Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2009
WD announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive – the world’s highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD’s popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based on WD’s industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2009
Security software firm Intego reports that pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 may contain a variant of the “trojan horse” malware first reported in copies of Apple iWork ‘09.
The malware is called OSX.Trojan.iServices.B. It affects some copies of Adobe Photoshop that are being distributed through pirate software sites. According to Intego, “The actual Photoshop installer [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2009
Microsoft has finally made available the first release candidate version of Internet Explorer 8. The release has been made available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft said that they have improved reliability, performance, and compatibility in the RC version. It also comes with the ‘clickjacking‘ protection.
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2009
Monster Worldwide has disclosed that cybercriminals broke into its database and stole Monster.com user IDs and passwords, e-mail addresses, names, phone numbers and some demographic information.
The data stolen in the Monster breach can be used by cybercriminals to uncover other personal details and to create targeted phishing attacks.
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2009
The Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that it will allow users to be able to edit their reference library to keep it up to date. Under the new plan, it will allow readers and contributing experts to maintain the entries posted online.
Britannica’s president, Jorge Cauz, said: “What we are trying to do is shifting … to a [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 26, 2009
Microsoft anounced that they are going to merge their Office Live and Windows Live services under a common brand name.
Microsoft said they have made the decision to converge Windows Live and Office Live, that includes Office Live Workspace and Office Live Small Business, into an integrated set of services delivered through one single destination. [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 26, 2009
Lenovo has stated that they have no plans to cut any more jobs in the near future.
Lenovo CEO William Amelio said in a statement: “We don’t plan further lay-offs. I’m confident that with what we’ve done right now we have been able to get ourselves efficient.”
Amelio added: “We are looking at all opportunities that are [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 26, 2009
Pfizer Inc. is close to an agreement to acquire rival drug maker Wyeth for $68 billion in a cash-and-stock deal that could be announced as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Pfizer will pay the equivalent of $50.19 per share for Wyeth – comprising $33 in cash and 0.985 of a share of [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 26, 2009
Internet seucirty company Intego said that it has found a Trojan horse in pirated copies of Apple Inc.’s iWork ‘09 application suite that could enable a hacker to seize control over the victim’s computer.
The Trojan, codenamed as “OSX.Trojan.iServices.A”, was found circulating in pirated copies of the suite available on BitTorrent trackers and other such [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 26, 2009
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced that it will have a new, low-power Opteron processor to its Shanghai line roadmap, to be released in the second quarter of the year. AMD said the need to build lower-power chips is driven by the rise of computing cloud centers.
AMD has launched five new 45nm quad-core Opteron HE [...]
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