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February 12, 2007 ISSUE 243
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl243.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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HPGL ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/hpgl.htm ) -
Developed by Hewlett Packard, HPGL, or HP-GL, is short for Hewlett Packard Graphic Language and is a vector graphics language used to command a printer or plotter to give the desired output.
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: IBM to Give Up Printing Division
pcworld.com -- IBM plans to eventually offload its enterprise printing systems division to Japanese printer and copier vendor Ricoh. The two companies announced last month that they're forming a joint venture company based on the IBM unit which will gradually become a fully-owned Ricoh subsidiary.
02/09/2007 - College bans students from citing Wikipedia in schoolwork
02/09/2007 - Cisco acquires social networking company
02/09/2007 - Engineer: GPS shoes make people findable
02/09/2007 - Number of HDTV homes to treble by 2011: report
02/09/2007 - More megapixels, better photos: Fact or fiction?
02/09/2007 - Two flaws found in Firefox
02/09/2007 - Corporate computer threats 'moving to Adobe'
02/09/2007 - Nortel to trim work force by almost 10 percent
02/09/2007 - Quantum computer to debut next week
02/09/2007 - Security Standoff: Vista Versus Apple
02/09/2007 - Microsoft's Hotmail Brand Will Live On
02/09/2007 - Big Set of Microsoft Security Patches Coming Tuesday
02/09/2007 - Hackers attack every 39 seconds
02/09/2007 - PayPal Security Key Available Now
02/09/2007 - Canonical and Linspire team up
02/09/2007 - DNS capacity to receive major upgrade by 2010
02/09/2007 - Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
02/09/2007 - Samsung unveils iPhone-like cell phone
02/09/2007 - Marc Fleury Exits Red Hat
02/09/2007 - Can natural language search bring down Google?
02/09/2007 - Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
02/09/2007 - PluggedIn: Ancient Asian board game goes online
02/09/2007 - Militant Islamic groups turn to YouTube
02/09/2007 - 100,000 prize for digital hunter
02/09/2007 - Scrollable displays set to debut
02/09/2007 - Cyberattacks Up 50% By 2010, VeriSign Says
02/09/2007 - Viacom moves on without YouTube
02/09/2007 - Net grows to meet fresh demands
02/09/2007 - IBM to Give Up Printing Division
02/09/2007 - Toy Fair Resembles CES for Kids
02/09/2007 - Federal appeals court weighs Internet phone taxes
02/09/2007 - Software pioneer Ken Kennedy dies
02/09/2007 - Vista's "Reduced Functionality"
02/09/2007 - Novell Could Be Banned From Selling Linux: Group Claims
02/08/2007 - Gadget toilet made for modern kings and queens
02/08/2007 - Hackers attack heart of the net
02/08/2007 - Microsoft to back open ID scheme
02/08/2007 - Google opens Gmail to all
02/08/2007 - Sun to offer ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office
02/08/2007 - FTC: Identity Theft Remains Top Consumer Complaint
02/08/2007 - Bush's 2008 IT Budget Focuses on Cybersecurity
02/08/2007 - Microsoft Tweaks IE 7 for Performance
02/08/2007 - Video Games Can Improve Your Vision
02/08/2007 - Yahoo! Launches Pipes
02/08/2007 - Google Steps Into Microsoft's Office
02/08/2007 - Microsoft to unveil Windows Mobile 6
02/08/2007 - RSA panel addresses Net threats to children
02/08/2007 - Interview: The People's Laptop
02/08/2007 - Mobile phone users now top 100 million
02/08/2007 - Can Apple convince recording industry?
