Archive for July 23rd, 2007
Jul
23
The first hints of the setting - or settings - that Ubisoft is using as the backdrop for the action in FPS Far Cry 2 have arrived via concept art that's slipped out onto the internet.
And judging by what's on display, the follow-up is going to take us to numerous locations around the globe.
You'll also notice
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Jul
23
Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.
Now another market-leading technology company is under fire in Washington as well. An unlikely combination of onetime antitrust defendants like Microsoft and AT&T and liberal consumer groups that have been their traditional antagonists are taking
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Jul
23
This is just plain funny. The last line is the best - “Coming up next, One man’s heroic struggle to pick up the pieces, and rebuild his flickr album.” Video after the jump.
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Jul
23
Mozilla recommends their own Firefox open source browser over the rival Internet Explorer following the disclosure of the Microsoft Internet Explorer FirefoxURL Protocol Handler Command Injection vulnerability. The security flaw impacts Internet Explorer through Firefox, as a direct result of the interaction between the two browsers when they are installed on the same system. While navigating
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Jul
23
This VHD contains both the 30 day edition of Windows Vista Enterprise Edition and an evaluation of Office 2007 Professional which includes Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and Word. See how with these new platforms can simplify how people work together, find information and improve business insight, help protect and manage content, and reduce IT costs and improve security. Test drive today to experience how Windows Vista and Office 2007 work better together!
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Jul
23
Although the official announcement will be made Thursday by John Lam at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, a Microsoft spokesperson did confirm to BetaNews this afternoon that IronRuby - its .NET-centric version of the open source scripting language Ruby - is now publicly available.
As Microsoft development general manager Scott Guthrie and lead IronRuby
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Jul
23
The folks at Linux.com warn of a new security vulnerability that is said to affect the latest version of Mozilla's popular Firefox browser.
Quoting a post on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, the site says Firefox 2.0.0.5 suffers from a password management flaw that could allow a malicious website to steal a user's saved passwords. "If you
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Jul
23
As expected, a number of add-in board partners of ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, are preparing ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics cards for accelerated graphics port (AGP) bus, which is featured on outdated personal computers. With Sapphire Technologies only getting the cards ready, GeCube has already started to sell them.
GeCube GC-RX24PGA2-D3 graphics card
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Jul
23
Microsoft announced Sunday evening a "commitment to call on the industry to develop global privacy principles for data collection, use and protection related to searching and online advertising." According to the press release:
"Microsoft and Ask.com are proposing that leading search providers, online advertising companies and privacy advocates convene to engage in an
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Jul
23
p>Now that Microsoft has provided an official ship target for Windows 7, the next major version of Windows client, it’s time for some educated guess work.
Windows 7 is the only piece of the Windows client roadmap for which Microsoft is willing to provide a date right now. Here’s what I’d guess about the rest of
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Jul
23
The official Google AJAX Search API blog has announced the avilability of image search results as part of the Google AJAX Search API. Take a look at the documentation, to reproduce, all you need is your own API key.
As opposed to the now unsupported server-side search (the Google SOAP API), the client-side
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Jul
23
Microsoft has dashed any last vestiges of hope fans of Alan Wake may have had for the game's release this year, confirming it's not a 2007 title.
Alan Wake is a title that the company wants to nurture and ensure it's "really ready" when it's ushered back into the limelight, managing director of Microsoft Game Studios, Shane
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Jul
23
Microsoft has started delivering security development lessons to Mozilla. With Internet Explorer 7, the Redmond company focused on security as the backbone of the product aiming to scrape both the bad history and the rap of IE6 in terms of user protection. The fact of the matter is that one of the aspects that have driven
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Jul
23
AT&T's two-way mobile Video Share technology, announced for nationwide availability Monday, is accessible in 160 markets across the U.S., but the service won't be available for Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
Announced Monday, the video streaming service is available on AT&T's high-speed 3G UMTS/HSDPA network at different prices starting at $4.99 a month.
Mark Siegel, a company spokesman, said
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Jul
23
Matt Cutts of Google has invited people to vote on the next possible Google Webmaster Central feature.
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Random From The Vote For The Upcoming Webmaster Console Features
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