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Genting gets social with Web 2.0
News The Malaysian enterprise is rolling out this week a customized collaborative network for board and senior management to work and share ideas more productively.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications, Web logs, Digital media, Software engineering/development, Software integration, phone, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, podcast, chairman
S'pore Wi-Fi hotspots protected from lawsuits
News As long as operators of public Internet access areas aren't complicit in security breaches, they won't be liable in eyes of Singapore's law, says lawyer.
Tags: Regulations, 802.11/Wi-Fi, U.K., network, Lawsuit, Singapore, Internet Service, intellectual property, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi network
Three-strikes piracy deterrent not for S'pore
News Anti-piracy law won't be implemented in Singapore as existing laws are sufficient, and will also be difficult to implement, say industry watchers.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Regulations, environmental scan, Sledgehammer, Survey, Piracy, Music, Singapore, intellectual property, e-mail
How confidential is confidential?
Blogs Although this post is about the Aware's instructor guide, I would like to state from the outset that I am not going to c...
Do we need more delivery centers?
Blogs As I wrote a while back in about "racing to subsidies", there certainly is an increased focus by governments to attract ...
Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation
News Coders find way to disable normal activation requirements of Microsoft's latest operating system, although Redmond says it is working to shore up antipiracy protections.
Tags: Windows 7, Piracy, Malware, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., software, Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 7, antipiracy, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft patching zero-day Windows 7 SMB hole
News Company warns customers that exploit code for the Server Message Block hole is available and suggests a workaround until a patch is ready.
Tags: Windows 7, PC security, Network security, Server platforms, Server Message Block, TCP, Trustworthy Computing, Computer, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7
Bing's iPhone plans (and more)
News Bowing to reality, Microsoft is working on a Bing iPhone app, although it won't say when the software will be ready or just which features it will have.
Tags: Search, Mobile platforms, search engine optimization, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Live Search, Phone, Microsoft Corp., software, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile
Spammy scams surfacing on Twitter, Facebook
News Users on Twitter report direct messages that lead to phishing page, while Facebook users are getting links to a malware site.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Facebook, Phishing, Google Inc., Malware, Twitter Inc., Phishing Web Site, Password, e-mail
Symbian's Horizon app scheme goes live
News First 50 applications have been approved through the developer program, but all are for current versions of Symbian rather than future, open sourced versions.
Tags: Mobile applications, Symbian, Facebook, Symbian Inc., Operating System, CEO, mobile, Mobile applications, Video, mobile operating system
Apple acknowledges Snow Leopard data loss issue
News Company says it is aware of a problem related to guest account log-ins that "occurs only in extremely rare cases" and it does not yet have a fix for it.
Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., guest account, cell phone, CBS Interactive Inc., mobile, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, discussion board
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
News A new page off user's Google Account settings lets them review all the data the company has stored regarding that account, and make changes or delete data.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Blogger, Google Inc., Google Picasa, Web sites, Internet search, Dashboard, YouTube Inc., YouTube Video
US White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports
News Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.
Tags: Data security, E-mail servers, Security Management, E-mail Address, Republican, e-mail, aide, White House, health care, Sen.
Macs: No longer last bastion of invulnerability
Blogs Last week, a friend of mine pointed me to an online promotion for some software for the MacBook that I own. It was a sui...
