On the eve of Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7, the gloves are off in the fight for business customers. IBM today unveiled an all-out campaign to persuade U.S. companies, governments and organizations to finally break their Windows habit and make the switch to Linux, usatoday.com reported.
“Our data shows a remarkably high number of organizations planning to standardize on the new Windows 7 operating system in the near-term,” says Chris Neal, a vice president at Chadwick Martin Bailey. “Those who are holding back for the time being are more commonly staying with XP, rather than Vista.”
“This is the chance so many companies have been waiting for to break the proprietary lock Microsoft has on the desktop.” said Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus software. “They can permanently free themselves and their IT budgets with open source computing.”
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It has been announced via the Linus Upson’s official blog that it is planning to launch it’s own operating system called Google Chrome OS.
The authors write: “It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web—searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome—the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” The new operating system based on Google’s 9-month-old Web browser will initially be targeted at netbooks Chrome, it is expected to begin running computers in the second half of 2010.
Now you can still download free a new web browser for Windows Google Chrome combined a minimal design with sophisticated technology which will help you to make the web faster, safer, and easier on Google.com
It looks like till recently the Mac from Apple has been saved from viruses good enough. But yesterday we’ve got news that a new, actually second virus is worming its way through via iChat.
F-Secure’s blog reports that the worm has not surfaced in the wild and this particular worm’s lifespan will be short lived. They also said it uses a Bluetooth library locked into a specific Bluetooth address and the library expires on February 24th of this year. They are sure that it’s doubtful Inqtana.
So, if Mac has been hacked we have all chances to get now that the viruses will flow like water. Sophos just conducted a poll and their numbers say 79% of the 600 web poll respondents feel Macs will be targeted more in the future.
What about the first ever Trojan has been confirmed it come with pirated and unlicensed iServices package that came with iWork ‘09 and PhotoShop CS4.
How to know if your Mac OS X has been infected?
If your CPU is showing excessive usage (90 to 100% at times) then that’s a strong sign that your Mac has been infected.
On close inspection you will discover a PHP script instigating DDoS (denial-of-service) attacks on websites.
How to protect your Mac OS X?
Even though many Antivirus programs have been updated to block iServices (which is infected with the trojan) package but if your Mac has been infected already then try this:
Delete these folders:
1) System/Library/StartupItems/DivX
2) System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices
On Thursday Facebook’s 200 million users had been launched an attack by Hackers, which successfully gathered passwords in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said on Thursday that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack.
He said that Facebook was blocking compromised accounts.
Schnitt declined to say how many accounts had been compromised.
The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some Facebook members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites.
Those sites were designed to look like the Facebook home page. The victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords. The purpose of such attacks is generally identify theft and to spread spam.
The fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im. Facebook has deleted all references to those domains.
Microsoft has offered voice command with mobiles setting to introduce a speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile upgrade.
The company also plans to announce a new service that will work on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices and will let people speak into the phone to search the Internet, make phone calls and dictate text messages.
Here is very useful tips to keep your computer clean and with a sppeed.
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Finding out tons of spam also named “junk mail” in your email box, or on your favorite newsgroup again and again can turn your computing into a real calamity. Actually there are small number people who send the spam but their activity is able to make a big problem for each of us.
Fighting with a spam lasts without interruption all these years over and what is the result? To my opinion spam stream is decreasing lately and I would give a spam blocker software the credit of improving the situation.
Finally using an effective and powerful spam filter software you can take back the control over your inbox locking unwanted dust out. This is really smart solution allowing you to manage the volume of email and filters spam without losing needed email, having the option to review isolated spam safely at anytime you want. Software works with most of email programs such as Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, etc., it’s easy to use and self configuring and no doubt it will save your time and nervous.
Searching through the internet for Seatwave Reading Festival Tickets I’ve found perfect Reading-Festival.net providing a lot of important information exactly I’m looking for.
By the way look how in our day by day life we just can’t manage without computers, though it were communication, any needed information, advice, greeting, shopping, recipes, Festival Tickets, music, movie, games and more and more very important things we cant do without any help of personal computer.
“There is unexpected beauty hidden everywhere in this world — one just has to be open to seeing it. Remember that the next time you sneeze on your monitor.” John R Searls said and he is absolutely right.
More than sixty years ago, Presper Eckert and John Mauchly unveiled an electronic computer to the public for the first time, their ENIAC also named Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could churn only 5,000 addition problems in one second and what we can see now! No doubt computer speed keeps growing, expanding intellectual horizons and the business playing field, but we must care not only about where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
Today getting a fast Internet connection to your home or office has become just a part of everyday life and thanks to great advance of technology, making it so fit in that often you don’t notice it. That’s right; this is absolutely normal everyday life. And what is more, now you should not worry even in case when regular dialup connections such as DSL or Cable are not in your area.
There are more available options to get a fast connection to the web and all what you need is to choose one of various Satellite providers, such as HughesNet for instance, allowing you to access wide range internet services – from high-speed Internet, Mobile Internet, RV internet access to VSAT systems, VPN, or VoIP (Telephone) and wireless networking whenever and wherever you want. As the saying is technology does not drive change, it enables change.