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  • Hackers offered $100,000 for browser and phone exploits

    Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 (£65,000) the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference.Running for the fourth year at the…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Mobile Devices • Hack • Exploits • Event • Chrome • Browsers

  • Internet Explorer 9 puts Microsoft back on top, says analyst

    Microsoft is back in the browser race, an analyst said today after the company unveiled a rough developer's preview of its next browser, IE9.They want to be more than a follower or just on features parity," said Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish as…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Rendering • Javascript • Browsers • Benchmarks • Architect • Acceleration

  • Microsoft pledges HTML 5 web standard support in Internet Explorer 9

    Microsoft previewed its Internet Explorer 9 web browser to MIX10 attendees and promised to drive standards work on HTML 5. Microsoft wants the world to abandon Internet Explorer 6 and upgrade to IE7 or IE8 for security reasons, but the company says…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Market Share • Forrester Research • Explorer • Engine • Continues • Browsers

  • Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

    Microsoft today unveiled a public sneak peek of its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9, aimed at web developers and the technically brave of heart. Microsoft today unveiled a public sneak peek of its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Windows Xp • Technically • Preview • Operating Systems • Heart • Explorer

  • Microsoft pushing Silverlight 4 for Windows Phone development

    Silverlight delivers the highest-quality video on the web," he added.Mix10 will feature details on the planned Internet Explorer 9 browser, ASP.Net and services-based web development. The company showed off tools and demos during a presentation at…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Vice President • Preview • Presentation • Graphical • Developer • Candidate

  • Microsoft Excel glitch turns English into Chinese

    The company confirmed that a February 9 non-security hotfix that added support for .Net 4.0 to Office 2007 caused the suite's programs to crash when they were run on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 with Terminal Services.Some users…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Remove • Programs • Microsoft Office • Crash • Confirmed • Chinese

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Last December, attackers tricked Google employees to visit a malicious website, which then exploited a vulnerability inside Internet Explorer to install an encrypted backdoor into the Google network. But what if instead of simply a…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Internet Explorer 6, for all its rendering quirks and inept handling of web standards, is seemingly the browser that cannot die. Although Microsoft plans support for HTML 5 in Internet Explorer 9, for example, the software giant questions the…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Tag • Stage • Scalable • Rendering • Languages • Consortium

  • Overlooked online threats

    Others are overshadowed by more widely publicised problems (e.g.the way Firefox's issues take a backseat to Internet Explorer's).Here I'll be giving a tour of a number of lesser advertised security issues that can bite you when you least expect it…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Race • Mechanisms • Inhouse • Danger • Addons • Ad

  • Fifteen free security and backup programs

    The utility's seemingly straightforward interface requires some understanding of the XML data format, however.Windows Live SkyDrive gives you 25GB of free online storage, and SDExplorer lets you access that storage right from Windows Explorer.
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Trust • Passwords • Hard Drive • Detection • Backups • Background

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    On the web, Internet Explorer is dead last in standards compliance, and its critical security flaws sometimes go unpatched for months. For one, the need to reach a wide audience with its online services to increase ad revenue could encourage…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • The best security features in Windows 7

    And with the growing amount of USB devices being used by enterprises, encrypting them has become a necessity.Internet Explorer 8 for safer browsingAlthough you can use Internet Explorer 8 with Windows XP or Vista, the latest version of IE comes…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Security Features • Schedule • Rights • Restore • Hard Drive • Clicking

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How-Tos

  • How to break your bad tech habits

    Here's a little known but much faster alternative: In Windows 7 (and Vista, if you enable the Quick Launch toolbar), you can launch any program to the right of the Start button by using the Windows key and a number.For example, the icon in the…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Sync • Locked • Icons • Handy • Care • Calendar

  • Security tips for large and small businesses

    Until that day, try using software like Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (free for personal users) that will scan all software on your computer and give you a consolidated look at where security patches are missing.I've audited networks with…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Unpatched • Small Businesses • Enterpriseclass • Clicking • Bob • Active Directory

  • How to fix the most common Internet problems

    Fortunately, most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, all include some sort of anti-phishing filters.Don't Open That WindowWe are web surfers, not babies, so why do some websites open new browser windows or…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Friends • Engines • Bar • Ads • Addon • Ad

  • How to run Windows 7 on Mac OS X

    Now opening a document from Outlook or Windows Explorer will launch the app on the operating system you prefer.Other applications that I use a great deal are Adobe's products; PhotoShop, DreamWeaver, Acrobat, etc.
    03 February 2010
    Tags: Virtualised • Sharing • Prompted • Outlook • Mac Os • Macs

