Archive for December 4th, 2008
Hipsters not allowed
Internet Explorer 8 will feature a user-generated list of "compatible" web sites, after trials found many ordinary surfers and major web sites can't work with Microsoft's next browser.…
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Angel spots CherryPal cloud chimera
It's small and it's real
Though some claimed it didn't exist, the CherryPal cloud PC chimera has been spotted in the wild.…
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Apple prepping $99 Wal-Mart iPhone?
Boy Genius cranks rumor mill
Every December the rumor mills begin to churn with speculation about what Apple will reveal at January's Macworld Expo. The first scintillating scuttlebutt of this year's rumor season, however, focuses not on Steve's traditional "And one more thing...," but instead on Wal-Mart's possible revival of the 4GB iPhone.…
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Python 3.0 appears, strangles 2.x compatibility
No more snake jokes. We promise
Python 3.0 is out now. The latest version makes some major changes to the popular programming language, and it's incompatible with version 2.x releases.…
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Microsoft warns customers against bogus ‘Blue Edition’ Office
Which you can buy on MSN?
Microsoft has today filed 63 lawsuits against online auctioneers in 12 countries who allegedly sold pirated copies of MS software on sites including its own MSN shopping network.…
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VoIP is coming to the iPod Touch
Is there nothing an Apple can't do?
VoIP provider Truphone has ported its VoIP client to the iPod Touch, enabling the music player to make free phone calls over Wi-Fi networks, but only to other Truphone users for the moment.…
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Booby-trapped emails fly back into fashion
Trojan assault wave takes many guises
Malicious email attachments disguised as airline ticket receipts are being spammed across the internet as part of a new attack. The assault is the latest in a series of booby-trapped email attachments, which have seemingly become fashionable among VXers again, after many months of playing second-fiddle to website attacks.…
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Microsoft to embed RSA data cop in Windows
Rights management deal
Microsoft is adopting technology from EMC's RSA security division for Windows to police data and prevent loss and theft of information.…
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AMD chip sales crashed in Q4
Shanghai'd by the meltdown
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will be disappointing Wall Street once again. But, then again, Wall Street has been particularly disappointing for the past several months itself.…
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A last hurrah: Matching info challenges with functional capabilities
What about the stuff we’re not so good at?
Over the last few articles, we’ve talked about the pain of getting information to the people that need it, and discovered that most of you don’t consider information or data management/delivery capabilities as a high priority when thinking about components to include in an application platform. Many of the comments to the articles went on to highlight information delivery as being a challenge involving people, training and processes, rather than a technical one.…
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