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Letterman, McCain on way back to Washington

September 26, 2008

David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign

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Techie Talk

September 25, 2008

Robert Half Technology, a California-based staffing company that provides information technology professionals, asked 1,400 CIOs nationwide for the most unusual queries their help desks/technical support team had received. Their responses included: * “Why isn’t my wireless mouse connected to the computer?” * “My laptop was run over by a truck. What should I do?” * [...]

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ASC Public Workshop 2009

September 21, 2008

The Anti Spyware Coalition’s next meeting is….. Edit: Oops, it hasn’t been announced yet.  Thanks Corrine for pointing out I was looking at the 2008 agenda.  *blush*

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There will always be an England

August 29, 2008

Maybe not the one people have fought for over the centuries… A council yesterday admitted using laws designed to track serious criminals to spy on a family for nearly three weeks to find out if they were lying about living in a school catchment area. The council used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) [...]

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Pakistan’s telecoms regulator lifts block on YouTube

February 26, 2008

After removal of what government officials deemed a “blasphemous” video clip, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has lifted the ban on YouTube, owned by Google, Inc. CNN.com

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YouTube recovering from Sunday’s blackout

February 25, 2008

In an effort to block video-sharing website “YouTube”, Pakistan first ordered ISPs to block the site, followed by a more specific BGP route announcement for the block of IP addresses that YouTube uses. This resulted in YouTube traffic being routed to Pakistan and creating a YouTube blackout for two hours. According to reports from the [...]

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Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers

February 12, 2008

Update to Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) release In my blog post on the subject, I noted that we were going to make SP1 available to customers in stages to make sure we delivered a great experience. As I explained, one reason for this is that we are working through an [...]

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Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) release

February 4, 2008

Announcement at the Windows Vista Team Blog Here’s the timing for SP1 availability for current Windows Vista users: In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com. Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1. [...]

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Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo!

February 2, 2008

PressPass REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 1, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would [...]

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Spybot-S&D version 1.5.2 released

January 30, 2008

Anti-spyware program by Patrick Kolla and Team Spybot. Spybot-S&D 1.5 has quite a lot of advantages over version 1.4: improved compatibility, more effective detections and new functions. Between all the positive feedback we received, there were also some things that needed to be improved: the immunization sometimes needed to be applied twice before sticking, many [...]

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