PC | Windows 8 RTM Hits File-Sharing Sites

Microsoft earlier this week released its upcoming Windows 8 operating system to manufacturers, signaling the end of development and paving the way for a worldwide public release in late October. This does not mean everyone will have to wait that long to get their hands on Windows 8, with Premium MSDN and Technet subscribers scheduled to get their copies on August 15, 2012.

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NBC's Olympics website garners 744 million page views, quadrupling Beijing Games

NBC's televised coverage of the London Olympics hasn't been without a heavy dose of negative criticism, but that hasn't stopped people from visiting the channel's dedicated site for the Games. According to , NBCOlympics.com exceeded 744 million page views for the first week of the 2012 Olympics, more than four times the amount of viewers who visited during the Beijing Games for the same time period.

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How the Social Web Is Talking About the Summer Olympics [CHARTS]

We're about halfway through the2012 Summer Olympics, and social media has played a bigger role for fans than ever before. But who and what have gotten the most buzz? To find out, we got a slew of information from social media monitoring platform Salesforce Radian6.

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Twitter Alerts To Scrape The Olympics Site For New Tickets Are Proliferating

An unofficial Olympic ticket alerts twitter feed which was accessing the official Olympics ticket site to spot when tickets for events were released has been blocked. But others are now appearing. Adam Naisbitt created @2012ticketalert on Twitter and deep-linked into the Olympics ticket site to allow people to find out about tickets as they became available.

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How to Enhance Your Router With Open-Source Firmware

As the number of connected devices in our homes and offices continues to multiply, the limitations of many consumer-grade broadband routers become increasingly apparent. Not so long ago, many users had just one or two systems connected to the Web through their router.

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