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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:30 UTC
Windows XP is turning five years old, but will anybody want to celebrate the occasion? Microsoft's long-anticipated replacement for 'Win 9x' - the series of releases that began with Windows 95 and ended with Windows Millennium Edition - was never supposed to stick around this long.
New Mobile Computing |
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Oracle expands SAP suit
Oracle is expanding its lawsuit against SAP, accusing the German software firm of a corporate conspiracy that reached its highest ranks.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Software Sales Veteran Greg Brush Joins InsideView
InsideView today announced that Greg Brush, an experienced leader in multi-channel enterprise sales, has joined the company as vice president of sales. In his new role, Greg will help to increase sales of InsideView's unique on-demand business search and intelligence applications as the company expands into new markets.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Safari browser flaw: Session fixation attacks possible
Another day, another unpatched Safari browser vulnerability. According to this flaw warning found on the NVD National Vulnerability Database, Apple's flagship browser is vulnerable to session fixation attacks because of the way it handles cookies in country-specific top-level domains. [ SEE: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE...
ZDNet |
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Special Task Force zeroes on extortion as motive for blast
THE SPECIAL Task Force created to investigate the blast inside a passenger bus at the Digos City Overland Transport Terminal is focusing on extortion as the main motive in the incident which killed a 19-year-old computer student (not nursing as earlier reported) and wounded 27 others.
Mindanao Times |
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Why Cuil is No Threat to Google
The much-hyped, heavily funded new search engine developed by a former Google whiz leaves users unexcited
Time Magazine |
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Police: Child porn found on suspect's computer
After sifting through a computer library of 30,000 stored pictures, police found images depicting child pornography on a computer belonging to a man charged with taking photos under the skirt of a 14-year-old in Gilbert Wednesday, police say.
East Valley Tribune |
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Online threats materializing faster, study shows
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The bad guys on the Internet are narrowing the time frame they need to unleash computer attacks that take advantage of publicly disclosed security holes, new research shows.
The Post-Standard |
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Why Cuil is No Threat to Google
The much-hyped, heavily funded new search engine developed by a former Google whiz leaves users underwhelmed
Time Magazine |
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Recent Original Stories
"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
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RTC to arraign Net café owners over piracy raps
THE REGIONAL Trial Court (RTC) is set to arraign the owners of Internet cafés who face piracy charges after they were caught last year for allegedly installing counterfeit softwares.
Mindanao Times |
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Gazelle: Sell Stuff Without Doing the Craigslist/eBay Dance
CG’s Devin writes: I doubt you guys have quite the amount of gadget clutter as those of use who accrue them for a living, but if you’ve even got half our volume of old cameras, phones, and devices in general laying around you may find Gazelle’s service helpful. Not everyone has a used computer recycler like [...]
TechCrunch |
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Vista 'perfection' dream over for iPhone?
Microsoft gets legal An iPhone hacker claims to have been told by Microsoft's legal team to stop giving broken handsets a Windows Vista make over.…
The Register |
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FCC ready to punish Comcast for tinkering with Web traffic
The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to crack down on Comcast for its practice of slowing down or blocking large file transfers, which has drawn the ire of consumer groups. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin confirmed in an e-mail he has the necessary...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Jail guards work by hand after computer software crash
About 120 prisoners were waiting to be processed Monday in Cleveland's city jail following a computer software crash last week. The machine used to electronically collect fingerprints of felony prisoners malfunctioned July 21. Jail guards have had to manually roll...
The Plain Dealer |
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How to kill yourself, with Wikipedia help
Wikipedia , the online "free encyclopedia" written and edited by its users, now includes dozens of detailed suicide methods with descriptions of ways in which people can mutilate or kill themselves.
WorldNet Daily |
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Online threats materializing faster, study shows
The bad guys on the Internet are narrowing the time frame they need to unleash computer attacks that take advantage of publicly disclosed security holes, new research shows.
AP via Yahoo! News |
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Online threats materializing faster, study shows
The bad guys on the Internet are narrowing the time frame they need to unleash computer attacks that take advantage of publicly disclosed security holes, new research shows.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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MS Promotes Vista By Giving Users A Demo Of 'New' OS
We are all familiar with how much bad press Vista has accrued since its launch, with many people quick to slam its down sides. Microsoft recently launched a marketing offensive to try and change the generally negative perceptions people have when you say the word 'Vista'. The latest attempt to show that Vista isn't all that bad involved inviting 120 users who were critical of Vista for a demo ...
Overclockers Club |
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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said Thursday that Wall Street's current expectations for revenue from its newest operating ...
"I'm really excited about how enthusiastic people are about Vista, but I think some of the revenue forecasts for Vista in 2008 are overly aggressive," Ballmer said in a meeting for financial analysts.
New Mobile Computing |
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Some games free to play on Live
Silver Xbox Live users can now play certain titles on Xbox Live without the need for a paid-for Gold subscription to the online service, that's the word from Shacknews this evening.
Ferrago |
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Recent Original Stories
BusinessWeek is reporting that Microsoft's next release of Internet Explorer, version 7, will not be integrated into Windows . Breaking nearly ten years of tradition, Internet Explorer was always very tightly integrated into Windows, allowing users to do such things as launch a website directly from any Windows Explorer window, or save a live web page as the desktop wallpaper.
New Mobile Computing |
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The Herald-Zeitung Mobile Edition
The Herald-Zeitung provides a text-only version of its daily web edition for readers using cellular telephones or handheld computers. Registered users of AvantGo can create their own custom channel to download regular updates.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Maclean Computing Acquires ATL Systems
Leading IT solutions provider Maclean Computing is pleased to announce that it is acquiring IT solutions business ATL Systems Limited.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Poetry: Is poetry's future as bright as its past?
Editor's Note: Guest poet columnist Allen Taylor is webmaster of http://www.world-class-poetry.com and writes a daily blog at http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com . He spent 2005 in Iraq with his National Guard unit and is revising a book of poems he wrote during that time.
The Evening Sun |
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