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Jul31
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EEplace ( www.EEplace.com) and Intel is having an online seminar on challenges in developing Streaming video over wireless networks. Register and you could bring home an iPod too. Catch the live broadcast on 10 August 2006, Thursday.  Time and Place : 11:00am - 12:30pm Beijing/HK/Taipei/Singapore (GMT+08:00) online at your PC!(ie. 8:30am - 10:00am at New Delhi, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm at Seoul, 1:00pm - 2:30pm at Sydney) The specific seminar topic will be "Key Considerations to Design DMA/AP to Comply with Intel Video over Wireless Technology" and its in English. Expert speakes include Gary A. Martz, the Intel Mobile Wireless Marketing Desktop Product Manager; David L Akerson, Product Marketing Engineer, Consumer PC Platform Group and Martha Su, MWG Product Marketing Manager, APAC Product & Platform Marketing Group . Its been noted on the site that this seminar is especially beneficial for those wireless router developers and network media adapters' designers. Intel continues to provide leadership toward technology standards that improve the digital home experience and help accelerate development of digital home products. This web seminar will help you to understand what the challenge today with streaming over wireless media is and what the key consideration is while developing Video over Wireless technology provides the solution. Registration URL : http://www.eeplace.com/exttp/inl060810/seminar-en.html
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Jul31
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Ahh...our friend Colbert is now a Full-Time Blogger. "Seduced by the Dark Side he is." I want to take this opportunity to wish him many successes ahead and am hoping that he will remember me when he is talking...
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Jul28
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Microsoft's Zune portable music player will let people share and sample tracks via wi-fi and owners will be able to buy tracks that are downloaded direct to the device. The first Zune player will appear in late 2006. Zune is the...
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Apple showed off its latest device: the Mighty Mouse with Bluetooth. This is a wireless Bluetooth Mighty Mouse that's been asked for since day one of the peripheral's release. By the way, for those not interested in poring over the...
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Jul27
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Tab Mix Plus is a useful Firefox plugin that enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities and I've been waiting for something like this to keep my tabs saved.It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo...
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Things are not so smooth in the Microsoft camp, now that the whole Vista thing is eating into their revenues for the next months. So they are perking things up with a new hardware design that coincides with the new...
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Microsoft Corp says IE 7 is now a High Priority UpdateMicrosoft Corp announced today that it will now include Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP as a "high priority" package in its Automatic Updates site. The company says the security...
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Jul26
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I find the process of booting Vista and OS X on a Macbook pretty suicidal. Why go on such a trip and make your life difficult when having Windows XP is good enough. Well, if you are wondering how it...
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They say technology is useless unless you have a killer app to make the day to day usage easier. But what happens when applications usage degrade due to external factors. Here's a good article where some tips, tricks and technologies...
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Windows Live Gallery is now in public beta and it lets you download content designed for Windows Live services such as media, gadgets, extensions, plug-ins to be customized and utilized your Windows Live applications. Sounds pretty nifty and you could...
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Don’t you just hate it when people get in the middle of your holiday snaps. It simply takes away the magical feeling of your photos but now, you can use the Tourist Remover software to erase that ugly looking...
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IDC had forecast PC growth of over 10 percent for the next several years but in a report released earlier this week, IDC estimates worldwide shipments increased only 9.7 percent. Overall, PC sales were strong except for Europe. This is...
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Jul25
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I did not know that the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax) has 2 main spectrums until just recently when Malaysia's Energy, Water and Communications Ministry cancelled a tender for the Wimax 2.3 Ghz spectrum. The 2 main spectrums are...
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Tsk Tsk. Its hard to trust people nowadays. Recently , a couple have been conned out of hundreds of pounds at a car-boot sale in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England. The victims visited a garage sale in Granite Way on July 9,...
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The Avery(r) Mac Label Expert is the newest desktop tool for all your labeling needs. You can create labels, cards, CD/DVD labels and more on your Mac with the Avery Mac Label Expert. Features include a new user interface, templates...
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I finally got my Microsoft Excel to run again but if it screws up again, I will need to rely on Thinkfree again, that lets me edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files online via Java Applets. Well, it seems that...
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Yahoo and Symantec have teamed up to offer internet security products to Yahoo customers at discounted rates to counter Microsoft's recent entry into the security space, undercutting former partners such as Symantec and McAfee in the process.Yahoo and Symantec said...
