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Marc Maiffret–the quick rise of a teen hacker (Q&A)

Vince — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:55:51 +0000

Security expert who poked holes in Microsoft says the company has raised the bar in software development and talks about the shifting threat landscape.

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Unpatched Java hole exploited at lyrics site

Vince — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:54:36 +0000

Researchers say vendor should issue a patch before more attacks come.

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Last version of Firefox 3.0 released

Vince — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:53:14 +0000

Firefox 3.0.19 is the end of the line for the browser version that debuted in 2008. Also released to fix security problems: Firefox 3.5.9 and Thunderbird 3.0.4.

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Conficker fizzled a year ago, but headache remains

Vince — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:53:46 +0000

Versions of the worm that went bust a year ago are still spreading and hiding on 6.5 million infected computers, security experts say.

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Mozilla fixes security hole with Firefox 3.6.3

Vince — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:54:01 +0000

The new browser version, released just over a week after Firefox 3.6.2, fixes another critical vulnerability in the open-source browser.

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Whole Foods working to curb Facebook-based scam

Vince — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:53:22 +0000

Fake ‘fan pages’ claiming to offer Whole Foods gift cards actually lead to a form that steals personal information, the grocery chain is warning consumers.

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IBM, FAA partner on aviation cybersecurity

Vince — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:56:14 +0000

Big Blue is working with the federal agency to design a security system to protect private and commercial plane networks from cyberattacks.

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Vietnamese dissidents targeted by botnet attacks

Vince — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:52:59 +0000

Google and McAfee say they have found evidence of a botnet targeting opponents of a Vietnamese mining project that was created through the use of malware.

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Microsoft issues emergency patch for 10 IE holes

Vince — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:22 +0000

Security experts praise Microsoft for patching vulnerabilities now rather than waiting two weeks for the next Patch Tuesday, given the severity of the issues affecting Internet Explorer.

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MI5 to let go of tech-averse staffers

Vince — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:53:47 +0000

The United Kingdom’s Security Service is instituting voluntary and compulsory layoffs, after a review of its staff’s IT skills.

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Survey: 63% don’t change passwords very often

Vince — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:53:56 +0000

In a survey on password management, some of the 400 participants admit to some big no-no’s, according to Symantec’s Security Response blog.

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Cisco warns of ‘highly critical’ SIP flaw

Vince — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:53:32 +0000

The flaw in Cisco’s IOS operating system could let a hacker remotely execute code or launch a denial-of-service attack.

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National bans is poll boon for Italian local TV, Internet

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:05:01 +0000

AFP – The suspension of political programming by national broadcasters ahead of regional elections Sunday and Monday has boosted audiences for Internet and local TV shows, a novelty in Italian politics.

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Verizon Blasts ‘Outdated’ FCC Broadband Plan (NewsFactor)

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:21:27 +0000

NewsFactor – Verizon Communications is denouncing the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan, saying it was created with old services such as telephone, radio and cable in mind. The NBP, rolled out by the FCC last week, aims to provide at least 100 million homes in the U.S. affordable Internet access at download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 50 megabits per second. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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RIM Buys Mobile Software Developer Viigo (PC World)

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:11:55 +0000

PC World – Research In Motion has purchased Viigo, a developer of software that delivers syndicated content to mobile phones, according to a brief note on Viigo’s Web site. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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After DNS Problem, Chinese Root Server Is Shut Down (PC World)

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:43:00 +0000

PC World – A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Google Defies China, Hacker Heads to the Clink (PC World)

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:13:56 +0000

PC World – The battle between China and Google dominated the headlines this week after Google decided to stop censoring its search results. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Google Fiber Candidates: Top 5 Desperate Cities (PC World)

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:45:46 +0000

PC World – What’s more entertaining than the sight of civic leaders fawning all over Google for a little high-speed action? In recent weeks, cities across the U.S. have staged some fairly bizarre antics to convince Google to build its proposed 1-gigabit fiber-optic network in their area. The search giant will make its decision by the end of 2010. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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More than 1,100 communities seek Google network (AP)

Vince — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:50:43 +0000

AP – More than 1,100 communities have approached Google Inc. in hopes of landing one of the ultra-fast broadband networks that the company plans to build in a handful of spots around the country.

