Eraser 5.85
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
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29.10.2007 Latest Windows 7 Updates Cause BSOD: Fix
TechARP had been providing giving updates on the Windows 7 Downgrade Rights Program. Now Microsoft has confirmed the same in a blog post, regarding the Windows 7 Downgrade rights program.
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16.4.2009 Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1%
No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in terms of its install base.
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2.7.2008 How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007Sears.com offers the cheapest desktop PC at $185
Another low-end PC hit the market today, this time it is a machine by Mirus equipped with Freespire 2.0, available at Sears' online shop for $185...
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18.01.2008Seagate Acquires EVault for $185 Million
Having developed a successful
business in hard disk drives,
Seagate moved into online
storage Thursday with the
acquisition of privately held
EVault for $185 million USD in
cash...
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21.12.2006Apple, Google hit new highs
Shares of iPod and iPhone maker Apple Inc. and search engine Google Inc. hit new highs Monday, as investors expressed ongoing confidence in the
companies' stocks.
Apple shares traded as high as $149.85 Monday after a Citi Investment Research analyst increased his price
target for the stock. The share increase eclipsed an all-time high of $148.92 that the company hit in July.
During early
afternoon trading, Apple shares added $4.85, or 3.4 percent, to $149.
In a note to clients Monday, Citi analyst Richard Gardner
increased his price target for the stock to $185 from $160 and repeated his "Buy" rating...
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24.09.200785% of Mac owners have Windows too
According to a study done by the NPD group, 85% of people who own a Mac, also own a Windows based PC in their home. Approximately 12% of homes in the
U.S. own a Mac computer, up from 9% in 2008, and out of that 12%, approximately 85% own a Windows PC. The study reveals that the explanation behind
Mac users owning both a Mac computer and a Windows PC is that they tend to own more computers. According to the NPD group study, 66% of Mac
households have three or more computers, compared to only 29% of Windows households.
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10.10.2009Oracle's $7.85 B buyout of BEA clears last regulatory hurdle
Software giant Oracle Corp., today won approval for its $7.85 billion buyout of middleware specialist BEA Systems from the European Commission,
removing the only remaining obstacle in the antitrust space to completion of the deal...
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29.04.2008Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard
Make OS X a little less smug
Its pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating
system. Unfortunately, that also included an upgrade to its crucial smugness subsystem: the image you see above of an old school CRT monitor with a
blue screen of death is actually the not-so-subtle gag icon Leopard uses to represent Windows machines on your local network. (Is it any wonder why PC
and Mac fanboys tend to get in so many fights?) Granted, many Leopard beta users have seen this icon since the early releases, but we didnt actually
think the shipping version would include something so pompous and galling to the other 90%.
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31.10.2007Beat those bluescreen blues: what a Windows bluescreen actually means
The Windows Blue Screen of Death is hated and maligned, but it's really just trying to help. Read on to find out what it's trying to tell you.
Dan Warne recently
had a cheeky dig at what
some consider to be the quintessential interactive Windows screen the blue screen of death, or BSOD.
Certainly, the unfriendly,
its all over for you vibe which every BSOD gives off has given Windows system faults a bad reputation over time. Personally, I rather like these
haiku error messages...
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20.11.2007NPD: U.S. Mac Ownership Grows, But Nearly 85% of Mac Households Also Own Windows PCs
According to market research firm NPD's 2009 Household Penetration Study, approximately 12% of U.S. computer-owning households have an Apple
computer, up from 9% in last year's study. But of these Mac-owning households, nearly 85% of them also own at least one Windows PC.
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05.10.2009Microsoft to Expand Fargo, N.D., Campus by 185,000 Square Feet, Adding Capacity for 575 More Employees on Site
New building and addition to
existing space will address
need for expansion and prepare
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29.05.2007Mil-spec computer resists heat, runs Windows XP Embedded
Quantum3D has announced a rugged, battery-operable computer aimed at video-intensive military applications. The Thermite TVC 3.0 runs Windows XP
Embedded, according to the company, and features Core 2 Solo or Duo processors and a variety of video capture and graphics options.
The TVC 3.0 comes in a sealed alloy enclosure and includes a choice of hard disk drives, including a shock-resistant, extended-temperature 80GB
unit, or solid state disks (SSDs) ranging from 16GB to 64GB. Operating temperatures range from 0 to 72 deg. C (32 to 161 deg. F) with a hard disk
drive, or -40 to 85 deg. C (-40 to 185 deg. F) with an SSD and "conformal coating" applied, according to the company.
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14.12.2007Dreaded Blue Screen of Death mars some Leopard installs
Apple support drones are getting an earful from Mac users who are getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death while trying to update to the latest and
greatest version of OS X. This
thread on an official
Apple support forum has more than 200 posts left in 25 hours at time of writing. A large percentage of the writers report getting a persistent
blue screen that forces them to abort their installation of Leopard.
