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 THE GOVERNMENT of Burma, or Myanmar if you and the old farts running the company country prefer, has stopped Google and Gmail being used in the country, according to Mizzima News.
The block's been in effect for about 10 days and Yahoo email and Microsoft Hotmail are also considered too subversive, the site reports.
The dissemination of free news has always been a problem for totalitarian gover...
July 05 2006 07:51:00.
 Workers have become more wary of putting giveaway CDs in their company's computers, but USB flash drives are another story. “ Three years ago, it took us a lot of work to convince people that USB tokens were a security threat. Now, we don't have to struggle to convince people because everyone understands it's an issue. ”
Vladamir Chernavsky, CEO, AdvancedForce InfoSecurity Solutions
In a r...
July 05 2006 07:41:51.
A recent change to AT&Ts privacy policy for broadband and video users is overbroad and likely will leave the courts or Congress to decide whether the company's practices are standard or sinister, legal experts said this week.
“ It really doesn't make sense to talk about owning data. You can own it under copyright law, and you can own it under patent law, but oftimes the data talked about...
July 05 2006 07:41:17.
 A BLOGGER over at Wincustomise has discovered a way to break Windows Notepad.
It does not kill your machine or anything, but is light hearted entertainment for a Thursday morning.
What you do is open up Notepad, type in "this app can break" and save it to your hard drive.
Close Notepad and, when you open the saved file by double clicking it, Notepad will be unable to translate the file and sp...
June 15 2006 10:23:14.
The reverse engineer--better known amongst security researchers by his nom de plume, Halvar Flake-- created an automated system for classifying software into groups, a process for which he believes machines are much better suited. Research using the system has underscored the sometimes-arbitrary decisions humans make in classifying malicious programs, he said. Among other anomalies, he found t...
June 15 2006 10:23:10.
GOOGLE IS POSED to launch a free online spreadsheet today.
Seen as a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Excel, Google’s effort is bound to create a lot of waves in and around Redmond – regardless of whether Microsoft is ready for it or not – and, yet again, generate a lot more positive press for itself.
Google claims that its вЂExcel killer’, will allow multiple...
June 07 2006 03:22:21.
Unix better than both, says survey
ANALYST OUTFIT the Yankee Group claims that Windows is more reliable than Linux.
The annual server reliability survey report shows that all the major operating systems are pretty reliable, and have gotten better over the last three to five years.
On average Windows, Linux, and Unix servers experienced three to five failures per server per year in 2005, genera...
June 07 2006 03:22:17.
 Its been a tough year for the AOL owned Nullsoft, with the release of wunamp 3 a year ago then the abandoning of it has set back the media player quite some way. Nullsoft then took on the task of putting together the best parts of wunamp 2 and 3 into what has become wunamp 5. The player features an updated look along with being able to support a large range of skins. An updated media library all...
June 06 2006 13:18:54.
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