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Top Ten New Features in Windows Vista
Windows Vista, scheduled for release on January 30th, 2007 has something for everyone, from tight security and stunning new graphics to some new bundled applications. In fact, there is much that this new operating system has to offer, that it will be a real test for the…
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Who Wants to Win a Trip Into Space?
Microsoft and AMD have created a collaborative puzzle game, the Vanishing Point sweepstakes, to celebrate the consumer release of Windows Vista at the end of this month. First prize? A ride into suborbital space. Given all of the news coming out of International CES in Las…
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Vista Media Center Extender hands-on
This CES was undoubtedly Vista’s coming out, but we hadn’t really yet seen what the Media Center Extender interface was going to look like for, say, your Xbox 360. We’re happy to report it looks great and works well, and we’re still way too stoked to get…
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Eliminating Spam from Your Inbox
The facts are staggering… Spam emails are estimated to cost anywhere between US$10 to $87 billion per year in direct costs and lost productivity. What’s more, 90% of computer viruses are spread by email attachments. Spam has become so insidious that every company…
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‘WoW’: 8 million served
Currently, the population of Earth is estimated to be 6.7 billion people. As of this week, roughly 0.1 percent of the sum of modern humanity plays World of Warcraft. On Thursday, Blizzard Entertainment announced that more than 8 million people subscribe to the massive massively…
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$60 to keep crapware off of a Windows PC?
Earlier today Slashdot pointed me to a CBC article citing unnamed sources at Microsoft decrying the state of “craplets” on PCs. Just what are craplets? It’s a cute nickname for all of the software an OEM installs on your new Windows PC before it arrives on…
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off. A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its…
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Google Confirms Gmail Glitch
Google revealed a glitch in what may be its second-most successful service, ranking only behind search. The company confirmed Friday that some users of Gmail, its popular email service, had their email accounts wiped out, with messages and contact information being permanently…
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Spam Slams Internet at Record Levels
An explosion of spam has security Relevant Products/Services vendors salivating over potential sales of filtering products this coming year, with levels of the insidious mail clogging inboxes expected to grow at unprecedented levels. In the closing months of 2006, the volume of…
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Microsoft adds behavioral targeting
Microsoft Corp. has started linking users’ search habits with other personal information as it prepares to show more personalized advertisements. With the use of small data files known as cookies, Microsoft can link information users provide when they sign up for Hotmail…