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MySpace Moves into the Music Business
Posted by:ryzilla 1337 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
In April, MySpace confirmed that it had agreed to create a joint venture with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. The music companies agreed to take equity sta READ MORE ...
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Simple Services Let You Keep Web Passwords Safe
Posted by:ryzilla 1337 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Your mother’s maiden name is a matter of public record. If a site asks for it, don’t tell the truth; type in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Or if it asks the name of your first school, say it was Sing Sing pri READ MORE ...
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Skyfire Browser Ready for Windows Mobile Devices
Posted by:ryzilla 1342 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Startup Skyfire has made the latest beta version of its mobile Web browser available for testing on Windows Mobile devices. Skyfire says the browser is full-featured and presents the Web the same way READ MORE ...
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Chrome Users Return to Internet Explorer, Firefox
Posted by:ryzilla 1343 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
The shine is gone as some Google Chrome users return to Internet Explorer and Firefox just three weeks after the Chrome browser’s launch. Net Applications found Chrome use down substantially from the READ MORE ...
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Advertisers Want Google-Yahoo Deal Blocked
Posted by:ryzilla 1343 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Google and Yahoo’s proposed ad deal is causing worldwide flak. The World Federation of Advertisers has weighed in, asking the EU to block the Google-Yahoo ad deal because it will up ad prices and hur READ MORE ...
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Google Can Sort Your Photos on Face Value
Posted by:ryzilla 1348 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Facial-recognition applications are a growing phenomenon. Authorities in Germany and England are testing computerized facial recognition in conjunction with new biometric passports. Passengers go thr READ MORE ...
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Malware, Spyware, Spamware Everywhere: Beware
Posted by:ryzilla 1349 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Security is now seen as synonymous with computer security. But it is actually a much larger concept and has to do with information and anything that carries that information: computers, hard-disk dri READ MORE ...
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MintyIT Blog » Microsoft, Cray Partner on Low-Cost Supercomputer
Posted by:ryzilla 1349 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Microsoft and Cray launched the Cray CX1 supercomputer, the most affordable Cray supercomputer ever made. Microsoft and Cray say the Cray CX1’s goal is to bring high-performance computing (HPC) into READ MORE ...
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MintyIT Blog » T-Mobile’s Android-Based Dream Expected Next Month
Posted by:ryzilla 1350 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
T-Mobile will begin selling the HTC Dream, the world’s first Android-based phone, by the end of October, a newspaper says. T-Mobile could ship up to 700,000 of HTC’s Android phones. Prices are unknow READ MORE ...
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The EU Scrutinizes Google-Yahoo Merge
Posted by:ryzilla 1350 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) asked the EU’s Competition Directorate to investigate the proposed Google-Yahoo ad partnership. WAN fears the Google-Yahoo ad deal will give Google too much READ MORE ...
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MintyIT Blog » Intel’s Six-Core Xeon 7400 Allows Up To 96 Processors
Posted by:ryzilla 1350 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Intel’s new six-core Xeon 7400 CPU is designed for virtualization and transaction processing. Up to 16 of Intel’s Xeon 7400s can be placed on a system board for the equivalent of 96 processors in one READ MORE ...
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MintyIT Blog » Why Bill Gates Couldn’t Win the War Against Spam
Posted by:ryzilla 1351 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
One Internet security company’s research found that people are making repeat purchases from spam merchants, and many buy more than two types of products. So from a spammer’s perspective, there is a g READ MORE ...
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Google’s Chrome Browser Challenges Microsoft’s IE8
Posted by:ryzilla 1364 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Google is introducing a beta version of Chrome, its Web browser that it says can run the next generation of apps that are not possible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and other browsers. Google’s READ MORE ...
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New Beta of Internet Explorer 8 Ready for Download
Posted by:ryzilla 1369 days ago • 1 Comment • http://blog.mintyit.com
A second beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is ready to be downloaded by consumers for streamlined browsing. Suggested Sites, a Windows Live Search address bar, Web Slices, and crashes contained READ MORE ...
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Woman Sues Apple over iPhone 3G Issues
Posted by:ryzilla 1376 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Birmingham, Alabama resident Jessica Smith is seeking class-action status for her lawsuit against Apple, alleging that Apple’s iPhone 3G is defective. Apple’s iPhone 3G has met with complaints about READ MORE ...
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Prosecutors: Cyber Law Applies to MySpace Suicide Case
Posted by:ryzilla 1383 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
“Cyberbullying is a relatively new phenomenon, as is social networking,†Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause wrote in a legal brief. “It is, therefore, not surprising that there have been relatively READ MORE ...
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Bringing Banking to the Poor With Mobile Phones
Posted by:ryzilla 1385 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Hurdles remain for wider use of mobile banking. Mobile carriers must have broad enough coverage to connect urban and rural users, as many remittances come from urban migrants sending money back to th READ MORE ...
