The Web Atom and RaProducts today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which The Web Atom will acquire JavaRa. The acquisition will ensure the further development of JavaRa as an open source project. Fred de Vries will be joining The Web Atom in the role of Chief Software Architect.
The Web Atom will re-engineer JavaRa from the ground up, utilizing the newest technologies available in Windows. The original RaProducts versions will continue to be made available and provided with definition updates.
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Safari in Mac OS X 10.7 will come with a built-in 'Do Not Track' feature, according to reports.
The Wall Street Journal said it had noted a number of conversations about the feature, which has been included in the latest test build of Lion, on Apple's Discussion forums.
Other browsers such as Firefox 4 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 both have similar options, allowing users to prevent details of their online activities being monitored by marketing firms.
However, rather than actually preventing the monitoring of the data, the 'Do Not Track' systems simply send...
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If you are a Pac Man fan and think you have the skills, this ultimate Pac Man maze created from user generated maps will put your skills to the test and has created the Worlds Biggest Pac Man game.
Microsoft unveiled the massive Pac Man game at MIX11 this week, which has been created as a collaboration project with Microsoft, Soap Creative and Namco Bandai.
The Worlds Biggest Pac Man game is a browser based monster, created in HTML5 and uses a patchwork of user designed mazes to create the ultimate Pac Man experience.
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Microsoft has released a ‘platform preview’ of Internet Explorer 10 which will “change the way consumers experience the net”, reports The Telegraph.
Coming just a month after IE9, the company claims the new iteration of its web browser will offer further hardware acceleration and build on trends established by the previous version.
The release comes as search marketing professionals are just getting used to the final version of IE9. Nevertheless, with improved features and increased web fidelity trends, the new web browser will become essential to the search market.
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Microsoft may be working on the next generation of the Xbox, as some Linkedin classified ads have popped up looking to hire some hardware engineers. More info: http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/11338/microsoft-planning-next-console
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Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.
Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its own budget for software research and development, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the final contract hasn’t yet been signed. The agreement runs for more than five years, the people said.
If it succeeds, the partnership may...
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Since today there's a Twitter worm spreading virally with the name "m28sx" . People and bots tweeting links that end with m28sx.html or have only an URL in their tweet are common today on the social network platform.
At time of writing this threat still persists, although Google has already disabled a lot of URLs. (URLs used in this attack are mainly t.co and goo.gl)
... Read more: http://bartblaze.blogspot.com/2011/01/twitter-worm-spreading-virally.html
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A universal do-not-track tool, endorsed by the FTC in a report focused on online privacy released Wednesday, could make online targeted advertising less effective and could slow the growth of e-commerce, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise stagnant U.S. economy, said Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican, during a hearing of the Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.
Consumers would likely rather get relevant ads than irrelevant ones, he said. "The question is, is the government really the entity...
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The Federal Trade Commission has heard you. On Wednesday, it turned up the heat on the technology industry – and browser makers specifically – to move more quickly to create simple, universal controls to let people tell advertisers and data brokers that they may not collect information about their Web browsing and buying habits.
In a report, the F.T.C. called for the creation of “Do Not Track” mechanisms, arguing that tools that are currently available to consumers are too complex and difficult to use. Moreover, many allow consumers only to block the “behavioral” ads that make use of...
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Court ruled limewire shut downThe Gnutella-based download client LimeWire has ceased all its operations after a U.S. federal judge granted a request from the RIAA. Limewire was ordered to disable all functionalities in the current application to prevent users from sharing copyrighted material. The verdict is expected to have an unprecedented impact on the P2P file-sharing landscape.
http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-loses-court-battle-with-riaa-shuts-down-101026/
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Microsoft on Friday announced plans to open an online shop stocked with downloadable games for play on personal computers running on its software.
Games for the Windows Marketplace website will launch at gamesforwindows.com on November 15, according to the Redmond, Washington-based software titan.
"We set out to create a digital store built for PC gamers end-to-end," said Microsoft PC and gaming senior global director Kevin Unangst.
"And by integrating with our existing Xbox LIVE and Windows Live services, we've made it easier than ever for millions...