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Jul24
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If you ever get bored of sitting in the office while waiting for the traffic snarl to cool down, then have a look at this cool Online TV Player - TVU Player 1.5.12. It a software that enables you to...
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The new Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 is out and CRN engineers have had a field day with the new featuresl like Unified Messaging and better Outlook Web Access support for mobile devices. Administrators thinking of moving to Exchange...
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UBS PaineWebber, one of America's largest Financial Company's was ridiculed in open court today. The defense for Roger Duronio, the man accused of planting the malicious code that downed the nationwide server network, argued that the security practices and policies...
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CyberLink recently attended the first meeting of the Blu-ray Disc patent holders meeting, which was held to formulate a joint patent license for Blu-ray Disc technologies. The joint license is designed to simplify the licensing arrangements for the Blu-ray Disc...
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MySpace has launched a beta version of their new instant messaging (IM) client, MySpaceIM. MySpaceIM allows MySpace members to chat with each other without needing to be logged into MySpace. In effect it's competition with the likes of MSN Messenger,...
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Jul23
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Here's some freeware to help in your PC troubleshooting project. Getting virus or spyware attacks remedied is much easier if you have the Pure MHz Software Toolkit on hand.Pure MHz Software Toolkit is a collection of freeware applications, designed for...
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As the Cupertino based Apple profits and sales numbered soared on last Wednesday, IT World reports that Dell issued a warning on its quarterly revenues and profits.Although far from being in trouble, the world's largest PC vendor blames slowing PC...
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Microsoft last Tuesday fixed 2 bugs in relation to one of its recently released security patches and it gets pretty scary if this thing happens often. I might even want to stop updating patches in the future. That’s what...
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Conventional IT architecture assumes a one-to-one mapping between a server and an application: "This is our database server. Over there is our data warehouse, and that one is our CRM server." Each environment is sized for a peak load that...
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The Chinese Calendrics software is a tool for the study of the Chinese Calendar and with it comes great power. It can fortell a person's character, fortune or destiny....
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Jul22
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With so many viruses, security breakouts going on in corporate IT systems, it gets pretty tough to get hold of things. Activity Monitor is a surveillance software system for the real time monitoring and continuous tracking of user activities on...
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Two recently updated widgets take the pain out of keeping your software at the cutting edge. More and more apps include automatic checks for new versions, but it's still hit or miss. While MacUpdate and VersionTracker offer email notification services,...
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VoIP provider SIPphone now offers free calls to any landline in Australia, as well a 59 other countries including Canada, China, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, USA and others.The free calling offer is available through SIPphone's...
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The TechSpot blog reports that a banner ad running on MySpace.com and other Web sites used a Windows security flaw to push adware and spyware out to more than one million computer users this week. The attack leveraged the Windows...
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We are busy people nowadays. Once you get in your office, tons of emails must be replies, Excels need to be updated, etc. Well just in case you forget, here are the Top Ten Commandments for Computer Security: *...
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Jul21
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Dennis Hwang may be the most famous low profile artist in the world as he is the 28-year-old Master webmaster that designs the seasonal and funny logos that decorate Google.com's (GOOG) main site."It's always a fun kind of challenge to...
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America Online (AOL) is a huge company and now they have released AIM Pro aimed at businesses and professionals. Most people are familiar with AIM's buddy lists and text chat functions, but AIM Pro adds business features like Outlook calendar...
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Security firms are in a daze again over the latest virus to attack a Microsoft Office program. This time the virus is concealed in a malicious PowerPoint attachment that is making the rounds from a Google Gmail address. The file...
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The infamous Google Labs guys at Google Inc (goog) have come out with a new site called Accessible Search, in that it also evaluates site usability in ranking results. So basically those having vision problems like me won't have sore...
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This month sees the launch of etribes designed for busy adults without the time to maintain a traditional blog but want to share their thoughts and photos online. Wait a minute. Why still maintain a blog when you are so...
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Jul20
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YouTube maybe be a great way to uploade videos and share them but they will have a lot of headache controlling the materials on it.A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. last Friday in federal court for allowing...
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Has XenSource gone to the dark side by partnering with Microsoft to develop software that will allow computers to run the upcoming version of Microsoft's Windows server on computers that are simultaneously running Linux ? Some parties are not happy...