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Intel’s New ‘Nehalem’ Chip Gets a Name: Core i7
Posted by:ryzilla 1386 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Intel named its first desktop processor based on the Nehalem architecture “Intel Core i7.†Intel’s Core i7 is the first of the Nehalem-based products designed for high performance. Intel Core i7 proc READ MORE ...
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New Security Risk: Hackers Target Google Gadgets
Posted by:ryzilla 1387 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Google is fighting a common problem facing social-networking Web sites and other sites that encourage users to spruce up their pages with little knickknacks that reach out to the outside world to del READ MORE ...
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Spam Masks Itself as News To Evade Filters
Posted by:ryzilla 1391 days ago • 1 Comment • http://blog.mintyit.com
The e-mails can carry a wide variety of headlines, usually something sensationalistic. Examples include “Negotiations between USA and Iran end in war,†“Dog digs grave for owner†and “Will Smith foun READ MORE ...
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Simple Security Steps for Average Mac Users
Posted by:ryzilla 1397 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Protecting System Preferences will only get you so far. There is another level down you can go. Go back to System Preferences and select the Security Preference Pane, then select the Firewall tab. Th READ MORE ...
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New Search Engine Cuil Challenges Google Technology
Posted by:ryzilla 1400 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Cuil, a new search engine developed by some former Google engineers, is challenging Google with revised technology. Husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson say Cuil has the largest Web READ MORE ...
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Your Fingers Do the Walking with HP’s TouchSmart
Posted by:ryzilla 1401 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
This isn’t the most powerful PC you can buy for the money, but it’s pretty well-loaded. My $1,499 test version has a TV tuner, Media Center remote control, integrated webcam, DVD burner, 500MB hard d READ MORE ...
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Microsoft Challenges Google’s PageRank Technology
Posted by:ryzilla 1401 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Google’s PageRank Web site-ranking method is being challenged by Microsoft. Microsoft’s new tool, BrowseRank, aims to add a human factor to the site-ranking process. Microsoft claims PageRank does no READ MORE ...
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Colorado’s Spam King Murders Family, Self
Posted by:ryzilla 1403 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
The saga of Colorado’s ‘Spam King’ came to a horrifying end as Edward Davidson fatally shot his wife and three-year-old daughter, before turning the gun on himself. Davidson earned the ‘Spam King’ mo READ MORE ...
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‘Spam King’ Escapes from Prison in Colorado
Posted by:ryzilla 1404 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Eddie Davidson apparently escaped when his wife came to visit him Sunday in the Florence, Colorado jail facility. “He jumped in the car with his wife,†said Will Cochenour of the Lakewood, Colorado p READ MORE ...
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Most Bank Sites at Risk, Study Says
Posted by:ryzilla 1404 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
A study by the University of Michigan says more than 75 percent of banks are vulnerable to cybercriminals because of design flaws. Professor Atul Prakash said the bank sites included some of the larg READ MORE ...
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Google Rumored Ready to Buy Digg
Posted by:ryzilla 1405 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Google is reported ready to buy news-voting site Digg for $200 million. Rumors of a Google purchase started with Google testing voting methods, and Microsoft is said to be waiting in the wings if Goo READ MORE ...
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MySpace will Support OpenID Log-Ins Between Sites
Posted by:ryzilla 1406 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
MySpace has joined the OpenID Foundation to make it possible for MySpace users to share data on multiple Web sites with one log-in. MySpace rival Facebook does not currently support OpenID. While Ope READ MORE ...
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Hackers Jailbreak Apple’s iPhone 3G
Posted by:ryzilla 1407 days ago • 1 Comment • http://blog.mintyit.com
The iPhone Dev Team has posted its PwnageTool 2.0.1 software to jailbreak Apple, Inc.’s latest iPhone operating system 2.0. An unreleased exploit in the iPhone OS was used to allow non-Apple applicat READ MORE ...
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MobileMe: Syncing in Real Time
Posted by:ryzilla 1408 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
MobileMe is the usual Apple value proposition: You might be able to find less expensive versions of its features online — various sync, backup and file-transfer sites — but none have the integration, READ MORE ...
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New Zealand Teen Hacker Let Off Without Convictions
Posted by:ryzilla 1412 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," pleaded guilty to two charges of accessing a computer for dishonest purposes, two charges of accessing computer systems without authorization READ MORE ...
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MintyIT - Blog » Intel Ships Centrino 2 for Laptops
Posted by:ryzilla 1413 days ago • Discuss • http://blog.mintyit.com
Intel is shipping its Centrino 2 microprocessors and chips, giving notebook makers five Core 2 Duo processors to choose from. Intel is touting the platform’s management, power-saving, and fast wirele READ MORE ...
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