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Apple will stop bundling Adobe's Flash with Mac OS X, the company confirmed Friday.
The new MacBook Air, which debuted earlier in the week, is the first Flash-less system from Apple. Other systems will follow suit as the company clears out inventory of Mac desktops and notebooks that include Flash.
Mac users will still be able to install Flash themselves, and Apple has done nothing to block Flash from running.
"We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download...
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Anti-not straight bullying has been in the spotlight recently after the suicides of several not straight teenagers, including Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi, garnered national attention. According to police, the 18-year-old jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly recorded him with another male student and distributed the video online.
The not straight & not straight Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said it approached Facebook last week after Internet bullies flooded a page set up to honor teens who recently killed themselves in response...
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So September NPD results came out this week, and (unsurprisingly) Halo Reach was the big winner. But that got me thinking: We're just now hitting the weeks of huge holiday releases. Of all the gigantic triple-A games coming out in the next few months, what do you think will end up being the best-selling?
Call of Duty: Black Ops is a fairly obvious (if safe) choice, unless you think this week's Medal of Honor will go against all odds to take the top spot. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood also promises to draw in a big fan following. On the RPG side, Fable III and Fallout: New Vegas are both...
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Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will be released on November 8, during a presentation about the operating system. Nine Windows 7 handsets were also shown, each of which is expected to hit the market when the OS officially launches.
The interface is said to have been completely redesigned and so will share little in common with Windows Mobile 6.5. The operating system's requirements call for a 1GHz processor, a capacitive 4-point multitouch screen, a DirectX 9 compatible GPU, 256MB of RAM and at least 8GB of flash memory, an accelerometer with compass, a...
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The onslaught of new Android smartphones continues, as Motorola has announced three new models that will soon be making their way to an AT&T store near you. The new handsets—the Motorola Bravo, Flipout, and Flipside—all will be available in time for the holidays, at prices ranging from $80 to $130.
All three phones include Wi-Fi and 3G support, and a 3-megapixel camera. All three phones also will run Android version 2.1, which is (unfortunately) not the latest or greatest version of the Android OS. The newer version 2.2, which adds support for Adobe Flash among other enhancements,...
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Securing your vehicle used to consist of making sure all the doors were locked, keeping valuable items hidden out of sight and parking it in a safe, preferably off-street location.
But a new generation of cars includes more tech wizardry than a jumbo jet, raising consumer concerns that vehicles are more vulnerable than ever to light-fingered criminals. In these times, however, those light fingers are more likely to be twiddling on a laptop or remote-entry system than sticking a wire clothes hanger through a cracked window.
A new study proves that the movement away from pure...
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Internet-based TV viewing, the arrival of Apple's iPad and the proliferation of smartphones are set to ring in a new era of connected entertainment, industry experts predict.
Thousands of TV execs are to flock to the French Riviera to brainstorm and snap up some of the hottest new programs at this year's influential MIPCOM 2010 audiovisual entertainment show that kicks off here Monday.
The four-day event will focus on re-defining the entertainment experience through fast-growing digital platforms such as social networks as well as smartphone-connected digital TV and apps and...
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The Harvard dormitory where Facebook was born is a red brick and ivy-draped campus castle that, beyond just being a place to sleep and study, has long prided itself as a community of the best and the brightest.
But Kirkland House -- where a curly-haired 19-year-old prodigy named Mark Zuckerberg hid out in his room for a week writing the computer code that would eventually redefine the way people interact on the Internet -- is wary of threats to its sanctuary. "Do not copy or lend your key to anyone," it instructs residents. "Do not allow anyone access to the House unless...
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Microsoft has mounted an indirect legal attack on Google over its highly successful Android smartphone operating system, accusing handset maker Motorola of patent infringement for including the software in its own devices.
The action adds to a growing pile of lawsuits over Android that has been filed by some of the tech industry’s leading names in recent months.
However, the legal challenges have not slowed the momentum of the software platform, which overtook Apple’s iPhone software in the second quarter of this year in worldwide shipments, according to research group Gartner.