Among the signs that something is awry is the following post
from a Mac user in Australia:
I've just been on the phone to Apple AU support for an hour (around half of that spent on
hold, but on-and-off as they sometimes consulted other techs), and they definitely know of the BSOD issue, said they started taking calls from 9am
Friday as the first (early courier!) deliveries of Leopard were installed, and they've been flat out, "phones ringing non-stop" since then. Implied
that Apple stateside has been swamped (as you can imagine) and they haven't been able to pinpoint the issue causing the BSOD but "they're looking
into it".
It's still not clear what's causing the snafu...
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27.10.2007Apple's head start: 85,000 apps
With the launch of Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile just over the horizon, Apple is making it clear just how much catching up Microsoft
will need to do. More than 85,000 apps are now available for iPhone and iPod touch from the Apple App store, and more than 2 billion individual apps
have been downloaded, the company
announced this morning.
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29.09.2009Building Vista Images with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) - hit a BSOD
Doug Klokow: While putting together a Vista image using MDT (RTM), I assembled a group of drivers to support a number of HP machine models. After
assembling a list of machines I downloaded a number of drivers directly from HP's website, and added them into the out-of-box drivers in MDT.
I had several machine models which were blue screening after the first reboot, and finally determined that the Blue Screen was the
result of a driver I had included to support ATI graphics for a nc6400 laptop. The HP file was
SP36487 and included the ATI video driver to support the laptop,
and also a small driver identified as a ATI PCI Express (3GIO) Filter Driver, and was accompanied by MSI which when run was identified as a North
Bridge Filter Driver.
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07.12.2007BSoD Takes On a Whole New Meaning
The definition of the Blue Screen of Death acronym BSoD may soon be replaced by a more ominous meaning, Black Screen of Death. In an e-mail sent to
Windows distributors a Microsoft representative laid out the details of what unlicensed Vista users can expect.
"Good afternoon, as of
this week, Microsoft has activated a function in Vista called 'Reduced Functionality.' This is a specific function in Vista that effectively
disables non genuine copies of Windows. Therefore anyone who has a pirated copy of Vista will experience:
A black screen after one hour of
browsing
No start menu or task bar
No desktop
Please communicate this anti piracy initiative from Microsoft to your resellers --
note this function has only just been activated in Vista worldwide and therefore any issues with non genuine versions will start to arise from now
onward."
While it isn't unusual for Microsoft to impede upon the functionality of unlicensed or falsely licensed copies of Windows,
this seems to be a new direction in regards to their stance on warning users. Typically users of unauthorized copies of Windows have been alerted to
the status of their software legitimacy via Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). The new "Reduced Functionality" approach is certainly more aggressive,
and according to the Microsoft representative, will reduce the functionality of an unauthorized Windows system to the point of being near useless
until properly licensed.
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12.09.2007Nintendo Valued at $85 Billion USD
Nintendo's diminutive, modestly-powered gaming machines have helped make it the third most valuable company in Japan, behind Toyota Motor Corp and
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group - Japan's biggest bank...
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15.10.2007Middle East Internet outages now affect 85 million
With FLAG telecom now reporting damages to the FALCON undersea cable that actually occurred on January 23, one week before the four publicized cable
cuts, experts are now beginning to paint a picture of just how expansive the disruptions have been...
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07.02.2008Scenic Ribbon UI framework to be backported to Vista with Windows 7 Client Platform Update
Long Zheng: They don't call Microsoft the platforms company for nothing. Thanks to a tip from reader Boldizsár, some
developer documentation on MSDN is indicating Microsoft will indeed be
backporting the new
Scenic Ribbon UI framework introduced in Windows
7 to its misunderstood predecessor, Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008).
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17.08.2009Microsoft Makes Largest Buy in History
Furthering the pace of
consolidation in the Internet
advertising industry,
Microsoft on Friday announced
it will acquire aQuantive for
around $6 billion - its
largest acquisition in
history. Microsoft is paying
nearly an 85 percent premium
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18.05.2007Nielsen: Sales at 85% Blu-ray and 15% HD DVD for Last Week
We all knew the
Warner announcement
would do a lot of damage, and now the statistics to back up those predictions are here. According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales numbers
for last week, the top 10 high-definition disc sellers are all Blu-ray Disc releases. More importantly, net HD DVD sales constituted only 15% of HD
disc sales last week and the top HD DVD seller, "The Kingdom," sold a meagre 10% of what the top Blu-ray Disc release, "3:10 to Yuma", managed to
sell. Of course, this can actually be seen as a success for HD DVD. The format was pronounced dead by many, and yet it’s still alive and
kicking.
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20.01.2008Oracle buys BEA Systems for $7.85 billion
At an asking price of nearly $8 billion, BEA Systems was finally talked into an Oracle buyout. But with Oracle's long history of software buyouts,
will it cut BEA -- and its many business customers -- enough slack?..
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