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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
In a rare acknowledgement from a US Government agency of a critical software security bug, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), has issued an alert about one of the critical bugs in Microsoft Windows addressed in the software company's August Patch Tuesday fixes.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
Microsoft has lifted the covers on its promised external HD DVD drive for its Xbox 360 consoles and predictably tongues have started wagging with speculation about the price.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
Last week, Microsoft flagged that there would be another 12 holes in its Windows and Office software to plug with patches today. It was just a matter of how many of them were critical. The news to hand is that most of the vulnerabilities were critical, which means someone could gain control of your computer without you doing anything if they exploited the vulnerabilities.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
Corporate network administrators beware, the Blackberry handhelds being used by staff in the field could be open doors through which hackers can penetrate your network defences.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
Developers for the Apple platform can now get access to the Mac OS X Intel kernel source and will have their own website to exchange ideas and download software tools, according to announcement at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
US-based web security provider SurfControl is currently tracking a new spyware threat that comes to users via an email written in Turkish and claiming to be from free VoIP service Skype.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
The new handheld device that everyone is talking about from Sony, the Mylo (my life online) is spot on the mark in many areas. However, there is one serious deficiency - its dependency on Wi-Fi.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
There seems to be a perception that there is a race between Apple and Microsoft to be the first to bring their new operating systems to the market. This is total baloney there is no race, no competition because the two systems don't intersect and anyway Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is already probably at least on a par if not ahead of the upcoming Vista. Leopard, when it is released, will likely be way more advanced.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
Number two x86 processor player AMD hopes to further its desktop market share by bolstering its weakest segment, the business market. Leading the charge is a deal that AMD has forged with Lenovo, which will see the Chinese PC giant release its new ThinkCentre A60 range of business desktops with AMD inside.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
Worldwide PDA (personal digital assistant) shipments totaled 3.7 million units in the second quarter of 2006, a 2.7% increase from the second quarter of 2005, according to reasearch group Gartner. This was the highest PDA shipment total of any second quarter on record.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
Fierce competition in the virtualization space has prompted Microsoft to drop plans to release a version of Virtual PC for Intel-based Macintosh computers.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
If there's one thing that Apple Computer has been able to do well over the years, it has been to break new ground and give its adoring fans what they want - a superior computing experience. With the unveiling of the Mac Pro and the sneak preview of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple appears to have once again delivered the goods.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
Google may be totally agnostic when it comes to search results. However, if one of those links happens to lead to a site containing malware the search leader will do its best to warn you from now on.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
The Australian security market is in for a boom time over the next four years according to a new report.
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