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The Office Live Workspace sweepstakes introduced on March 3, 2008 have come to an end. Microsoft announced that David Austin, a graduate student, is the winner of the $100,000 grand prize. The sweepstakes provided a way for Microsoft to attract attention and build an initial user base for the online Office service de... |
23 June 2008
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Since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China on May 12, hackers, spammers and fraudsters around the world have been attempting to exploit the tragedy in their own unique way: by developing new earthquake-related attacks which could trick vulnerable users and steal their information or get inside their computers. Toda... |
22 May 2008
02:28 GMT |
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A new beta version of OpenOffice, the famous open source alternative to Microsoft Office, was officially rolled out. OpenOffice 3 Beta 1 comes with several new functions supposed to be included in the final version of the application, scheduled for release in September 2008. Among the new features, one of the most im... |
8 May 2008
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The study of the origin of the languages is one of the most complicated disciplines. Since ancient times, people have attempted to explain it via legends like the Tower of Babel and similar stories from the Central American, African and Indian mythologies. Researchers have tried to count how many languages are spoke ... |
8 April 2008
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Windows is by far the most used operating system in the world, and as a direct result, it is targeted the most by cyberattacks, that take advantage of any flaw they might find. Microsoft is regularly issuing updates that patch the security liabilities, but the software company cannot keep up with the rate at which th... |
24 March 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The latest attacks targeting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's software products have steered clear of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. And despite the fact that the Redmond company touted security advancements when it introduced SP1 for Vista, available as of March 18, the fact of the matter is that neither Windows V... |
24 March 2008
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The lexica is currently expanding and it's only natural, with the progress always comes change, no matter which level it is on. Words come out every day and the key to that is, as I see it, the huge numbers of people speaking the respective language that have direct access to new opportunities of approaching a s... |
7 January 2008
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This has started to get a little bit too much for me to understand. I understand that new words are being invented daily and I understand why, the world is in a process of continuous evolution and so forth. I even understand how the Internet speech has come to be the need to be, or to think you are a step ahead of ot... |
12 December 2007
08:15 GMT |
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You really have to check this out. Amazon has just introduced a revolutionary portable reader that allows its users to download media content wirelessly in less than a minute, as well as receive newspapers, magazines and blogs, automatically.The portable device uses a high-resolution paper display that looks and read... |
20 November 2007
06:21 GMT |
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The Open XML file format, debuted concomitantly with the launch of the office 2007 System, and is currently on its way to becoming an ISO standard, a detail that would position it as a direct alternative to OpenOffice's Open Document Format. In this context, Microsoft announced a new initiative designed to serve... |
14 November 2007
06:24 GMT |
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Most people babble a few words and imagine that a grammatically incorrect and wrongly pronounced enumeration of words means they 'can speak a foreign language' such as Spanish or French. And here comes this primary school boy speaking 10 languages besides English. Arpan Sharma, 10, from The Blue Coat School... |
6 November 2007
06:32 GMT |
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I guess some of you are sick of just reading "do this, patch that to stay secure" with explanations written in such a techie language that you do not understand a thing. Well, I'm now going to explain nice and simple why it's important to patch Microsoft products. If you've read the recent news or have... |
12 October 2007
03:12 GMT |
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Moving from vulnerabilities to patches and then to the ensuing exploits is a natural order of security evolution for Microsoft products. And the company's monthly patch cycle comes only to confirm this trend. In the aftermath of the security bulletins issued on October 9, 2007, exploits appeared targeting an ini... |
11 October 2007
03:42 GMT |
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets comes as the best freeware alternative for Microsoft Word and other text processors, being accessible straight from the window of your browser. All you need is a Google account and you're ready to go. Obviously, numerous users turned to Google Docs & Spreadsheets in the detriment of th... |
29 August 2007
02:49 GMT |
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The traditional wisdom says that women talk all day long while men, like the real wise a*ses they are, will share a bit of their precious knowledge when the right moment comes... But a new study made on 400 Mexican and American university students, aged 19 to 25, strongly disagrees on this idea, revealing that men an... |
6 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Not a hacker? No problem! Not even technically skilled? Again no problem. "2007 Doc Binder" will do all the work for you! Exploiting vulnerabilities across Microsoft products has never been easier! According to Symantec, the number of samples for Trojan.Mdropper.X is through the roof. Usually, the case is that a malw... |
5 April 2007
05:38 GMT |
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Few weeks ago, while surfing the ocean of knowledge (WWW), I found an interesting article on writing. It was said that the first writing system is believed to have been invented both in Sumer (a region in Asia) and Egypt in the late 4th millennium BC. Ever since, improving writing and written form has been a main con... |
27 March 2007
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