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Internet Explorer 8 to Feature Anonymous Browsing
Internet Explorer 8 to Feature Anonymous Browsing
One feature that has raised eyebrows among Web professionals is called InPrivate Browsing. According to Microsoft, this tool allows users to control whether Internet Explorer stores their web browsing history, and keeps cookies and other information. This feature in particular it is troubling to many in online marketing, as the use of cookies, or small informational files that are stored on the users computer, have become an important part of tracking the use of products and services online.
Internet Explorer 8 will also feature a Delete Browsing tool, which helps users to control their browsing history immediately after visiting a web site that gathers user information. The downside of this feature is that it could easily become quite annoying. These days, pretty much every web site online collects statistical user information. Most of this information is used only for statistical analysis of web...
Price reduction on retiring exams (and VS/SQL upgrade exams)
Price reduction on retiring exams (and VS/SQL upgrade exams)
Complete your Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), or Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) certification or upgrade your certifications to Visual Studio 2005 or SQL Server 2005 with a 40 percent automatic price reduction on retiring and upgrade exams. The price reduction is valid on:
1. All exams scheduled to retire on March 31, 2009
2. Upgrade exams from MCAD and MCSD to Visual Studio 2005 and from MCDBA to SQL Server 2005 MCITP... you benefit from the shorter upgrade path AND you get set up for another upgrade path to 2008
This is not an offer, meaning you dont need a code or voucher or anything. To get the reduced price, you just register like usual with Prometric at any worldwide location. Across the board, all of the exams listed below will be priced 40% less than the normal price, permanently. Were...
802.11r - R is for Rapid
802.11r - R is for Rapid
802.11r ratification is the most important standard to hit the Wi-Fi industry in a long time - yes, even more important than 802.11n. 802.11i was sorely lacking - giving us only fast roam-back (to an AP to which your client was previously associated) and preauthentication, which is slow and rarely supported by WLAN infrastructure providers. In the absence of a standard, many WLAN infrastructure vendors (Motorola, Colubris, Aruba, Cisco, Meru, etc.) have been using Opportunistic Key Caching (OKC) - also called Opportunistic PMK Caching. Both the client device and the WLAN infrastructure have to support this for it to work, and on laptop computers, that gives us only Microsoft's WZC client and Juniper's Odyssey client. While both are popular, they don't represent the entire industry - not even half when you consider how many appliances like VoWiFi phones there are in the market.
Now that 802.11r is upon us, I predict (read:...
Linux sales dip as corporates buy more mainframes
Linux sales dip as corporates buy more mainframes
Sales of Linux-based servers decreased by 1.8% over the year, the first time this operating system has suffered a dip in revenue since the first quarter of 2002, according to analyst IDC's second quarter EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker 2008.
Beatriz Valle, research analyst at IDC, said, "Corporates have been replacing their legacy systems and they have not been migrating to Linux x86 servers." Instead, she said enterprise users have been buying scalable Risc and Itanium-based hardware and mainframes.
The sales figures also show that IT directors are struggling to make the most of whatever budget is left over at the end of the year. Sales of high-end servers and IBM z-series mainframes were particularly high, suggesting that IT directors in major companies used their remaining budget in the last quarter of 2007 to buy mainframes and other high priced server hardware.
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Microsoft buys web comparison site Ciao for search strategy
Microsoft buys web comparison site Ciao for search strategy
Microsoft plans to integrate e-commerce website Ciao into its search engine to accelerate its search strategy following failed talks with Yahoo.
Ciao, sold by Greenfield Online for $500 million, is an online shopping site. It provides product reviews and price comparisons. It has over 25 million unique visitors every month.
John Mangelaars, vice-president consumer and online at Microsoft EMEA, said the company is looking for ways of improving its Live Search in Europe following Microsoft's failure to acquire Yahoo.
"Yahoo was a way of accelerating our search strategy. We will find other ways to accelerate it and this is one example," said John Mangelaars.
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-Ken
Survey: IT staff would steal secrets if laid off
Survey: IT staff would steal secrets if laid off
Computerworld UK Most IT staff would steal sensitive company information, including CEO's passwords and customer details, if they were laid off, according to a new survey from Cyber-Ark.
A staggering 88 percent of IT administrators admitted they would take corporate secrets, if they were suddenly made redundant. The target information included CEO passwords, customer database, research and development plans, financial reports, M&A plans and the company's list of privileged passwords.
The research also revealed that, of that 88 percent, a third would take the privilege password list to gain access to valuable documents such as financial reports, accounts, salaries and other privileged information.
Identity management firm Cyber-Ark conducted the survey of 300 IT professionals in its annual review 'Trust, Security & Passwords'.
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Microsoft reveals more details about DirectX 11 tesselation
Microsoft reveals more details about DirectX 11 tesselation
Tesselation and GPGPU help new DirectX go one louder than previous versions, but there#s still no idea of release date
Nvision 2008: Microsofts Kevin Gee revealed more details of its up-coming update to DirectX during a talk at Nvidia's Nvision show. After plenty of pre-conference chat about the non-event that was DirectX 10, Gee went into some technical detail on how DirectX 11 will benefit games.
The overall goal of DirectX 11 will be to ease the workload of current GPUs and of game developers. To achieve these goals, new types of shader are being added to the API, including a hull shader and tessalator domain shader, in addition to the compute shader which has been mentioned previously.
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-Ken
Black screens for pirate copies of Windows
Black screens for pirate copies of Windows
Owners of non-genuine copies of Windows XP will get a black background instead of their wallpaper every hour, as well as a translucent watermark
In a bid to deter people from using pirate versions of Windows, Microsoft is now updating its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool to introduce a few uncomfortable niggles for users of pirated versions of Windows.
On the WGA blog, Microsoft explains that if a copy of Windows fails the validation process users will discover on their next logon that their desktop has changed to a plain black background from whatever was there previously. Youll be able to change the background back to whatever you want, but it will revert to a black screen again after an hour. As well as this, copies of Windows deemed to not be genuine will also have a translucent watermark above the system tray, which Microsoft calls a persistent desktop notification.
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iPhone security flaw exposes private data
iPhone security flaw exposes private data
A security flaw in Apple Inc's iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way. Popular technology blog Gizmodo and an online forum run by the Mac Rumors site showed that it took only three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which run the latest 2.02 iPhone software. A spokeswoman said in an e-mail that Apple was aware of the problem and was readying a software update to fix it. In the meantime, she recommended users set the iPhone's "Home" button to open up the phone's iPod music collection rather than the phone's "Favorites" menu.
From news.yahoo.com.
Microsoft's newest browser may block ads
Microsoft's newest browser may block ads
SEATTLE (AP) _ The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.
Companies that sell advertisements online -- including Microsoft -- can electronically gather tidbits about Web surfers' habits, and then use that information to help decide what kinds of ads to show. However, in the newest "beta" test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 8, which was made available Wednesday, a mode called InPrivateBrowsing lets users surf without having a list of sites they visit get stored on their computers.
The program also covers other footprints, including temporary Internet files and cookies, the small data files that Web sites put on visitors' computers to track their activities.
Both Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's current browser, and Mozilla's recently released Firefox 3, already allow users to block cookies. The top two...
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