Vista = Big Brother?
PC users around the globe may find driver software is stopped from working by Vista if it detects unauthorised content access. Peter Guttman, a security engineering researcher at New Zealand's university of Auckland, has written A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.
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2.1.2007 How to Restore Default Windows XP Theme
So you have installed third party theme on your Windows XP and due to some reasons your theme files are corrupted and you don’t know how to revert back to official Windows XP themes.
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22.10.2009 New Default Theme for Firefox 2
There's a discussion going on in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox about "Changes
to Fx2 Chrome" which is about proposed changes to the main browser
window structure (buttons, layout, functions) that is exposed to users
by default in Firefox 2.
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13.3.2006 Microsoft Details IE 8 Security Default Change
The company will enable DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) by default in IE 8 when running on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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11.4.2008 Microsoft Updates the Default Spy Tool in Vista SP1
In order to improve the quality of the software information collected from the users' operating systems and sent to Microsoft, the Redmond company introduced an update to the spy tool included by default into every copy of Windows Vista, following the release of Service Pack 1.
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13.6.2008 Major OEMs to enable DEP/NX in Vista PC BIOSs by default
Activewin reports that Michael Howard mentions on his blog that recently MS had all the major OEMs on campus to discuss SDL (Security Development Lifecycle).
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6.12.2006 I Run Windows 7 Big in Japan
Microsoft is in the final stages of the development process for the next iteration of the Windows client. With RTM planned by the end of July 2009 and worldwide General Availability scheduled for October 22, the Redmond company has unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7 hitting the shelves.
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6.7.2009 Microsoft: Bots a Big Problem for Windows
Malicious bots are becoming quite common, with six out of every ten computers scanned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool found to be infected, Microsoft said Monday. Altogether, the application has removed malicious bots from about 3.5 million PCs.
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13.6.2006 Internet Explorer 7 a Disappointment as Big as Windows Vista?
Is Internet Explorer 7 matching Windows Vista in the level of disappointment delivered to end users? Well, such an answer lies ultimately within you. But at the same time, IE7 has not been submitted to the same barrage of fire that Vista had to face throughout 2007.
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28.12.2007 The big Digg rig
Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites.
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5.12.2006 iPod Nano May Have Some Big problems
What some analysts have billed as the "top MP3 player this fall" may have just hit a potentially damaging roadblock - its own frailty.
Complaints have begun to circle on both Web logs and Apple's own support forums surrounding an issue with the polycarbonate plastic that covers the front of the iPod Nano. Some users claim the player scratches extremely easily, enough that it makes the screen difficult to read.
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Office Upgrades to Have Big Impact
The number of corporate PCs using Microsoft Office that have to be upgraded due to a patent-infringement settlement might not be so small after all, according to a new survey.
AssetMetrix Research Labs said 22 percent of the 600,000 corporate PCs it surveyed that run Office with Access must be upgraded with Office 2003 SP2 and a special patch.
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8.2.2006 BIG Comparison of 27 BitTorrent clients
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of BitTorrent clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
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Microsoft's Big Bet: Win Within the Web
Although the latest version of Microsoft Windows is more than six months from shipping, company brass already have christened Vista as the best and biggest Windows release since Windows 95.
The company is making bold predictions, claiming Vista will be preloaded on as many as 200 million new personal computers in the first 24 months that the product is available. Windows 95 shipped on a mere 67 million new PCs during its first two years. These numbers are important. The prospects of nearly every product Microsoft makes ride on maintaining the ubiquity of Windows, which has in excess of 90 percent of the PC operating system market. It's been five years since the current Windows version was released, and Windows XP now is looking rather dated.
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15.3.2006 Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing
Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing, Zillions? Well, millions at least.
Microsoft is ready to take the fight to Apple in the digital music market by flexing its financial muscle.
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28.7.2006 Microsoft's Last 'Big Bang' Operating System?
Despite forays into Web software with Windows Live and Office Live -- collections of e-mail, instant messaging, and Web publishing apps -- Microsoft's core franchises remain wedded to the PC.
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12.4.2006 Gates Predicts Big Technological Leaps
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.
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16.3.2008 NVIDIA Unleashes Big Bang II
A few months ago, NVIDIA announced its plans to release a GeForce R180 series of drivers meant to bring new features and technology innovations to its graphics cards.
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23.10.2008 Ballmer Analyzes Microsoft's 'One Big' Vista Mistake
Microsoft's CEO blames the company's "Big Bang" approach for leading to Vista's delays. He says it tried to do too much, too fast with all the core components.
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2.8.2006 Microsoft plans big Vancouver, B.C., software center
Microsoft announced this morning that it will open a software development center this fall in the Vancouver, B.C., area, with room for hundreds of workers.
