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  • News: Windows Vista hacks set to be revealed

    Joanna Rutkowska, a Windows security researcher, is to demonstrate new ways for hackers to invade Windows Vista, including rootkit techniques and ways to defeat BitLocker drive encryption.

  • News: Microsoft dismisses Office 2007 security goals

    Unlike Microsoft executives who have predicted that Windows Vista will be hit by far fewer vulnerabilities than its predecessor, the developers who crafted Office 2007 won't set a security target.

  • News: BBC iPlayer coming this year

    The BBC has announced the forthcoming release of an on-demand service called iPlayer that will enable computer users to view BBC television shows after they're broadcast. BBC iPlayer is Windows-only, though the company has been asked by the organisation that oversees it to make iPlayer Mac-compatible.

  • News: Longhorn Server becomes Windows Server 2007

    Microsoft will tag its next server software, now codenamed Longhorn, with the prosaic ‘Windows Server 2007’, according to a document on the company's site.

  • News: Microsoft Silverlight goes open source

    Microsoft has broadened the developer base and programming capabilities for Silverlight by adding dynamic language support to an alpha version of the browser plug-in technology.

  • News: Reuters software picks good & bad news

    Thousands of news articles each day are piped by Reuters into financial-services firms and other businesses to help them make decisions. Now Reuters has also come up with a way to machine-read this content and rate it as ‘good’, ‘bad’ or ‘neutral’ as it relates to the subject of the story

  • News: Mattel develops BarbieGirl MP3 player

    Mattel has created an MP3 player that looks like a doll and can be transformed into live characters at BarbieGirls.com.

  • News: 5 ways to tackle cyberstalkers & blog trolls

    Anyone who has participated in the blogosphere in the past two months knows the troubling story of Kathy Sierra, a prominent blogger who was the victim of online threats that included violent sexual acts and murder. When the harassment spread beyond her own blog to two others that were affiliated with other prominent bloggers, Sierra became so terrified that she cancelled an upcoming speaking engagement and took a hiatus from blogging.

  • News: Who benefits from unlimited webmail storage?

    As webmail providers continue their years-long race to increase their inbox storage, some users are cheering them on, while others question whether the dream of unlimited storage has become counterproductive.

  • News: Nintendo to boost Wii & DS software sales

    Nintendo said that it hopes to double its annual software sales of the Wii and DS consoles to 300 million units.

  • News: ICANN releases top-level-domain toolkit

    The group that oversees the internet's address system has released a toolkit for website designers and application developers to fix problems caused by recently added internet addresses.

  • News: Google fixes Personalized Home Page

    Google has finally solved a technical glitch on its Personalized Home Page service that rattled an undetermined number of users.

  • News: Yahoo buys RightMedia to tackle Google

    Yahoo will buy the remainder of online advertising exchange Right Media for $680 million in stock and cash, Yahoo said today.

  • News: iTunes movies coming to Europe

    Apple plans to offer films for sale through iTunes before the end of the year, a senior Apple executive has claimed.

  • News: Google Desktop 5 speaks 29 languages

    Google has taken a step closer to being able to search everything: its desktop search application is now available in 29 languages, including Hindi, the company announced.

  • News: Europe to tidy up online music "mess"

    Providers of online music services in Europe should benefit from a new one-stop licensing system aimed at simplifying the complex process of obtaining music distribution rights across the continent.

  • News: New Sony site takes on YouTube

    Sony has launched a YouTube competitor in Japan on Friday that allows users to share videos and blog about them.

  • News: Google users furious at Home Page glitch

    Users of Google's Personalized Home Page service, which lets people turn Google.com into a customised portal, is suffering from a significant technical problem that loses people's settings

  • News: Scratch cards for $3 XP & Office bundle

    Microsoft won't rely on its usual antipiracy software to block counterfeit copies of the just-announced $3 bundle of Windows XP, Office Home and Student 2007, but it will build a new system based on scratch cards, the company said.

  • News: Apple's Mac OS as vulnerable as Windows

    Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi sent a shudder through the Mac community last week when he successfully hacked the Mac with an exploit that he sent to a friend attending the CanSecWest security conference