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Cisco patches router flaw ahead of rootkit talk
Cisco has issued three security patches, fixing bugs that could crash its products and drawing a warning from the SANS Internet Storm Center. The updates, issued Wednesday, fix denial of service bugs in the SSH (Secure Shell) software in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS), used to power its routers, and in the Cisco Service Control Engine , which is provides carrier-grade ...
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European Commission lukewarm to Microsoft pledge
(AP:BRUSSELS, Belgium) The European Commission on Thursday cautiously welcomed Microsoft Corp.'s announcement it will make its file format for storing documents compatible with that of rivals but the latter termed the move insufficient and a delaying tactic.
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Choosing a laptop for the college-bound grad
It's become a rite of passage in many families: When you graduate from high school, you get a new laptop. Especially if you're going to college.
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Report: The Future of Apple
Apple will become the hub of the digital home by 2013, according to a new Forrester Research report released today.
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How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes
Over the past few days we've talked on this blog (I've made a few posts and you, through the TalkBack, have expanded on them and added your views) about what makes Apple different to, say Dell or Best Buy. With that in mind, I came across this post by Canadian...
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Microsoft to support more document formats
Microsoft is to add support for new document formats to Office, including XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1.
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FAQ: What Microsoft's block of 'American Gladiators' teaches us
Users of Windows Vista Media Centers were prevented from recording two NBC Universal shows. The incident raises questions about anticopying controls, Hollywood's intentions toward DRM and Microsoft's willingness to obey broadcasters.
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Microsoft megadeal gets second chance
MICROSOFT has been granted a second six-month extension on the megadeal it struck in 2004 with the UK government, and which ran out in January.
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Lenovo reports a robust quarter
Notebook PC sales helped pace the company to $3.7 billion in revenue and a big jump in profit.
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Internet traffic slow after cable cut
MADISON — Workers in cubicles across the Midwest actually got some work done Wednesday after an Interstate construction crew near Chicago accidentally cut off Internet traffic to the Chicago hub, causing massive gridlock on the Web. The cut happened just as people were arriving at work when a crew digging along Interstate 94 near Chicago severed some critical fiber-optic cable in a ditch next to ...
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SOA: Full Speed Ahead - but Watch for Potholes
SOA is replacing Web services, which took the spot of object-oriented programming, which usurped the client/server computer, which supplanted mainframe computing as the primary way that companies design their applications. As the latest transition takes place, SOA is encountering some of the problems that the other initiatives had to overcome.
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Bank of New York Mellon breach hits 4.5 million customers
Bank of New York Mellon has lost unencrypted back-up computer tapes containing the confidential details of around 4.5 million customers.
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LuggageOnline.com to Raise Funds for Childhood Cancer Research
When life gave her lemons, four-year-old cancer patient Alexandra "Alex" Scott made lemonade -- literally -- and sold it to raise funds for pediatric cancer research. She couldn't have imagined that today, nearly four years after she passed away, that her efforts would result in a nationwide fundraising movement to find a cure for childhood cancer.
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Google carves an Android path through open-source world
Google is committed to many open-source tenets with its Android mobile phone software--but it's willing to step on a few open-source toes, too.
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Jim Tolonen Joins Blue Coat Board of Directors
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that James R. Tolonen has been elected to fill a newly created seat on the Company's Board of Directors.
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Accenture: Time is ripe to test cloud computing
The company's chief scientist has said cloud computing is now mature enough for CIOs to experiment with
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Grooming Simplified Gives You the Look of a Holiday in Ocho Rios Without Ever Boarding a Plane
Atlanta-based catalog and internet skincare retailer, Grooming Simplified introduces its newest product -- Ocho Rios Sunless Tanning Mist.
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Focus 21 Partners with Avistar to Deliver C3's Value in the UK
Avistar Communications Corporation has signed a partnership with Focus 21, one of the UK's leading audio visual integrators, as a value-added reseller for the UK market. The agreement enables Focus 21 to extend the scope of its videoconferencing solutions from large scale room systems and mobile systems to personal desktop systems.
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Micrel Launches Fast and Furious Solution With Introduction of the Industry's Highest Delay Resolution Skew Management ...
Micrel Inc. , an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today launched the dual channel SY89297U delay line IC. The second generation device can be serially programmed to provide just 5ns of delay per channel while running up to 3.2Gbps/1.6GHz.
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Blue Coat Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 2008
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today reported its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2008.
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Flock Closes $15 Million Financing Round, Led by Fidelity Ventures
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Flock , the innovative, award-winning social Web browser, today announced that it has completed a $15 million Series D round of venture funding led by Fidelity Ventures.
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Yahoo launches ad service, gets ready to take on Google
MANILA, Philippines -- Yahoo introduced its keyword-based advertising service, putting the company in a race with Internet search rival Google in going after local online advertisers.
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Computer maker Lenovo says quarterly profit up 133 percent on strong sales growth
HONG KONG - Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, said Thursday that earnings for its latest quarter rose 133 percent as strong sales in China and Europe offset slower growth in the United States.
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Emojustice: black shirts to march on Daily Mail over My Chemical Romance suicide furore
A gaggle of My Chemical Romance fans hacked off at the media’s depiction of the band as a ‘suicide cult’ have organised a protest march on the offices of the Daily Mail
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Jul 2006 20:43 UTC
Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year.
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