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India, Pakistan, Iran or China are those countries that are censoring a lot of information and the freedom of speech is an idea not taken well over there. Well, if you are from there, then fret no more. You can...
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Offline files in Windows XP can come in handy if you need to take your work home with you, but if you have any .mdb or .pst files in a folder that has been made available offline you'll get an...
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With tons of VOIP services out there, I wonder why ICQ has come so late into the playground. I've used the VOIP services of MSN, Yahoo, Jajah and Skype in the past few weeks, with Skype being the best. Now...
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Jul19
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I know that there's a conspiracy to add subliminal messages in the ads and music videos on MTV to make us into idiot box zombies but I never knew it could even come to the PC realm. The MB Free...
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This recent SANS Handler's diary post says an exploit for a new Linux kernel vulnerability has been posted. The exploit provides privilege escalation and works on all 2.6.x kernels, although SANS says SELinux stops it from working. Don't have many...
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Steven Bink says the new Vista release (Windows Vista Build 5472) from Microsoft is fast. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have any spare machine to try this demo version yet. And you can also check out tons of screenshots over...
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Persuade your friends to switch over to the popular browser, Firefox by September 15, 2006 and you will have your name displayed on Firefox 2.0, the latest version of the browser, which is slated for final released by the end...
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Who says people in IT are boring, geeky looking and are not attractive ? The Screen Goddess calendar is something that Sonja Bernhardt came up with to bring more beauty into this brainy business. However it has attracted the wrong...
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Jul18
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Want to know how Nokia leverage's their own technology on its internal structures and operations ? Find in this paper about Nokia's quest to merge People, Processes, and Mobile Technology together. See how they integrate mobile capabilities into it's daily...
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Omnipeek's Network Analyzer is one of the best wireless analyzing software around. Now they've made visualizing things much easier with a new Google plug-in.The Google Map Plug-in reads the network address of every node in an OmniPeek packet capture and...
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No one thought it could be done but the Chinese have proven skeptics wrong. A team of Chinese engineers said they have hacked the Skype protocol, and they are planning to release a third-party Skype client before end August...
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Nero makes a mean version of its disc burning program for Linux, but it can't get it working properly on Vista beta 2 for now. "As for now, there is no Nero version available which supports one of the Windows...
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Novell Inc. ships Release 10 of its Suse Linux on Monday, and it hopes this will be a catalyst for its slow growth in the last few years. Industry analysts estimate that Suse is a distant No. 2 with a...
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Jul17
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Thinkfree is a great Web 2.0 site that lets you upload, share or edit your Microsoft Office files. I've tried editing Excel and Word docs on it that runs on Java applets and its pretty nifty since my Office Application...
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Microsoft plans to give a hacker conference in Asia an inside look at new security features on Windows Vista later this year, the organizer of the event said Tuesday. The company’s commitment to show off Vista to the hacker...
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Financial sites means big business nowadays and with so many competition like Digg, Netscape and Google heating up the Internet, Yahoo does not want to feel left out. Yahoo Finance is getting a facelift today with new interactive stock charts,...
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A while back a user at my friend's office was complaining that they kept getting locked out of their MS Outlook accounts for no reason. It seemed to happened after they would open and close outlook. There were actually 2...
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This cool website - igotnewsforyou.com literally puts your name in the newspapers. I tried it out by entering my name and my wife's and it loads a e-newspaper that includes your names in the stories. It's pretty cool if you...
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Jul16
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To slipstream updates, patches or service packs means to integrate them into the installation files of their original software, so that the resulting files will allow a direct installation of the updated software. That would mean a faster installation for...
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Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner better watch out because Linux activists will be banging down his door and throwing stink bombs and rotten eggs to make his life more difficult. He’s recently had some some strong words for Google...
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This week's release of Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is seen as something interesting from the dear old Microsoft camp and Windows watcher Steven Bink has some more details and screenshots over at Cnet.According to Bink, The software formerly known...
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IBM Tivoli Security Operations Manager, announced yesterday, automates security data collection and analysis, presenting incident warnings in a real-time dashboard. By integrating network, security, identity and systems management in a single, centralized interface, it enables organizations to respond immediately to...
