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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
... of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its animated cursors.
Microsoft's officials mentioned that an attacker might be able to take adv... |
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New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans |
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power.
Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ... |
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20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold |
...icrosoft has published a report on the Microsoft's new generation operating system sales. The report stated that in the period between January 30 and February 28, 2007, 20 million copies of Microsoft Vista were sold; compared to 17 million copies of Microsoft's Windows XP sold in the same period of time in 2001, two months after its release, Vista's index could be considered as rather impressive.
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Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies |
...Half a year ago Microsoft decided to try another approach in their search engine business, so that they could at least somehow compete with the "big G" - Google.
Microsoft tried to convince the public that the Google's mathematical algorithm gave too many results and actually annoys its users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-bre... |
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Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk |
...The latest scientific research reveals that biofuels used in vehicles may be more harmful for human health than the petrol used today. By 2020, 10% of all transport means should run on biofuels as agreed by the EU.
The researchers invented a special computer model to determine air quality in 2020. The model showed that ozone level in some regions would grow if bioethanol was used for all cars. It would cause more ail... |
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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist.
According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu... |
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What words are most often frontpaged on digg? |
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Nr. stories (approx.)
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Guy selling every NES game ever made on eBay!!
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Microsoft Reached 40 Million Licenses of Vista |
...The software giant Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of its Windows Vista operating system in the first 100 days since the product was launched into the market.
The chairman of the company, Bill Gates, mentioned that the fastest sales of the operating system in the history is due to an accelerating shift of the majority of population to digital lifestyles. He outlined that the premium editions had accounted for 7... |
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Microsoft Surface - Innovative Table-Like Computer |
... displays a 30-inch screen. The components of the machine, including a hard drive and a 1 GHz computer processor, are inside the table. The computer uses a custom software interface on top of Windows Vista. It provides wired Ethernet, Bluetooth wireless and integrated Wi-Fi.
One of initial buyers, T-Mobile, is going to supply its stores with the Microsoft machines. The Surface computer will recognize a phone placed on... |
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Google Brings Microsoft to Court |
...Google has launched a legal challenge to new operating system Windows Vista introduced by Microsoft. According to Google, Microsoft has breached competition as Windows Vista makes it more difficult to use Google's desktop search tool, combing through a hard drive of the computer and emails of the user in search for information, than it does to use the search function provided by Windows.
The fact that Microsoft has int... |
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The Less Online Content - The Better, Study Says |
...The latest research conducted by University of Missouri-Columbia showed that people are more likely to focus on the online content with fewer options.
The participants took part in the experiment where their responses were studied while they were watching online pictures. Kevin Wise and Kimberlee Pepple, conducted the study where volunteers were given a task to choose three pictures from six and 24 selection of thumb... |
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NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer |
... Two spacecrafts are going to be launched by NASA in hope of slamming into the South Pole of the moon and find out if the double explosion on the surface of the moon will be able to reveal the hidden water ice.
Undoubtedly the Earth-on-moon violence may lead to serious discussions on the topic, but the history of NASA demonstrates that such missions may bring a lot of useful information.
"I think that people are app... |
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Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years |
...owever, there is no certain time table on when the craft will actually be ready.
US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency looks forward to push the limits of unmanned aviation to extremes. The latest UAV project of DARPA currently raises eyebrows.
"We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft," stated Daniel Newman, who holds the post of Vulture project manager. "Aviation has a perfect r... |
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Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness |
... An exaggerating number of e-mails as well as text messages may very soon be officially recognized as brain illness.
According to an editorial published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" is considered to be a widespread compulsive-impulsive disorder. Such disorder should be included in the official psychiatric guidebook of me... |
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Microsoft Cautions of New Hacker Attack on Word Files |
...unched before its follow-up set of security updates that are due on April 8.
The risk category includes users of Word 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. Those who will not be affected are users of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003, Service Pack 2. This is because these operating systems feature an improved version of Jet Database Engine, which, according to Microsoft, does not include the bug.
Technically speaking, PCs t... |
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