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Is Toshiba's HD-DVD laptop feeling blue?: Now that HD-DVD has imploded, I've been wondering what will happen to the company's highly-rated Qosmio G45, the first laptop in the U.S. to offer an HD-DVD player and recorder. HD-DVD may be a perfectly good storage format, but let's face it, not many will plunk...; Tags: Toshiba Qosmio, Retail Version, HD-DVD, Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, G45 Series, Hd Dvd, Notebooks, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Processors, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-02-22
WordPal Vocabulary Builder (exe): Six types of challenging quizzes, plus 3-way flashcards to rapidly improve your vocabulary and verbal test scores. The full retail version includes over 8500 unique questions, 3600 words, 500 word topics, and more than 200 Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes. Each word in the vocabulary database contains a definition,...; Tags: Retail Version, Word, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2007-11-15
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots Trial Version (exe): Play through the tutorial and then get a taste of the Alexander the Great campaign. In the trial version, gamers can choose between four nations the Persians from the expansion pack, and three others from the original game. Players will be able to play through the tutorial and then get...; Tags: Retail Version, Trial Version, Gamer, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2007-08-21
(Images: Which copy of XP is the fake?): (Images: Which copy of XP is the fake?)Tell us whyIs it because of the red seal?...Can't zoom in on the email to reveal minute details?Patricia Gammagetypical "news"Not very informative, as prior poster pointed out. Between the distance and the shine off the wrapping... There are also two rectangular white...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, OEM, Microsoft Corp., retail version, Microsoft Windows XP; Discussion threads 2007-01-22
Civilization IV software development kit (zip): This kit was released by Fireaxis in order to facilitate the making of mods and tweaks for Civilization 4. It requires the full retail version of Civilization IV.; Tags: Software, Retail Version, SDK; Software downloads 2006-07-19

GT Racing 2002 (F1 2002) (exe): GT Racing 2002 is an incredibly sophisticated modification for EA's F1 2002. It features new cars, new sounds, new tracks, and pretty much new everything. To install the GT Racing 2002 mod, you must have the full retail version of F1 2002.; Tags: Retail Version, GT Racing 2002; Software downloads 2003-10-23

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Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing: On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users: Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...; Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-07-25
iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup: Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available: The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer: Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops: Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T: Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...; Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot; News items 2008-07-25
News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs: Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...; Tags: Elop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed: The Nokia N96 was revealed back in January and should be hitting the streets in the next couple of months. I guess I haven't been following the S60 rumors closely enough lately and was a bit caught off guard by the post that Ricky made regarding the Samsung i8510INNOV8 S60...; Tags: Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Mobile Device, Camera, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft buys DATAllegro: Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year: Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer IE 8 to the Web "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-24