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Apple iBooks Sets $9.99 Price Point; Adds 30,000 Freebies (PC Magazine)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:51:09 +0000

PC Magazine – In the ongoing war between online bookstores, price is key. And Apple’s iBooks electronic bookstore is apparently wading into battle, according to a report, with $9.99 bestseller pricing and easy access to the Project Gutenberg online book repository. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Pleas for Google Fiber Rise as Deadline Nears (PC Magazine)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:22:23 +0000

PC Magazine – The deadline is for submitting an application to Google’s experimental fiber network is just a few hours away, but the search engine giant already has interest from 600 communities and has received more than 190,000 comments on the proceeding, Google said Friday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Apple May Have Leaked iPad Game Titles (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:53:25 +0000

PC World – Apple reportedly let slip a preview of some iPad games that will be available in the iTunes App Store once the iPad ships to customers in early April. All of the purported iPad titles featured the terms “HD” or “XL” in their names, presumably meaning these apps were meant for a device larger than the 3.5-inch screen found on the iPhone or iPad Touch. The games were spotted by the blog PadGadget on Apple.com’s iTunes Preview, a Website-based catalog of iTunes store content. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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NY town angry over Net slurs at suicide victim (AP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:22:28 +0000

AP – A New York community is outraged over derogatory and negative comments that have appeared on Internet memorial sites to a popular high school senior who committed suicide.

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More than 600 communities vying for Google network (AP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:54:08 +0000

AP – More than 600 communities have approached Google Inc. in hopes of landing one of the ultra-fast broadband networks that the company plans to build in a handful of spots around the country.

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Summary Box: Verizon winds down FiOS expansion (AP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:24:23 +0000

AP – WHAT’S HAPPENING: Verizon has stopped extending the reach of its fiber-optic TV and Internet service, FiOS. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Deadline nears for top CTO, enterprise architect awards (InfoWorld)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:57:01 +0000

InfoWorld – Is your CTO one of the best? If so, nominate him or her for the 2010 CTO 25 Awards presented by InfoWorld.com, the Web site focused on modernizing IT through effective use of business technlogy. Nominees may have the CTO title or an equivalent title such as IT director, VP of technology, or — if there is not also a CTO-equivalent position in the organization — CIO. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Apple iBooks Sets $9.99 Price Point; Adds 20,000 Freebies (PC Magazine)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:29:07 +0000

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US cities vie to win Google’s broadband favor (AFP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:00:29 +0000

AFP – A city in Kansas renamed itself “Google.” A Florida mayor hopped into a tank full of sharks to impress the Internet titan. Baltimore named a “Google Czar” and scores of towns held “Google Days.”

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Improve Your 3G Connection with an AT&T MicroCell (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:35:48 +0000

PC World – AT&T announced this week at the CTIA show in Las Vegas that it will soon make its femtocell device available to subscribers nationwide. The femtocell–which AT&T has dubbed the MicroCell–creates a mini 3G cell tower in your home or office, and leverages your existing broadband network to resolve slow or spotty 3G coverage. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Will the iPad be Jailbroken at Launch? (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:00:31 +0000

PC World – iPhone hacker George Hotz claims he has developed a new untethered software jailbreak method for the iPhone and iPod Touch that may also work on the iPad. Hotz, also known online as Geohot, says in a recent blog post that his new unnamed jailbreak method is as simple to use as his previous iPhone software jailbreak, blackra1n. The new software will purportedly work on all currently jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch models. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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UK, French Newspapers to Charge for Content (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:34:43 +0000

PC World – British newspapers The Times and the Sunday Times will charge for content on their Web sites, a move following other major papers seeking to profit from online readers amid falling print revenues. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Microsoft Failed To Grab the Long Tail, Exec Concedes (NewsFactor)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:04:11 +0000

NewsFactor – When Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired, first penned an article in 2004 called The Long Tail, he was thinking about e-commerce. The article — and later a book by the same name — showed that web-based sellers like Amazon and Netflix had much larger sales potential than mass-market vendors like Barnes & Noble and Blockbuster. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Verizon winds down expensive FiOS expansion (AP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:33:49 +0000

AP – If Verizon Communications Inc. hasn’t already started wiring your city or town with its FiOS fiber-optic TV and broadband service, chances are you won’t get it. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Afghan enemies using iPhone as a weapon

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:50:30 +0000

Australian Department of Defense chief technology officer Matt Yannopoilos today said defenses were being beaten in Afghanistan by enemies accessing information quickly via iPhones. by Ben Grubb ZDNet Australia View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Outages Take YouTube, Wikipedia and Twitter Off-Line (NewsFactor)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:37:12 +0000

NewsFactor – Many years after the Y2K scare that left the world wondering if the Internet would crash as we entered the 21st century, two of the web’s most popular sites have gone off-line this week alone. YouTube and Wikipedia both went dark on Thursday. Twitter went down last week. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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UK’s Times newspapers to charge for Web access (AP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:12:42 +0000

AP – The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers will begin charging for Internet access to content in June, offering subscriptions at 1 pound ($1.48) a day or 2 pounds a week, News International announced Friday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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The Times of London to charge for website (AFP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:39:21 +0000

AFP – The Times of London and its sister paper The Sunday Times will charge readers to access the titles online from June, Rupert Murdoch’s News International announced on Friday.

