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Founder of WorldCom sentenced to 25 years in federal prison

Former WorldCom founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for his role in the massive accounting fraud that brought down the telecom giant, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Read More
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Two new interesting features of Longhorn

Tom's Hardware has a great article on two new features from Longhorn that will be interesting to modders and power gamers.

The first and most comprehensive of the two features is a tool called the Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSat). This is essentially a benchmarking tool designed into Windows, which generates scores based on system performance.

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Microsoft Security Advisory

Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer. We have not been made aware of any attacks attempting to use the reported vulnerability or customer impact at this time, but we are aggressively investigating the public report. Read More
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Google leaps up FT Global 500 ranks

Google's phenomenal share price advance makes the internet search group now one of the world's 100 largest companies with a market capitalisation of more than $50bn, according to the updated version of the FT Global 500 rankings. Read More
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Gates outlines the future of software

Web services will have a "catalytic effect" on software development; speech recognition will go mainstream in three to four years; search capabilities will feature richer, clearer interfaces; and security, well, Bill Gates is not about to let security get in the way of his digital vision. Read More
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Google adds playback to video search

When Google expanded their video search function to include user-uploadable videos, many of us wondered exactly where this video search thing was going. When you combine yesterday's announcement that Google Video is offering an in-browser video playback feature for viewing video search results with the fact that you can choose to offer your uploaded content for a fee, the direction becomes much more clear. If Hollywood won't offer video on demand, then Google will. But before I break out the crystal ball, let's go over how the video service works.

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Fake news spread by worm

THE LATEST Kedebe-F worm has been fooling users into downloading its poison payload by pretending to come from news sites.

 

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Google Earth: So that's what my house looks like from space.

Nary a day goes by without another announcement from Google, the search engine titan. First news, then mail, followed by maps, local, TV, video , desktops and even an aborted attempt at making your browsing faster. What else is left but the Earth itself?

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Inventor of the Microchip passed away

There are few men whose insights and professional accomplishments have changed the world. Jack Kilby is one of these men. His invention of the monolithic integrated circuit - the microchip - some 45 years ago at Texas Instruments (TI) laid the conceptual and technical foundation for the entire field of modern microelectronics. It was this breakthrough that made possible the sophisticated high-speed computers and large-capacity semiconductor memories of today's information age.

 

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Longhorn home server on the way

Computer software giant Microsoft will release the beta version of its long-talked-about Longhorn Server in August, at about the same time that it releases the beta for the Longhorn desktop OS, Senior Vice President Bob Muglia said earlier this week in an online chat. Read More
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