tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86627412011-12-15T08:34:46.258+05:30<b>Life in pixels</b>sikandarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1133799867435937602005-12-05T21:53:00.000+05:302005-12-05T21:54:27.700+05:30

Ant wrote to mention an examination at C|NET looking into the increasingly more effective techniques employed by phishers. From the article: "More recently, however, a hybrid form of phishing, dubbed "spear-phishing," has emerged and raised alarms among the digital world's watchdogs. Spear-phishing is a distilled and potentially more potent version of phishing. That's because those behind the

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Lorelle on WordPress » Secret Out - How Google Ranks Websites explains what Google uses to rank your website on their search engine, according to their patent made public back in March.

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1132766274655074062005-11-23T22:43:00.000+05:302005-11-23T22:48:21.393+05:30

The Trusted Download Program is backed by America Online, Yahoo, CNET Networks, Verizon and Computer Associates. The program is set to begin early next year in a trial version, when the Internet partners will get access to a list of applications certified by online privacy watchdog group Truste, according to a statement from the companies. (CNET Networks is the parent company of CNET News.com.)

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Hackers have developed proof-of-concept code that attempts to take advantage of an unpatched Windows vulnerability to crash systems, Microsoft warned yesterday. Fortunately the risk of attack is low.The experimental code shows it's possible to knock over machines running Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000 SP4 in certain configurations by taking advantage of flaws in Windows memory allocation

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1129571539951833912005-10-17T23:18:00.000+05:302005-10-17T23:22:19.960+05:30

Heavy news consumers -- junkies to less sympathetic friends -- have access to thousands of free sources and millions of stories, as Web search, aggregation and syndication tools grow more powerful.But, despite the sophistication of news reading tools, the search for relevance remains a disjointed, cumbersome affair, lacking in context and often ending in information overload.On Monday, closely

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1128318799645493342005-10-03T11:19:00.000+05:302005-10-03T11:23:19.646+05:30

Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers — something rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve.The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1128318554788831032005-10-03T11:15:00.000+05:302005-10-03T11:19:14.796+05:30

It's no fun to go into the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) and discover that a bunch of mysterious processes are running on your PC. You may ask yourself how much of this stuff you actually want running. Or more seriously, if anything running on your machine is doing harm.Even if you run a firewall, use up-to-date antivirus and anti-spyware scanners, and maintain strict download discipline

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1127997060618164602005-09-29T17:56:00.000+05:302005-09-29T18:12:22.443+05:30

In the bitter war of words between Google and Yahoo over search-engine index size, Google has decided to give its latest answer in the form of a question.The company said yesterday that it had phased in a larger index over the last four weeks. But rather than directly proclaiming that it had surpassed its archrival Yahoo, which last month claimed index supremacy, Google said it would ask Web

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1126804335163594952005-09-15T22:39:00.000+05:302005-09-15T22:42:15.170+05:30

The internet company Google appears to be on another winner with the launch of a service that allows users to search the blogosphere for the latest weblog postings on any subject they choose.Google Inc is already a major player in the weblog market through its purchase two years ago of the start-up Pyra Labs and its Blogger service that allows computer-users to set up their own personal sites in

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1123480948317051292005-08-08T11:31:00.000+05:302005-08-08T11:32:28.326+05:30

A proof of concept virus security company F-Secure described as a "first Vista virus" doesn't affect the operating system at all, Microsoft had said.The exploit that the security expert describes targets a new command shell technology called MSH that is currently under development under the codename Monad.Contrary to what F-Secure suggested, MSH won't be part of Windows Vista, a spokeswoman for

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Microsoft's newest operating system in beta only a week, but already leaky.An Austrian hacker has earned the dubious distinction of writing what are thought to be the first known viruses for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. Written in July, the viruses take advantage of a new command shell, code-named Monad, that is included in the Windows Vista beta code. But Microsoft saysThe viruses

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1123178975804580312005-08-04T23:38:00.000+05:302005-08-04T23:39:35.810+05:30

