Vulnerability of computers

	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk 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...
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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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	Search Information Will Go Private
...Today the main search engine for millions of people, Google, announced that the servers won't keep the information on the users' searches forever. Until recent times, Google kept the search information linked with certain computers around the world. However from now on the system will make this information anonymous after 18 to 24 months. According to Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, the company made t...
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	No PowerPoint, please!
...Scientists from the New South Wales University in Australia have studied, again, the effects Microsoft PowerPoint has on viewers of presentations made with the help of this software. The Australian scientists think that according to the "cognitive load theory" the human brain cannot receive and 'decode' visual and audio information at the same time for longer than a few seconds. Thus information consisting of diagrams an...
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	Palm to use Linux platform
...The famous smartphone producer, Palm, is to use a new software platform that will be based on Linux. The company's officials announced Palm's new operating system platform while on a meeting in New York. During a discussion with the analysts, Palm's officials talked on the business strategy of the company but they refused to state anything regarding the recent rumors of a possible buyout. The smartphone maker for along...
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	Additional Billion PC Users for Microsoft
...Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, is going to suggest governments the $3 Student Innovation Suite. Microsoft has developed the program in an attempt to reach more of the overall 5 billion people who do not presently belong to PC owners. By 2015 Microsoft hopes to reach the first billion. Governments will have an opportunity to purchase directly from Microsoft PCs for students to use in their school studies and at home. Gat...
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	Lawsuit to Target E-mail Harvesters and Spammers
...A federal lawsuit, on behalf of Project Honey Pot, was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria by a company that represents internet users from more than 100 countries. The company has the goal of identifying those users that gather millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers. Project Honey Pot is a service of Unspam Technologies, which, in its turn, is a Utah based company that consults with differ...
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	What words are most often frontpaged on digg?
... Word Category Nr. Pages Nr. stories (approx.) Stories frontpaged (pages) Nr. of stories frontpaged (approx.) Most popular story dugg, times Story title URL Game Hardware 2444 36660 155 2325 4862 Guy selling every NES game ever made on eBay!! With pics ...
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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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	Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers
...Although programmers mentioned that in the near future computers will have an unimagined power, they still wonder if today the developers of hardware have gone as far as the developers of software. The senior research scientist for Information Technology at Purdue, Faisal Saied mentioned that parallel computing has been an obscure skill, which is limited to those that work in the field of high-performance supercomputing....
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	Get Directions From Your Cell Phone
...gies initially developed for emergency workers to help them find those in danger. The relatively new mobile services that provide a cell phone navigation system have already attracted a great deal of attention as they make it easier for their customers to find bearings in an unfamiliar city, or get directions to a new shopping center or restaurant. One of the customers decided to use a cell phone navigation as it v...
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	Microsoft Surface - Innovative Table-Like Computer
...One of Microsoft's biggest projects resembles a normal coffee table. Switch it on and you will get a computer working without a traditional mouse and keyboard. A few people may sit on different sides of the table and use the computer simultaneously. Science-fiction-like machine called Microsoft Surface will be unveiled today at a Wall Street Journal conference. The computer features the hard acrylic tabletop that serve...
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	TROJAN ALERT! "Zenux" Steals FTP Access Codes
...Many web-pages on the Internet have been infected by a malicious program, called Zenux. This Trojan infects different sites and then spreads through these sites on PCs of the visitors. Presumably, the Zenux attacks computers and steals all FTP access logins and passwords, and starts copying itself onto web-pages through their FTP-server connections. A chain reaction starts: the more computers are infected, the more FTP a...
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	Another Wave of Permanent Account Sale from LiveJournal, starting on 21st June
...LiveJournal intends selling another series of permanent accounts. The site's officials have already undertaken such an action in 2005, when such accounts were available only during 24 hours. This year's event will take place between 21st and 28th June. There was a chance that LiveJournal would not initiate the perm accounts action this year, but during the past two years people, who didn't manage getting a perm account l...
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	New Indoor Climate-Control System to Adjust to Your Own Environmental Preferences Via the Web
...A new indoor climate control system is able to make 'smart decisions' according to changing conditions in an office or building. The technology is based upon interaction with people present in the office. The users will be able to regulate the system to match their own environment preferences through the web. The system has been developed by Syracuse, N.Y.-based company CollabWorx Inc. The users of the Open Web Service...
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