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Microsoft joins Icahn in Yahoo battle

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 8, 2008

Microsoft said it is interested in reopening acquisition talks with Yahoo! or a possible search deal if shareholders tell Jerry Yang and Company to step down on Aug. 1. The confirmation followed Carl Icahn’s shareholder letter suggesting the same.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Ichan that he felt the current board would mismanage Yahoo and that [...]

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10 Beta

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 8, 2008

Adobe Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.
This public prerelease is an [...]

Merriam-Webster has added 100 new words and some new meanings to old words in its latest dictionary.
Among them, “avatar”, which is an electronic image representing and manipulated by a computer user. “Lurk” is to read messages on an internet discussion forum without contributing information.
Other techie term that made it to the list are: [...]

Microsoft said that attackers are exploiting a zero-day ActiveX vulnerability in the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.
The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to exploit the ActiveX control through Internet Explorer with a specially crafted Web page. The attacker can potentially gain the same user rights as the logged-on user via remote code execution.
The [...]

D-Link announced it is offering a ’Buy One, Get One Free’ promotion on many of its most popular switches, including models from the award-winning xStack series, nationwide July 1 through August 31, 2008.
The bold D-Link promotion represents a savings of $699 to $3,999, depending on model, and is available when one unit is purchased at [...]


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