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Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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Internet Explorer, including the latest IE8 betas and the existing stable IE7, are still losing market share to its "alternative" competitors. Microsoft has been eager to push IE7 and more recently IE8, trying to convince people to use the beta browser in an obvious attempt to keep their dominance from slipping further.
Today is a bad day to be a Zune user, it seems. There are numerous reports coming in from all over about a widespread failure of Zune 30GB models locking up during boot with no ability to turn them off or reset the devices. The problems have appeared in mass quantities on the Zune forums as well as being reported by users at other sites.
Oracle, Apple, Yahoo, Intel and several others are throwing their weight behind Microsoft as it tries to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a $500 million jury verdict for infringing on a Lucent patent. In amicus briefs filed this month, the tech companies are urging the court to rein in the "entire market value rule, " which allows the calculation of damages based on the whole product, even if just one feature is infringed.
A small networking services company was recently granted a patent covering the use of representational icons in an operating system. The company turned around and sued Microsoft, Apple, and even Google, just in time for the holidays.
Miscreants are exploiting weaknesses in more than one million webpages operated by the federal government, media companies, and even Microsoft to trick unwitting visitors into installing harmful software that takes over their computers.
Windows XP was originally due to disappear from store shelves early in 2008 with the purpose of making way for Vista. However, caving into pressure from customers and computer makers, the software giant decided to extend its selling period until the end of June.
Microsoft late Monday issued a pre-patch advisory confirming a remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line. The vulnerability, publicly disclosed with exploit code more than two weeks ago, affects Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (WMSDE), and Windows Internal Database (WYukon). From the advisory.
In an interview last year following Apple's unveiling of the iPhone, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer laughed off the new device. He's not laughing anymore. Or at least, various Microsoft divisions under his rule aren't. The company released its first application for the iPhone today, Seadragon Mobile.
Security researchers are reporting in-the-wild attacks targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in fully patched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. They surfaced on the same day that Microsoft released its biggest batch of security patches in five years.
An IT class at a school in Lincolnshire will be allowed to appeal after failing their diploma because they submitted their work in the wrong formats, including Microsoft Word.
The Xbox 360 has had its fair share of problems. Overheating, firmware bricking, seemingly random hardware failures and the list goes on. One of the known issues with certain versions of the 360 has inspired an enraged customer to sue Microsoft.
The 29 students of a computing class at a school in Lincolnshire have all failed to gain their diploma because their teacher told them to save their coursework in Microsoft Word format, which is not accepted by the exam board.
More than five months after it stopped selling its Inspiron consumer desktop and laptop PCs with Windows XP, Dell is now offering the systems with the aging OS for a surcharge of $150 over the newer Windows Vista.
IBM announced a virtualized software bundle combining Lotus desktop applications running on top of Ubuntu Linux that they say is far cheaper than running Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite on conventional Windows PCs.
Via 3 sources. 12.4.08 @10:53PM -0400