Archive for April 8th, 2009
Apr
8
Microsoft unveils sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tome—all 184 pages of it—has a lot of interesting data points culled from the software giant’s antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a bigger issue than hacking and PDF and Office extensions are leading vectors. This
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Apr
8
A day after the editor of The Wall Street Journal referred to online news aggregators--particularly Google and its Google News product--as “parasites or tech tapeworms,” and the chairman of the Associated Press announced an initiative to protect print media content from infringing use online, Google fired back in a blog post: “Users like
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Apr
8
Google Italy team has uploaded an imagery of L'Aquila (epicenter of quake), a town about 100km northeast of Rome. The Italian region of Abruzzo was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. According to the latest news reports, authorities fear that more than 200 people may have lost their lives,
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Apr
8
Safer Networking Ltd., based in Ireland and the creator of Spybot Search & Destroy, demonstrated how some of its larger competitors are actively using their anti-virus tools to keep Spybot off customers' systems. Safer Networking names three manufacturers in particular: Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs, and McAfee Software. Though their anti-virus products are, Safer Networking
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Apr
8
Scott has developed a small plugin for Windows Live Writer called “TwitThis” that integrated a little icon below posts. The plugin uses the twitthis.com service. You can get the plugin here (.dll file) and drop it in c:\program files\windows live\writer\plugins and then restart Writer.
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Apr
8
Join Partner Technology Specialist, Matt McSpirit, on this multi-part virtualization series where he discusses the topic in depth showing demos and scenarios that customers go through. Whether you are a small IT shop learning about virtualization or a company designing a datacenter, watch these short videos to get you up to speed on what
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Apr
8
There are numerous places on Internet with lots of PowerShell scripts to manage VMs from command-line. However, Hyper-V Server 2008 or Server Core OS lacks the required support to run PowerShell Scripts. This project intends to develop various scripts and put them together in to a small user interface for easier / local management of hyper-v
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Apr
8
In Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, some of these .CPL modules have been replaced by executable files. The result of this is that standard users are prompted for credentials when trying to launch these executables. Options that do not require extra security can be accessed using the same command-line syntax used in Windows XP and
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Apr
8
Shell commands are incredibly useful when creating shortcuts or quickly accessing hard to get to locations. They can be used to pin shortcuts to the Taskbar or just to make your life easier. For those that are preceded by “Shell:” when using them in shortcuts you need to add “explorer.exe” in front of them. It should
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Apr
8
The Microsoft Translator Installer for Office is designed to integrate seamlessly with the following components of the Office 2007 and 2003 suites: Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Excel, Publisher, Visio, and Outlook. Essentially, Office 2007 and 2003 users no longer have to manually set Microsoft Translator as the default translator for the Research task pane in the Office platforms. “This allows
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Apr
8
Google has released a major revision to Gmail for mobile, running in the iPhone and Android web browser. First, you'll notice that it's a lot faster when performing actions like opening an email, navigating, or searching. And if the data network drops out on you, rest assured that Gmail won't.
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Apr
8
Microsoft will revamp its Zune hardware for 2009, the media player division's marketing manager Brian Seitz said through Twitter. He doesn't provide details but makes clear this year's update will be more significant than the fall 2008 refresh, which simply increased storage capacity and added firmware support for buying songs over Wi-Fi. The core design
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Apr
8
Google rolling out an option that lets you filter images by the predominant color to Google Image Search's interface, across all its data centers. You can now click on "All colors" above the search results and you can choose one of the 12 available colors.
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Apr
8
Gazelle is a Microsoft Research prototype web browser constructed as a multi-principal OS (empahsis on research and prototype). From the Gazelle Microsoft Research Technical Report: Gazelle’s Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals. This construction exposes intricate design issues that no previous work
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Apr
8
HP’s Pavilion dv2 12.1-inch ultraportable notebook packs a 320GB 5,400rpm hard-drive, 4GB of DDR2 RAM and WiFi a/b/g/n, discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410, external DVD burner, along with its 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor. There’s also a keyboard that’s 92-percent of full-size, HDMI port and integrated webcam. Aside from HDMI, ports include USB 2.0, VGA and
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