Lavasoft broadens its malware scope with Ad-Aware 2008 releases
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It was perhaps the first great advertising tracker purging system, and may have single-handedly redefined the public's notion of malware. Now, Ad-Aware is growing up, becoming more of a fully-fledged anti-virus product.
Second release candidate for Hyper-V virtualization tool now available
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Microsoft's ambitious, if somewhat reduced, goals of making hardware-supported virtualization a common feature of Windows Server, are one small step closer to fruition this afternoon.
Office Live Workspace beta enters its international phase
As international languages are added to Microsoft's ongoing Office Live Workspace beta for users of Office 2007 for Windows, the seams are starting to get ironed out between the online and physical worlds -- most of them, anyway.
Following up on last March's general release of the first beta edition of Office Live Workspace to the general public, Microsoft is making available French, German, and Spanish language editions available for free testers. OLW -- and let's hope the name stays the same for awhile -- is the company's extension of Office 2007, adding the capability for users anywhere to save Office documents directly from their Office applications to an online storage location on Microsoft's servers.
Beta 2 of Windows for supercomputers arrives
One month ahead of the next round of Top 500 supercomputer rankings, Microsoft has released online its Beta 2 for its high-performance data center version of Windows. But is Windows accelerating fast enough to keep up with Linux clusters?
Windows has historically not been considered the fastest operating system among supercomputers, but there is no doubt it's working to climb the ladder. Microsoft's best performing trial supercomputer to date has been given the nickname "Rainier." It's a cluster of Dell PowerEdge 1855 blades, which are currently running Microsoft's latest test builds of HPC Server 2008 -- its successor to Compute Cluster Server 2003.
His job now complete, Dell CFO Carty rejoins his retirement in progress
Whether pulling Dell Computer out of the financial sewer was Don Carty's last miracle remains to be seen. But however the annals of financial history may judge him, there's no doubt that Dell owes him a huge debt of gratitude.
What do you do when you're a legendary and talented former CEO, when you're credited with business decisions that saved a corporation once already, when you've spent three decades at the helm of major airlines and railways in Canada, the US, and the UK, and you're either revered or reviled as a business leader? In the case of Don Carty, you make one more turnaround, and you make sure it's an impossible one: Dell, whose internal politics and curious accounting duplications could have spelled doom for one of America's great success stories.
Microsoft cobbles together a 'Plan C' for online search
Just as a team of white knights are preparing a new round table of leadership for Yahoo, and riding off to rescue the Microsoft buyout, Microsoft inexplicably sends an intentionally mixed message on Sunday implying it would rather not be rescued.
In a move that could be considered unprecedented, for the most part, due to its being bizarre, Microsoft issued a statement yesterday saying it would be interested in purchasing part of Yahoo, without saying which part it had in mind. While reporters and analysts speculated that Yahoo's search component must be what the company has in mind, an internal memo "leaked" to multiple reporters, including The Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher, written by Microsoft's president for its platforms division and also dated yesterday, gives employees a heads-up that it is actually planning to announce its own, homegrown, major search initiative this upcoming Wednesday.
Backup feature surprisingly removed from Windows Home Server refresh
Testers of a forthcoming service pack for Windows Home Server were the first to discover that a feature they'd come to rely upon had been removed from the product -- as it turns out, intentionally.
One of Windows Home Server's key features is the ability to perform manual or automatic backups of the entire contents of hard drives of PCs in a home network -- a consumer-centric version of the same backup engine used in Windows Server 2003 and 2008. WHS stores the backups from each of those drives in a special database; and for safety, many users have found it convenient enough to manually back up the backup database, sometimes onto separate drives in case of a server crash.
Yet another cross-site scripting vulnerability affects IE7 on XP
A private security researcher well known for turning up cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Web browsers has discovered another one, and is trumpeting the find as another milestone in Web history.
Truth is, it sounds like a trumpet we've all heard too many times before. On Wednesday, researcher Aviv Raff posted on his Web site the discovery of a vulnerability so open and easy to exploit, that merely mentioning what it is could be enough of an instruction manual for malicious exploiters to try it for themselves.
Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 available on Mozilla servers
Moving right along according to plan, the first release candidate of Firefox 3.0 appeared this morning among Mozilla's beta and candidate downloads. BetaNews has obtained the link, and RC1 is downloadable now.
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Yahoo chairman's response to Icahn leaves possibilities open
Roy Bostock had every opportunity to simply just say no to Carl Icahn, whose open letter yesterday launched his hostile takeover strategy. But instead the Yahoo chairman wrote a candid, curiously unsolicited history of Microsoft's walkout.
It was not an emphatic denial of Yahoo's wish to be acquired that its chairman, Roy Bostock, transmitted to investor Carl Icahn this morning, by way of the rest of the world. It was a rejection of being acquired by Microsoft, certainly, though Bostock's response to Icahn's suggestion yesterday of nominating a powerhouse team of alternate directors was, at best, tepid.
That didn't take long: DTV coalition says field tests are already done
It's already official, according to the Open Mobile Video Coalition: DTV stations in the US have already tried a combined approach to mobile broadcasting suggested by Samsung and LG, and the early results appear positive.
Yesterday, the two proponents of mobile DTV technology in North America using derivatives of the fixed DTV standard the US will adopt next February, joined forces to promote a single approach to a mobile ATSC signal, as BetaNews reported. At the time, it looked like LG and Samsung would encounter smooth sailing for a joint demonstration for the Open Mobile Video Coalition, a group of broadcasters seeking to establish a separate channel for mobile DTV that protects their existing interests.
New API enables Google Maps to be embedded in Flash apps
In a move that could signal a break from Google's dependence on HTML-structured pages with JavaScript code, the company today unveiled its first working API for embedding functionality inside an Adobe Flash-based application.
Google's new Maps API for Flash now enables developers of Flash-endowed Web sites to embed Google Maps directly, but also more importantly to acquire and manipulate the data on which those maps are based. The result can be something more than the way, say, a YouTube video is "embedded" into a Web site by dropping in its <OBJECT> element.
Without 'Answers,' Dictionary.com's parent will become part of Ask.com
While some analysts have already deemed online search to be a territory that Google has already won, there are still competitors looking to assemble the right formula. This morning, some new pieces fell into place for the #5 provider.
On the surface, last July's announced deal between a Wikipedia-like reference service and an online dictionary and thesaurus publisher, looked like a sweetheart deal. But it later turned south after the dowry required to make the deal work failed to materialize. Now, after would-be groom Answers.com turned out to be something of a deadbeat, the jilted Lexico -- publisher of Dictionary.com -- finds itself wedded to a much more capable provider: Ask.com, with a new chief at the helm since just last January.
Icahn names Yahoo's dissident dream team, including Cuban, Biondi, Chapple
In the opening move of a game he plays better than anyone alive, billionaire investor Carl Icahn has named a powerhouse team of investors and executives who would be ready and willing to lead Yahoo into a big future with Microsoft.
The dissident proxy slate of Yahoo directors proposed this morning by Icahn Capital chief Carl Icahn is comprised of frequent Icahn allies associates, along with extremely accomplished executives and investors. Icahn unveiled his team this morning in an open letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock.
Windows Live services for WM phones emerge from testing
After two years in development, the final veil is being lifted from Microsoft's suite of online services, some of which are now being made available for Windows Mobile smartphone users.
A majority of Microsoft's free online consumer services for Windows users have now been extended into the Windows Mobile space, now that testing on the concept -which has been under way since June 2006- has apparently ended.
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