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Nine months ago, Microsoft and Yahoo announced interoperability between the companies' instant messaging networks and looks like its beginning to bear fruit. Beginning late last Wednesday, customers will be able to beta test the functionality by registering their accounts.The effort,...
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Jul15
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On Wednesday, the European Commission fined Microsoft €280.5 million (US$357 million) for failing to comply with the terms of a March 2004 antitrust judgment against it but the software maker's Japanese unit said it won’t dampen their spirits and the...
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Software virtualization can help your businesses leverage costs by running multiple OS and servers sessions on a single high end Server. It can also allow you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating...
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Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has rolled out a software (Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) that allows older PCs to be turned into more modern and secure systems, but in the process also makes them less than full-fledged PCs....
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Mobile operators like Vodafone in the EU are not going to like the move by the European Commission to cut their roaming charges for users by up to 70 percent. EU Mobile Operators will now only be allowed to earn...
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Early yesterday morning, a Debian GNU/Linux server (gluck.debian.org) was compromised. According to Debian developer James Troup, "we've taken the machine offline and are preparing to reinstall it." He also said an investigation is being conducted as to what allowed the...
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Jul14
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Red Hat introduces Mugshot, a 100 % open source project that lets users share music, and other entertainment-related content through online social networks, blogs, and websites. Mugshot creates a live social experience through online entertainment communities, and provides the platform...
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I just got the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for 11 July 2006 by email today. Looks like its going to keep the Microsoft people and users pretty busy with the patches here. Additionally, get the free Security Notification Service e-mails...
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This CD data recovery software is free and developed by a Russian named Ivan Komlev. It features a friendly GUI interface and it only needs three steps to copy files from damaged CD.1. Choose source drive2. Selecting destination drive and...
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I’m such a “kiasu” person whereby collecting IM logins and multiple email accounts is getting pretty much a routine for me. With so many of them on my PC, it gets pretty tiring logging in to each account just to...
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Some interesting IT security news for your perusal this week : 1. Britain to Hand over Gary McKinnon the Hacker The British government has OK'ed the extradition to the United States of Gary McKinnon, who is accused of the...
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Jul13
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Dell, the world's biggest PC supplier, has launched a new corporate blog called one2one. OK. I find the rational for this blog is probably to include some thoughts from Micheal Dell or to add humanity to the corporate stiffness....
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I subscribe to the IT Business Edge newsletter and found their latest offer quite interesting. It’s a perfect read for IT managers out there that want to stay on top of new technologies and maximize their career (and your...
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RestoreIT is an easy-to-use data recovery utility that automatically backs up all files on a server hard drive. In case of a virus attack, a Windows crash, a software installation gone wrong, or a problem caused by human error,...
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I've had done some installations on the Windows Small Business Server before in my previous Windows Engineer job. It was much easier than the full blown version of SQL, Windows Server and Exchange since the interface is quite easy...
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Advanced WindowsCare is a novel PC care tool that takes an integrated approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. It provides an One-Click and all-in-one solution for PC maintenance and protection. Compared with its nearest competitor, it...
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Jul12
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Here’s another one of those social worthiness done by Microsoft’s icon – Bill Gates, who recently went the with the former United States President Bill Clinton. (why is he hanging around with the intern loving ex-president, beats me?). Bill says...
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The Firefox developers are not sitting on their laurels and watch Internet Explorer 7 grab their market share. They’ve got the new Firefox 2 Beta 1 out and its a developer preview made available for testing purposes only. Firefox...
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VMware Server is one of those software that’s pretty useful. It utilizes server virtualization technology that can make multiple instances of servers running different OS on a single box. In other words, VMware Server enables companies to partition a...
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Don’t reboot your Vista PC yet. You’re getting another good fix to solve Vista memory hogging from the good old MS guys in Redmond again but this time make sure your machines are running at least 512 Megabytes of...
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The redesigned Netscape.com portal by the infamous Weblogs Inc CEO, Jason Calacanis seems to be getting a lot of flak recently. With its design and concept similar to Digg, there's nothing much to go on it. Its old supporters...
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Jul11
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The new Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 RC Release is already out and now let's look at some interesting stats on Firefox's market stats. Firefox's current 12.93 percent market share is up from 11.51 percent in November 2005, while Internet Explorer...
