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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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.
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.
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.
If you have tryed out already Google’s Chrome you ppehaps have appreciated at organizing of the browser’s system tabs. Clicking on a link opens up to next to your current tab, allow you the liberty to go to your new tab immediately without needing to scroll down countless tabs like Firefox currently requires. I’m not overdemanding.
According to Startupmeme.com Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox at Mozilla, promised that Firefox will soon have this feature included in their browser, most likely in the next version, having in mind grouping tabs found in IE8.
Anybody tried already Google Quick Search Box, an open source search box that allowed to search data on your computer and across the web. If yes, I’m interesting in your opinian. If not you can be getting started right now. Anyway it sounds good.
Features
It works as a location bar AND a search box – It’ll autocomplete URLs and you can use TAB to search any website using Site Search. The tab key has special functionality beyond just site search. It is equivalent to “search in this context”: you’ll see that the results of a contextual search include related items, contents, and actions. Calculation, Weather, and Definition one boxes will show up periodically. More are on the way. What else would you expect to see? If you enable it, spotlight results will show up. Usually these are relegated to the “More” section at the bottom of the window, but once you use these items, they’ll be learned and become much faster to access. The basics:
Search the web (Type “britney spears”) Start applications (Type “itunes”) Open websites (Type “wikipedia.com”) Search for contacts in Address Book (Type “Bob”) Find files on your computer (Type the filename) Find music (Type the name of a song or artist in your iTunes library) Definitions and more: “Define Word”, “Weather 94043″, “5 + 5″ What’s missing
QSB does not yet search Gmail QSB does not yet search Firefox Advanced features:
Type (TAB) to restrict your search to the selected results:
“wikipedia.com (TAB) toy” will return matches from wikipedia Type (TAB) to see actions for the selected results:
“CONTACTNAME (TAB) email” will show the “Email” action