Archive for November 26th, 2008
Nov
26
Google added a few new features to the project hosting wiki on Google Code:
You can now add a 'Wiki sidebar' by specifying the wiki file that describes your side navigation in the Administration tab under Wiki settings.
side navigation is
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Nov
26
Even as many home buyers recently suddenly became shy about buying Apple computers in mid-year, small businesses just as quickly took to Macs to the point where Apple's market share in that field grew three times larger almost overnight. Reporting back to investors, Needham Co. analyst Charlie Wolf notes that Apple moved from selling just 61,000 Macs
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Nov
26
Symantec released Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition, an antivirus utility designed specifically not to bother gamers while they, err, game. The "Gamer Mode" suspends updates, alerts, and other background activities when you’re in the middle of a game. It is automatically enabled when the system is in full screen mode (and can also be manually enabled).
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Nov
26
The Deep Zoom Composer got an update with new added features and numerous bug fixes; you can check if you have the latest version by opening up Deep Zoom composer, then navigate to Help > About Deep Zoom Composer and check if it says November 2008 Release.
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Nov
26
The Translator team announced the availability of the English to Russian language pair on MicrosoftTranslator.com, which’s now available across all implementations of the translator technology, including Live Search and (in the next few days) the Windows Live Messenger TBot.
Some other updates in this release you may notice: “we have officially migrated our domain
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Nov
26
Reports that a purported Gmail vulnerability was being used by unauthorized third parties to hijack domains turned out to be a phishing scam, Google announced “our results indicate no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability, with help from affected users, we determined that the cause was a phishing scheme”
Attackers sent customized e-mails
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Nov
26
Direct3D backwards compatibility has always been “you get what your graphics cards run”. For example, Crysis may be a Direct3D 10 game, but if you only have a Direct3D 9-level graphics card, it might only make your jaws open instead of hitting the floor. But that’s all going to
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Nov
26
EBay's PayPal service wants users to take security more seriously. The newly recruited security device is the mobile phone with SMS service. Just before making a PayPal purchase, the user pings the SMS service (by clicking a button on the site) for a fresh one-time credential. The user types in the usual username and password info and
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Nov
26
If that headache plaguing you this morning led you first to a Web search and then to the conclusion that you must have a brain tumor, you may instead be suffering from cyberchondria. Microsoft researchers published the results of a study of health-related Web searches on popular search engines as well as a survey of the company’s employees.
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Nov
26
Live Search Webmaster Tools have released a new fall update that shipped with several new features:
Crawl Issues tool updated with Malware protection: As Live Search crawls the Web, it finds many pages infected with malware and flag all pages containing or linking to detected malware with a “Malware” warning message in the search engine results
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Nov
26
With System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft adds support for VMware ESX Infrastructure virtualization technology. The move by Microsoft with its Hyper-V virtualization technology is a break from its past, where Microsoft usually let third parties manage non-Microsoft software. Now Microsoft can manage VMware virtualization technology.
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Nov
26
The WordPress dev team released WordPress 2.6.5 – a security release that fixes one security problem and three bugs. The security issue is an XSS exploit that only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.
2.6.5 contains three other
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Nov
26
The latest Microsoft mobile-related development codenamed “Kojax” — Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, that will allow Microsoft and third-party-developed applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript, on Java-based mobile phones.
What kinds of mobile applets are we talking about here? Nothing iPhone-like, such as restaurant reviews or
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Nov
26
Google Calendar now supports the CalDAV protocol, an evolving, open standard for calendar synchronization with a number of mobile devices and desktop applications. [Gmail Blog]Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird: You can now sync your calendar with applications that support CalDAV, learn more about how to get started in help center.Microsoft Outlook:
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Nov
26
As reported earlier, the Windows Home Server team released a minor software update: “This update improves the interaction between home computers running Windows Vista and a Windows Home Server-based system when copying files or folders that are larger in size than the free space available on the first (or primary) hard drive to a
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Random From The Update for Windows Home Server Released – Nov ’08
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This post dive into the collaboration technology behind Google Docs in three parts, starting with a look at the challenges encountered when building a collaborative