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Nintendo changed the face of gaming when it unleashed the Wii way back in the winter of 2006, pulling in multi-generational horde of new gamers, eager to shell out for the big N's pared-down, accessible fun. Skip forward to the present day, and in the run-up to Christmas both Microsoft and Sony are hawking their own nifty motion-gaming wares -- Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move respectively. But which of these three motion marvels deserves your hard-earned pennies this year? We've played extensively with all three and present our findings here.
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Microsoft has given up on eating its own dogfood, at least when it comes to blogging.
The Vole has said that it will get rid of its Windows Life Spaces and replace them with blogs built using Wordpress instead.
According to the company's blog, the default blogging platform for Window Live Space users will be Wordpress.
Dharmesh Mehta, director of Windows Live product management said that Wordpress has a host of impressive capabilities ranging from a scalable platform and leading spam protection to great personalisation and customisation.
It is used on...
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Microsoft today released a security bulletin and "out of band" update for a vulnerability affecting ASP.NET applications.
The early analysis on this vulnerability has called it extremely serious, but in MS10-070: Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure Microsoft classifies it as "Important" rather than "Critical." The vulnerability could allow an attacker to view encrypted state on ASP.NET transactions. Nearly every version of Windows is listed as affected.
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Emergence is the process by which simple interactions give rise to more complex and ordered patterns and systems, such as the intricacies we see in snowflakes. The Beta release of Fedora 14 “Laughlin” similarly provides a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development, integrated into an ordered distribution that anyone can freely download, use, modify, and redistribute.
The Fedora Project is a worldwide community of more than 20,000 collaborators who have signed the Contributor License Agreement....
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Some developers of the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite announced a break from Oracle on Tuesday, introducing a new name for the project and establishing a new foundation to guide its future.
They will distribute a version of the open-source office productivity suite under the name "LibreOffice," under the purview of an independent organization called The Document Foundation.
The move underscores the tensions between the open-source community and Oracle over open-source projects such as OpenOffice.org and the free database application MySQL that were managed...
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Officials in Iran have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm infected at least 30,000 Windows PCs in the country, multiple Iranian news services reported on Saturday.
Experts from Iran's Atomic Energy Organization also reportedly met this week to discuss how to remove the malware.
Stuxnet, considered by many security researchers to be the most sophisticated malware ever , was first spotted in mid-June by VirusBlokAda, a little-known security firm based in Belarus. A month later Microsoft acknowledged that the worm targeted Windows PCs that managed large-scale industrial-control...
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With its seemingly endless parade of shiny new consumer electronic devices, Apple gets more coverage in the mainstream media than any other technology company, more even than larger rivals such as Google and Microsoft, a study released on Sunday by the Pew Research Center states.
And the coverage is largely positive. About 69 percent of the coverage either lauded Apple as innovative or superior, or praised the company's fan base, while only about 17 percent of the coverage focused on the shortcomings of Apple products.
The researchers studied 437 technology related stories...
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Google retained its position as the most sought-after employer among the 130,000 career seekers across the globe.
Universum's global talent attraction index "The World's Most Attractive Employers 2010" released on Tuesday showed that the Internet search giant is facing growing competition from the big four auditing firms KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte.
In the business category, 2010 has been a good year for the auditing industry, as the top four companies now take four out of the top five places in the ranking.
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The company that gave us the BlackBerry - still the dominant phone in corporate circles - thinks its business customers will have room in their briefcases for at least one more device: the PlayBook.
Research in Motion Ltd. showed off the tablet for the first time Monday and is set to launch it early 2011, with an international rollout later in the year. With it RIM is betting on a smaller, lighter device than Apple Inc.'s iPad, which kicked-started the tablet market when it launched in April.
The PlayBook will have a 7-inch screen, making it half the size of the iPad, and...
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Microsoft, we thought you learned your lesson from the from the failure of Bing Cashback. It looks like we were wrong.
Earlier today, Microsoft launched Bing Rewards, a new program that lets users earn credits for performing actions like searching on Bing, making Bing their homepage and testing out new features. The more users perform these actions, the more credits they earn.
Of course, there's a catch -- you have to download the "Bing Bar" (it's a toolbar for Internet Explorer) onto your Windows machine and sign up with a Windows Live ID. We hope you're running...