Yahoo is testing a new search-engine feature that will pore through millions of songs offered by popular internet music services like iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster.The free service, available at Yahoo Search, boasts an index of more than 50 million audio files, including newscasts, speeches and interviews posted online, as well as the internet's deepening pool of "podcasts." The index identifies

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1123042958704946622005-08-03T09:50:00.000+05:302005-08-03T09:52:38.706+05:30

A pair of browser plug-ins changes how passwords are transmitted and detects phishing sites. A pair of Stanford University computer science professors unveiled today a new password scheme designed to thwart phishing at bank and other sites where a user's identity and money are at risk. Dubbed PwdHash, the technique involves hashing the user's password with the domain name of the site in a way

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1123041887862726442005-08-03T09:32:00.000+05:302005-08-03T09:56:05.306+05:30

Call it the battle of the blogs. Yahoo is testing a system that will let it place ads on Web sites of bloggers and other small- and medium-size publishers, a market that was created and is dominated by Google.Yahoo will invite 2,000 sites to take part in the test, beginning today, and will open the system to blogs and other publishers by the end of the year.Two years ago, Google reached out to

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Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Programme has been cracked only days after the software giant activated the antipiracy scheme. Since the service went live on Monday (25 July), Windows users wishing to receive software updates from the Microsoft Download Centre or from Windows Update were obliged to join the WGA authentication program.Users are prompted to download an ActiveX control

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So now we know. Microsoft's next operating system will not be called " Longhorn" - the codename under which it's been developed - but " Vista". The video of the official naming ( www.microsoft.com/winme/0507/25234/Win_Name_MBR.asx; naturally, it requires Windows Media Player) tells us that "using Vista will, at last, enable you to: sit in front of a computer, show someone your tablet PC, show

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As part of a recent expansion of their original contract to publish Lord of the Rings games, EA has announced two new Lord of the Rings titles to light up the PC and PSP.EA will once more be responsible for presenting Middle-Earth apparently. The publisher announced this morning that they had officially been granted the rights to publish and develop titles based in JRR Tolkien’s fictional

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1122335224858458552005-07-26T05:14:00.000+05:302005-07-26T05:17:04.866+05:30

MSN released a first beta of its MSN Virtual Earth technology this weekend. The beta integrates MSN local search results with satellite imagery provided by Microsoft-Research-developed TerraServer-USA, along with MSN's MapPoint functionality..Interested testers can access the beta version of the service at http://virtualearth.msn.com.MSN Virtual Earth features include:# Satellite map views on

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Microsoft has announced the name of the next version of Windows due to replace the aging Windows XP. The company says that the next version, which until now has been known only by its code name 'Longhorn' will be called Windows Vista.Microsoft has also announced that the first publicly available Beta 1 of Vista will become available by 3 August 2005. This initial release will be aimed primarily

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1122295218619906332005-07-25T18:09:00.000+05:302005-07-25T18:10:18.626+05:30

EMC Corp., the world's biggest maker of data-storage computers and software, will introduce what it calls the fastest, highest-capacity machines as it seeks to stay ahead of International Business Machines Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.EMC unveils the DMX-3 line of computers today at prices of $250,000 to several million dollars, said David Donatelli, EMC executive vice president of storage platform

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1121712842350585462005-07-19T00:22:00.000+05:302005-07-19T00:24:02.360+05:30

Anti-virus firm Sophos has launched a service that notifies organisations if any of their PCs are taken over by hackers. The ZombieAlert Service is designed to automatically notifies subscribers about exploited and hijacked computers on business networks.Trojans such as Phatbot are often used to seize control of Windows PCs, turning them into zombie clients in networks of compromised PCs (botnets

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1121682208835051712005-07-18T15:50:00.000+05:302005-07-18T15:53:28.843+05:30

Problems in the Remote Desktop Service could allow attackers to knock machines running Windows XP Service Pack 2 offline A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP could let an attacker remotely crash computers.The flaw affects the Windows Remote Desktop Service, which lets users access their Windows PC from a remote location. An attacker could remotely

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1121623347633945932005-07-17T23:30:00.000+05:302005-07-17T23:32:27.643+05:30

