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Software firms continue to give their products away in hopes of seeing profits down the road.

By Hiawatha Bray
Globe Staff / October 18, 2004

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Construction manager Kimball Diamond often works thousands of miles from his Burlingame, Calif., office. So he didn't mind paying $19.95 a month for a service that let him remotely control his office computer over the Internet. (Full article: 1222 words)

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