Archive for May 21st, 2009
May
21
Microsoft said a Texas federal jury ordered the company to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd $200 million in damages for infringing a patent. Toronto-based i4i, a privately held maker of software for manipulating documents, claimed in a 2007 suit that Microsoft knowingly infringed one of its patents in its Word processing application and its Vista operating system.
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May
21
Mozilla Labs kicked off a new experiment called “Jetpack,” an open source project that gives you the ability to make extensions as easy to write as a jQuery plugin and the functionality to install plugins without a browser restart. The Jetpack experiment is still in its infancy and just getting started. There are many ways to join the team
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May
21
Dell demonstrated Google's Android running on an Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook. Doug Anson describes the mobile OS as "small and snappy" on the Intel Atom-based portable but doesn't do more than show the operating system running on the 10v alongside another system using Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It continues to show the stock home screen and doesn't show signs of
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May
21
Microsoft released the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Based on Windows Server 2008 R2, the CTP is a preliminary release, allowing an early preview of planned functionality for HPC Server 2008 R2. HPC Server 2008 allowed people who weren’t supercomputing geniuses to set up and run a cluster, easily
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May
21
Following a series of attacks that leveraged security vulnerabilities in its PDF Reader and Acrobat applications, Adobe Systems Inc. plans to begin shipping patches on a quarterly basis on second Tuesday of every third month. In between quarterly updates, Adobe will work to quickly push out as-needed updates for any newly discovered security holes that hackers are actively exploiting in vulnerable
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May
21
Yahoo! Buzz is launched in India to bring the most buzz-worthy stories to Yahoo! India and beyond. Also, introduced a new look for Yahoo! Buzz, a new “Buzz Updates” tab, make it easier to follow “submitting, voting, and commenting activity of your friends and community”. Finally, it’s easier and faster to share stories and videos, as Yahoo! automatically fill in
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May
21
Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services helps detect problems on your machine and automatically fix any common problems that are found. Some of the major features include: launches Vista self-help scripted diagnostics from the web; displays web content dynamically according to the OS; installs PowerShell automatically; uses smart analytics and interactive diagnosis to determine the exact issue; applies the resolution;
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May
21
Microsoft’s latest Malicious Software Removal Tool managed to remove malware harvesting for accounts/passwords and even credit card information from no less than 860,000 PCs. In the Password Stealers and Monitoring Software category, MSRT tackled the following malware: Win32/Frethog with 95,581 compromised machines, Win32/Bancos with 92,565 infections Win32/Lolyda, detected on 54,871
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May
21
Here’s a video, recreating the scene using Virtual Earth 3D, when an Air Force one flew over downtown Manhattan escorted by a F-16 and scared the bejesus out of every New Yorker lighting nostalgic sparks of 9/11?
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May
21
The Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection is the ultimate Gear of War 2 expansion pack but it is bit of an odd duck at retail at July 28th. It is only going to be in stores as a card that you will plunk down $19.99 for and
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May
21
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressed a forum of more than 105 CEOs who gathered at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash. campus. In his keynote, Ballmer discussed the state of innovation in technology and future industry growth as IT departments continue to embrace
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May
21
Google released some new features to Google Suggest to help you make your searches even faster:
Now when you make a search from a results page, Google provide suggestions that relate to the current results page.
Personalized suggestions make it easier and faster for you to repeat your
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May
21
VMware has finally delivered the update to its core virtualization platform, announcing that vSphere 4 is generally available worldwide, positions as a "cloud operating system" that will allow companies to centrally manage servers, storage and networks in their data center as if they were one big computer. A new feature called VMware Fault Tolerance can create a live replica
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May
21
Ron Markezich talked at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, MA on a panel about cloud computing. John Foley confirms that Ron share five tips on how to get started in the cloud, based on the experiences of Microsoft's early cloud customers: “Know where and how cloud services fit into your company's IT architecture; Prepare your
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May
21
Sun Microsystems plans to launch an App Store that could make Apple's look smaller than a 7-Eleven by comparison. The server vendor hopes to increase sales and drive more business via the Java App Store. An app store based on Sun's Java programming language has potential because millions of software developers already create applications with Java,
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Random From The Sun to launch world’s biggest Java App Store
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