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Publié: février 20, 2009, 11:17pm CET
What really, really looks like a release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 -- which first entered beta in December -- is officially being called an "update" this afternoon, after Microsoft declined to give it a more formal title.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 9:18pm CET
Delivering on a campaign promise made in 2006, Rhode Island's General Treasurer Frank Caprio has made the state checkbook available to the public in an easily comprehensible online format.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 8:39pm CET
A Friday amusement for the design-interested kicks off in about 30 minutes, as the latest iteration of Layer Tennis gets underway. The live artists' face-off begins at noon PST; the artists at the epicenter are Mitch Ansara and Rod Hunting, with play-by-play commentary from Matthew Baldwin.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 8:12pm CET
Although Apple no longer seems immune to the PC industry sales slump, analyst figures released this week don't actually show the entire sales picture.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 7:25pm CET
Comcast began the rollout of its wideband DOCSIS 3.0 network in October last year, promising an elevated 50 Mbps speed ceiling for 10 million homes in the northeastern United States.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 5:59pm CET
An independent security research firm is warning of a non-ingenious JavaScript buffer overflow ploy that modern Web browsers would probably filter out, but which impacts recent versions of Adobe Reader for PDF files.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 5:28pm CET
This week, NBCU/News Corp. joint venture video service Hulu removed its content from CBS Interactive's TV.com without specifying a motive, just like it did with Boxee earlier this week.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 10:39am CET
Kim Zetter over at Wired's Threat Level blog has a tremendous feature story up today concerning the work of the Open Security Foundation, a volunteer organization that keeps track of data breaches big, small and smaller.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 10:27am CET
No one reasonable thinks that our armed forces' cybersecurity isn't regularly at risk from The Bad Guys. On the whole, the various service branches have been working recently toward a reasonable balance of security and access. So how badly do you have to mess up, Maxwell-Gunter AFB in Montgomery, Ala., to get your entire Internet connection taken away?
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 6:39am CET
Yahoo celebrated the fifth anniversary of its own home-brewed search engine this week, and to mark the occasion they're folding multimedia ads into the sponsored-links mix -- a big step for the company's ad program.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 5:18am CET
Dell's new Inspiron Mini 10 netbook is pre-orderable from the QVC consumer shopping site about a week before Dell starts taking advance orders on its own Web site.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 12:40am CET
A brief interlude, security-minded readers, to brighten your day, as Guerilla CISO Michael Smith explains how Everything He Needs To Know About Security, He Learned From "Ghostbusters." Many information-security personnel could do a lot worse.
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Publié: février 20, 2009, 12:10am CET
The giddiness continues over Palm's upcoming Pre handset, as attendees at a Mobile World Congress demo this week saw the much-anticipated handset running a version of Google Maps and an offline-ready Gmail entirely coded in HTML 5. And running them well, apparently.