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China issues rules on reporting Google moves

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:24:12 +0000

A Chinese government ministry ordered Chinese media companies to toe the government line this week in their reporting on Google’s decision to move its search operations to Hong Kong. by Tom Krazit CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Traffic from major sites redirected to China

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:56:46 +0000

Workers at Internet network operation centers around the world are trying to figure out why traffic to sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook was redirected to servers in China this week. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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News Corp to charge for UK Times online from June (Reuters)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:46:43 +0000

Reuters – News Corp will charge readers for online versions of its UK Times and Sunday Times newspapers from June, becoming the first media firm to test consumers’ appetite to pay for mass-market news online. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Chinese EBay Rival Taobao to Share Wide Transaction Data (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:17:30 +0000

PC World – China’s Taobao.com, a rival to eBay, plans to open up site-wide transaction data so users can learn about buying trends in the world’s biggest market, a person familiar with the plans said. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Beware online knights in shining armor, US Army warns (AFP)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:49:07 +0000

AFP – Online scammers are posing as US serviceman posted overseas and promising love and marriage to cheat women out of thousands of dollars, the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Command has warned.

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Time Warner Offers New York Subscribers Free Wi-Fi (NewsFactor)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:59:05 +0000

NewsFactor – Time Warner Cable is looking to the airwaves to maintain and build its ISP business, offering more than one million New York City subscribers access to free Wi-Fi hot spots throughout the city, beginning Thursday. And in an agreement with rival Cablevision, customers from both companies will have access to each other’s Wi-Fi networks in the Tri-State area, vastly increasing the amount of available hot spots. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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PWN2OWN Hackers Take Down Browsers and iPhone (NewsFactor)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:59:03 +0000

NewsFactor – Conference organizers at CanSecWest dangled the carrot in front of hackers yet again. And hackers participating in the PWN2OWN contest targeted at Internet browsers took down the latest versions of several browsers. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Netflix Streaming Via Wii Coming Really Soon (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:00:16 +0000

PC World – It’s no secret that Netflix has been gearing up to stream movies and TV shows via the Nintendo Wii console, but now it appears the launch is near. Netflix today announced that it has shipped instant-streaming discs to some of members for testing. “Their feedback will ensure that we deliver a great experience to everyone when we launch,” writes company spokesperson Jessie Becker on The Netflix Blog. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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IE8, Safari, Even iPhone Fall at Pwn2Own Contest (PC Magazine)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:33:04 +0000

PC Magazine – The annual Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest is underway, and on the first day Web browsers fell to attack. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6.2 on 64-bit Windows 7 and Safari on OS X all were forced to run exploit code. To add insult to injury, an iPhone was cracked and the SMS database lifted from it. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:01:47 +0000

PC World – Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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AdMob: iPhone, Touch Crushing Other Smart Devices (PC Magazine)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:33:18 +0000

PC Magazine – Online ad networks have seen an increase in traffic from Android-based phones, but the iPhone remains the dominant OS, according to a Thursday report from AdMob. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Republicans Question Parts of FCC’s Broadband Plan (PC World)

Vince — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:03:09 +0000

PC World – Republican members of a U.S. House of Representatives committee objected Thursday to parts of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new national broadband plan, saying it leaves broadband carriers open to new regulation. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Oracle Enacts ‘all or Nothing’ Hardware Support Policy (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:34:21 +0000

PC World – Oracle has adopted what amounts to an “all or nothing” hardware support policy, according to a document the vendor has posted on its Web site. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Speak Up to Help Shape the Future of Broadband (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:11:20 +0000

PC World – The FCC vision for the future of communications in the United States, and its proposals for getting from where we are to where we need to be are imperative to maintaining a level playing field for business in America. The limited bandwidth is running out, and the digital divide continues to grow, and businesses on the wrong side of that divide will find it very hard to keep up with the competition. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Lawmakers Debate the FCC’s Broadband Plan (NewsFactor)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:37:17 +0000

NewsFactor – U.S. legislators examined key aspects of the FCC’s national broadband plan Thursday during testimony given by all five commissioners before the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. The urgency to move forward was emphasized the previous day by a wireless industry executive, who warned that continued investment and innovation in broadband will depend on the adoption of a clearer regulatory system. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Bing Rolls Out New Features for Spring Revamp (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:06:55 +0000

