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16th July 2011 Archive

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  • Hey! My friend is sending spam

    Hotmail intros early warning system

    Microsoft is introducing an early warning system for Hotmail users to report suspicions that friend’s email accounts have been hacked. Individual reports are checked against a compromise detection engine to determine if the account has been hijacked. If something is amiss the account is suspended - rendering it useless for a …

    Networks 16 Jul 01:00

  • Microsoft rolls out One Big Windows strategy

    Phone, tablet, smartphone united?

    Is Microsoft preparing one Windows operating system for PCs, tablets, and smartphones? Reading between the lines of what Microsoft execs told 15,000 of the company's partners during their annual conference event this week, it appears that a unified Windows is indeed on the way. But it's unclear how far it will go. The company …

    Operating Systems 16 Jul 03:26

  • Oz DNA tester’s privacy shocker

    Some people shouldn't be let near Web servers

    In a facepalm, forehead-slap, hang-your-head-in-shame howler, South Australian DNA testing company Medvet has left its online customer accounts system open to being indexed by Google. As reported by The Australian, the search engine’s crawlers have dutifully recorded customer invoices including addresses and, in some cases, …

    Science 16 Jul 05:00

  • Sony KDL-40CX523 LCD TV

    Review Budget Bravia with on-line telly trimmings

    The Bravia KDL-40CX523 is the little net-connected TV that could. Consigned to somewhere near the bottom of Sony’s 2011 line-up, and cursed with a CCFL backlight instead of trendy LED bulbs, it’s clearly not one of the brand’s hero products. Yet this transpires to be a quite a desirable gogglebox. Fat panel display: Sony's …

    reghardware 16 Jul 07:00

  • Samsung Chromebook: The $499 Google thought experiment

    Review Oh, Google! You're so Googly!

    The most amazing thing about Google's inaugural Chromebooks is that they come with a file manager. It's not much of a file manager, but it's relatively easy to find, and it gives you relatively quick access to the files you've download, or screenshots you've taken, or documents on a thumb drive you've plugged into the USB port …

    reghardware 16 Jul 07:19

  • Beyonce bigs up girls in space

    Inspirational message to Atlantis crew

    The crew of space shuttle Atlantis were this morning treated to a wake-up call from Beyonce Knowles, who blasted out a snippet of Run the World (Girls) followed by a salute to women in space. She said: “Good morning, Atlantis! This is Beyonce. Sandy, Chris, Doug and Rex, you inspire all of us to dare to live our dreams, to …

    Space 16 Jul 15:11