  • How to switch off User Account Control

    Navigate the left pane as if it was Windows Explorer to the Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options "folder. User Account Control (UAC) is almost certainly Vista's least popular added feature.
    26 January 2010
    Tags: Accounts • Protect • Learn • Instructions • Account • Mistakes

  • How to use Windows 7 Libraries

    In Windows Explorer (Windows Key + E is the fastest way to open this.click Libraries in the left hand pane. One of the most useful new features in Windows 7 is Libraries, a simple yet powerful tool for streamlining the management of all the files…
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Folders • Location • Folder • Videos • Modified • Method

Reviews

  • CrossOver Linux 9 review

    Supported Windows applications include Microsoft Office (from Office 97 to Office 2007), Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Outlook 2002 to 2007, all current versions of Quicken up to 2010 and QuickBooks up to 2004, and some versions of Photoshop and…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Sata • Pentium • Microsoft Office • Installation • Family

  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    Application forwarding, which is based on an ActiveX control provided by Microsoft, isn't supported except in Internet Explorer browsers. Microsoft bought Whale in 2006, jettisoned some of the strange idiosyncrasies of the product, dramatically…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Portal • Microsoft Windows • Endpoint • Credentials • Checking • Active Directory

  • Aliph Jawbone Icon review

    If you use the headset with an iPhone, a battery meter for the Icon appears on the phone's display - a handy bit of integration.The MyTalk website, which is still in beta form, requires Internet Explorer or Firefox.
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Talk • Noise • Icon • Face • Customisable • Aims

  • Zend Studio review

    This gives you, among other things, the Data Source Explorer, which provides connection to and management of close to a dozen well-known RDBMSes. The Data Source Explorer lets you prowl tables, stored procedures, views, and more.
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Studio • Session • Function • Eclipse • Country • Collection

  • WaterProof Software PHPEdit

    It's important that you use phpDocumentor syntax to comment your code; that's how Code Insight can, among other things, supply information about parameters of user-defined functions.Opening PHPEdit's help system actually opens an explorer pane.
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Javascript • Insight • Framework • Editing • Documentation • Checking

  • NetBeans IDE review

    The explorers include a typical project navigator, a file system navigator and a database explorer. To this trio, NetBeans adds a web services explorer.The web services explorer is prepopulated with nodes corresponding to services from Amazon…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Node • Javascript • Explorer • Exist • Editing • Commands

White Papers

  • How PatchLink Meets the Top 10 Requirements for Enterprise Patch and Vulnerability Management

    This includes more than 10,000 multi-language patches for all major operating systems and over 40 of the most common third-party applications such as Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, SharePoint, RealPlayer, and more.
    13 April 2007
    Tags: Patches • Patch • Vulnerability • Vulnerabilities • Requirements • Custom

  • 3 THINGS BUSINESS DECISION–MAKERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SOA

    Regardless of whether you are using Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox or Opera, or what version of those browsers you are using, you can still access information and interact with systems on the Web.
    11 April 2007
    Tags: Term • Soa • Processes • Functionality • Browsers • Orders

  • NFS Software from Sun

    They simply point and click on servers and files anywhere in the NFS network using Network Neighborhood or Explorer.The NFS exclusive automounter feature makes networking even easier, enabling users to access files without having to know where…
    14 March 2007
    Tags: Maps • Locations • Names • Appearance • Mount • Nfs

  • Learning and Information Management in Education — As We May Learn

    Mosaic became Netscape Navigator; Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer; and within the space of five years, the web had brought everything from bookstores and live weather reports to auctions and banking into the home and onto the desktop.
    20 February 2007
    Tags: Learn • Libraries • Knowledge • Education • Oriented • Frameworks

  • Avoiding Legal Traps on the Web

    These and other events add up to an increase in exposure to liability as a result of a worker's illegal activity on the Internet while using company equipment.Additionally, users who browse a malicious Web site can become infected with a Trojan or…
    15 February 2007
    Tags: Activity • Equipment • Filtering • Exposure • Organization • Protecting

  • Upgrading and repairing Microsoft Windows

    Pressing the Delete key or clicking the Delete button when you have a file or group of files highlighted in Windows Explorer or My Computer sends files to the Recycle Bin. Although a file sent to the Recycle Bin is no longer listed in its normal…
    22 January 2007
    Tags: Opening • Stored • Optical • Affect • Recovery • Degree

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