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March 21, 2005 ISSUE 182
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl182.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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ASL ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/asl.htm ) -
ASL or A/S/L is shorthand for "Age, Sex, Location" and is commonly used in chat rooms to quickly find information about a user.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story: Yahoo To Combine Blogs, Social Networking
Internetweek.com -- Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday said it would launch in beta at the end of the month a service that combines web logs with social networking.
03/20/2005 - Top Five Online Scams
03/20/2005 - Photo in the News: Lab Creates "Black Hole"
03/20/2005 - Phishing by phone--VoIP raises security concerns
03/20/2005 - EC rejects Microsoft protocol license terms
03/20/2005 - Stakes raised in fast net race
03/20/2005 - DRM Stripped From iTunes Downloads
03/20/2005 - Google Sued for $17.5 Million by AFP News Service
03/19/2005 - Blank Discs Not Created Equal
03/18/2005 - Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 RC2, part 2
03/18/2005 - Napster starts to look good
03/18/2005 - Web to have 'terror watch' team
03/17/2005 - Another antivirus software flaw detected
03/17/2005 - Ask Jeeves launches Firefox toolbar
03/17/2005 - GAO: Program linking schools, libraries to Internet flawed
03/17/2005 - UK police foil massive bank theft
03/17/2005 - Have hackers recruited your PC?
03/17/2005 - Yahoo pledges full Firefox compatibility
03/17/2005 - Linspire Five-0 Released
03/17/2005 - Microsoft to launch AdCenter
03/16/2005 - Cassini Finds an Atmosphere on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
03/16/2005 - Google's X files vanish
03/16/2005 - Microsoft walks VB tight rope
03/16/2005 - Update: Google expands access to Gmail
03/16/2005 - MapQuest Mobile offers live traffic updates
03/16/2005 - AOL To Modify AIM Terms of Service
03/16/2005 - Google Adds New Tool Amid Local Search War
03/16/2005 - Weekend Hack Infects Hosting Servers
03/16/2005 - Intel 'plans' Pentium M price cuts
03/16/2005 - Revolutionary bike 'too quiet'
03/16/2005 - 'Best blogs on the web' honoured
03/16/2005 - Hitachi unveils 'fastest robot'
03/16/2005 - Microsoft Shares Bits of 'Indigo,' 'Avalon'
03/16/2005 - Door to Java source code opens a crack wider
03/16/2005 - New York Teen Wins Science Competition
03/16/2005 - Yahoo To Combine Blogs, Social Networking
03/16/2005 - Mouse smoothes out troublesome hand tremors
03/16/2005 - Microsoft WebTV Hacker Sentenced
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?722005
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
Another antivirus software flaw detected
news.com.com -- For the fifth time in two months, security researchers have publicized a serious flaw in a widely used virus-scanning program.
* Security:
GAO: Program linking schools, libraries to Internet flawed
cnn.com -- Federal oversight of the popular E-rate program that helps link schools and libraries to the Internet is flawed on several levels, congressional auditors have found.
Have hackers recruited your PC?
news.bbc.co.uk -- More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack websites and pump out spam and viruses.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Posted updated versions of questions and answer documents 200 - 400.
- Posted additional new questions and answers.
- Updated and added new dictionary terms.
- Posted new questions and answers.
- Continued working out issues on new mail scripts.
- Performed other minor updates throughout site.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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Keep getting "You have files waiting to be written to CD" message.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000683.htm
No sound in Windows Media Player.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000682.htm
Can I use my laptop display for my desktop?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000679.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.slingmedia.com/
This week we came across the Slingbox from Sling Media an interesting hardware device that redirects the TV signal from any cable box, satellite receiver, or personal video recorder to any computer or other Internet connected device.
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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