Archive for August 6th, 2007
Aug
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The sale of Trojans, phishing kits and other types of malware thrives in a growing marketplace that resembles many of the more legitimate businesses that have set up shop online over the past decade.
With a wealth of online bazaars, 24-by-7 support and the ability for other buyers to weigh in on the quality of the products,
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Aug
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Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Beta 1 comes with Online Photo Backup feature, which is an "add-on" to your OneCare Subscription and allows you to backup photos to any of your PC's in your OneCare Circle. According to the Windows Live OneCare Team Blog - when Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is released, Online Photo Backup will be
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Aug
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Mobile phone maker Nokia is to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of file sharing between phones in a new move to generate revenue. The world's largest cellphone supplier will build Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology into its software, used on all Nokia phones.
In 2005 the two companies signed their first co-operation
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Aug
6
The Digital Point forums shows a screenshot of what seems to be a new Google AdSense format experiment. At the bottom of the vertical banner ad, which is a leaderboard, with 728x90 pixels, you can see a variety of linked keywords, e.g. “Celebs” and “Hot Celebrity”.
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Aug
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Fake, but would be cool, watch video after the jump.
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Aug
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Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK.
The strategy behind that was to drive a wedge into the open-source community and unsettle the marketplace, Shuttleworth said. He also took issue with the
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Aug
6
Another social networking embarrassment for a presidential candidate: Rudy Giuliani’s 17-year-old daughter Caroline supports Barack Obama for president over her father. Until this morning she was a member of the One Million Strong For Obama Facebook group, and lists her political
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Aug
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Intel plans to unleash its Penryn family processors next quarter, shortly after AMD releases Barcelona. Penryn is the umbrella for all 45nm Core 2 micro architecture products, including quad-core Xeon Harpertown, quad-core Core 2 Yorkfield and dual-core Xeon, Core 2 Wolfdale processors.
On the surface, Penryn looks like die shrink of last year’s Conroe micro architecture, but
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Aug
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The Wall Street Journal got the GPhone rumor mill churning. Now London's Telegraph is adding grist to the mill, reporting that Google services including search, e-mail, and interactive maps will come preloaded on the device that the company has yet to admit exists.
Anian, a Reuters company that keeps an eye on industry trends for institutional investors,
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Aug
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My iPhone broke. The screen just died a slow death, getting brighter and brighter and then very hot and then...nothing...over the course of a morning. With no phone to play with this morning, I did a lot of thinking and hunting through iPhone foundation files instead. And I seemed
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Aug
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An outfit called SP Technologies has sued Apple over the touch-screen keyboard at the heart of the iPhone, claiming Apple is infringing on a patent held by SP Technologies for a similar keyboard. AppleInsider dug up the SP patent filing from 2000, which claims the company developed a "method of providing a user interface for
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Aug
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Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.
Mozilla Firefox has the following other editions available: Mozilla Firefox for
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Aug
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A Mozilla executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
Mozilla executive Mike Shaver backed up his claim by scrawling it on a business card at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas
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Aug
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This plugin displays a map on your website and allows your visitors to find their way to your location.
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Aug
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Benefits and Backend
The following is the first in a series of excerpts from text that I wrote with the help of John Flanagan and Brian Kelly. We used this as an extension of the SoftGrid training that we were offering right after the acquisition of Softricity by Microsoft as it is a “transcript No Comments » - Posted by DG
Random From The Inside The SoftGrid – Part 1
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