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Even after many high-profile hacking and phishing attacks on social networking accounts, and constant messages urging people to be vigilant, the biggest problem with web security is still weak passwords. Speaking at South by South West Interactive, an industry panel of security engineering managers from Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft discussed the approaches they use to secure their web services. Del Harvey is Director of Trust and Safety at Twitter.

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Do you want to make Internet Explorer safer and more helpful for you and family? Then join us as we look at the CEOP ( Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre ) enhanced version of Internet Explorer 8. Setting CEOP Up We chose to install the whole CEOP pack in order to have access to complete set of CEOP Tools.

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It hasn’t been a good week for Microsoft’s updates to Office . Today, Microsoft came clean on some problems with a recently released seven-patch update for Excel. Apparently, users are seeing Chinese where they’d normally expect to see English. This comes on top of an early faux pas in an update for Office 2007 that caused it to crash under certain circumstances

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In what ranked as a poor month in overall console sales, analyst group NPD reports Microsoft’s Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo’s Wii console in February. In doing so, the Xbox 360 claimed the top spot in U.S. monthly sales, a feat it hasn’t achieved in over two years.

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Microsoft might well be right–the Internet does go “bing”! comScore’s reporting that Microsoft’s Bing search engine saw a jump in use in February . More a lower-case “b” jump than a capital “B” jump, but a jump nonetheless. comScore’s Core Search Report for February shows Goggle by far in the lead of search providers with 65.5 percent of all search queries, edging up slightly from its January total of 65.4 percent. Yahoo! was in second place with 16.8 percent of all search queries, down from 17.0 percent. Number three Bing was still number three with 11.5 percent of all searches, which was 0.2 points higher than in January.

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As a warning, it’s not all that dire, but it is a wake-up call for Windows XP users–newer hardware just might make your XP life a bit less comfortable. In this case, hard drives coming out starting January 2011 will have a new formatting standard that will make them less compatible with XP , and will result in performance slowdowns. It’s a change that makes sense, and is probably long overdue.

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The perfect device for leprechauns The Sony Vaio P is a weird device. It’s much smaller than a netbook, but much better-equipped. It has wireless broadband access from Verizon, onboard GPS, a ThinkPad-style pointing stick, and an eye-straining high-resolution screen. It’s also incredibly expensive. So who exactly is the Vaio P for

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MSN Video Player has been a big enough success through a pilot scheme to be launched as a major new product, and Microsoft is not ruling out offering the service to television manufacturers, on Xbox and through the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Series. A million people have already used the ad-funded and free MSN Video Player in beta to watch full-length programmes, trailers and clips, enough of an audience to convince the portal that the service has the appeal to become a key asset for Microsoft. With users staying for an average of 25 minutes – far more than major catch-up services like ITV Player and 4OD – and advertisers champing at the bit to buy up pre-roll adverts before the features, Microsoft has now sealed deals with the likes of Endemol and Shed Media to expand their offering further. Thousand hours “We are expanding our catalogue to over 1,000 hours,” explained MSN’s Rob Crossen. “We’ve signed a number of new deals…we’ve gone out there and sourced content that appeals to our audience.

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GAOFD site is giving away the popular Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal software for a limited period of time. Paragon Virtualization Manager Personal helps you easily migrate Windows-based computer to a virtual environment and vice versa. Key features: # Migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V) # Migrate from a virtual environment to physical (V2P) # Virtualize system from its backup image (P2V) # Migrate from one virtual environment to another (V2V) # Recover the OS startup ability after system migration to a different hardware or unsuccessful virtualization by a 3rd party tool (P2P and P2V Adjust) # Clone a partition or an entire hard disk # Exchange data between your physical environment and the virtual one, or between a virtual disk and its snapshots # Accomplish virtual drive partitioning (create, format, delete, move, resize etc.)

Internet Explorer 8 is without doubt the best browser Microsoft has ever produced, but it still has a few problems. In particular, you may find its performance tails off over time, pages can suddenly take ages to load, and you might even find it crashes unexpectedly. The reason?

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