Turning off unnecessary services in Windows XP can greatly reduce your exploit risk, while improving system performance. It’s a good time to inject that often there are all sorts of “download optimizers” and other cute programs that vendors like to push on users. The first rule is “If you don’t know you need it, you probably don’t.”
A minty fresh point and click using a mouse made from an Altoids can, or an uber slow drag using one made of stone. Seven of the strangest mice that aren’t available on the market.
California Assemblywoman Lori Saldana (D-San Diego) is thinking of proposing a bill into the state legislature to prevent in-game ads and spyware from being installed on user’s computers, even if the player gives consent during the installation process.
Microsoft is battling the trend for frazzled office workers to give up on Outlook and switch to Gmail: it is promising 2GB+ mailboxes in Exchange 2007 rather than the piffling 20-50MB mailboxes most workplaces have now. And it plans to make those gigs of mail available on your mobile phone.
A group of national libraries, research institutes, IBM and Microsoft has formed the PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services) consortium to avert a threatened digital black hole as electronic document file formats fall out of use and vanish.
The last six months has seen a decline in the technical creativity of malware, Kaspersky Lab head Alexander Gostev has suggested. The bad news is that even low-quality malware, is taxing the resources of security companies, since it is being detected in ever-higher numbers, he said in a recent report.
A Celebration resident discovered that the Christmas gifts he ordered were packaged using Sprint customer telephone bills.
Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings Christmas PeneloTwo days ago Square Enix decided to treat Final Fantasy fans to some special Christmas wallpapers. Last year Square Enix published some Final Fantasy XII Christmas wallpapers to celebrate the festive season, and this year they
’ve done it again but with Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings. Images inside!
Imagine coming home and, with the push of a single button, turning on the lights, turning up the thermostat and flipping on the TV. Another button might shut off all the lights and turn down the thermostat when you leave.
Earlier this week, security firm Websense issued an advisory that a worm was using Skype Chat–the Net telephone provider’s instant-messaging tool–to self-propagate. The security warning advised users to be wary of instant messages that asked for users to download and run a file, sp.exe.
SEARCH ENGINES and natural search optimizers are starting to deal with new difficulties in the crawling, indexing and measurement of Web site content. In the page-based paradigm, these activities have been somewhat direct, but challenging questions are beginning to arise as more Webmasters are beginning to employ rich internet applications.
The iPhone has arrived, but it’s not made by Apple Computer Inc., which was widely rumored to be working a cell phone-iPod combination of the same name.