PC World – Microsoft introduced new features to its Bing search engine Thursday including Quick Tabs, an Answer box, and new mapping tools powered by Foursquare to deliver real-time data embedded in maps. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Lawmakers Offer Support for Public Safety Network (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:40:02 +0000

PC World – U.S. lawmakers plan to start implementing parts of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new national broadband plan soon by introducing legislation to pay for a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety agencies, one lawmaker said Thursday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Key lawmaker backs FCC’s spectrum plan (Reuters)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:08:51 +0000

Reuters – A key U.S. lawmaker expressed support on Thursday for a proposal by communications regulators to give auction proceeds to broadcasters as an incentive to give up some airwaves highly sought by wireless broadband providers. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Belkin Adds Apps To Wi-Fi Router Lineup (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:40:30 +0000

PC World – When is a wireless router not just a wireless router? Belkin’s answer: When it’s a total pain. That’s why it introduced four new 802.11n Wi-Fi routers, ranging from $50 to $130, that come with a set of applications designed to help you use your wireless network for backing up, playing music and movies, setting up file transfers, and speeding up important Internet traffic without having to muck around in arcane menus View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Moderates forced out of top Islam Web site (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:59 +0000

AP – The Qatari government has forced out the moderate leadership of a popular Islamic Web site and plans to reshape it into a more religiously conservative outlet, former employees of the site said Thursday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Alleged Twitter Hacker Arrested (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:42:00 +0000

PC World – French police in cooperation with the FBI earlier this week arrested a 25 year-old man believed to be responsible for stealing corporate documents from Twitter in 2009. The police did not reveal the suspect’s name, but confirmed the man operated online under the pseudonym “Hacker Croll,” according to Agence France Presse. Croll gained notoriety in 2009 after he successfully hacked into the Twitter accounts of several users including several high profile celebrities as well as gaining access to Twitter’s internal corporate documents stored in a Google Apps account. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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How the butterfly botnet was broken

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:26:42 +0000

A joint operation by researchers from Canadian security firm Defense Intelligence and Spain’s PandaLabs led to the arrest of three men in Spain earlier this month in connection with the Mariposa botnet. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet

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US newspaper ad revenue down 27% in 2009: NAA (AFP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:14:48 +0000

AFP – US newspaper advertising revenue plunged more than 27 percent last year, with both print and online registering double-digit declines, the Newspaper Association of America said.

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Study: Businesses start to embrace Windows 7

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:58:07 +0000

A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. by Ina Fried CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Suspected Twitter infiltrator: ‘I’m a nice hacker’ (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:44:08 +0000

AP – He’s unemployed and isn’t much of a computer expert. The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins — and he says he didn’t mean any harm. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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3D glasses: One for each set

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:29:17 +0000

With the coming of 3D television comes the invasion of 3D glasses. The problem is that there are no standards so they will work only with the brand of TV with which they’re shipped. by Erica Ogg CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Summary Box: AP test offers peek at China filters (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:15:29 +0000

AP – THE TEST: Associated Press reporters in Beijing and Hong Kong compared searches and other features using the Hong Kong-based Google site that mainland China and the semiautonomous territory now share. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Social media better than sex?

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:00:09 +0000

It’s not surprising that so many people rely on social media, for both work and play, every day – a statistic highlighted in the latest Retrevo Gadgetology Report on social-media usage. by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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AP test of Google offers peek at China Net filters (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:45:39 +0000

AP – Type “Falun Gong” in Chinese into Google’s search engine from Beijing, and the Web browser suddenly becomes unresponsive for about a minute. Make the same search from Hong Kong, and you’ll get plenty of links to the spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Beware the new Facebook password reset scam

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:30:57 +0000

If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a scam. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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US Senate panel clears plan for tighter cybersecurity (AFP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:19:13 +0000

AFP – A US Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill to try to tighten cybersecurity to better protect US government agencies and businesses from Internet threats.

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LHC reaches highest power levels – so far

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:03:31 +0000

The Large Hadron Collider has reached its highest power so far, taking Cern closer to its goal of using the particle accelerator to conduct experiments that will discover new physics. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Google’s deals in doubt amid spat with Beijing (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:47:41 +0000

AP – Google Inc.’s business ties in China unraveled a little more amid a widening backlash to the U.S. Internet company’s decision to move its Chinese search engine offshore in a challenge to the country’s online censorship laws.

