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20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold |
 ...ree or a or a cheaper upgrade of their old system to the new Vista. Distributive copies of Vista ordered by PC manufacturers for pre-installation on their PCs, the copies bought at shops and the ones downloaded from Microsoft's on-line stores have been included in current report.
Michael Silver, vice-President of Gartner, a research company, said that the current report cannot actually reflect the true situation concerni... |
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Microsoft Upgrades Its Xbox 360 |
 ...console more additional details and features.
According to James L. McQuivey, a researcher at the Forrester Research said the the hard-drive space upgrade is meant to encourage the Xbox 360 users to download media from the Internet, which require more additional money spending.
Peter Moore, Microsoft's corporate vice president for the interactive entertainment business, said that today's gamers have a thirst on various ... |
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Schools include MySpace in the curriculum |
 ... Elgg offer students and tutors the personal learning environment were they can exchange documents and talk to each other, participate in discussions and find common ground.
Now Elgg, that can be downloaded for free, embraces more than 50 schools and colleges worldwide and inventors anticipate an increasing success. besides the academic use, Elgg that now has versions in almost 40 languages, can compete with other ... |
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Need a computer virus?- download now |
 ...d for half of the year. As a result of his campaign 409 people clicked on the ad, that said: "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!"
There are several suggestion on people's willingness to download malicious virus said Mikko Hypponen, who conducted the research at data security firm F-Secure. First of all, people must have mistakenly pushed the button, second - curiosity sometimes overcomes natural prudence and... |
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PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software |
| ...During the first half of 2007 there were dozens of new viruses and malware coming, which were based on very ingenious algorithms and did some funny things, partly. Based on this fact folks at PandaLabs have reviewed the list of most unusual and interesting malware.
The most religious virus: USBToy.A worm has been awarded this prestigious title. The reason for this was that each time an infected computer restarted, the ... |
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Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs |
 ...Sophos experts analysed spam messages caught in the companies' spam filters, which are a part of the Sophos global spam monitoring network. The conclusion was that during the third quarter of 2007 the USA retained the position of the main world's spammer and namely 28.4% of global spam comes from the US. The second spammer-country is South Korea, which is the source of 5.2% of global spam.
The 12 countries, where the mos... |
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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
 ...Several Italian doctors have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus.
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Storm virus attacks blogs |
| ...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect.
The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti... |
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Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage |
| ... The officials from Microsoft, after several complaints from users, confessed that the company's product, entitled Live OneCare security suite, accidentally has been erasing all messages of those that use whether Outlook or Outlook Express. The company's forum concerning OneCare included postings that state the cause of the message deletion.
Users found out that their e-mails were deleted by an antivirus program. It su... |
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Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers |
| ...On Wednesday, the software giant Microsoft Corp. announced the opening of its Live on-line service that will connect users of both Xbox 360 console and PCs. The company stated that the service will open in May. It is to be reminded that Live has attracted about six million Xbox 360 console gamers and now Microsoft looks forward to launch it on new Windows Vista system.
The software giant decided to make this step after i... |
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Google's Blogspot Contains 75% Spam |
| ...A study of the WebmasterWorld states that 75% of all blogs on Google's blogspot are spam.
According to this study the top 15 doorway domains consist of 14 domains, where the spam percentage is over 74%. This means that in four search results of current study, three sites turned out to be spam. The researchers scanned 1000 most searched queries: 'phentermine' on blogspot.com and the query 'ringtone' on hometown.aol.com.... |
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Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits |
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for(i=0;i#iuuq;00xxx/uifsfhjtufs/dp/vl031170140280hpphmf`xjot`vtfofu`dpqzsjhiu`dbtf#!!ubshfu>#`cmbol#?Sfbe!npsf//=0b?'))) "Parker, who represented himself in the suit, publishes online under the name "Snodgrass Publishing Group". One of his publications was an e-book entitled "29 Reasons Not To Be A Nice Guy" and at some time he posted Reason 6 from this book onto a Usenet forum, the wo... |
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Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies |
 ...users would do, to make Yahoo their main search engine. This was Yahoo's hope to generate some ideas on what their rewarding program should look like. The answers varied: from getting five free music downloads to 250 frequent-flier miles monthly. After the survey was done, Yahoo canceled the idea and never spoke of it again... and probably never will.
MSN has also tried to reward people for using the Live Search, so they... |
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HIV blood killed haemophilia patients |
 ...The first hearing began on the case of contaminated blood that was used for treatment of haemophilia patients in Britain.
The program created by NHS, a well-known health services in Britain, was meant to supply haemophiliacs with new blood product but it turned out that blood was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. More than 2,000 patients infected through contaminated blood died or are reported to be seriously ill.
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Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
| ... as in where to go to eat, to buy clothes and to do other necessary things. Thus the ability to incorporate advertisements into the game is very valuable.
The game is expected to be available for download later this year on the site of the University of Portsmouth.
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