Archive for August 24th, 2007
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By knowing how users behave online -- in terms of the Web sites visited -- online firms say they can sell more ads. Thus, so-called behavioral targeted ads are under way at large online ad sellers Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL.
Google will remain on the sidelines -- at least for now. But its Web portal rivals are
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Aug
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Microsoft has responded to the July sales numbers released by the NPD on Thursday, stating that customer spending on the Xbox 360 is two to one compared to PS3 and Wii.
Microsoft states in the announcement that 360 consumers have generated $2.7 billion in revenue since November of 2006, comparing favorably to the $1.7 billion generated by
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Aug
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Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Live Maps more useful than ever.
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Aug
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Microsoft and Client Profiles chosen to deliver global CRM initiative.
After extensive evaluation, Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM and CRM4Legal by Client Profiles Inc. have been chosen by Reed Smith LLP to provide innovative CRM technologies and consultancy services. The technology and services from Microsoft Corp. and Client Profiles are designed to complement and enhance the firm’s ongoing
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Aug
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The malware authors behind the Prg Trojan appear to be soliciting their identity theft victims to become 'money mules,' moving stolen money from bank accounts to the hackers' own coffers.
Vikram Thakur, a researcher with Symantec's Security Response team, reported in a blog post that they have discovered templates of e-mails that the Trojan authors are
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Aug
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Boren.nu has posted that WordPress 2.3 went into feature freeze last night in preparation for its eventual release on September 24th. From now on we’re concentrating exclusively on testing and bug fixing. We are scheduled to release the first public beta of 2.3 this coming Monday, August 27th. We’ll be doing a new beta release
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Aug
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Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
Scott McCausland (sk0t), the ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents
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Aug
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The list of hotfixes is currently very small, but it may increase as time goes on. It is a good idea to bookmark this KB article for any future FCS deployments.
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Aug
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Jeremy Chapman on Windows Vista Team Blog has announced the release of the Windows Vista Service Life-Cycle Management guide. It is designed to help reduce costs, simplify service planning and implementation, and improve overall manageability of desktop service and support. This is the newest addition to our Windows Vista accelerators, including the Windows
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Aug
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When it comes to mobile devices, smaller is often time better. We witnessed this last month with the release of the Logitech VX Nano wireless notebook mouse.
The VX Nano did away with the traditional, bulky RF receiver for a much smaller unit that barely juts out from the USB port. Logitech's assertion with the new design
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Aug
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The $90 billion gardening bill was a deal killer. Intel corp. Executive Vice-President Sean M. Maloney sat in stunned silence after a telephone company executive told him it would cost $1,100 per home just to replace landscaping and sidewalks if the industry installed fiber-optic cabling and brought superfast broadband Internet access to every single-family home in
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Aug
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The latest version of a well-reviewed third-party security policy enhancement system for Windows Vista claims to solve what its manufacturer characterizes as "not a secure solution" to a critical problem Windows historically had with administrator privileges on programs. But in the announcement of the upgrade earlier this week, a key Microsoft product manager is quoted
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Aug
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The Linpack benchmark is used by the Top500 project to measure the “best No Comments » - Posted by DG
Aug
24
US Internet giants Yahoo and MSN confirmed Friday they had signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations in China that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state.
Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and other blog providers in China this week signed the "self-discipline" pact, under which they pledged to "safeguard state and public interests,"
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Aug
24
A technical committee in India unanimously rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard, ahead of a vote on Sept. 2 by the ISO on whether to approve Open XML as an international standard.
However, the rejection may be temporary should Microsoft meet some of the objections to Open XML raised by committee members.
The technical
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Random From The India rejected Microsoft Office Open XML
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The Lenovo ThinkServers rolled out at Interop are geared totally to SMBs. "They're SMB all the way," noted Tom Tobul, executive - Nov30Spokeo Social Networks And Blogs Aggregator
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Microsoft has opened up availability of its Live Mesh Software + Service sync/collaboration platform to any U.S.-based tester with a Windows Live