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Growth ‘phenomenon’ in offshore services keeps India in lead

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:32:22 +0000

With its strong IT labor pool and government support, India continues to dominate the offshore services scene in the Asia-Pacific region. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Key U.S. lawmaker backs FCC’s spectrum plan (Reuters)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:18:08 +0000

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Report: Memory card exposed 3,000 phones to virus

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:03:57 +0000

Vodafone has discovered that malware found on several HTC Magic phones it distributed came from the memory cards. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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GoDaddy plans to stop China domain registrations (Reuters)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:49:01 +0000

Reuters – Internet domain company GoDaddy.com said it planned to stop registering domain names in China, joining Google Inc in protesting cyber attacks and censorship in that country. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Bad security update brings down PCs worldwide

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:35:05 +0000

A number of BitDefender users, whose 64-bit Windows systems stopped working or were unable to be rebooted after updating their security programs, vented their frustration by flooding its forum pages over the weekend. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Police release Frenchman who hacked Obama Twitter page (AFP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:20:09 +0000

AFP – French police have released a hacker who gained access to US President Barack Obama’s account in one of his attacks on the wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter, police said Wednesday.

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Browser ballot doubles Opera downloads

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:05:19 +0000

Microsoft’s browser ballot choice screen for European PCs has led to a boost in downloads for Opera, the company that prompted the investigation that led to the introduction of the feature. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet

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British parties imitate Obama in e-election (Reuters)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:57:03 +0000

Reuters – U.S. President Barack Obama’s use of the Web on his way to the White House in 2008 has inspired British political parties to ramp up their digital campaigns for a general election expected in May. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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DEMO: Visiarc streams mobile e-mail attachments

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:37:25 +0000

Newcomer Visiarc is trying to solve an annoying – accessing and sharing large e-mail attachments on underpowered devices on congested networks. by Josh Lowenstein CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Summary Box: Google deals in doubt amid China spat (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:22:03 +0000

AP – POSSIBLE PRESSURES: China appears to be quietly getting businesses to abandon the U.S. Internet giant after it moved its controversial Chinese search engine offshore. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Malware delivered by Yahoo, Fox, Google ads

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:07:06 +0000

Malware that exploits holes in popular applications is being delivered by big ad delivery platforms including those run by Yahoo, Fox, and Google. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Senators form caucus on global Internet freedom (AFP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:53:24 +0000

AFP – A group of US senators Wednesday launched a bipartisan caucus aimed at promoting global Internet freedom, saying the Web should allow free speech and not be used by governments to crack down on dissent.

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DEMO: iPhone app making for dummies

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:39:34 +0000

If you thought Apple’s App Store was getting crowded, we’ve got bad news. It’s about to get worse. by Josh Lowenstein CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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UK police asks Internet cafes to monitor customers (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:24:17 +0000

AP – Internet cafe users in the British capital may want to watch what they download. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Chinese official blasts Google

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:09:08 +0000

A Chinese official has blasted Google for “violating its written promise”, following the U.S. company’s decision to move its search traffic to Hong Kong. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Another US Internet company pulls back in China (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:54:55 +0000

AP – Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites said Wednesday they had stopped registering new domain names in China because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from their customers. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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‘Lucid Lynx’ Ubuntu enters beta

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:44:13 +0000

Canonical has released the first beta of Ubuntu Linux 10.04, code-named ‘Lucid Lynx’, which adds consumer-friendly features such as integrated social networking and a new look. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Go Daddy to China: No More Domains for You (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:29:34 +0000

PC World – Go Daddy is joining Google in its fight against China’s Internet control. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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China blocking some Google search results

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:17:45 +0000

Google has confirmed that the Chinese authorities have begun blocking certain terms from a local search engine, after the company said it would no longer censor results for those terms itself. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Will Your Next Laptop be 4G? (PC World)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:59:04 +0000

PC World – New smartphones with ultrafast 4G wireless broadband are making headlines this week, particularly Sprint’s slick HTC EVO 4G handset. But laptop manufacturers are getting in on the 4G action too. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News

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Taxpayer data at risk from IRS security flaws

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:41:37 +0000

The Internal Revenue Service’s failure to use basic security precautions makes the system vulnerable to insider threats and attacks from outside, a new government report concludes. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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After Google, another US Web firm cuts back in China (AFP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:29:07 +0000

AFP – Two days after Google halted censorship in China, another leading US Internet company, Go Daddy, said it was cutting back on its activities there because of Chinese regulations.

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China eyes 500 million web users (AFP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:58:25 +0000

AFP – A top Chinese official has said the nation’s online population, already the largest in the world, is expected to exceed 500 million in the next two to three years.

