Treat all smartphones as uncontrolled endpoints. Smartphone users' identities can be stolen, hacked or inappropriately shared. Smartphones can get lost, stolen or borrowed. Device identification technology uses serial number information to allow organizations to associate a specific smartphone to a specific user. This provides a watermark for the device, and allows IT to remotely disable it and erase all sensitive data.
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We were in San Francisco yesterday as Microsoft unveiled the latest beta of Internet Explorer 9 and, like many present, we were impressed. From everything we saw, it was all it was hyped up to be - visually stunning, fast and full-featured. Then came the one, big catch - it's only available for Windows 7.
The Register says that it got the official word from Microsoft and if Internet Explorer 9 is something you want, then Windows XP just isn't going to do.
Want to boost the world's sagging economies? Here's one strategy: if governments reduced the piracy rate for computer software by 2.5 percent each year over the next four, it would stimulate most nations to the tune of $142 billion, add almost half a million new high tech jobs, and produce about $32 billion in new tax revenues by 2013.This assessment comes from the Business Software Alliance's new study: The Economic Benefits of Reducing Software Piracy, which tracks the phenomenon in 42 countries that represent almost the entire global market for software.
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Plenty of trackers open for signup and the good news just keeps coming in. AfterTorrentLeech and TorrentGui earlier this month, SuperTorrents (ST) is the latest private tracker to join in on the PS3 jailbreak celebration bandwagon. ST has opened public registrations for a limited time and new members are now able to create an account without needing an invite code. Having featured this site numerous times on this blog, we assume that most of our readers are/were members of the tracker. In case you haven’t visited SuperTorrents in a while, this is not the same old ST we are talking about.
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Nearly half of 7,000 adults surveyed in 14 countries around said they felt it “legal” to download a single music track, album or movie without paying (17%, 14%, and 15% respectively), proving that suing file-sharers isn’t a good idea when it likely means targeting so many of your customers.
I’m not sure what he says about the people involved, but according to the recent Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact a number of people actually think it’s “legal” to download copyrighted material online without permission.
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Music lovers and especially trance and progressive music fans have a new place where they can go for free downloads. The new niche file sharing site called Zeduga offers a nice, clean layout, free of annoying ads and with a good searching system.
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Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to mark the launch of the open beta for Internet Explorer 9, a web browser the company promises will “beautify the web.”
The IE9 beta launches today here at the Design Concourse Center in San Francisco with a major gala that includes hundreds of developers, journalists and Microsoft employees, as well as a live band playing on pedestals in the lobby.
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In an attempt to protect the Russian nongovernmental organizations and the independent news media from attacks by authorities who accuse them of violating Microsoft's copyrights, the company will temporarily legalize their pirated software.
What Microsoft will actually do is issue a “unilateral NGO software license” that will be covering NGOs' software automatically, until 2012, according to Microsoft’s senior vice president Brad Smith.
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Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open. All devices that support HDCP, like Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and displays with HDMI inputs, have their own set of keys to encrypt and decrypt protected data and if keys for a particular device are compromised, they can be revoked by content released in the future which will then refuse to play.
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SystemRescueCd 1.6.0 has been released bringing new Linux kernels as well as some updated packages. X.Org has been updated as well as the Linux NTFS driver.
SystemRescueCd's main packages, GParted and partimage have also been updated.
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A military program named for and inspired by the superhero Batman is bringing together advanced technologies to equip Special Forces soldiers for the 21st century.
Started by the Air Force in 2004, BATMAN – short for Battlefield Air Targeting Man-Aided Knowledge – aims to modernize the gear that commandos take with them on covert missions.
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Microsoft's top lawyer said on Monday that the company is taking action in the wake of a report that its antipiracy efforts have been used by the Russian government as a means to monitor computers of dissident groups in that country.
In a blog post, general counsel Brad Smith said that the company is hiring an outside law firm to investigate a report in The New York Times that the Russian government has used Microsoft's antipiracy efforts as a pretext to search computers of potential dissidents and, separately, that some lawyers hired by Microsoft have worked with corrupt police to shake down businesses over the piracy issue.
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Windows 7 has been around for almost a year now, but lots of people are still sticking with Windows XP. Now, Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on Windows XP sales. No! Really! They mean it this time. Would they lie to you? Just because Microsoft has extended XP sales over and over again doesn't mean that they'll keep selling XP forever. Well, yes, they are supporting XP for years more to come, but this time -- cross their hearts and hope to die -- Microsoft really is killing XP sales on October 22, 2010. Some companies, noticeably Dell, are pulling the plug on XP even sooner.
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I've been trying to remember if Meg told me that his sister was a lawyer. I'm not sure, it was either lawyer or prostitute. I can't remember exactly but
Re: Last one to post wins the internets
Can't blame the confusion - they're almost the same thing - but prostitutes are cheaper and will stop fucking you after you're dead.
anon Today, 05:20 PM