Archive for August 31st, 2007
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The Cleaner Pro includes background scanning of all activity in memory; a faster, redesigned scan engine (about 100 files per second); a newer, tougher, Trojan fingerprinting process; scanning inside compressed archives; and a completely redesigned Interface (GUI). Objective tests have shown that The Cleaner blows the competition away, both in speed of scans and in number of Trojans found.
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Aug
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Finance bible The Economist just ran a cover story with the now familiar "is Google evil?" theme but managed to uncover a deliciously vicious quote from an unnamed ex-Googler. The magazine wrote, "The internal attitude towards customers, rivals and partners is 'you can't stop us' and 'we will crush you,' [the ex-Google
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Aug
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A Canadian graduate school study suggests companies should start investing in IT-specific employee assistance programs and offer more peer support for technology professionals who are struggling to manage their stress levels.
The study, "Of Races to Run and Battles to be Won: Technical Skill Updating, Stress and Coping of IT Professionals," also recommended companies look
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Aug
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The computer giant claims to have fixed "hardware failures" found in its Xbox 360 console as gaming sales fall 10 per cent Dearbail Jordan Microsoft saw $1 billion (£487.5 million) wiped off its profits during the second quarter after the US computer giant was forced to cover manufacturing problems with its Xbox 360 games console.
The
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Aug
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This Sunday is the deadline for an important standards vote on Microsoft's Open XML file formats, with early reports pointing to an inconclusive result--and a hefty dose of disillusionment with the standards process.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is due to receive votes by September 2 on whether Open XML will be certified as an ISO
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Aug
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The Messenger team has put together an awesome introductory video for Windows Live Messenger. This video is SO much better than an instruction manual! The onscreen guide walks you through many of the features of Messenger to give new and long-time Messenger users insight into what Messenger can do.
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Aug
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A faulty signature update from GRISoft published this week meant that its popular AVG anti-virus package falsely warned versions of Adobe Reader were infected with a Trojan.
Reg reader Tulio received a false alarm that his system was infected by SHueur-JXW after he downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.09. GRISoft acknowledged the problem and said that it planned
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Aug
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one of the benefits of Silverlight is its HD capability which allows streaming over the internet of amazing quality movies. Halo 3 has had the Silverlight treatment - no doubt put together using Expression Blend, and Expression Media Encoder - and the results are
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Aug
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RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level on supported CPU models via processor's power management model-specific registers (MSRs). In automatic management mode it continuously monitors the CPU usage level and dynamically adjusts the CPU frequency,
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Aug
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Free Uninstaller is the freeware uninstall tool - replacement for Add/Remove program. It starts up slightly faster than system applet and contain some additional features. The main task of the program is removing applications installed with Windows system and removing invalid entries from uninstall list.
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Aug
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Sony claims the rootkit-like behaviour of a device driver used to run its biometric MicroVault USB drive, was unintentional.
Sony Sweden representative Fredrik Fagerstedt told local press this week that sometimes even actions taken with "good will" can go wrong.
Fagerstedt's comments come the same day that antivirus firm McAfee joined the growing chorus of companies to criticise
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Aug
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We are pleased to offer you an early preview of Microsoft® Windows Vista SP1 by extending this invitation to join the Windows Vista SP1 beta program. Your participation is completely voluntary. Program participants will preview Windows Vista SP1.
If you choose to participate you will have the opportunity to provide Microsoft with feedback as we continue
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Aug
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In July, Microsoft announced its intentions to deliver a number of licensing technologies to third-party vendors interesting in deploying Microsoft-like activation and licensing in their productsOne of those components, the Software Licensing and Protection Server (SLP), is likely to be released to manufacturing (RTM) on August 31, according to a Microsoft blog
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Aug
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The Limited Edition Halo 3 Wireless Controllers and Headset and the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit both hit on Sept. 4, Microsoft announced today.
The wireless controllers, which feature Covenant Brute and Master Chief art by Todd McFarlane, sell for $60 a pop. The Spartan green and gold wireless headset also sells for $60.
The Xbox 360 Messenger Kit
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Aug
31
WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. Its defragmentation and analysis engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API. In addition, it allows you to group files into
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