Scams on the Internet never cease to amaze me. Some of them are sophisticated, some subtle, and some are just downright absurd.
I’d recently discovered a mailbox that I had left unattended for several years. It had no anti-spam tool monitoring it, so it was mostly filled with really obvious spam messages and phishing attempts [...]
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When Google first released the 0.1 version of their Gears browser plug-in back in May 2007, I thought for sure it would be only a matter of a few months before we saw web applications taking full advantage of an offline mode, maybe a year at max. I think I may have grossly underestimated [...]
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IBM announced a new SaaS offering for collaboration at their Lotusphere 2009 conference, dubbed LotusLive. There appears to be three main offerings to LotusLive: Networking and Collaboration, Web Conferencing, and LotusLive Email services – which appears to be a version of Lotus Notes in a web-based format.
According to the company press release:
LotusLive is [...]
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Microsoft is still in the process of testing Office 14, which will likely coincide with the next release of Exchange Server. Microsoft already offers a hosted version of Exchange 2007 for some customers, but the next release of Exchange Server, currently known as E14, will include improvements to make Exchange Server more suited for [...]
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As was expected by most, Microsoft announced the availability of the public beta of Windows 7 at CES 2009 in Las Vegas today. If you’re a TechNet, TechBeta or MSDN customer, you can download the Windows 7 beta today. The rest of us can get our copy of the Windows 7 beta for free [...]
As was fairly widely reported, Windows XP will be getting an extra 4 months to live. The previous cutoff date for computer manufacturers to pre-load systems with Windows XP was Jan. 31st, 2009. That date has now been extended by Microsoft to May 30th, 2009. This means you’ll still be able to purchase a [...]
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Microsoft has released an off-cycle patch for a previously known vulnerability in Internet Explorer which would’ve allowed virus and malware writers to infect computers via specially crafted XML files. The flaw, which exists in all versions of mshtml.dll from Internet Explorer 5.01 up through Internet Explorer 8, could allow an attacker to run arbitrary [...]
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