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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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A new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that downloading is The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.
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.
Adobe Systems on Wednesday is taking the Linux version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) product out of beta, and bringing it up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users.
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.
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
Microsofts Windows operating system last month took its biggest market share dive in years, according to some new Net Applications statistics, with the number of Windows users surfing the web falling below 90 percent. Specifically, Windows secured 89.6% Of the global PC market in November, down from 92.4% A year before, 94.2% In November 2006, and 96.4% In October 2004.
A federal judge has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in the "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit, rejecting the company's contention that he knew nothing about changing the hardware requirements for the marketing program.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has released data regarding a fake antivirus tool that was removed this month by the company's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). However, there's more to this story than just the 994,061 pieces of malware that were removed; real antivirus programs appear to be working well.
Employees who use Vista at work are suing for overtime after their employers linked their hourly pay to the login and logout procedures of their computer. With Vista taking up to 15 minutes to boot, and 15 minutes to shut down, employees are getting shorted up to 30 minutes per day.
Microsoft today announced plans to kill its Windows Live OneCare PC care and security suite and replace it with a free anti-malware utility. The new product, code-named "Morrow," will be architected for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios or less powerful PCs, Microsoft said its surprise announcement.
After pressure from Intel, Microsoft relaxed the rules for a crucial Windows Vista marketing program, a move that let the chip maker sell older graphics chip sets that were incapable of meeting the original requirements, internal e-mails show.
AVG isn't doing well with the false positives these days. Just a few short days after crippling non-english versions of Windows XP with a botched update, the company now has another problem. The latest update of their suite is now flagging the nearly ubiquitous Adobe Flash as a malicious trojan.