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A vulnerability in Microsoft’s software for housing Web sites is now being used for “limited attacks” on the servers it’s running on, the company said Friday. Microsoft disclosed the Internet Information Services (IIS) vulnerability on Monday and said Friday it’s still working on a security update to fix the problem. In the meantime, the advisory has [...] YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top movie studios about obtaining licenses to stream feature films on a rental basis. YouTube is discussing the service with Sony Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., and Warner Bros. Studios, according to a story published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. This is a natural [...] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IPhone maker Apple Inc told U.S. regulators it has not approved Google Inc’s Voice application, which could challenge the wireless industry’s giants, because it interferes with the iPhone “user experience.” Apple told the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Friday that the Google app appears to replace the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality and [...] Offering a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux turned out not to be such a simple matter after all. The CentOS project aims to reproduce Red Hat’s tested, supported, and certified version of the operating system, without its per-server subscription fees. Because RHEL is open-source software, it’s theoretically possible for an outsider to select the [...] Bryan Wagner, the would-be private detective who helped Hewlett-Packard spy on technology journalists in 2006, will soon be sentenced, according to a story by The Associated Press. Former HP chairwoman Patty Dunn leaving court in October 2006. Charges of identity theft and conspiracy would later be dropped. (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET News) Wagner admitted in 2007 to taking part [...] Many people have complained lately about AT&T’s network problems. My solution to spotty 3G data coverage: switch to Verizon. // The Verizon MiFi is a cigarette pack size portable access point. It takes the cellular data from Verizon and rebroadcasts it as Wi-Fi. There’s also a version for Sprint’s data network, if that works better in [...] Image via CrunchBase Google’s Hal Varian would likely have raised an eyebrow at a term paper submitted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the search market. Varian, currently on leave from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as Google’s chief economist, thinks a lot of the arguments advanced by Microsoft in justifying its 10-year deal [...] After two Twitter outages this week, the service is encountering another issue Wednesday afternoon as many users are reporting they can get to the microblogging site, but their feeds are not being updated. Although users could add updates to the site, their tweets were not apparent to others on the site, according to several users contacted [...] Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML,” according to a statement released by [...] |
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