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Google Inc’s deals in doubt amid spat with Beijing (AP)

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:57:37 +0000

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UK launches space agency

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:57:22 +0000

The UK government has launched a UK Space Agency dedicated to coordinating the government’s involvement in civilian spaceflight, with responsibility for looking after policy and budgets. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Help coming for judging phone camera quality

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:56:16 +0000

The International Imaging Industry Association, a consortium involving more than 30 companies, is working on a test that will use a five-star rating and a basic accompanying chart to judge image quality. by Stephen Shankland CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Gmail to alert users to suspicious activity

Vince — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:56:15 +0000

Google launched a new feature in Gmail that will alert users when the system detects suspicious activity that might indicate the account has been compromised. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet

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Pandora has a cap 40 hours each month

Vince — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:45:37 +0000

I just got this email from Tim Westergren the founder of pandora 3:32 PM MST

What is Pandora ?

Pandora is an automated Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar.

Heres the E-mail.

Hi, it’s Tim -

I hope this email finds you enjoying a great summer Pandora soundtrack.

I’m writing with some important news. Please forgive the lengthy email; it requires some explaining.

First, I want to let you know that we’ve reached a resolution to the calamitous Internet radio royalty ruling of 2007. After more than two precarious years, we are finally on safe ground with a long-term agreement for survivable royalty rates – thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our listeners who voiced an absolute avalanche of support for us on Capitol Hill. We are deeply thankful.

While we did the best we could to lower the rates, we are going to have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are going to begin limiting listening to 40 hours per month on the web. Because we have to pay royalty fees per song and per listener, it makes very heavy listeners hard to support on advertising alone. Most listeners will never hit this cap, but it seems that you might.

We hate the idea of capping anyone’s usage, so we’ve been working to devise an alternative for listeners like you. We’ve come up with two solutions and we hope that one of them will work for you:

Your first option is to continue listening just as you have been and, if and when you reach the 40 hour limit in a given month, to pay just $0.99 for unlimited listening for the rest of that month. This isn’t a subscription. You can pay by credit card and your card will be charged for just that one month. You’ll be able to keep listening as much as you’d like for the remainder of the month. We hope this is relatively painless and affordable – the same price as a single song download.

Your second option is to upgrade to our premium version called Pandora One. Pandora One costs $36 per year. In addition to unlimited monthly listening and no advertising, Pandora One offers very high quality 192 Kbps streams, an elegant desktop application that eliminates the need for a browser, personalized skins for the Pandora player, and a number of other features: http://www.pandora.com/pandora_one.

If neither of these options works for you, I hope you’ll keep listening to the free version – 40 hours each month will go a long way, especially if you’re really careful about hitting pause when you’re not listening. We’ll be sure to let you know if you start getting close to the limit, and we’ve created a counter you can access to see how many hours you’ve already used each month.

We’ll be implementing this change starting this month (July), I’d welcome your feedback and suggestions. The combination of our usage patterns and the “per song per listener” royalty cost creates a financial reality that we can’t ignore…but we very much want you to continue listening for years to come.

Please don’t hesitate to email me back with your thoughts.

Sincerely,

Tim
Founder

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Windows 7 pre-ordering increasingly popular

Ryan Johnson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:24:10 +0000

Whether for the limited-time savings or an eager need to ditch Vista, preordering of Windows 7 has been immensely popular at certain online retailers. Amazon.com in particular has handled quite a number of orders placed for the operating system, with the majority of people buying the $49 upgrade version of Windows 7 Home Premium. As it stands, the package is ranked as number one at the retailer’s electronics products section, beating all other software and electronic gadgets on the site.

Microsoft’s pre-retail success with Windows 7 is not exclusive to the US either, with several reports around the web suggesting that demand has exceeded the company’s expected supply in Japan. As far as ad campaigns go, Microsoft hasn’t played up Windows 7 nearly as much as they did Vista, so why the demand? – Especially after such a short time since Vista’s release. Whatever each individual’s reason for upgrading is, it seems Windows 7 is off to a good start but can it keep it? That is the question people want find out.

From Friday through July 11, consumers in the U.S. will be able to buy an upgrade copy of Windows 7 Home premium for $49 or Windows 7 Professional for $99. That offer is good for both XP and Windows Vista PCs, regardless of whether someone has been trying out the pre-release version of the operating system. That matches the details in a memo from Best Buy that leaked earlier this month.

When boxed copies of Windows 7 go on sale on October 22, Microsoft plans to charge $119 for Home Premium, $199 for Professional and $219 for Ultimate. The Home Premium upgrade is down $40 from the product’s original price, although the Vista product had already gotten a price cut along the way. The Professional and Ultimate versions are priced similar to where Microsoft was with Vista. The upgrade prices apply to those moving from a previous version of Windows to Windows 7, but only those from Windows Vista will be able to upgrade without doing a clean installation of the product.

The full versions of Windows 7–the editions for those without a copy of Windows–will be priced at $199 for Home Premium, $299 for Professional and $319 for Ultimate. The Ultimate and Professional editions are again on par with their Vista counterparts, while Home Premium is down from the $239 that Microsoft had charged with Vista. Microsoft also plans to offer the operating system in an easier-to-open box.

