Image gallery: Windows 7 tips, tricks and tweaks
Testing out the Windows 7 beta? Here are a handful of ways to make it act the way you want.
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A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL?
Start-up Kickfire is unveiling a MySQL-based appliance boasting proprietary chip and software technology that it claims delivers high-performance data warehousing out of the box.
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Microsoft sets Office 2007 SP2 release for April 28
Microsoft has set April 28 as the release date for Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2), the first update to the company's popular application suite since December 2007.
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Microsoft fends off Google with Web browser-friendly Exchange 2010
Microsoft said it would release a public beta of Exchange Server 2010 on Wednesday, and said the final version of its flagship communications software would be released by year's end.
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EBay plans Skype IPO next year
EBay plans to spin off Skype via an initial public offering (IPO) because the Internet telephony unit doesn't mesh with the company's two other businesses -- e-commerce and online payments.
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Intel offers firmware upgrade for SSD performance problem
Intel has released a firmware upgrade for its X25-M consumer-grade solid-state drive to address performance slowdowns related to disk fragmentation issues.
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Privacy rules hamper adoption of electronic medical records, study says
A study finds that strong laws protecting the privacy of health care data are hampering the adoption of electronic medical records systems, although privacy advocates beg to differ.
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UC security: When the shoe won't fit, compress the foot
If your security model is location-centric and depends on keeping things separate, how do you respond to a disruptive technology like unified communications? This is a pattern that keeps repeating in many different areas: the security paradigm looked good until a technology comes along, changes the assumptions and reveals the inadequacy of the model.
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Mozilla ponders dropping Firefox support for Win2k, early XP
Mozilla developers and execs are considering dropping support for Windows 2000 and the earliest versions of XP when the follow-up to Firefox 3.5 ships in 2010, online discussions show.
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Google preps next version of Android
Developers will now be able to take a look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform, Google announced on Monday via its developer blog.
Read More ...10 Expert Ubuntu Tricks
These tips aren't Ubuntu-specific, but they've been tested on Ubuntu, and I can't guarantee they'll work on other distros. You might already know about some or all of them, but resist the temptation to gloat about this in the comments.
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Microsoft opens virtual desktop options
Changes Microsoft has made to its desktop virtualization licensing give enterprises more options, a Forrester analyst said in a recent report.
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Microsoft Allowing Windows 7 to XP Downgrades – Smart or Stupid?
Several sources have reported the news from Microsoft that “Windows XP Downgrades Allowed with Windows 7.†Is that smart of Microsoft to allow the same downgrade option for Windows 7 they reluctantly agreed to for Vista? Does this mean Microsoft executives expect Windows 7 to get the same hostile reaction that Vista received? Or are Microsoft executives becoming more concerned about the happiness of their customers?
Read More ...Microsoft's Patch Tuesday filled with zero-day exploits
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday arrived with a nasty twist, as six of the 23 vulnerabilities spread among the eight patches are already being threatened by exploit code in the wild.
Read More ...Conficker group says worm 4.6 million strong
Security experts say that the Conficker worm has infected an awful lot of computers, making it the largest "botnet" of hacked computers on the planet. The thing they can't seem to agree on, however, is exactly how many people have been hit.
Read More ...Microsoft fixes Excel, carpet-bombing security flaws
Microsoft released eight security updates Tuesday, including fixes for known Excel and WordPad bugs, for the largest patch release so far this year.
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Security vendor Marshal8e6 buys Avinti
Security vendor Marshal8e6 will buy Avinti, a company which specializes in behavioral technology that scans e-mails and tests malicious content.
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Top 10 tech investments, according to survey of CIOs
Information security leads list, CIO survey shows
Read More ...Amazon says listing problem was an error, not a hack
Amazon disputed a prankster's claim that it was hacked and said that a cataloging error caused gay and lesbian books to be delisted from the site.
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Password Stealers Sit on Popular Download Sites
You might already know that it's easy for the bad guys to buy malware kits and ready-made digital nasties on black market Web sites. But some tools are even easier to pick up, such as a blatant IM password stealer available on a major download site.
Read More ...Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord
Trend Micro Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products that put the focus on Trend's cloud-based architecture and its partnership with systems-management vendor BigFix.
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Twitter attracting techie labs
Vendor, university and government labs and research operations on Twitter.
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Mozilla ponders dropping Firefox support for Win2K, early XP
Mozilla is considering dropping support for Windows 2000 and the earliest versions of XP when it ships the follow-up to Firefox 3.5 in 2010, online discussions show.
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IT pros prefer old XP over new Windows 7, survey says
IT administrators are more willing to stay with the devil they know, Windows XP, than risk the devil they don't, even if the latter is the highly-touted Windows 7, a research company says.
Read More ...Turning Off Disk Defragmenter May Solve A Sluggish PC (Part 2)
After months of troubleshooting why my otherwise blazing PC was suffering from inexplicable (and temporary) slowdowns, I discovered the culprit: Disk Defragmenter.
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Windows XP reduced-support phase begins Tuesday
As planned, Microsoft Corp. will drop Windows XP out of what it calls "mainstream support" Tuesday, the company confirmed Monday.
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Judge kills class-action status in 'Vista Capable' suit
A federal judge late Friday refused to restore class-action status to the Vista Capable lawsuit, handing Microsoft Corp. its second major victory in the case in the last two months.
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Ultramobile PC maker OQO seeking buyer
Struggling to stay afloat during the recession, ultramobile PC maker OQO is seeking buyers, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Read More ...Intel profits slump but future looks brighter, CEO says
Intel on Tuesday reported a sharp drop in revenue and profit for the first quarter, but the company's CEO said the PC industry is showing signs of recovery.
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VMware to debut new hypervisor April 21
VMware on April 21 will release highly anticipated vSphere software, the next generation of its flagship virtualization engine, according to VMware business partner Unisys.
Read More ...Cisco 'could' announce 10% layoffs, analyst predicts
Forecasting a significant drop in revenue for the fourth quarter, a J.P. Morgan analyst Tuesday reported that Cisco Systems Inc. "could" announce a 10% workforce reduction soon, equal to about 6,600 employees.
Read More ...Job ad: Microsoft looking to offer Windows Mobile updates
Just days after customers complained on a Facebook discussion about the lack of software updates to Windows Mobile phones, Microsoft published a job ad for a developer who will build an update process for the operating system.
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