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Microsoft is planning to shake up the CRM industry by rolling out a hosted CRM Solution called Dynamics CRM, version 4.0, by June 2007. The rationale behind a Microsoft-hosted choice? "I think Ballmer's sick and tired of Microsoft getting its...
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I know there are a lot of Web 2.0 Services and Websites out there in the Internet universe but I did not know that there's one been born an hour like baby rats. Phew ! There's seriously a lot of...
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US and Canadian Skype users can now make free International SkypeOut calls to the UK, Mexico, and Japan for three July weekends. Darn, I wish I staying in USA. Well at least I can still call my friends in...
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Consolidating your IMs is a cool thing nowadays. You have websites like eBuddy, Meebo, e-Messenger getting into this business but is there really a way to make money from it ? Since most of this sites rely on AJAX, I...
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Jul10
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Here's some big things lined up for the Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Boston July 11-13, 2006 : 1. Microsoft announces on July 10, four new partners—Atos Origin, Infonizer, TXT e-Solutions and WellPoint Systems for its Microsoft Industry Builder initiative....
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This white paper is a good read on how to manage and prevent your IT systems from becoming an IM attack statistic. But you'll need to register on the site first. This paper provides a concise look into how an...
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Check out the recent IT Leadership academy survey of 300-plus first-level IT executives (those who report to the CIO), second-level executives (who report to the first level) and third-level executives. I'm sure everyone agrees that a good leader is like...
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"Let it Happen". That's exactly what Eric Schmidt the CEO of google mentioned during a Stanford University Event last march. According to Schmidt, Google's auction-based pay-per-click advertising model is inherently self-correcting. Schmidt's scenario for what would happen if Google did...
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Steve' Bryant's blog states over at eWeek, that there are versions of the new browser available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X even though the official announcement isn’t expected from Mozilla until later tomorrow Finally, the new Firefox 2.0...
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Jul 8
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The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has deemed 2 Lexar USB drives as a "Burn Hazard" and ordered it to be returned to Lexar. The product recall involves 66000 Lexar JumpDrive FireFLy and 1GB Secure II drives which could...
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Jul 7
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Looks like the EU inquiry into RFID privacy issues is still ongoing and after talking to the industry leaders about the potential uses for RFID, they are looking to the public's view now...Go have a say if you think that...
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Time is your most valuable resource. Do you know where you spend it? Are you wasting too much time tracking it or your projects ? Try Timeless Time & Expense to keep your projects manageable and you'll save some hair...
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HD Moore, the hacker behind the Metasploit toolkit which is widely used wants you to know that your browser is not 100% secured. He will post one browser vulnerability per day for the month of July and calls it the...
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I've been on the internet for sometime now and I just to remind you all of how dangerous it can be out there in the wild wild west of the Internet frontier. Here's some Internet Security Tips on the PC,Server...
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Google seems to be doing a lot of things right now. How do they do it ? Well, one is the “20 percent time” rule in which they're free to pursue projects they're passionate about. This freedom has already produced...
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Jul 6
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A PC's BIOS is the basic software residing on any PC and notebook's motherboard and you can enable a password on it for higher security. On PCs, the BIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen,...
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Check out the OpenOffice.org Computer-Based Training by OO.cbtOO.CBT is an online training portal developed for OpenOffice.org 2.0 users and Resolvo Systems has launched the beta version of this training portal free for all as part of their contribution to the...
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I can't believe my eyes. Is Microsoft getting soft ? Back in May 2006, they took a swipe at the Open Document Format (ODF) and said they'd rather have XML or starve to death. Microsoft's XML file format of choice...
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Is the digital photos you took some time ago on your honeymoon still on your PC ? Its time to dig them out and print them. DVDs and CDs won't last as long as physical copies.The Goodgearguide guys have an...
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Darn. I hate Microsoft. They are making too much money and not giving me a cent. I used their products almost daily and they don't pay me to be their ambassador. What a dump. And now you might even see...
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Jul 5
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Thanks to Lifehacker, I know now that there's a good tutorial on Paypal's site that guides you on spotting clever fake Paypal emails that asks for your password or login name. I don't have a problem with this. Whenever I...
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If you are interested in an Evangelist position over in the Windows Mobile team (my fav!) then you should pay a visit to Microsoft's Loke Uei blog to get more information about open positions within their group. I'm still waiting...
