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PC makers are finding ways to keep selling Windows XP despite Microsoft efforts to remove it from sale.

Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes in Microsoft’s licensing terms to extend the operating system beyond a 30 June end of life date.

XP is being phased out in favour of Windows Vista which has, so far, got a lukewarm welcome from many firms.

The news comes as Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer hints that XP could live longer if enough customers demand it.

I just visited a website today that matches endowment buyers to sellers. When we talk about Endowments, Endowmentexpress is the place to be. It is primarily focused on the UK market that sells endowment polices. Yes, you can hover around the website today and understand selling endowments.

BP PLC stopped oil and gas flowing through its 700,000-barrel-a-Day Forties pipeline in the United Kingdom North Sea Sunday, as a two-day strike in a Scottish oil refinery began, raising fears of fuel rationing.

The British government urged motorists not to hoard gasoline, saying there was much to go around amid fears of rationing of fuel due to the strikes. The closure of the BP-operated Forties pipeline system, or fps, knocking more than 40% of UK oil production and 25% of its gas supply from the dozens of offshore fields connected to Forties. “The shutdown of the FPS is now complete,” said BP spokeswoman Joanne McDonald.

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When it comes to a force in social networks, Google and Yahoo have tried and largely failed. To be sure, Google has Orkut, which is very popular in Brazil and the Philippines, but not the United States. For its part, Yahoo has largely pulled the plug on Yahoo 360th But it is clear that MySpace and Facebook (Bebo and the United Kingdom) are still firmly on the top of the social network heap.

So now Google and Yahoo are among other tack - turning itself into the social sites without setting up a social network.

“We are not trying to another social network,” said Yahoo President Susan Decker on Tuesday, while the company’s earnings conference call. “Much more is by linking the users favourite destinations and content with their friends, families and communities, we can better relevance, on a scale that nobody else has achieved.” Two days later, the company has the new Chief Technology Officer, Ari Balogh, speaking on the Web-2, 0 Expo in San Francisco, a bit on the idea. “We do not believe that the social as a target,” said Balogh. “We are of the opinion that the social dimension.”