Archive for September 22nd, 2007
Sep
22
Google Inc.'s stock reached a new high Friday, reflecting Wall Street's renewed faith in the Internet search leader as it introduces new ways for advertisers to reach its steadily expanding online audience.
The shares climbed to $560.55 in midday trading, eclipsing the previous peak of $558.58 attained in mid-July, just days before the Mountain View-based company disillusioned
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Sep
22
Microsoft rebuts talk at DiskCon that current Vista drivers must be improved for hybrid drives to work better.
Microsoft on Sept. 21 denied claims by hard drive industry executives and analysts that the world's largest software company isn't providing optimized drivers for the new hybrid drives about to come into the market.
"Microsoft certainly does provide drivers
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Sep
22
Microsoft has denied there will be a new HD DVD drive next year or any new PC support, claiming a misquote. A Microsoft spokesperson also told me this morning that there will be no plans to incorporate HD DVD into the PC platform in the future.Not too many people were paying attention
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Sep
22
A few weeks ago Candace Locklear's office computer quietly started sending out dozens of instant messages with photos attached that were infected with malicious software.
She was sitting at her desk, with no sign that the messaging software was active. By the time she figured out what was going on, several friends and colleagues had opened the
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Sep
22
A newly posted Microsoft Patent Application appears to describe technology that would provide automatic downloads to a Zune media player if newly tracks from various artists whose work is already stored on Zune or on a user’s PC-based library becomes available.Although the Patent App entitled Automatic delivery of personalized content to a
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Sep
22
Are the dreaded days of seeing the Xbox 360 three red rings of death a thing of the past? Obviously, they're not ancient history yet since there are still too many people having to send in their 360 for repairs.
However, Microsoft has now come out saying that every single 360 now on the market
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Sep
22
Earlier this week, we saw some pretty clear evidence that AMD is prepping a cheaper variant of its Radeon HD 2900 XT dubbed the Radeon HD 2900 Pro. Evidence included listings on European retailers and even a product page on the site of AMD graphics partner HIS.
That's not all, though. According to
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Sep
22
A wave of attacks targeting Microsoft Corp.'s Office 2003 last year taught the company some tough security lessons it's now aggressively applying, a Microsoft software engineer said today.
"When Office 2003 shipped, we thought we'd done some good work and that it would be a secure product," said David LeBlanc, a senior software development engineer with the
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Sep
22
Google has launched another blog called “Google Entertainment Advertising Blog Italia“, brought to you by the Google Milan team.
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Sep
22
The people who helped design Windows Vista, “They’re Beautiful” and “Tafiti” are looking for interns to join their gig! The talented crew over at the Jackson Fish Market are looking for developers and designers for the summer of 2008 to be part of their new internship program. The sell, apart from
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Sep
22
A number of changes to MSN Soapbox just occured, most notably that Soapbox is no longer a stand-alone site, but has become a tab at http://next.video.msn.com.
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Sep
22
Here are a few downloads for Office Communicator 2007 that just popped up at Microsoft's Download Center:
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Sep
22
If you’re a Firefox enthusiast, the Mozilla community is currently looking for additional volunteers to help reduce memory usage and fix any memory leaks in the browser. If you’re not a programmer, Firefox programmer Jesse Ruderman says you can still help:
“If you’re a Firefox user, an easy way to help is to browse with
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Sep
22
Microsoft's marketing mavens are using the slogan "Finish the Fight" to promote the company's "Halo 3" video game, the final chapter in a popular science-fiction combat game trilogy.
It could just as well be the rallying cry for Microsoft to beat rival Sony in the next-generation video game console war.
"We're locked in a pretty good fight with
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Sep
22
Kevin Miller has posted an update to his accordion v2.0. The new version is a lightweight accordion that is built with scriptaculous and works properly in every browser. It includes:
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Random From The Accordion 2.0 released
- Jul02iPhone Parody Ads
Here’s a pretty good parody ad from CollegeHumor. Videos after the jump. - Sep18Windows Live Beta round-up – Windows Live Photo Gallery plugins
The new Windows Live Betas or Windows Live Suite is now available for download, here’re several blog posts from the Windows Live Product Teams - Sep18Secure your Gmail Account; How to recover if you can’t access ?
If you lost your Gmail account, no matter what their origin, here’re some simple steps you can take to ensure that your account stays in your hands, and to greatly improve the chances of regaining access if you have any problems: - Apr27Google Sites Adds Over 100 New Google Web Fonts
Google site today added a wide variety of Google Web Fonts, making it easier to style your website and make it look awesome.Now you can - Feb17Admin Theme Preview WordPress Plugin
The Admin Theme Preview plugin for WordPress allows for the preview of any currently installed theme without affecting the “live” blog theme viewable to site