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6.7.2007 Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
For the past few Februaries, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes the trek to Wall Street to provide analysts with an annual “Strategic Update” overview, in which he covers the areas where Microsoft plans to invest and why.
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24.2.2009 Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Vistas big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...
Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
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17.6.2008 Big review of Vista December 2005 CTP (Build 5270)
I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is. After years of painful delays and an uncertain couple of months since the last CTP, Microsoft shipped a near-feature-complete Vista build to testers this week, and the prognosis is extremely positive.
From what I can see, Vista has turned the corner. The December CTP is an exciting release, stable and full of new features. In this review, I'll examine those new features, and the features that have changed since the previous CTP, build 5231.
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21.12.2005 Windows Seven and Office 14 Just as Big as Windows Vista and Office 2007
Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cash cows.
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12.7.2007 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008Google's new interest-based ads look less like 'Big Brother' than 'big bother'
If Google's only interest in its AdSense users boils down to content categories, then there may not be that much for anyone to worry about.
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11.03.2009Symantec Tests 'Big Brother'
Data Monitor
Database appliance watches
network traffic for change in
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15.10.2005Google founders defend website after Big Brother claims
Google has tried to dismiss fears it is becoming the "Big Brother of the internet" by storing details of people's personal searches. The
founders of the world's largest search engine said that those who were worried about their privacy should be more concerned about posting
photographs and personal information on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
The company was accused of breaching privacy
after it emerged that it was planning to "read" customers' Google Mail emails to offer them targeted advertisements. However, Sergey Brin, 34,
who with Larry Page, 35, founded the company 10 years ago, said social networking sites were the "number one privacy concern".
"There
are things that end up there, especially if you are young and you are going out to parties and getting drunk and then decide to take a few pictures
and put them on social networking sites," he said at Google's Zeitgeist conference in Chandler's Cross, Herts. "These things pop up and may
haunt you for days, months or even years later. We go through a huge amount of effort to protect people's private data."
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22.05.2008‘Big Brother' database for phones and e-mails
A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the
fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans
put forward by officials.
The information would be held for at least 12 months and the police and security services would be able to
access it if given permission from the courts.
The proposal will raise further alarm about a “Big Brother” society, as it
follows plans for vast databases for the ID cards scheme and NHS patients.
There will also be concern about the ability of the Government
to manage a system holding billions of records. About 57 billion text messages were sent in Britain last year, while an estimated 3 billion e-mails
are sent every day.
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20.05.2008Google Latitude now uses location history and smarter alerts
Google is announcing an update to its Latitude service, which will allow users to see not just where they are at the moment, but where they have been
in the past. Google Latitude allows users to share their location with their friends, from either a computer or supported mobile devices. According
to articles by Techspot and Techradar, the new update will allow users to see how long they have spent in a particular area, and even replay their
previous journeys with the use of Google Earth or Google Maps, when used with Google Location History. Those concerned about privacy will be pleased
to hear it is switched off by default, and any data stored is not shared with friends.
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12.11.2009Protecting IM From Big Brother
Ian Goldberg, leading security researcher, professor at the University of Waterloo, and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol
recently gave a talk on protecting your IM conversations. He discusses OTR and its importance in today's world of warrant-less wire tapping. OTR
users benefit from being able to have truly private conversations over IM by using encryption to obtain authentication, deniability, and perfect
forward secrecy, while working within their existing IM infrastructure. With the recent NSA wiretapping activities and increasing Big Brother
presence, security and OTR are increasingly important.
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24.11.2007Will replication in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 woo IT?
With the first service pack for Exchange Server 2007 due out at any time, the question is whether or not some of its new replication features will get
IT managers to jumpstart their migrations from older Exchange platforms on to the new messaging server.
Microsoft has promised
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 for the fourth quarter of this year. The big new feature will be standby continuous replication, or SCR, which lets IT
managers replicate an Exchange Server to another location, which could then be activated if there were a disaster at the company's main location.
Exchange Server 2007 came with local continuous replication and cluster continuous replication. The LCR copies the Exchange Server
onto another location on the same server, while CCR gives IT manager's instant fail-over to another server at the same location. The addition of SCR
means IT managers will have a third copy of the Exchange Server at a remote location, although it has to be activated manually.
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11.11.2007Firefox users gain location tool
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers.
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system will allow users, for instance, to find local restaurants when they travel to a new town.
The Geode project is an experimental
add-on ahead of a full blown launch of geolocation technology in version 3.1 of Firefox.
Users will have control over how much location
information they give.
It uses technology from a firm called Skyhook which works out a computer's location from nearby wireless
networks.
Its so-called Loki system can determine location within seconds with an accuracy of about 10 to 20 metres.