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In a TechCrunch interview posted online yesterday, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook's goal was to "be everywhere and everything, be social rather than a specific device".
"We're not trying to compete with Apple or the Droid (mobile phone from Motorola) or any other hardware manufacturer for that matter."
Facebook arranged for the interview to dispel speculation that the Palo Alto, California, company was working on a mobile phone.
Mr Zuckerberg told TechCrunch that rumours may have resulted from mistaken interpretation of Facebook's efforts to infuse...
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The annual Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans was announced and the biggest gainer on the the list was Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, whose wealth more than tripled to $6.9 billion, putting him in 35th place.
Bill Gates was ranked the richest person in the United States, with $9 billion more than Warren E. Buffett. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, topped the Forbes list with $54 billion, an increase of $4 billion from last year.
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Maynard Um with UBS Investment Research issued the report as a note to investors Wednesday. After analyzing each of the key players in the race for the "Global Digital Living Room," Um views Apple as a front runner because of its "head start in media-generated content" and strong ecosystems such as the App Store.
Um sees the "Global Digital Living Room," defined as the "ability to move and access content anywhere in the world," as the next step in the consumer market. It's a "holy grail" of seamless cloud-based access to "all types...
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A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Android. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-2884) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against Adobe Flash Player on Windows....
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This morning, Google announced that over 3 million businesses, with over 30 million employees, are using its enterprise Apps product.
Google has made a habit of making these announcements each time it hits a major milestone with apps. In February 2009 Google announced that 1 million businesses and 10 million users were signed up. Since then, Google has made announcements about hitting 15, 20, 25, and now 30 million users.
That makes it pretty simple to get a rough approximation of Google Apps’ growth rate. So how is Google doing?
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Microsoft is warning people of a potentially serious vulnerability in its ASP.NET framework used to create Web sites.
The hole affects all versions of the .NET framework and affects Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008, company said in an advisory released late on Friday.
"At this time we are not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability and we encourage customers to review the advisory for mitigations and workarounds," the company said in a blog post.
Microsoft also provided a script to help administrators determine if their...
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The Nintendo Co. executive leading U.S.-based sales and marketing is leaving to take a job outside the video-game industry.
Executive Vice President Cammie Dunaway's departure from Nintendo of America is effective Oct. 1, the company said today in an e-mailed statement. Nintendo, the maker of the DS handheld and Wii console, did not name a replacement.
"Her team and the rest of Nintendo of America remain focused on our goal of maintaining the incredible momentum Nintendo enjoys heading into the busy holiday season," Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime...
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Verizon Wireless won't offer any models running Microsoft's new mobile operating system when it launches late this year, but will probably launch its first device based on Windows Phone 7 at some point in 2011.
It's possible to regard Verizon's delay releasing a device running this new OS as a problem for Microsoft, but it could be worse. There were unconfirmed reports that there was bad blood between these two companies in the wake of the Microsoft Kin fiasco, and as a result Verizon wouldn't be offering any Windows Phone 7 models at all.
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Yahoo! on Thursday provided a glimpse at the faded Internet search star's future identity that included making its Web pages more personalized and social.
"You are going to see some changes from us," Yahoo! chief product officer Blake Irving promised at a "Project Runway" event at the firm's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
"You are going to see things that happen fast, that are innovative and that make customers and advertisers delighted."
Blake joined Yahoo! a hundred days earlier as part of change brought about by chief executive...
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An input validation issue exists in the QuickTime ActiveX control. An optional parameter '_Marshaled_pUnk' may be passed to the ActiveX control to specify an arbitrary integer that is later treated as a pointer. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed by ignoring the '_Marshaled_pUnk' parameter. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems. Credit to HBelite working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue.
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Today marked the release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5.13 & 3.6.10 Download the latest from here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.htmlSee the release notes here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.10/releasenotes/
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Today we have officially deployed a new version of this site.
We now have new buttons, 240x40 neat buttons.
Also, we have icons for every forum category on the main page. Also, we have new widgets.
Check out much more on the site.
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