Of course, even at the preorder price, Microsoft still finds itself undercut by Apple, which has said it will only charge $29 for Leopard users moving to Snow Leopard (those on older versions of the Mac OS will have to buy a full-boxed copy combining Leopard and Snow Leopard).

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Twitpocalypse

Ryan Johnson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:20:22 +0000

The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. The unique identifier associated to each tweet has now exceeded 2,147,483,647¹

For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to malfunction or crash.

The Tweet of the Twitpocalypse occured on 2009-06-12 23:52:04 GMT
the Twitpocalypse is still happening and its current rate is 204 tweets per second
Tweets so far
2147483649

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MMVA Much Music Video Awards

Ryan Johnson — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:25:46 +0000

UPDATE

So we got the pics of are “Official” tent on the street of Toronto

to bad the MMVA’s line got trashed and are fans didn’t get any tickets

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By Ryan Johnson editor at large

So its the much music video awards again
but this time its a little different.

How do you mean well we have some well dedicated fan’s in line over night
waiting to buy tickets
best of all they have are official
Mr.Vinux tent that we just happened to let them use
… and to do some advertising

ether way you look at it, its’ a good turn up.
and we wouldn’t want them not to have not shelter
from the scary homeless people and the rain would we?

So if you did happen to see are tent
and came to the site welcome we hope you come back and interact
with us and hope you had fun ether in line or from the comfort of your own home

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Conficker

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:16:28 +0000

Remember that virus. to be honest I think this is very interesting.
There has been viruses out there like this before like the y2k and I love you virus.
This seems to be more real why would Microsoft put a bounty on heads if it wasn’t real.

New rumors are coming that the creator is someone in china
and they are controlling the us power grid.

this seems kind of a far reach but when you think about it if china was to control the us power grid
they could shut everything down
tech head Leo Laporte thinks this to. Any more reason to think this is true.
this could be very well happening but we will see what happens I guess

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Disgusting Dominos People and Youtube

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:38:49 +0000

If anyone said to you the Internet wasn’t powerful then of course there wrong
and you should put some reality in there head.

If you haven’t already seen this you tube video of the domino’s pizza workers
Then where have you been.
this shows the real good use of the Internet.

Basically the you tube community helped to bring the two workers down who where
putting food where it shouldn’t be.
The store was shut down and sanitized and the workers where fired

It was really nice to have the president of domino’s thank the you tube community in there efforts.
They say there doing everything to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
but personally I will probably never eat there again but I rarely eat there anyway.

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Moveing From Vista To 7 Is Not Going to Be Easy

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:01:31 +0000

By Ryan Johnson editor at large

Pack your bags stay a wile because if your on a windows 7 beta right now and want to update its going to take you a long time. In sort Microsoft has remade the installation process of windows 7 and to make sure there they have made it right they are making people go back to vista and then upgrade with the new beta version of windows 7.

Quote from Microsoft

“We know many people (including tens of thousands at Microsoft) are relying on the pre-release builds of Windows 7 for mission critical and daily work, making this step less than convenient,” the company acknowledged in its blog. “We’re working hard to provide the highest quality release we can and so we’d like to make sure for this final phase of testing we’re supporting the most real world scenarios possible, which incremental build to build upgrades are not. At the same time everyone on the beta has been so great we wanted to make sure we at least offered an opportunity to make your own expert and informed choice about how to handle the upgrade.”

Of course if you happen to buy windows 7 when it is officially released you will not have to upgrade to vista then windows 7 this is just for the beta release versions.

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The MSN Virus

Ryan Johnson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:43:34 +0000

By Ryan Johnson editor at large

For the people that are no aware there is a msn virus and its a little harder to get rid of than most viruses in the wild today.

So what dose this virus do we are not sure exactly. I have seen this virus grow from user to user but when it stared I thought it was a glitch.

What it dose is it sends your msn contacts a broken link when you are offline. Then your friends take a look at what they think are pictures from a party and the virus gets downloaded from what looks like a broken page.

So how do you get rid of it. Well as of right now you cant but it doesn’t look like its doing much harm. There is no evidence that I have found of it stealing information from your computer but it very well can be. I am testing this in a virtual machine in the meantime. Some say by using a program called hijack this might stop it but I have not tested it.

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Dose Anyone Think The IPhone Or Itouch Is Overrated?

Ryan Johnson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:09:50 +0000

Some would say it is meant for the gen Y market as a lot of apple products are

.Is it the price, the fact that almost everyone has one or is it the reliability.

