Archive for October 11th, 2008
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Cyber-criminals are already exploiting the Domain Name System hack uncovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky this summer -– essentially setting up fake banking websites that users reach by typing in their bank's real domain name. (That's according to research by Georgia Tech's David Dagon and Internet System Consortium's Paul Vixie.)
That's why the U.S. government
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Once again, Microsoft blasted Blu-ray as not having enough traction. “It's pretty clear it's not the next DVD,” Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg said. “There are “no plans to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience,” Microsoft has responded to recent reports,” reports Major Nelson. No Comments » - Posted by DG
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Bill Gates has been supplanted as the world's richest man, according to a revised Forbes Magazine ranking, using October 1 data. Gates now takes second place to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, whose wealth Forbes estimated at $58 billion.Gates had held the top richest spot for 15 years, but his wealth
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IBM and Palace Museum in Beijing, China have created an exact replica of the 178-acre Forbidden City “The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time” that provides you access to an immersive 3-dimensional virtual world to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history.
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Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Division is slated to make “a significant announcement related to Microsoft Silverlight” on October 13 at 9 a.m. PT, according to Microsoft, reports Jo Foley.
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One thing that keeps coming up over and over, however, is the notion of using virtualization as an enabling technology, rather than an end in itself. This means aligning your IT strategies to your business strategies. Ultimately it’s not about how many virtual guests you can run on a physical host, or how cool your underlying
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Oct
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Google Mac team released an update of “Picasa Web Albums Uploader” which now includes the ability to easily export movies from iPhoto '08. This update also preserves geotagging information in your photos, so if you're lucky enough to have a camera that adds G.P.S. data to your snapshots, you can see them automatically mapped
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Oct
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The only man accused of Britain's biggest bank robbery walked free from court yesterday after the collapse of his trial. Bank official Chris Ward, 26, was said to have provided inside information to the gang which escaped with £26.5million in December 2004.
But in dramatic scenes in Belfast Crown Court, prosecutors announced they would offer no further
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Oct
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Symantec has released a beta tool “Norton UAC Tool” that helps to make Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) feature clearer and less of a pain to use. It has two usability-related features to offer:
It offers a “Don’t ask me again” feature so that the next time you carry out a certain action there’s no UAC
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Oct
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Microsoft elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering codenames and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.
A Community Technology Preview of Oslo is due at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on October 27. Featured in the CTP will be a declarative modeling language now being
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Oct
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Google ends its “Links Advice” series post with “inbound links” article. In the previous two posts, Google adviced about “link architecture”, and “outbound/external links”. Google explains that “inbound links can bring new users to your site, and when the links are merit-based and freely-volunteered as an editorial choice, they're also one of
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Oct
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To gets its Hulu on — YouTube and CBS have struck a strategic content and advertising partnership. The deal calls for the CBS Television Network, its premium television service provider, Showtime Networks Inc., as well as its basic cable/digital media service, CSTV Networks Inc., to offer the YouTube community a wide
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Oct
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If you want to embed a specific part of YouTube video, here's how you should edit the code, just append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to YouTube’s URLs.
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Oct
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Via one of the sessions at WinHEC, Microsoft is promising to get involved in the manycore shift to the point where it will make “parallel computing personal. “In the era of multicore processors, parallel programming is key to unlocking the power of multiple CPUs that enable immersive new end-user experiences that are impossible on
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Oct
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Microsoft published an advisory (951306) informing Windows users of a new vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem, affecting Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3, and all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Customers who allow user-provided
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Random From The Microsoft Security Advisory 951306 – 6 month old unpatched XP SP3 and Vista SP1 vulnerability code
- Mar26Google and Common Sense: Internet Saftey Video
Google SafeSearch feature helps filter explicit content from search results to help kids and families stay safe online. - Mar07Internet Explorer 8 and JScript
As Dean mentioned yesterday in his post announcing the availability of the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for developers , better script performance - Apr27Apple Releasing iOS Update to Eliminate ‘Crowd-sourced Wi-Fi Hotspot and Cell Tower Database Cached on iPhone’, Responded to Location Data Q&A
Responding to the revelation and the issues of iPhone and iPad secretly storing location data and sending back to the comapny; Apple has finally responded - Feb14Deploy a Service Package from Windows Azure Blob Storage
You can now deploy Services Packages that are hosted in Blob Storage to Windows Azure. If you have a large Service Package, you’ll really enjoy the fact that deployment from the Cloud is much faster than uploading from your local store. - Jun08Norton AntiBot In Public Beta Now
These days criminal enterprises don't just want to steal your Outlook contact list, they want to own your computer, and they will download a remote-access