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January 16, 2006 ISSUE 212
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl212.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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Page views ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/pageview.htm ) -
When referring to Internet advertising a page view is a unique load or view of a text based file, such as a html file. When looking at your web pages statistics a page view is a better representation of how many unique people are actually coming to your web page. If your statistics list hits and page views your hits will often be much greater than your total page views. For example, Computer Hope averages around seven million unique page views but averages close to 50 million hits.
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: Steve Jobs at Macworld: Reality Distortion Field in Full Effect
blog.fastcompany.com -- Few things, in todays business world, are as cult-like as a Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld. (Warren Buffetts annual shareholder gathering might come close.) So when Jobs came onstage, unannounced, this morning at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the applause was thunderous. The audience cheered when Jobs mentioned Apples fourth quarter revenues (a record $5.7 billion) and its 83 percent market share of legal music downloads. A lot more was in store...
01/14/2006 - Microsoft Expands Cryptography Activities In India
01/14/2006 - Microsoft demos advertising lab
01/14/2006 - Video game sales up in 2005
01/13/2006 - Covert Crawler Descends on Web
01/13/2006 - Digital DJs 'unaware of copy law'
01/12/2006 - Divx to cooperate with Google, schedules launch of video download service
01/12/2006 - Apple files 'Mobile Me' as US trademark
01/12/2006 - Google offers personal home page for mobile phones
01/12/2006 - Google Tests Local Ads on Maps
01/12/2006 - Man sues over chatroom humiliation
01/12/2006 - Apple's iTunes raises privacy concerns
01/12/2006 - Microsoft Quietly Ditches WMP for Mac
01/12/2006 - Nikon to focus on digital cameras
01/12/2006 - Mozart's music diary goes online
01/12/2006 - False alarm over Windows support deadline
01/12/2006 - Google Gooses Its Mini Search Appliance
01/12/2006 - Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 1.5
01/12/2006 - FBI Warns of Mining Accident E-Mail Scam
01/12/2006 - BlackBerry users can now Google Talk
01/12/2006 - Symantec Denies It Uses Rootkit In Software
01/12/2006 - QuickTime bugs open door to attack
01/12/2006 - Sun to subsidize Oracle database software
01/12/2006 - Google Video Store goes live
01/12/2006 - Toshiba claims entangled photon breakthrough
01/12/2006 - Overhaul of GPL set for public release
01/12/2006 - FTC launches site to fight cybercrime
01/11/2006 - Student brings down school computer system
01/11/2006 - A Smart Shooter?
01/11/2006 - Can IBM help cut your energy bill?
01/11/2006 - VeriSign To Acquire CallVision
01/11/2006 - XP Won't Run on Intel MacBook, iMac
01/11/2006 - Google Earth in a Mac world (PC too)
01/11/2006 - Google mulls online book future
01/11/2006 - Government offers cash for open-source bugs
01/11/2006 - Microsoft's FAT File Patents Upheld
01/11/2006 - Stardust@home: Help Find the Elusive Particles from Distant Suns!
01/11/2006 - Levi Unveils iPod-Ready Jeans
01/10/2006 - Get free webcasts from Berkeley
01/10/2006 - Google increases lead over Yahoo in search
01/10/2006 - China becomes second largest Internet nation
01/10/2006 - Two new WMF bugs found
01/10/2006 - Chinese ban on Wikipedia prevents research, users say
01/10/2006 - Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
01/10/2006 - Oracle to raise India headcount by 1,400
01/10/2006 - Novell delivers security shield for Linux computers
01/10/2006 - Open-source database issues 'critical' fix
01/10/2006 - TI sells S&C unit to Bain for $3bn
01/10/2006 - New DragonFly Released For BSD Users
01/10/2006 - Violent games 'affect behaviour'
01/10/2006 - Adobe announces Lightroom
01/10/2006 - Linux Vulnerability Report Draws Criticism
01/10/2006 - Microsoft Excel Competition Debuts
01/10/2006 - Steve Jobs at Macworld: Reality Distortion Field in Full Effect
01/10/2006 - Storage expert warns of short life span for burned CDs
01/10/2006 - AOL Buys Video Search Firm
01/10/2006 - Sprint Nextel suffers service outage
01/09/2006 - Your phone records are for sale
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?82006
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: No new virus news this week.
* Security:
QuickTime bugs open door to attack
news.zdnet.com -- While fans checked out the latest and greatest at Macworld on Tuesday, Apple Computer sent out a warning about serious security flaws in QuickTime.
FTC launches site to fight cybercrime
news.yahoo.com -- Responding to the rising cybercrime threat, the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday unveiled an online tool designed to help consumers avoid becoming victims of Internet scams.
Government offers cash for open-source bugs
techworld.com -- The US government is putting tax dollars behind the effort to hunt down security bugs in open-source code, it has emerged.
Two new WMF bugs found
infoworld.com -- Just days after Microsoft Corp. patched a critical vulnerability in the way the Windows operating system renders certain types of graphics files, a hacker has published details of two new flaws that affect the same part of the operating system.
* Privacy:
Your phone records are for sale
suntimes.com -- The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone -- for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Close to resolving all outstanding issues with the Computer Hope forums. The Computer Hope forums are now quickly becoming a popular destination for computer users and is a great way to get your computer question answered quickly often within a few hours, sometimes immediately. The new updated and improved forums can be found on the below link:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
- Performed minor updates to main site search engine adding small changes to the ranking of pages.
- Added new questions and answers pages and updated several other questions and answer pages.
- Added and updated several dictionary definitions.
- Performed dozens of 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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How can I send messages to other computers?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000783.htm
How do I change my IP address?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000784.htm
How can I run a batch file at a specific time?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000785.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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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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