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Stolen passwords, credit card information and personal e-mails were in abundance at a botnet hacked by University of California Santa Barbara researchers earlier this year. The Torpig botnet, like many others, quietly infects Windows computers and harvests personal and financial information. In a project intended to assess the damage, the researchers [...]
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The best thing to happen to Microsoft’s public relations in years, Windows 7 is more than just spin. The latest official update to what some are calling the largest shareware trial period ever introduces more than mere bug fixes as the operating system upgrades from beta to release candidate. The Windows [...]
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Xerox today launched a new series of pricey office printers that use solid ink instead of cartridges. With prices starting at $23,500, the ColorQube 9200 series is obviously targeted at high-end corporate users, and is designed to significantly reduce the cost of printing color pages.
The Xerox Phaser 8400, launched in 2004, [...]
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The South Carolina attorney general gave the management of the Web site Craigslist 10 days to remove postings that he said are pornographic or that encourage prostitution, or face a possible criminal investigation.
“It appears that the management of Craigslist has knowingly allowed the site to be used for illegal and [...]
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Acer has apparently run into to problems with U.S. network operators and will delay the launch of the Windows Mobile phones announced earlier this year. The Tempo Series was originally projected to land in the U.S. by the end of 2009. While Acer wouldn’t offer a target date, the [...]
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FaceBook is the largest social networking website on the Internet while Microsoft is… the developer of Windows software including Windows Mobile. However, Microsoft’s OS didn’t feature an official application for FaceBook therefore users who own handsets based on Windows Mobile couldn’t enjoy the whole FaceBook experience on their beloved devices. Well, [...]
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Microsoft has agreed to buy the privately held online gaming company BigPark for an undisclosed sum.BigPark’s team of game developers will be brought into Microsoft gaming division to work on an exclusive Xbox 360 game, the company said. BigPark, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has already been working with Microsoft on the game [...]
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The Hubble Space Telescope is about to get one last house call. And never before have the risks been higher.
On Monday, astronauts will rocket away to the most famous telescope of modern times. They’ll be taking up new scientific instruments, replacement parts for broken cameras and fresh batteries that should keep [...]
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The Guitar Hero franchise – which has sold more than 25m units around the world in just four years, and breathed new life into some bands’ repertoires that had seemed dead – is to be expanded with two new titles, DJ Hero and Band Hero, which its maker hopes will build [...]
