Archive for August 20th, 2007
Aug
20
Meta search engines do the one logical thing that relates well to the “not-reinventing-the-wheel” concept, i.e. presenting results culled from the best repositories in the world. And this article is about one such meta search engine that has gained lot of traction - SurfWax. Along with the main
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Aug
20
Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 Service Pack 1 contains a number of fixes in a single update package. You can use this single package to update any of the following Host Integration Server 2004 editions, including both client and server installations:
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Aug
20
Tired of the old Windows Vista default Boot Screen? Well then, there is a simple alternative solution involving nothing more than your copy of the operating system. And just a tad of tweaking, but nothing extensive, and certainly nothing that would cause Vista to become instable or unusable. The fact of the matter is that you
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Aug
20
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation SKG announced Monday that they will offer next-generation DVDs in the HD DVD format rather than Blu-ray, a move that further complicates the race between the competing technologies.
The move by the two studios will include the upcoming blockbuster "Shrek the Third" and all movies distributed by Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount
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Aug
20
The Microsoft-Cisco meeting of the CEO minds on August 20 was a total non-news event. Microsoft did not set false expectations about that. No one going into the event believed for a moment there would be anything of significance — especially not a merger/acquisition involving the two players — on the docket.
The message that Microsoft CEO
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Aug
20
Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office.
Mike Downey, Adobe's group manager for platform evangelism, hinted on Wednesday that the company might be about to develop such software.
Downey clarified the situation in an interview with ZDNet.co.uk's sister site CNET News.com on Friday. He said that Adobe would focus
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Aug
20
The 46,000 people reportedly infected by ads on job sites may be only a fraction of the victims of an ambitious, multistage attack that has stolen data belonging to several hundred thousand people who posted resumes on Monster.com, a researcher said this weekend.
According to Symantec Corp. security analyst Amado Hidalgo, a
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Aug
20
No, it’s not Y2K all over again, but the looming change to New Zealand’s daylight saving time (DST) will have profound implications for IT managers, Microsoft warns.
At a special session at the Tech Ed conference in Auckland last week, Microsoft technical account manager Bradley Borrows said at least 40 Microsoft applications would be directly affected by
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Aug
20
Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million Windows Vista licenses in the operating system's first six months of general availability. However, the Redmond company is right on track to correct this little slip up. Windows Vista will not continue to sell this well, at least not if Microsoft can help it. Just take a look
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Aug
20
Google today launched another questions-and-answers service, Tianya Wenda, in cooperation with Tianya Club, one of the most popular Internet forum in China. Although the service is (currently) not located under Google’s domain, but it’s running on Google’s web servers and is using the very same back-end program that
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Aug
20
FoxyTunes is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox. It also supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to control your media player without leaving the browser. FoxyTunes has the following other editions available: FoxyTunes for Internet Explorer.
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Aug
20
By now most people have probably heard of WikiScanner, the web-tool used to map anonymous Wikipedia edits against a list 2.6 million known IP ranges owned by some of the most reputable organizations and companies in the world. Naturally, people start by scrutinizing the obvious targets
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Aug
20
Symantec has delayed the launch of its Virtual Security Appliance for Intel's vPro enterprise desktop platform. Originally intending to ship the application next month, the security vendor has pushed back the launch date to mid-2008, attributing the delay to feedback from beta customers and a desire for better support for open source technologies. "One of our
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Aug
20
X-bit Labs have asked the PCI-SIG for clarification on whether upcoming PCI Express 2.0 AIBs will work correctly in mainboards that only support PCI Express 1.x.
The answer, that, "new PCIe 2.0 adapters running at 5.0 GT/S can plug into existing PCIe slots and run at the slower rate of 2.5 GT/S", was expected. What wasn't
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Aug
20
Samsung is getting more aggressive in the hard drive market: The company today announced a new 160 GB drive in a 1.8" form factor – which is often used in compact notebooks and some portable audio and video players such as the video iPod.
According to the manufacturer, the 4200 rpm Spinpoint N2 drive is targeting mainly
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