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HP's Bangalore Centre is having a typical problem with the weather. When it floods, no one can reach their Bangalore Call Centre. No one in the Call Centre can then pick up the calls. And I can't believe HP's redundant...
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The last time I used OpenOffice was back in 2002 when I was undergoing my Red Hat Certified Engineer course. Here was a free open source software that could read MS Word and Excel files. Excellent indeed albeit the occasional...
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The folks down at google had more than a mouthful of pizzas when Cambrian House showed up at the internet search facility with more than a thousand pizzas in tow. June 30 was Google's so called un-official "Google Day". I...
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Jul 4
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For anyone who's ever tried to check their email on PDA whilst barreling down the highways, it's quickly discovered to be quite difficult, if not dangerous. So iLane has unveiled a new device that's unique, safe, and very cool to...
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Those who simply can't wait for the official release of Microsoft Office 2007 should visit the Test Drive site to try it online. Don't expect it to be a souped up Ajax site since its simply a remote session connection,...
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Here's another great password manager after the previous AI RoboForm v6.7.3 Pro.Dekart Password Carrier 2.0.2 is a secure web form filler and password management tool that provides easy one-click login to web sites from USB drives. With Password Carrier and...
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China, the sleeping dragon of Asia has just had its famous computer firewall broken into by the Cambridge research group. They may have convinced Google to censor certain materials on its website but its looks like they may have to...
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Jul 3
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Doing business in the EU is no child's play and when you want to play dirty, then you better make sure your coffers are full. If we are talking about Microsoft , then 2 million Euros a day is just...
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Armjisoft.com is offering a free tool for Digital Rights Management in PDFs. Its called PDF OwnerGuard and its Freeware with the License Code on the page. The download size is 3168K, it even supports Vista and you can limit printing...
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Recently, my wife's new IBM laptop was getting slower than a turtle. A look at the Task Manager showed that rapimgr.exe was running around 80% of the CPU time and the CPU load was 100%. So a quick check on...
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Nice little application by Intel if you don't already know your Intel CPU specs, or if you want to check if the specs are really what that suspicious salesman told you they were.Intel Processor Identification Utility was developed to identify...
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Here's another interesting report on how junk email or spam can make money for those smart enough.Junk emails that encourage you to buy certain shares or stocks are quite effective, according to German researchers. As for me, I normally deleted...
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Jul 2
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IT and Business process outsourcing (BPO) is big business. TransWorks from the Indian Aditya Birla Group is reversing a normal business trend by acquiring a North American company for $125 million. It is usually the other way around for a...
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Lifehacker has a good read on how to work from home and get things done. I admit its not an easy thing to do as I work from home quite often too. The bed next to me looks very comfortable...
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The Remote Queue Manager Professional 3.4 is an interesting print queue manager as it has 2 features that I've never seen. One is the Print Preview Tool that lets you view the print jobs running and see what will be...
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The World Cup 2006 is big business for a lot of people. They've had Sony sponsoring notebooks to the England Club and even a few thousand Toshiba notebooks running at the FIFA IT Command Centre. Apart from being a logistics...
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If Unisys gets the $50 million passenger processing systems and border security contract from the Australian Immigration Department, you'll need to wash your face and fingers before you can enter Australia. Using Unisys' facial and fingerprint authentication technology, Australian Immigration...
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Ed Bott's blog at ZDNet quotes a Microsoft insider who allegedly says that the latest instalment of WGA, to be released in a few months would actually disable your Windows altogether :He told me that "in the fall, having the...
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I never knew Symantec had a Online Security Checking service. I was surfing around to find a website to scan my ports for security holes as I've just bought a new Netgear 54Mbps Wireless ADSL Firewall Modem Router. The Online...
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freeCommander 2006.06 is a great piece of software that looks like the default Windows File Explorer. One big difference is that you can just copy the installation directory onto a CD, USB-Stick or even a floppy disk and it works...
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Everyone loves the word free and here's some free web seminars for Linux engineers interested in embedding Linux systems into micro processors and chipboards. TimeSys Corporation helps embedded developers to create their own custom Linux platforms, targeting all significant processor...
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Lifehacker has a cool run through and screenshot tour of the features in the Windows Vista Beta 2. Its really pretty and I love the My Computer shot as it now shows the remaining disk usage in a Apple...
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