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Asia domain registry opens!

The new .asia domain registry opens for business 2007/10/09.
The .asia domain registry is being run by a Hong Kong-based not for profit registry.
.Asia is available only to governments, trademark owners, and official bodies until the end of February

11 October 2007 | Domain registration, Software | No Comments

Kaspersky Internet Security Suite Multiple Local Vulnerabilities

Kaspersky Internet Security Suite Multiple Local Vulnerabilities reported by SecurityFocus.com
Affected: Kaspersky Labs Internet Security 6.0
Kaspersky Labs Internet Security 5.0
Kaspersky Labs Anti-Virus 6.0
Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstation 6.0
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Server 6.0
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0
No remote vulnerabilities, local only.
More info - Kaspersky Internet Security Suite Multiple Local Vulnerabilities

13 June 2007 | Software | No Comments

Dell goes Ubuntu - price $50 less!

Dell, the world’s No 2 computer maker, finally officially released its first line of consumer PCs with pre-installed Linux.
Ubuntu Linux is now available to US customers on the XPS 410n high-end desktop system at $849 (compared with $899 for Windows computer), the E520n desktop at $599, and the E1505n notebook at $599.

25 May 2007 | Software | No Comments

Ready for Internet texting?

Some internet service providers can already provide their customers with text-over-IP, but waiting for phony industry to make its move. The problem that there isn’t any standard for how the VoIP technology should work with mobiles.
The one more much bigger question is about mobile handset vendors - brave enough to introduce text-over-IP? The mobile operators […]

7 May 2007 | Hardware, Software | No Comments

U.K. opposition leader calls for greater open-source adoption

Shadow chancellor George Osborne has called for an overhaul of the government’s approach to open source, arguing that greater use in the public sector could save £600 million ($1.1 million U.S.) a year.
Osborne warned that too many companies had been “frozen out of government IT contracts”, stifling competition and driving up costs. “Not a single […]

9 March 2007 | Software | No Comments