Bill Gates Served As Usher at Friend’s Wedding
November 24, 2008
Bill Gates will serve as an usher at the wedding of Charles Simonyi. The wedding took place by the weekend in Sweden, where the future Mrs. Simonyi, Lisa Persdotter, is from. Simonyi is best known for creating Microsoft Office while heading Microsoft’s applications software group, and plus for flyin…
Bill Gates to Serve As Usher at Friend’s Wedding
November 24, 2008
Bill Gates will serve as an usher at the wedding of Charles Simonyi. The wedding will take place that weekend in Sweden, where the future Mrs. Simonyi, Lisa Persdotter, is from. Simonyi is best known as creating Microsoft Office while heading Microsoft’s applications software group, and additionally…
Microsoft May Rename ‘Live Search.” Again.
November 24, 2008
Word on the street is that Microsoft will soon rebrand it’s Live Search. It could be renamed as “Kumo.com,” or possibly “Windows Live Search.” The service was named “Live Search two years ago, and was previously called “MSN Search.”[carousel list=”NewReleases” category=”Books” keywords=”muscle” show…
Tags: Internet, Microsoft;Apple Spent $486 Million On Advertising Last Year
November 21, 2008
One of Apple’s most recent ads slams Microsoft for spending too much on advertising and not decent on “fixing Vista.” But according to a filing with the SEC, Apple spent $486 million on advertising last year.[carousel list=”NewReleases” category=”Books” keywords=”muscle” showBorder=”True” shufflePro…
Tags: Internet, Microsoft;, on advertising;, Securities and Exchange Commission;, USD;Microsoft Now 5th Biggest Spammer ISP - Report
November 21, 2008
The anti-spam group spamhaus.org now lists Microsoft as the 5th biggest spamming ISP in the world. Microsoft itself is not on the list as a spammer. But the group says spammers are “abusing” Microsoft’s live.com and livefilestore.com services to send spam.[carousel list=”NewReleases” category=”Books…
Security Updates in iPhone OS 2.2
November 21, 2008
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Apple has released a tech note regarding safety measure enhancements included in iPhone OS 2.2. Here is a synopsis of the changes that apply to protection for the iPhone and iPod Touch:
CoreGraphics Changes to CoreGraphics prevent maliciously crafted websites from causing unexpected application t…
Tags: 713;, AT&T;, Encryption;, HTML;, Microsoft;, Mobile, Ontario;, SMS;, VPN;David Smith, Orlando, FL USA, Associate Writer
November 20, 2008
Around mid-October Associate Writer Michael Brown wrote an article and cited the old adage that his pa use to say, “use the right tool for the job.” I remember that considering I bought my laptop around the same day for the same reason. I seriously considered buying a netbook. As I went from site to…
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