For me its the reliability I have had to many mp3 players and multimedia devise to know that its just reliable

Knowing the youth of to day I think it mostly a trend. If its something that everybody has than everybody is going to want it. The reason I got mine is because someone stole my Cobby mp4 player from work I will end up reviewing this later.

When I whent to the Wal-mart to buy the Itouch I found it to be a very good and reliable little devise so the answer to this is there is no answer. there is a very wide difference between why people want them but as long as they like it I don’t see why its a problem.

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Safari 4 vs. Firefox 3 vs. Google Chrome vs. Opera 10, 9.6 vs. Internet Explorer 8, 7

Vince — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:19:55 +0000

Safari 4 vs. Firefox 3 vs. Google Chrome vs. Opera 10, 9.6 vs. Internet Explorer 8, 7

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Name.com Now Offering Hosted WordPress Blogs and More!

Vince — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:14:35 +0000

(from name.com)
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vizzovps.com “Vizzo” VPS Management System

Vince — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:11:27 +0000

Reinstall, stop, start, change your hostname, or root password with Vizzo www.vizzovps.com
(still in beta)

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Ustream Live Streaming Service For Enterprises

Vince — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:26:23 +0000

Ustream is targeting this service at companies that may want to live stream meetings to employees, as well as to Websites that want to offer their own live-streaming programming and need more than what they can get by simply embedding a Ustream.tv player today.

Watershed is a cloud computing service, with pricing on a pay-as-you-go basis. Pricing starts at $1 per viewer hour for 1,000 viewer hours per month or less and scales down to $0.25 per viewer hour for streams that a reach 50,000 viewer hours per month or more. (A viewer hour is one viewer watching a stream for one hour, or 60 viewers watching for one minute, etc.).

So a live stream watched by only 30 people for a half hour would cost $15, but a stream watched by 30,000 people for a half hour would cost $7,500. I am not sure how much a comparable content delivery network like Akamai would charge, but Ustream CEO John Ham says they are aiming for a comparable price. Watershed’s advantage being that customers only need to pay for what they actually use.

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Mac Clone Psystar Can Pursue

Vince — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:51:57 +0000

A federal judge last week ruled that Psystar Corp. can continue its countersuit against Apple Inc., giving the Mac clone maker a rare win in its seven-month-old battle with Apple.
TAKE THAT!

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Planned Downtime

Vince — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:09:13 +0000

While we move this site to a new server Expected downtime is approximately 30 minutes.

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Google down

Vince — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:58:17 +0000

Well yahoo had some hit’s cause of Google.com marked every site as “Harmful”

And guess what it was…human error resulted in a falsely identified internet full of malware
WHAT!!! “…the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs”

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Say hello to Mac malware

Vince — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:47:22 +0000

Less than a week after researchers spotted new malware targeting naive Mac users, two additional titles have been spotted.

Security mavens at Mac anti-virus provider Intego say Trojan-horse software dubbed OSX.Trojan.iServices.B hitches a ride on pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac that are being distributed in warez channels. A program used to generate a valid serial number to unlock the Adobe app installs a backdoor on machines that makes them part of a botnet.

The discovery comes four days after Intego warned of a trojan that piggybacked off illicit copies of Apple’s iWork 09 productivity suite.

The trojans aren’t the only threats in the wild preying on OS X users. According to researchers at anti-virus provider Kaspersky, two new applications that claim to offer anti-malware protection for Mac users have recently been spotted. Rogue anti-virus programs have long been the bane of PC users. Now they’re becoming increasingly common on the Mac platform as well, Kaspersky researcher Sergey Golovanov says.

No doubt, the debate about security of the Mac will continue to rage, with some claiming it is a harder platform to attack compared with Windows and others saying it remains relatively unscathed only because its considerably smaller market share makes it less of a target to cybercriminals. What should be fairly well settled is the reality that these Mac-tailored social engineering attacks are now a fact of life. Like their Windows brethren, OS X users who install pirated software or are otherwise careless do so at their own peril.

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EU hits legal action against Microsoft

Vince — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:56:13 +0000

The European Commission said Friday it has begun legal action against Microsoft Corp. saying the American software giant’s practice of linking its Internet Explorer web browser to its Windows operating system violates European Union antitrust rules.

“Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice,”

the EU executive said in a statement.

It gave Microsoft eight weeks to respond to its finding, adding that it can defend its position in a hearing if it finds that useful.

Microsoft is no stranger to EU antitrust officials.

In 2004, the European Court of Justice found it had violated EU antitrust rules by trying to damage rivals for server and media player software. It fined the company more than $600 million and ordered it to offer a version of Windows in Europe without the Media Player software and to share communications code with rivals.
Good luck M$

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