02/06/2007 - Microsoft prepares to shoot geek into space
02/06/2007 - 'Tagging' content becoming popular online
02/06/2007 - Open XML translator for Word available
02/06/2007 - World's oldest newspaper goes digital
02/06/2007 - Why telecoms want to battle Google and Yahoo in mobile search
02/05/2007 - University auctions tuition on eBay
02/05/2007 - India wants Google Earth maps blurred
02/05/2007 - Second Life to get First Virtual Embassy
02/05/2007 - Many minds, one novel? Wiki tries to create art
02/05/2007 - Sex register 'to include e-mail'
02/05/2007 - Vista hole opens door to 'shout hacking'
02/05/2007 - Seagate introduces us to DAVE
02/05/2007 - Dutch man fined $97,000 for 9B spam
02/05/2007 - Gates: I'm a PC and I'm not amused
02/05/2007 - Windows 'fails' active virus test
02/05/2007 - How the net turns code into politics
02/05/2007 - Microsoft: Excel vulnerable to new attack
02/05/2007 - Dell to cut bonuses, trim management
02/05/2007 - Microsoft bumps support prices for Windows, Office
02/05/2007 - Hard drive vanishes from VA facility
02/05/2007 - LG unleases first dual-format DVD player in stores
02/05/2007 - "Origami" Lens Could Slim Cameras
02/05/2007 - Apple asks iTunes users to wait before updating to Vista
02/05/2007 - Super Bowl-Related Web Sites Hacked
02/05/2007 - Law Doesn't Stop Net Betting
02/05/2007 - Power-Efficient Chip Ships
02/05/2007 - Super Bowl Virus Spreads
02/05/2007 - Apple Settles With Apple
02/05/2007 - Coming Soon: Digital Cameras with Built-In Printers
02/05/2007 - Windows Vista EULA: Is It That Bad?
02/05/2007 - Transmeta cuts more employees
02/05/2007 - Security gets mainstream attention at RSA
02/05/2007 - Company offers Google ad alternative
02/05/2007 - Princeton joins Google's book-scanning project
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?352007
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:
Windows 'fails' active virus test
news.bbc.co.uk -- Security tools that work with Windows Vista have failed tests to see if they can detect viruses circulating online.
Super Bowl Virus Spreads
pcworld.com -- Security experts are finding an increasing number of Web sites hosting malicious JavaScript code first detected on Super Bowl-related sites last week.
* Security:
Hackers attack heart of the net
news.bbc.co.uk -- Hackers have attempted to topple key parts of the Internet's backbone, in one of the most significant attacks of recent years.
Vista hole opens door to 'shout hacking'
infoworld.com -- The honeymoon ended early for Microsoft's Vista operating system, after word spread Wednesday about a flaw that could allow remote attackers to take advantage of the new operating system's speech recognition feature.
Microsoft: Excel vulnerable to new attack
infoworld.com -- With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.
Super Bowl-Related Web Sites Hacked
pcworld.com -- The Web sites of Dolphin Stadium and the Miami Dolphins team, host to Sunday's Super Bowl football game, have been hacked, and malicious code on those sites have been attempting to infect PCs for at least a week, security experts said today.
* Privacy:
FTC: Identity Theft Remains Top Consumer Complaint
pcworld.com -- Identity theft remained top of mind among U.S. consumers last year, but complaints about Internet auction fraud dropped noticeably, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Microsoft Tweaks IE 7 for Performance
pcworld.com -- Microsoft quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule.
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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- Completed full update of Computer Hope forums. The update includes an updated version of YaBB, the code used to run the forums, an updated looks that includes the complete removal of all advertising, and several other small updates that helps improve the usability.
- Added several new dictionary definitions.
- Added new questions and answers.
- Posted updated version of search engine.
- Corrected issues with dictionary script not properly updating latest new dictionary definitions.
- Continued work on new upcoming features.
- Several 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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Information and help with the Windows control.ini file.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000875.htm
Missing or corrupt c:\windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000876.htm
How do I change my Windows screensaver?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000877.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
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6. All Talk
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http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
As many already know Microsoft recently released Office 2007 with their release of Windows Vista. Microsoft has also made a free Office 2007 trial download available from their site. If you're interested in trying out the new Office and the completely new look and feel we highly recommend giving this 60-day trial of the full program a try.
http://www.videojug.com/
We also recently came across VideoJug, a great idea and site that allows users to submit video submissions explaining how to do almost anything including categories such as food, romance, house, garden, pets, health, drawing, and much more. This is great for users who want to simply sit back and watch a video and learn how to do something their interested in.
http://beta.yodio.com/
Finally, Yodio is another new service we recently found. The site allows users to easily submit a picture with audio submitted from their mobile phone and allow users on the Internet to listen to them.
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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