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2005 is definitely going to be Bluetooth’s big breakout year. Except that last year was, and the year before and even the one before. People are saying that for several years now, but nothing, no breakout and no nohting. Well, not exactly nothing but no great sweep toward Bluetooth usage.
Every few months there’s another
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It seems like this site is attracting more and more spam-bots, the number grows and grows with time. I’ve noticed the slow increase for a while but after being sick for several days and away from this site (you probably noticed the lack of posts), I found several thousands spam comments waiting in the
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Amazon.com announced it’s annual Top 10 Editors’ Picks: Computers & Internet for 2004.
These are their selections for the Best Books of 2004 in the Computers and Internet category:

Excel Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools
Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple’s Final Cut Pro
Head First Servlets & JSP
On Intelligence
Grand Theft Auto:
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Web site visitors who clicked on banner ads on several popular European Web sites this weekend could have infected their computers with variants of the Bofra worm. The attacks take advantage of an unpatched buffer overflow flaw in the way Internet Explorer 6 handles IFrame tags. The vulerability was confirmed on PCs running any
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Ok, ok, not literally, and probably with no intention.
Maariv, a Israeli daily newspaper, reports a strange incident in which a reader found in a Microsoft press release, a screenshot of their new MSN search engine presented using Firefox. The obvious question is, who took the screenshot? Microsoft PR team? Their PR firm? Someone might
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Months ago Hotmail published the fact that they are going to stop supporting POP3 access. It seems like now they finally have. There is no more access to Hotmail using Outlook, Outlook Express or any other mail client. In order to still have POP3 access users must upgrade to MSN Hotmail Plus for $20 a
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We heard about various cellphone viruses running around, most of which do not cause great harm. However, a new cellphone trojan started spreading in recent days, called the ‘SymbOS/Skulls’ Trojan which effects phones running Symbian. The Skulls SIS file is named “Extended theme.SIS” or ‘Extended Theme Manager’, it claims to be theme manager for
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Got Treo? You must be loving it. More than 200,000 other Treo 600 users are probably too. The popularity of this powerful, pint-sized device is growing quickly.
The Treo, which is tiny enough to fit in a pocket, serves as a mobile phone, Palm-powered organizer, wireless email and text messaging, web-browsing tool, and even
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Two new vulnerabilities were discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass a security feature in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and trick users into downloading malicious files.

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 has a security feature which warns users when opening downloaded files of certain types. The problem is that if the
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After the almost final death of Netscape (and I say almost only because you can still download Netscape if you really wanted to) it seems like AOL decided to revive the old dusty browser. The company plans to bring back a refreshed Netscape browser based on Firefox, which will incorporate an enhanced user interface and
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When Google introduced Gmail with 1Gb of storage, both Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail scrambled to find ways to stay in the game with increased storage. Neither met Google’s raised bar of 1Gb, Yahoo went to 100Mb and Hotmail called for 250Mb. Now with Hotmail rolling out its 250Mb accounts, Yahoo do not want to
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Anyone who was lucky enough to get the POP3 feature on Gmail (seems like it’s rolling out faster than initially thought) and tried to set it up at the workplace encountered some problems. The Gmail POP3 service tries to connect to port 465 for SMTP and port 995 for POP3. Those are not the default
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Wired have a story about Hotmail increased free E-mail boxes to 250Mb and it’s premium users inboxes to 2Gb. Problem is, I checked my Hotmail box, and nothing, nada, zilch, no increase and no nothing. The maximum capacity is still only 2Mb. What gives?
I don’t know why I care so much, I never use
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I never use my hotmail email box, at least not since Microsot took over hotmail and better services came out (Yahoo, Excite) which was a long long while ago. This is the main reason I didn’t notice Microsoft increased the Hotmail inbox size to 250Mb (Yesterday?). So why do you have a hotmail box if
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Bill Coughran, Google’s V.P. of Engineering has this entry in the company blog about the Google index almost doubling in size.
The most interesting thig about this entry, which features nothing new, but the timing. I wonder if the timing of this entry have anything to do with Microsoft’s New Search Engine.
While on the subject, it
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Gmail started offering POP access to some of it’s users. There is no information on how they decided which user gets it and which doesn’t (same with if/how many invites each user get to distribute). This function has already been enabled by lots of third party tools, but has been expected from Google themselves for
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“Google was recently alerted to a potential security vulnerability affecting the Gmail service. We have since fixed this vulnerability, and all current and future Gmail users are protected,” Google spokesman Nathan Tyler said.
A flaw that allowed an attacker to gain complete control over a user’s account was fixed by Google’s engineers and the mailboxes are
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Microsoft will launch its own new web search engine tomorrow according to several different reports, however; so far Microsoft official representatives keep silent.
The search engine currently on Microsoft’s Web site uses technology owned by Yahoo!. MSN has repeatedly said it plans to develop its own search technology, which would allow it to compete head-on with
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Details have been released about three vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox older versions (prior to 1.0). These can potentially be exploited to detect the presence of local files, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose sensitive information, spoof the file download dialog, and gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are:

Web sites may include images from local resources, which
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Bluetooth is not the only player in it’s market anymore. For a while now, as the competition is gaining ground with fresh standards and better and more features the Bluetooth folks want to ensure their spec doesn’t disappear in the abyss of lost standards. With Ultra wideband (UWB) and 802.11n and some others on
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Firefox 1.0 is finally out!!! The wait is over. Get Firefox 1.0!!! fast before the rush… oh, too late the server is already loaded up to the roof.
From the site: “The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than
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Recent talk suggests that Google image search is getting updated only twice a year. Very bad news for a search engine that suppose to be the largest and most updated. A performed experiment reveals that a search for abu ghraib, lynndie england, or other recent events did not bring any pictures of US soldiers torturing
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I bet you never thought this can be done with Windows original theme sounds and the Sound Recorder progrem.

It’s so nice of you to share your gmail mailbox with the rest of us, we really like the last online services you registered. You had no idea? Now you do.
A major security hole in Google’s mail service, allows full access to user accounts, without the need of a password.
Everything in a users account
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A critical vulnerability has been reported in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of certain attributes in the <IFRAME> HTML tag. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a malicious HTML document
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