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Microsoft announced the early release of a patch that will eliminate an increasingly dangerous Windows flaw from users' PCs -- a full week before the company's scheduled monthly "Patch Tuesday" cycle. The software giant's move to fix the vulnerability on Tuesday was provoked by an increasing number ...
Adobe launched its Creative Suite 3 line of products Tuesday. The six new integrated Web design and content creation software packages are the first to leverage tools and technologies the company gained with its $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. With its six all-news suites and 13 stan...
In the first month of its availability, Microsoft Vista sold more than 20 million licenses -- more than double the number of first-month sales of Windows XP. In January 2002, the company announced sales of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market. The 20 million fig...
There are two utilities that I've found essential in my day-to-day operations with Windows. One is a clipboard extender -- a program that archives anything cut or copied to the Windows clipboard. The other is a screen capture application. Screen capture programs allow you to create images from whate...
A new software update for Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles includes Bluetooth support, enhanced downloading and the ability to help a Stanford University distributed-computing program hoping to cure protein-related diseases. Dubbed "Firmware 1.60," the upgrade can be installed directly to Internet-conn...
Adobe released its cross-operating run-time system for Web developers on Monday. The development system, available from Adobe Labs, is currently in the first public alpha version. Code-named "Apollo," the technology enables Web developers to create and deploy rich Internet applications on the deskto...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized Google, widely considered to be the software giant's primary rival, in comments made to students at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. A truly entrepreneurial company reinvents itself over and over again, according to Ballmer, but Google has rel...
Microsoft plans to submit a new photo format to an international standards group that it claims offers the highest quality images available with improved compression techniques. The format, dubbed "HD Photo" -- formerly called "Windows Media Photo" -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old ...
Microsoft jumped into the Voice over Internet Provider market Wednesday with the announcement that business users will be able to test out a beta version of its VoIP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, and unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, lat...
Of the three pillars of digital lifestyle applications -- video, photos and music -- music remains a bit of a mystery to many users. That's ironic because sharing digital music files was one of the first applications byte-stylers flocked to. However, while many users have graduated from merely shari...
Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better. Google may be an official verb in the...
Cisco Systems is now offering customers an upgraded version of its software and network equipment that links desktop computers to cell phones and other mobile devices. The new wireless client software extends desk phone functions to a variety of smartphones and handheld devices, and supports BlackBe...
IBM has become the first vendor to incorporate Google Gadgets into its commercial portal software, WebSphere, the two tech companies announced Wednesday. Users of WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express v. 6.0 will have some 4,000 free-of-charge add-ons they can create, customize and use withi...
Like many home keyboard jockeys, I view my wireless network as a black box. I set it up to share my broadband Internet connection. It does that. So I leave well enough alone. That doesn't mean, though, that my curiosity isn't aroused from time to time, and I feel an urge to poke around with the netw...
Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better. Of course, Google reset the benchmark...
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