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Microsoft Releases Vista Update to Fight Monster
Microsoft has released an update to Windows Vista that is designed to prevent a type of piracy of the operating system in which files...
AMD Looks to Gain Additional Market Share in 07
NEW YORK—Advanced Micro Devices, the worlds second largest maker of microprocessors, plans on taking an even larger piece of the PC processor market in...
Researchers Warn of Security Expertise Shortage
Businesses are increasingly being put at risk of failing compliance audits and struggling with other security-related efforts, as demand for employees capable of managing...
IT Temping Revenue Surges
IT temporary staffing firms saw 13.7 percent median revenue increase in the third quarter of 2006 over the same period last year, according to...
Signature Scanning: Im Not Dead Yet
Theres no question that conventional anti-virus protection has become boring, as well it should be. There should be nothing exciting about it. But I...
Web Is in Grave Danger
I can bend time and space!" said the funny Japanese man who suddenly appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
"Whoa," I said. "Who are you, and...
Vista: Why Bother?
A friend of mine was recently considering Vista for serious video editing work. He was told, by Microsoft people, that he should wait until...
Third MS Word Code Execution Exploit Posted
Exploit code for a third, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been posted on the Internet, adding to the software makers struggles to keep...
Drinking from the Keg of IT Kindness
As a species, human beings are very good at self-preservation, but were not exactly at the top of the class for doing what we...
MySQL Is Not Abandoning Debian
In a recent Slashdot story, a disgruntled Debian developer posted that "MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16, when...