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Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was set up to give web developers and designers a taste of what’s coming mainly in terms of standards support, Beta 2 is built to wow end users and, in this context, will deliver features beyond what is available in the first public development milestone, WebSlices and Activities.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to hit sometime in August, but although the IE team
is still hammering at the release, the fact is that as early as mid June 2008, features were no longer added to the milestone. On June 19, Chris Wilson, the Platform Architect for IE revealed that: “we’re still improving quality by fixing bugs in Beta 2, but we’re not implementing new features at this point for the Beta 2 release”.

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The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday–an entire week before the device goes on sale.

Frankly, one shouldn’t encourage such behavior by actually covering it. But if I were in Manhattan–instead of Austin, Texas–I, too, would have interviewed them in person by now.

The queue outside of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store, covered first by GearDiary and then Engadget, apparently hasn’t been formed by iPhone co-dependents, though.

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On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. The features are designed to combat the rising tide of drive-by downloads and malicious scripts contained within carefully crafted links embedded in e-mail and Web pages. Most of the new features require systems to be running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows XP SP3.

Perhaps the most anticipated addition is Internet Explorer’s new antimalware protection.  Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 both recently added antimalware protection. Safari has so far not announced plans for similar protection. Using mostly its own antimalware technology, Microsoft will block emerging threats by masking the entire IE 8 browser screen with a warning to users. The addition of malware protection to the existing antiphishing protection will be re-branded as the Microsoft SmartScreen filter.

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A fresh look at Yahoo’s search results Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine.

Such a question is rather important to Yahoo investors, given the Internet search pioneer has given a cold shoulder to Microsoft, which has previously expressed interest in buying Yahoo’s search assets. Yahoo, however, rebuffed the offer, noting in its investor presentation that selling its search assets, including its algorithmic search, would:

Jeopardize the Yahoo user experience and make it difficult for Yahoo to maintain search and display volume.

But Heather Hopkins, vice president of research for Hitwise, noted in her blog that Yahoo’s valuable sites would not necessarily fair poorly without Yahoo’s search engine.

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The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home page, with a link to the company’s privacy policy.

With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, which requires the operator of a commercial Web site that collects personal information to link to its privacy policy from its home page.

When The New York Times wrote in May that Google appeared to be violating the law, Google said that it did not believe that it was required to put a link on its home page. The company said that its privacy policy was easy enough to find, either on the page called “About Google” or by searching for “Google privacy policy” on its search engine.

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It would seem that Google Calendar is plagued by all sorts of problems, the most recent of them being phishing attacks. Google representatives ask users to ignore suspicious messages and click the “Report Phishing” button instead of reading the message, opening links included in the message or downloading any attachments.

Phillip Lessen was one of the first to receive such a message. It was entitled “[Invitation] VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT” and seemed to be sent by Google’s customer care. Read the rest of this entry →

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the European Commission are close to coming to a conclusion in an agreement that would allow the American organization to access private EU citizen data such as credit card history and frequently visited web pages. Privacy organizations are strongly contesting this agreement and say they will sue the EU Commission.

Privacy International’s director, Simon Davies, had this to say: “It is very much on the cards for Privacy International, or one of the other civil rights organizations, to take legal action against Brussels. It would depend very much on how the framework has been established. We will have to see the text, consult the legal experts and see where we stand.”

The EU Commission and the FBI are adopting a very “cloak-and-dagger” approach and have yet to disclose any relevant information about the agreement. Simon Davies continues: “One of the key problems is the secrecy which has surrounded the terms. We have no knowledge about where our information will flow once it reaches the U.S. In all respects, this is a bad deal for Europeans. It plays into the hands of the U.S. in the worst possible way.”

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In the past couple of weeks we have seen a serious increase in SQL injection attacks. Although Microsoft and HP have provided ample guidance and tools to solve the problem with, there are still sites out there that get infected. The latest web page to be attacked is the ATP site (short for Association for Tennis Professionals). With the Wimbledon tournament at full throttle, a growing amount of people is expected to visit the ATP web page and potentially get infected.

Fraser Howard, main virus researcher with Sophos (company that specializes in providing antispam and antivirus software solutions) comments: “With the Wimbledon tournament taking place at the moment, the ATP website will be receiving a spike in visitors - but any tennis fan visiting the infected pages on the site risks being served straight into a crook’s criminal racket.” Read the rest of this entry →

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Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group held a meeting with a number of journalists this week. The VP used this opportunity to present its predictions in regard to Intel’s future, making four assumptions that set Intel as part of every segment of computing. Gelsinger also presented four of Intel’s milestones which were: the introduction of 32-bit technology with the 386 microprocessor, the CISC-RISC debate, the shift to the multi-core technology and the power of compatibility with the so-called Intel Architecture. Gelsinger’s predictions were:

1. Moore’s Law will continue to drive the industry. On that note, Gelsinger said that: “We have a good view of what 14[-nm] and [15-nm] will look like, and a good idea of how we’ll break through 10[-nm]. Beyond that, we’re not sure.”
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Euforia EURO 2008 akan segera berakhir dimana hanya menyisakan dua kandidat juara antara Jerman dengan Spanyol. siapakah yang akan menjadi juara?

tim-tim yang difavoritkan juara hanya terhenti sampai perempat final seperti Belanda secara mengejutkan dikalahkan oleh Rusia dengan skor telak 3-0 ini memuluskan jalan Rusia ke semifinal untuk kali pertama dalam 2 kali keikutsertaannya di EUFA Euro, Perancis yang tersingkir pada putaran grup, Juara Piala Dunia Italy tim kesayangan saya harus menelan pil pahit dikalahkan Spanyol lewat adu pinalti.

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