Microsoft is to launch a beta release of their next version of the web browser Internet Explorer sometime later this year. Earlier the company had plans to launch Internet Explorer 7 version only in their next operating system release currently codenamed Longhorn though pressure from the Open Source Browser Mozilla Firefox seemed to have changed their strategies.Now, that the beta release is

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1115741449073291162005-05-10T21:34:00.000+05:302005-05-10T21:40:49.113+05:30

Google refuted rumors it was hacked on Sunday, following a 15 minute downtime.Google's search utility and many of its secondary services were all down from 6:45pm until 7:00pm ET this past Saturday. But the downtime of course made many wonder just what really happened.Google moved quickly to allay its users' fears. "Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time. We have

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1114449696199371152005-04-25T22:49:00.000+05:302005-04-25T22:51:36.200+05:30

A hacker has created a virus that targets music lovers by deleting MP3 files on infected computers, according to antivirus company Sophos.The worm, dubbed Nopir.B, spreads over peer-to-peer networks and appears to have originated in France, security researchers at Sophos said Friday.Nopir.B is designed to look like a DVD-cracking program, to fool people looking for a program that will circumvent

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Microsoft group VP Jim Allchin realizes the rest of us may need help sorting out what's so special about Microsoft's next-generation operating system. So the 15-year company veteran has come up with his own list of Longhorn highlights."There's so much in Longhorn, it's hard to figure what are the things that are just over the top that people will appreciate," Allchin said in a recent interview.

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When Advanced Micro Devices created the Opteron, the Sunnyvale company devised some clever designs that caught rival Intel by surprise, analysts say.Intel's Itanium chip focused on 64-bit performance, crunching data in chunks that were twice the size of those processed by standard 32-bit microprocessors. But the Itanium was incompatible with 32-bit software. AMD, on the other hand, designed the

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XML is becoming the great enabler for E-commerce. Years of proprietary and expensive connections between companies are being replaced by XML transactions over the Internet. But while companies use XML to exchange goods and currency at unprecedented rates, the information is at risk from virus attacks.Two vendors on Monday will try to reduce such threats by combining antivirus software for XML

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1114241800238669142005-04-23T12:55:00.000+05:302005-04-24T00:36:08.023+05:30

Blinkx has improved its Web and PC search software's Smart Folders by turning them into an online content distribution tool and allowing users to share them, the company announced this week.The Smart Folders functionality, introduced last November, automatically populates topic folders in users' PCs with documents the Blinkx tool collects from users' hard drives and from the Internet.For example,

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Database-intensive applications are the next frontier for Linux, but those applications need to be ported to the open-source operating system.When that happens, Linux will become the operating system of choice for many users. But this requires the cooperation of the ISV community, who are still being pushed along this path.Strong adoption growth is also in the cards for this year and next with

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An Insider's View Of Longhorn's Top Features Linux's Next Frontier:Database-Intensive Apps

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Better security and the automatic scaling of Web pages to fit screens of any width are among the features included with a new browser released by Opera Software ASA on Tuesday.In version 8 of Opera, a security information field automatically starts when a user visits a secure Web site, indicating the level of security on a scale of one to three and showing who owns the security certificate.This

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Google Inc. is experimenting with a new feature that enables the users of its online search engine to see all of their past search requests and results, creating a computer peephole that could prove as embarrassing as it is helpful.Activating Google's "My Search History" service, unveiled Wednesday afternoon at http://labs.google.com, requires users to create a personal login with a password.

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A computer-assisted proof of a 150-year-old mathematical conjecture can at last be checked by human mathematicians.The Four Colour Theorem, proposed by Francis Guthrie in 1852, states that any four colours are the minimum needed to fill in a flat map without any two regions of the same colour touching.A proof of the theorem was announced by two US mathematicians, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1113539756267600332005-04-15T10:02:00.000+05:302005-04-20T11:53:33.176+05:30

A new Search Engine has arrived combining the feautures of google and yahoo.This is more than the Yagoohoogle.com which was started as an april fool joke.This is developed and being maitained by an Indian(my classmate) living in hyderabad doing his MSIT at JNTU Hyderabad.YaGoo

