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April 16, 2007 ISSUE 250
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl250.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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BPB ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bpb.htm ) -
Short for BIOS Pattern Block, BPB is the first section of the boot sector that defines the settings and layout of a hard disk drive's partitions.
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: Microsofts new patch causing issues for XP users
Just one day after releasing an emergency patch for a vulnerability in its operating system, Microsoft has documented one problem with it and is asking users to report any other issues they might encounter.
04/15/2007 - Microsoft warns of dangerous flaw in DNS server
04/12/2007 - Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?
04/12/2007 - Review: Twitter takes e-chat to extremes
04/12/2007 - Apple enthusiast has quite a collection
04/12/2007 - Palm Will Create Its Own Linux Platform
04/12/2007 - 'Office' fans flock to edit Wikipedia
04/12/2007 - Sony says to sell ultra-thin OLED TVs this year
04/12/2007 - Dell stops selling Axim handheld
04/12/2007 - Game developers adapt to multicore world
04/12/2007 - Grisoft offers free rootkit detector
04/12/2007 - Young Scientists Design Open-Source Program at NASA
04/12/2007 - Intel phases out three Xeon processors
04/12/2007 - Opera releases 9.2 browser, adds "Speed Dial"
04/12/2007 - Women don't click with Internet videos
04/12/2007 - Microsoft fixes 'critical' flaws
04/12/2007 - China seeks to 'limit game hours'
04/12/2007 - EU backs mobile roaming fee cut
04/12/2007 - Speed boost plan for file-sharing
04/12/2007 - Time is Running Out for Windows XP
04/12/2007 - Fujitsu Protects Hard Drives From Fall
04/12/2007 - iRobot to Sell Pool Cleaner
04/12/2007 - AMD slashes chip prices on FX, X2 models
04/12/2007 - Comcast Reaches Agreement to Acquire Fandango
04/12/2007 - E-mail monitoring may violate European laws
04/12/2007 - Technorati makes first major acquisition
04/12/2007 - Gates to join Simonyi in space?
04/12/2007 - MySpace blocks some Photobucket content
04/12/2007 - IBM will stack chips for more efficient processing
04/12/2007 - Chinese spammers go quiet
04/12/2007 - Microsofts new patch causing issues for XP users
04/12/2007 - Microsoft's meltdown
04/10/2007 - Disk with data on 2.9M Georgians lost
04/10/2007 - No end in sight to hacking of 'WoW' accounts
04/10/2007 - SanDisk Partners With Yahoo On Wi-Fi MP3 Player
04/10/2007 - iPod shipments sail past 100 million mark
04/10/2007 - Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released
04/10/2007 - Weak Vista Launch Continues To Take Its Toll On Computer Indu...
04/10/2007 - New Products Spur Growth in Virtualization
04/10/2007 - Can an iPod Bring Down Your Company?
04/10/2007 - Viacom, Yahoo join ad forces
04/10/2007 - Yahoo! Japan Says Sayonara to Millions of Emails
04/10/2007 - First Amendment extends to MySpace, court says
04/10/2007 - Dumping ISP May Cost Customers $150
04/10/2007 - Internet Radio May Stream North to Canada
04/10/2007 - Putin Tightens Internet Controls Before Presidential Election
04/10/2007 - How to wear an iPod on your head
04/10/2007 - Office zero-day bugs spoil Patch Tuesday
04/10/2007 - Oracle patches to fix 37 flaws
04/10/2007 - Google and Holocaust Museum create Darfur genocide record
04/09/2007 - Domain Name Prices To Increase 7%; Verisign To Make $27 milli...
04/09/2007 - Google Launches Free 411 Service
04/09/2007 - Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?982007
04/08/2007 - April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet
04/08/2007 - Tactile models based on video footage could make navigating a...
04/08/2007 - Cisco router on UK-DMC first to use IPv6 onboard a satellite ...
04/08/2007 - Google Evades Question About Software Similarities
04/08/2007 - Asus Web site harbors threat
04/08/2007 - Microsoft gains tech computing toehold
04/08/2007 - Google offers help to Thai authorities
04/08/2007 - Gates woos Indian engineers, dismisses Linux threats
04/08/2007 - Software Doesn't Help Student Test Scores
04/08/2007 - Homeland Security wants master key for the Internet
04/05/2007 - IRS still losing laptops
04/05/2007 - Malaysian bloggers may have to reveal identities
04/05/2007 - Nanogenerator produces electricity from ultrasonic waves
04/05/2007 - Intel introduces Centrino Pro technology
04/05/2007 - Microsoft Billionaire, Spaceman
04/05/2007 - Solar Radio Bursts Could Cripple GPS
04/05/2007 - TJX says 45.7 million customer records were compromised
04/05/2007 - Using solar energy to keep homes cool
04/05/2007 - Microsoft targets more software pirates
04/05/2007 - Microsoft sees DRM-free music in Zune's future
04/05/2007 - Online experiment for print magazine
04/05/2007 - The subway tunnel as video billboard
04/05/2007 - IBM adds low-wattage x86 servers
04/05/2007 - FCC says no to mobile calls on airplanes
04/05/2007 - Lenovo tops eco-friendly ranking
04/05/2007 - Kodak's New Inkjet Printer -- and Bold Claims -- Put To The Test
04/05/2007 - Google to build $600M data center in S.C.
