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Pornographers spread out pictures on their blogs
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Pornographers spread out pictures on their blogs

When personal websites (blogs) become a phenomenon in adolescents, the risk of them being exposed to pornography or pornography by strangers is inevitable. According to…

December 12, 2018
OS X errors are dangerous for Mac users
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OS X errors are dangerous for Mac users

A new bug found on OS X (Mac OS) can give hackers the opportunity to hack into and install malicious programs on the computer. This is the third security issue after app…

December 12, 2018
Microsoft introduced commercial server software
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Microsoft introduced commercial server software

On February 21, Microsoft announced plans to release a trial version of Commerce Server 2006 commercial server software. Commerce Server 2006 is capable of supporting in…

December 12, 2018
Server system 'all in one' IBM System i5
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Server system 'all in one' IBM System i5

This server line, also known as iSeries, has made improvements in simplifying information technology (IT) operations, making it easy for small and medium enterprises to…

December 12, 2018
New technology limits digital music piracy
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New technology limits digital music piracy

The Fraunhofer Institute has successfully researched a first technique that allows to limit digital music piracy on the network. This technology was developed for a fair…

December 12, 2018
'Find a way' for a digital map of Vietnam
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'Find a way' for a digital map of Vietnam

Without meeting, there are many individuals, groups, companies developing digital map utility in many different forms. The house is making digital maps, so it will be so…

December 12, 2018
60% of users receive e-mails every day
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60% of users receive e-mails every day

According to British security firm Sophos, nearly two-thirds of users in businesses suffer from phishing messages every day, 22% of which receive an average of 5 e-mails…

December 12, 2018
The complete Windows Vista beta release
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The complete Windows Vista beta release

Microsoft said the 4th technology preview (CTP) was fully equipped with all the necessary features and the company would not integrate any additional features into the n…

December 12, 2018
Office and Vista become legal targets
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Office and Vista become legal targets

An alliance called European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), which includes big names such as IBM, Nokia, Oracle, Red Hat RealNetworks Sun Microsystems, Corel…

December 12, 2018
Error appears in the embedded database
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Error appears in the embedded database

A security expert has just warned that some problems in the embedded database, such as SleepyCat's company (recently belonging to Oracle) are likely to be exploited to g…

December 12, 2018
Sun launched the Java Enterprise Edition 5 test
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Sun launched the Java Enterprise Edition 5 test

Sun Microsystems has just released a test version of Java Enterprise Edition 5 (JEE5), which gives developers a new programming model and tools to help build Java applic…

December 12, 2018
Memory leak is a ... feature of Firefox
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Memory leak is a ... feature of Firefox

Ben Goodger, one of Firefox's developers, said users' reactions to Firefox's memory usage have been around for a long time. Mostly in the way Firefox uses memory for tem…

December 12, 2018