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The Planet Blocks up to One Million Internet Attacks Per Hour with the World’s Most Advanced Intrusion Prevention SystemDallas, TX - The Planet, the world's fastest growing Web hosting company, announced today that the recent deployment of the TippingPoint 2400 Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is helping the hosting giant block hundreds of thousands of attacks per hour at its datacenters. The

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Internet technology developer NetScaler (netscaler.com) announced on Monday that it had launched AppTune, a technology that accelerates application delivery regardless of protocol, client type or user location. NetScaler develops integrated networking devices that combine load balancing with application acceleration technology. With AppTune, network administrators can adjust the configuration of

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The US Army will by June deploy in Iraq its "Matrix" system of remotely-detonated landmines, despite widespread concerns about the technology. The Mosul-based Styker Brigade will, according to Yahoo! news, be able to control individual devices from a laptop via a WLAN set-up. The Army reckons Matrix will eliminate accidental deaths caused by dumb landmines. Critics say otherwise.Following

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1113311063756941452005-04-12T18:31:00.000+05:302005-04-12T18:34:23.756+05:30

A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system.A DoS attack can be perpetrated in a number of ways. There are three basic types of attack: 1.

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Two prominent Web sites that specialize in remote access software known as rootkits have been taken offline by a large distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The take-down was allegedly ordered by a shadowy group of hackers and rootkit authors who took offense at criticisms of their software posted on the sites.The programs are powerful spyware tools that, when combined, enable remote

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Google Launches Personal History FeatureGoogle exposes web Surveillance CamsAdding Persistent searchs to G-MailGoogle speeds up Firefox searchesUse Google Search your Way

sikandarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662741.post-1113221897604810112005-04-11T17:45:00.000+05:302005-04-11T17:48:17.606+05:30

Yahoo launches Contextual SearchYahoo 360 takes Spin throughYahoo has slight edge among desktop search programs

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New Antivirus-Firewall Combo Protects XML TrafficThe Planet's IPS blocks AttacksDenial of service attacksBagle Worm BackHackers Soon to hit their LastDNS based Phising Attacks on the Rise

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Microsoft Probes Anti-Spyware Trojan

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Opera Software Upgrades Hacker DefensesAll Browsers but IE at Risk NowGoogle Speeds up Firefox Searches

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Blinkx Smart Folders Get Smarter New Antivirus-Firewall Combo Protects XML Traffic Computer generates verifiable mathematics proof AppTune, the application tuner Learn about and make Windows XP work your way...

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Clever design gives AMD edge over Intel New Search Engine(YaGoosearch)'Matrix' laptop triggered landmineSecurity web sites fall to ddos attackRadio 'Freak'uency ID: The next big thing after InternetSex and the single RobotWireless Network Smashes World Speed RecordTrack Your E-MailCutting Edge Animation Of Polar Express Maya Graphics Package

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Imagine being away from home, clicking on the mouse to know the exact contents of your fridge, even the expiry date on that ice-cream tub in the freezer. Or being able to track down that stolen wristwatch within minutes and having the key to every possible information about any product that you have bought. This is what Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are all about. This technology,

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To Find Free MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, and Other Music FilesPeople leave music files in unprotected directories all of the time. Here's how to get to them.We all need music. If you properly query google, you can find open indexes of music files easily. Here are some hints to get you started.Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3Using this string we are using the "index of" and the inurl

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One more Firefox vs IE IssueIf you are using a Firefox (or other Mozilla-based) browser, you will be in for some pretty handy Google speed increases. Google has a feature whereby when you key a search term into Google it often has a pretty good idea of what it is you are looking for. This will be enhanced for Mozilla-based browsers, where Google will anticipate your selection and "prefetch" the

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No longer is search just about finding stuff on the Internet.The battleground has moved to individual PCs as leading search companies develop free tools for cataloguing your computer.Of the three desktop search programs, the Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. products differ slightly in how they approach your data, while the Google Inc. alternative diverges quite a lot.Which one is right for you

