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Microsoft has taken the unusual step of releasing out-of-band patches for severe security flaws in all versions of Internet Explorer, along with related holes in the Microsoft Active Template Library included with Visual Studio.
>> Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009
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>> Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009
By Matt Egan | PC Advisor Blog
I can't lie, I've grown fond of Windows Vista. Like the perfect life partner it's pretty, practical and mostly stable. Sure, it flakes out on occasion, but we all have our slow days, right? [Editor's note: get on with it.]
By Mark Sullivan | PC Advisor Blog
As the tech world awaits an announcement from Yahoo and Microsoft on their web search and advertising partnership, I'm wondering how such a partnership can achieve its ultimate goal - loosening Google's stranglehold on the highly lucrative internet search market.
>> Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
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Every few weeks the media awakes to the fact that broadband speeds don't always (ok, never) match up to the claims made by the telecoms suppliers.
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Microsoft has a fair amount of pretty cool technology kicking around in its labs and in beta testing, but the company doesn't do a great job of promoting that. Enter Microsoft Wave, a new site from Microsoft's UK team that does nothing but showcase some of the cooler technology Microsoft develops.
>> Monday, Jul 27, 2009
By Jeff Bertolucci | PC Advisor Blog
If Apple doesn't introduce a tablet computer soon, we'll all be sorely disappointed. With all the ongoing speculation about the supposed iPod-on-steroids, I feel like the device is already here.
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HP's business-based netbook has grown up - and the HP Mini 5101 introduces some long-overdue improvements.
>> Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009
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>> Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009
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>> Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
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>> Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
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