Archive for May, 2009

Microsoft’s Forgoes Live For Bing Brand

Everyday people use search engines to navigate the web, and without search engines people will not be able to find their ways around the world wide web conveniently.  Since hundred of millions of people are flocking to search engines to carry out their daily web surfing, the search engines’ creators/owners take the advantage of the [...]

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U.S. Army Says No To Windows 7 But Yes To Vista

U.S. Army is forgoing Windows XP in favor of upgrading to Windows Vista.  Instead of upgrading to Windows 7, U.S. army prefers Vista.  Windows 7 is not yet out but will come out around august of this year.  Why not Windows 7 but Vista?  Maybe because Windows 7 is still very new, and the OS [...]

Linux, Microsoft and Windows

WolframAlpha Is A New Google?

Google gives you links that may lead to whatever that you are trying to find.  On the other hand, WolframAlpha allows you to query its complex engine in computational form.  Let say if you type “how big is earth in miles” in Google, you get 28,400,000 links more or less, and you yourself have to [...]

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Windows 7 To Be Released Soon

Windows 7 is said to be released in mid August of this year.  It seems that Windows 7 is fully backward compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista.  This means your old software will work with Windows 7 well.  It also has a new built-in touch screen capability which allows computer that has touch screen [...]

Microsoft and Windows

How To Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 Through Internet

If you’re still using Ubuntu 8.10, then you should have update your Ubuntu to 9.04.  The update process can be done online if you already have installed Ubuntu 8.10, and you have a fast access Internet connection.  Before you update to Ubuntu 9.04 you should completely update your Ubuntu 8.10 first.  Then after that you [...]

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Social Engineering

Social engineering is one of the ways that hackers can steal highly sensitive information such as passwords, usernames, and everything else about the targets that hackers are after.  Social engineering is not the same as guessing a password using a customize programming script that the hackers programmed, but it’s rather about how the hackers trick [...]

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