Google has said that it will stop supporting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer from the start of next month. Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, said that as the web has evolved from ‘simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice’, old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. Sheth said: “Many other companies have already...
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Mozilla clarifies that its planned overhaul of Firefox’s interface will be pushed back to Firefox 4.0, whose major release now will be shipped before the end of 2010. Mozilla previously said it would redesign the look and feel of its open-source browser in a two-step process, with part of the redesign debuting in Firefox 3.7 — a minor refresh scheduled for late in the first quarter of next...
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federal appeals court today ordered Microsoft to stop selling its popular Word software in less than three weeks, rejecting the company’s appeal and confirming the ruling of a lower court. Microsoft will comply with the injunction, a company spokesman said today. "We are moving quickly to comply with the injunction, which takes effect on January 11, 2010," said Kevin Kutz, the director...
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Intel Corp. today launched its next-generation Atom netbook processor, saying it will bring longer battery life and improved system performance to low-cost laptops. The single-core Atom N450 chip is 60% smaller than other Atom processors, and consumes close to 20% less power, said Anil Nanduri, director of netbook marketing at Intel. The chip draws about 5.5 watts of power, according to an Intel specification...
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The MySQL developer community has released the first public iteration of what will be the next version of MySQL, version 5.5. MySQL database administrators are encouraged to test MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2, code-named "Betony," though not run it on their production systems yet.
"The new features in this release are of beta quality. As with any other pre-production release, caution should...
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Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google. The companies announced the agreement, in which Microsofts Bing search engine would power Yahoo’s search results and Yahoo would provide premium search-advertising services for both companies, in July.
They had hoped to finalize the deal in late October...
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Why Google Public DNS?
As web pages become more complex and include more resources from multiple origin domains, clients need to perform multiple DNS lookups to render a single page. The average Internet user performs hundreds of DNS lookups each day, slowing down his or her browsing experience. As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure.
Since Google’s...
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Everyone Please Beware of a new look alike Facebook which is on your News Feed right now that is asking “I have just completed my account verification!! Facebook, because of the strong slowdown of the servers in this month, is closing many accounts.Click here to save your account“. Please don’t click on this application until Facebook Security tells us this is Safe Application.
If...
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A massive spam campaign that poses as a message from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asking people to register for H1N1 vaccinations remains a big problem today, a security researcher said. The messages lead unwary users to a convincing-looking CDC site where they’re asked to create a profile in order to receive a vaccination for the swine flu, which has made headlines for both its aggressive...
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IDG News Service – ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist.
Rather than return an error message for DNS (Domain Name System) requests for nonexistent domains, some DNS operators send back the IP (Internet...
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