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09.10.2008Google Maps launches location-sensitive Latitude interface
This morning, Google announced the availability of Latitude, a social location tool for Google Maps accessible through BlackBerry, Windows Mobile
5.0+, and Symbian S60 devices or the corresponding iGoogle gadget...
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04.02.2009Snow Leopard will know your location, via the Internet
AppleInsider is reporting that the recent build of Snow Leopard, 10A261, commonly known as Beta 3, will use triangulation features via the Internet to
pinpoint your location. Not only this, but Apple has helped developers out by including a new multi-touch framework, allowing people creating programs
for Mac OS X to make better use of the recently released aluminium MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The new location framework, dubbed CoreLocation, and
will use the same system the original iPhone and iPod touch uses to find the users' location, as, of course, many computers don't have a GPS
to make it easier.
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06.02.2009Microsoft shows off file classification in Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft's TechEd is an enterprise show, but that didn't stop the Softies from
leading off
with Windows 7 client in its kick-off keynote on May 11.
Microsoft execs didn’t totally skip over Windows 7’s big
brother, Windows Server 2008 R2 (a k a Windows 7 Server), however. Microsoft also spent part of its Monday keynote showing off some Windows Server
2008 R2 capabilities that are new to the Release Candidate test build that Microsoft made available to testers in waves over the past couple of
weeks.
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12.05.2009Microsoft and Brother Enter Broad Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement
Microsoft Corp. and Brother Industries Ltd. have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement to allow access to each companys respective patent
portfolio. The agreement encompasses a broad range of patents and will help further each companys research and development (R&D) efforts.
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05.02.2009The latest Mozilla Labs add-on ties presence to location
Mozilla on Tuesday launched another new experimental Firefox plug-in that adheres to the nascent W3C specification for geolocation APIs, and that's
built to understand and manage users' location information...
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08.10.2008Google Latitude released, share your location on the go
Google has announced that on Wednesday it will expand its current service on Google Maps to track individual user's locations. The feature will
allow SmartPhone users to share their locations with others to track user's last location, and help locate each other. With such a feature,
privacy concerns are at risk of helping predators or unwanted people finding out a users location. To combat such issues, Google has implemented a
feature where users need to manually turn the tracking feature on, while making it easy to limit access, or disable the service. Google promises not
to retain any user's movements, but the store the last location by the user on Google's computers.
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04.02.2009Google's Gears gives laptops location smarts
Google has updated its open-source Gears project so Web sites can take advantage of location services in Gears-enabled Web browsers.
The underlying technology, which used signals from cell phone towers, was initially developed so mobile-phone users could get a rough fix on their
location, even without GPS technology. Now, though, Gears has been augmented with location smarts based on signals from Wi-Fi networks so that people
with laptops also can figure out their location to within about 200 meters in many major cities.
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21.10.2008Twitter is growing up: 18 million users by the end of 2009?
The popularity of social networking sites such as the giant Facebook and its baby brother Twitter is something which can be hard to quantify in terms
of figures. Perhaps the best way to do so is to use the site yourself and see if indeed, it changes the way you live your life in the way it seems to
have changed others. Facebook for example, is particularly popular at universities where societies and organizations need a free infrastructure to
manage social and university events, it is these functions - amongst others which have rocketed Facebook into the big time.
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15.09.2009Experts: GPS alone just won't cut it for location-based cell phone services
Location-based services (LBS) -- delivered to people on cell phones depending on where they're situated at the moment -- are now on the way to
becoming more commonplace...
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14.01.2009Privacy concerns arise over Google Latitude
Google has recently been pointed out for some privacy concerns with its Latitude service, according to the BBC. Named Google Latitude, the service
allows mobile and Smartphone users to share their location with friends (although there is also a version for PC). The location of a user is
determined by the distance to the nearest phone mast, GPS, or the Wi-Fi location, depending on whether the service is being used on a mobile,
Smartphone or PC. The concern lies in how Google Latitude notifies the user of the device that it is sharing the location of the device.
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06.02.2009Google tests GPS-less mobile phone location service
The Mountain View, Calif. search company is testing out new technology that would pinpoint a users location on a mobile phone even though it's not
equipped with GPS capabilities...
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29.11.2007Microsoft Pro Photo Tools v1 Now Available
The Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth
map and then drag them to the right location.
The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device,
can load track route files from the most popular formats (NMEA, GPX, and KML) and see them on the map. Then you can place your photos on the track
route. Again, the GPS info will be stored into your file. When you have the right GPS location for your photos, you can automatically generate
location info like country, state, city and even street names. Or if you know the location where a picture was taken, you can type it in and get the
GPS location information automatically.
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