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News: Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
News: Nokia to use Microsoft's latest DRM software
News: Notebooks drive European PC shipments in Q2
News: Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
News: Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax
Windows Tip: Outlook migration
ITwhirled: Online feud leads to cross-country arson vendetta
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BLACK HAT: Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
A Mozilla Corp. executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
Nokia to use Microsoft's latest DRM software
Nokia Corp. has agreed to license Microsoft Corp.'s new PlayReady DRM (digital rights management) technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.
Gartner: Notebooks drive European PC shipments in Q2
PC shipments in Western Europe increased 9.3 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-earlier period, fueled by strong consumer demand, particularly for notebook computers, according to market research published Monday by Gartner Inc.
Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo Inc. lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
DEFCON: Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax
Websense Inc. has developed a threat detection system designed to spot Web 2.0 attacks soon after they are launched. Called HoneyJax, the system will root out attacks on social networking sites, blogs and wikis, and then update the company's Web Security Suite to protect users from malicious Web sites or pages.
Red Hat's SMB desktop Linux delayed
Red Hat has released more details about its plans for Linux on the desktop, including news of a launch delay.
Kittens could solve spam
An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are. Or rather, photos of kittens.
New Bluetooth standard approved
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced unanimous approval of the new iteration of the Bluetooth standard by its 8,000-member strong group.
WINDOWS TIP
Two Outlook migration tips
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
Here are two Outlook migration tips I thought readers might want to know about. The first tip has to do with upgrading ANSI .pst files to UNICODE files. A user we’ll call Bob was running Outlook 2003, but his PST file was originally created with Outlook 2000 (he had previously upgraded his computer from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and had upgraded Office 2000 to Office 2003). The problem was that Outlook 2000 only supported ANSI .pst files, which meant when his .pst file reached 2 GB, Outlook choked (actually it choked long before that point was reached). Outlook 2003 had introduced UNICODE format for .pst files, but Bob hadn’t tried to upgrade his PST file from ANSI to UNICODE (Bob got scared off by some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles he read but couldn’t understand on the subject.)
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ITWHIRLED
Online feud leads to cross-country arson vendetta
John Anderson and Russell Tavares were two of the millions of people who get drawn into pointless, stupid arguments over the Internet every day. Anderson even went so far as to call Tavares a "nerd" and Photoshop an image of him portraying him as such. So naturally Tavares drove 1,300 miles and then burned Anderson's trailer down. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
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