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Yahoo is stepping into social networking and blogging, with a new service that promises to offer a simpler way to keep in touch with people. Dubbed Yahoo 360, the new service is accepting invitation-only beta testers for now, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web giant said Wednesday. The test will be opened to a broader audience on March 29.Yahoo 360 combines a new blogging tool along with several

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Phishing fraudsters are using a pair of DNS exploits to help give them the illusion of credible domains, the latest ploy to dupe people into handing over their sensitive information. According to research firm Netcraft, phishers have begun to use wildcard DNS records to help trick unsuspecting users into giving up information about their identity. Wildcard DNS help users arrive at their intended

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As told by the creator....Persistent searches (a.k.a. smart folders or saved searches) seem to be the feature du jour of email clients. Thunderbird has them, Evolution has them, and Mail.app soon will. On the other hand, Gmail is the web mail app to use. While one doesn't normally think of web apps as having such advanced power user features, it recently occurred to me that it should be possible

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Microsoft is investigating a piece of malicious code that targets the recently released beta version of its AntiSpyware product. On Wednesday, antivirus company Sophos reported a new Trojan horse, dubbed "Bankash-A," which suppresses warning messages displayed by Microsoft AntiSpyware and deletes all of the files in the program's folder. The Trojan also steals passwords and online-banking details

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Scientists have made them walk and talk. There are even robots that can run. But a South Korean professor is poised to take their development several steps further, and give cybersex new meaning. Kim Jong-Hwan, the director of the ITRC-Intelligent Robot Research Centre, has developed a series of artificial chromosomes that, he says, will allow robots to feel lusty, and could eventually lead to

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Yahoo is offering a new search service designed to help people find more-relevant content online. The Y!Q service offers "contextual" search that analyzes the page being read and gives a list of related search results. Instead of starting a search from a text box, a person would search while reading a specific page. For instance, a reader looking at a news story about the State of the Union

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Blogs and message forums buzzed in the second week of january with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge. Searching on certain strings within a URL sniffs out networked cameras that have Web interfaces permitting their owners to view them remotely, and

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A new world record has been set for transmitting data across a wireless network, claim researchers in Germany. A team at Siemens Communications research laboratory in Munich, have transmitted one gigabit (one billion bits) of data per second across their mobile network. By contrast, the average wireless computer network can send only around 50 megabits (50 million bits) of data per second. The

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Anyone who sends an email or bids on eBay with a niggling fear about privacy may soon be able to relax. Programmers have made a major breakthrough in their quest for a totally secure computer network by turning to Star Trek-style physics that would bamboozle the sharpest hacker. Quantum cryptography is the ultimate example of small-is-beautiful technology: information is encoded at the subatomic

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Antivirus companies warn of new Bagle variants. New versions of the Bagle worm rolled onto the Internet today, prompting antivirus companies to warn customers about the threat and to push out software updates to spot the new worms. Three new versions of Bagle have been seen by antivirus companies, each similar to earlier forms of the worm, which first stormed onto the Internet in January,

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I run Windows XP on my computer, and I have to say that despite some drawbacks, there's a lot to like about the operating system. If you're an XP user like me, I bet you'd like to tweak Windows XP to suit your needs. Now, you can. I've found three programs at ZDNet Downloads that let you bend the OS to your will. Whether you want to improve XP's performance, change its appearance, or customize

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Imagine that you sent an E-Mail to your friend.Whatever happened to that email you sent? How long did it sit in someone’s inbox before it was opened? Or maybe they never got it? Was it even opened at all? www.didtheyreadit.com helps you know these details. When you use didtheyreadit, every e-mail that you send is invisibly tracked without alerting the recipient. But when they read your message,

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If there's any doubt that the future of movie technology is reaching new heights, that should be dispelled by the end of the year, when Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's prizewinning storybook The Polar Express takes a new approach to computer animation. Two years ago, Hanks picked up the movie rights to Chris Van Allsburg's book, which he regularly read to his

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Maya is a high-end 3D computer graphics software package used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games. Maya comes in two main versions, Maya Complete (confusingly, this is a cut-down version) and Maya Unlimited. Maya Unlimited used to be considered too expensive for home users but is now priced similar to other 3D programs. There is also Maya Personal Learning Edition

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