04/05/2007 - HP shows off some future-gen gaming tech
04/05/2007 - Google spends $500,000 protecting CEO
04/05/2007 - Wikipedia today, Citizendium tomorrow
04/05/2007 - University probes possible data breach
04/05/2007 - Yahoo plugs Messenger hole
04/05/2007 - Cursor hackers target WoW players
04/05/2007 - Attack of the (YouTube) clones
04/05/2007 - Study finds that AJAX toolkits don't protect against JavaScri...
04/05/2007 - Domain name application gives phishers a new foe
04/05/2007 - Don't Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops
04/05/2007 - `Second Life' to charge for names
04/05/2007 - High-speed web boost for Africa
04/05/2007 - Don't use WEP, say German security researchers
04/05/2007 - Cyber bullying threat to teachers
04/05/2007 - Firefox also vulnerable to Windows cursor exploit, says bug's...
04/05/2007 - Broadband kills off consumer ISDN
04/05/2007 - Mexico City to be one, giant Wi-Fi hotspot by 2008: mayor
04/05/2007 - Activision settles suit against ex-employees
04/05/2007 - RadioShack sued over Texas ID theft law
04/05/2007 - MPAA names its Top 25 movie piracy schools
04/05/2007 - Windows animated cursor flaw--150 sites infected
04/05/2007 - Microsoft licenses Vista for 'diskless' PCs
04/05/2007 - Sat nav systems at risk from hackers
04/05/2007 - The feds weigh in on Windows security
04/05/2007 - Researcher Identifies Hole in Embedded Devices
04/05/2007 - Hotmail Glitches Reported
04/05/2007 - Video of Thai King Pulled off YouTube
04/05/2007 - Epson Pursues Ink Vendors
04/05/2007 - Ask.Com's 'Revolt' Risks Costly Clicks
04/05/2007 - Google Launches MyMaps
04/05/2007 - Search your Mac with Google Desktop
04/05/2007 - Intel Unveils Both Real and Virtual Motorcycles
04/05/2007 - Hackers offer subscription, support for their malware
04/05/2007 - How India is changing IBM's world
04/05/2007 - MySpace Makes Nice With Music Widget-Makers
04/05/2007 - Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition
04/05/2007 - Say what? 'Vista's cover is blown'
04/05/2007 - Kaspersky Lab reports first iPod virus, sort of
04/05/2007 - Yahoo Tests Customizable Alpha Search Engine
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?912007
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 related news this week.a
* Security:
Grisoft offers free rootkit detector
itwire.com.au -- The company behind the AVG antivirus program is offering another freebie - this time it's a rootkit detector and remover for Windows.
Microsoft fixes 'critical' flaws
news.bbc.co.uk -- Windows users are being urged to download the latest security patches from Microsoft to protect themselves.
No end in sight to hacking of 'WoW' accounts
news.com.com -- For months, hackers--most likely in China and Russia, according to security watchers--have been surreptitiously installing keylogging software on WoW players' Windows computers, hijacking their accounts and selling off their often valuable in-game assets.
Can an iPod Bring Down Your Company?
pcworld.com -- The recent buzz about security threats posed by iPods to corporations has reinforced the need for IT managers to treat these devices like any other removable media that employees with malicious intent can use to extract sensitive data.
Office zero-day bugs spoil Patch Tuesday
news.com.com -- A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in Microsoft Office has surfaced, according to security researchers at McAfee.
Oracle patches to fix 37 flaws
news.com.com -- Oracle next week plans to release fixes for 37 security flaws across all its products, the company said Tuesday.
Asus Web site harbors threat
news.com.com -- The main Web site of the Taiwanese hardware maker, known for its Asus branded PCs and motherboards, has been rigged by hackers to serve up malicious software that attempts to exploit a critical Windows flaw, security experts said Friday.
* Privacy:
Disk with data on 2.9M Georgians lost
news.yahoo.com -- A computer disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday.
Homeland Security wants master key for the Internet
theinquirer.net -- THE US Department of Homeland Security is insisting that Verisign hand over the master keys of the Internet.
IRS still losing laptops
news.yahoo.com -- A new report filed by federal security auditors finds that that the
Internal Revenue Service has had almost 500 laptop computers lost or stolen over the last three years, many of which were loaded with sensitive taxpayer information.
University probes possible data breach
news.com.com -- A possible computer security breach at the University of California at San Francisco may have put 46,000 campus and medical center faculty, staff and students at risk of identity fraud.
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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- Posted updated version of search engine.
- Continued work on new upcomming features.
- 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 help prevent people from finding me online?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000900.htm
My CD or DVD is skipping.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000901.htm
How can I print a document or file?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000902.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://labs.google.com/goog411/index.html
Although a service Google has been developing for a while, there has been a lot of press recently about Google 411. For anyone who may have missed the recent news articles or are not familiar with this service and are in the United States we highly recommend trying this service or programming this 1-800-466-4411 into your cell phones. Google 411 is a great service that allows anyone to get free information about locations in their city or town.
http://www.evite.com/
We also recently received an evite for an upcoming party and thought this service was also worth mentioning. This is a great site that allows anyone to easily create an online invitation and have an online place for participants to RSVP, leave notes, get directions, and more.
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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