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Today Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of its new Windows 7 operating system. Windows 7 delivers on a simple premise: make it easier for people to do the things they want on a PC. The new operating system offers a streamlined user interface and significant new features that make everyday tasks easier and allow people to get the most out of computers of all styles and sizes.
“With Windows 7, there’s never been a better time to be a PC,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “Together with our partners, we’re …

Gumblar is a computer virus that first appeared in 2009. It has been identified as one of the most malicious viruses in existence. It is characterized by re-directing user’s Google searches and is suspecting to come from flash and PDF files.
Personal Computers
Visitors to an infected site will be redirected to an alternative site containing further Malware, which was once gumblar.cn, but has now switched to a variety of domains. The site sends the visitor an infected PDF that is opened by the visitor’s browser or Acrobat Reader. The PDF will …

Light X-Slim X400
During May 11th to May 14th, MSI pulled the plugs as it set out to penetrate the global market with its new generation of slender, light X-Slim Series notebooks. In recent days, MSI has held product launching ceremonies in Frankfurt, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; and Sydney, Australia. MSI President Joseph Hsu, Senior Vice President Henry Lu, and Ted Hung, Assistant Vice President of Business Development Department, officially launched MSI’s complete series of super thin, super light X-Slim laptops equipped with Intel’s CULV platform, underscoring the company’s determination to make …

CAPTCHA or the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart is widely advertised but one wonders if it is really useful or not. But, before we discuss its practical utility, let us see what CAPTCHA is all about. It is a test, which helps the computer to distinguish between machines and human beings. It creates and grades tests that automatically accept all humans and reject all machines.
It gives you a test to decipher distorted numbers and letters, which are pretty easy for a person to do, …

Have you ever had pop up after pop up on your computer screen? Or have you ever seen it happen on someone else’s? This is something that is happening everyday. What is it? It is either Adware or Spyware.
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users do on their computers. They then send the information that is gathered over the internet back to companies. The companies then bombard computers with advertisements.
What is Adware?
Adware is a program that monitors or spies on what computer users …

Across the world, thousands of home computers have been conscripted into zombie computer gangs that cyber criminals use to spam, attack and defraud others on the net, causing considerable consternation to law enforcement and security professionals alike, who count the so-called botnets as the most vexing net threat today.
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IBM Corp. began shipping high-end computers Tuesday built around the fastest chip on Earth, a microprocessor that can carry out up to 5 billion instructions per second, surpassing the speediest competing processors built by rivals like Intel or Sun Microsystems.
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1964:IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers.In what some consider the biggest business gamble of all time, the International Business Machines Corp. invested $5 billion ($34 billion in today’s dollars) in a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together and be expanded in multiple combination
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From next term, all computers at schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will have MS Windows removed and will only run Ubuntu Linux and FOSS.
Director for the schools IT services sees this move also to “encourages participation and the democratization of knowledge ” and provide equal opportunities.
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PandaLabs has detected an increase in the use of spam combined with social engineering to spread malware. Several examples have appeared over the last few days.
The most recent case detected involves emails warning of an alleged malware alert (with subjects such as: Worm alert! or spyware alert!), but whose real aim is to spread the Nurech.Z worm. To make the messages more credible, typically trusted sources such as Customer Support are used as the name of the sender.
Another recent case uses photographs of Britney Spears as bait. The email has …