Four Microsoft Security Patches Due Next Week
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher and Jet database software next week.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Speeds Past Six Million Mark
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NewsFactor - Since its release on April 29, global sales of the Grand Theft Auto 'GTA IV' video game from Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO) have surpassed six million units, with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million in the first week. Over the first day alone, GTA IV sales were approximately 3.6 million units with a retail value of $310 million worldwide.
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With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search
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 AP - Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.
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Free software takes on Microsoft Office
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Pierre Avignon is no pirate, but he does
not believe in paying for software. His computer is filled with
programs like Symphony -- a free suite that he downloaded from
an International Business Machines Corp website
(http://symphony.lotus.com).
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Five Software Tools to Speed Up Your Day
(PC World)
PC World - Check out a handful of the Geek's favorite productivity-boosting applications, plug-ins, and Web services.
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"Grand Theft Auto" sales top $500 mln in 1st week
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc
scored over $500 million in global sales of its
criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week,
making it one of the most lucrative entertainment launches in
history.
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Yahoo Teams with McAfee for Safer, More Secure Searching
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NewsFactor - Web searching can expose users to a whole range of malicious sites, so Yahoo is now teaming up with security vendor McAfee to make its search experience more secure for users.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Sells Six Million Units in First Week
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NewsFactor - It's official. Take-Two Interactive Software said Wednesday that Grand Theft Auto IV surpassed all-time entertainment records for day-one and week-one sales by dollar value.
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MainSoft Integrates Microsoft SharePoint With IBM Lotus Notes
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software allows for drag and drop of documents, spreadsheets and presentations hosted on a SharePoint site from a sidebar into e-mails, calendar appointments and task lists.
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Microsoft sends out feelers to Facebook: report
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp gauged
Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the
software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo Inc ,
the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Windows XP SP3 Now Available For Public Download
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The service pack contains all the updates issued since SP2 was released in 2004, as well as new elements, including several borrowed from Vista.
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Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - McAfee Avert Labs says more than half a million of the adware programs disguised as media files have been detected in less than a week.
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Embarcadero buys CodeGear
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies.
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Microsoft Adds Sociability to its Zune Brand
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NewsFactor - Microsoft placed a bigger bet on Zune this week, as it announced enhancements it hopes will solidify Zune as "the company's all-in-one digital entertainment brand." The Zune brand includes digital audio players, software, and an online music store.
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Artists, developers to synch up in NetBeans
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Capabilities to integrate workflows between software developers and artists are being developed for NetBeans, Sun's open source IDE, Sun Vice President James Gosling said this week.
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Take-Two's 'Grand Theft Auto IV' tops $500M in week 1 sales
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 AP - "Grand Theft Auto IV" raked in more than $500 million in its first week in stores, selling more than 6 million units worldwide, the video game's publisher said Wednesday.
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Global Piracy Rampant -- But You Can Fight Back
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NewsFactor - Piracy is running rampant, according to a report from the U.S. government. Not the kind of pirates with eye patches and parrots on their shoulders, but rather the kind that downloads content illegally from the Internet, counterfeits products, and generally hijacks the profits of pharmaceuticals, electronics, software, and other goods. China and Russia were singled out in particular for their weak protections of intellectual property rights (IPR).
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Microsoft Improves Word for the Blind
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PC Magazine - Microsoft today joined with Sonata Software Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium to launch an initiative to make Word documents more accessible to blind and print-disabled users.
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Microsoft's Gates plays down prospects of fresh Yahoo bid
(AFP)
 AFP - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday played down the chances of a fresh takeover bid for Yahoo, saying the US software giant would focus on an independent strategy.
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Network Operations 2.0 Helps JBoss Manage Itself Better
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software establishes a simple, customizable agent on a piece of middleware that can report measurements and activity on the application related to its operational health.
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'Crimeserver' Discovered with Treasure Trove of Stolen Data
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NewsFactor - Cybercriminals collect a treasure trove of data from Web surfers whose computers are infected with Trojans. That's all-too-common news these days, but a recent case shows that the problem is getting worse. Finjan Inc., which makes secure Web gateway products, discovered a server in Malaysia being used by hackers to store more than 1.4 gigabytes of stolen data. What surprised the Finjan researchers was that the data was stolen from businesses as well as individuals -- and it was amassed in just three weeks.
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Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures
(AP)
AP - Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims.
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Mozilla: Firefox Plugin Shipped With Malicious Code
(PC World)
PC World - Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded...
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Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - McAfee Avert Labs says more than half a million of the adware programs disguised as media files have been detected in less than a week.
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Trojan Adware Hiding in MP3s, McAfee Says
(PC World)
PC World - Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
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Hacker Marketplace to Help Build 0day Appliance
(PC World)
PC World - WabiSabiLabi, the company best known for building an online marketplace for security flaws, is getting into the hardware...
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Yahoo Searches Will Use McAfee for Security Alerts
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NewsFactor - On Tuesday, Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership to make the Yahoo Search experience safer. Launched in beta, the new SearchScan feature, powered by McAfee SiteAdvisor technology, offers always-on alerts for sites with security concerns involving spyware, adware and other malicious software. McAfee SiteAdvisor tests and rates nearly every trafficked site on the Internet.
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Yahoo Partners With McAfee To Make Search More Secure
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The collaboration covers Web site security issues, such as identifying sites associated with adware, malware, spyware, phishing, and spam.
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Hackers harpoon US executives with phony email subpoenas
(AFP)
 AFP - US federal court officials have warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information.
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Webroot to Offer Security by Subscription
(PC World)
PC World - A new service will filter Web content for small to midsized businesses, blocking viruses and other malware at the source.
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For 30 years now, you've been getting spam
(AFP)
 AFP - This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face -- and other anatomical regions -- of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.
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Colorado Penny Stock Spammer Gets Jail Time
(PC World)
PC World - A federal judge has ordered convicted spammer Eddie Davidson to just under two years in prison for sending out a large volume...
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Criminals try to "copyright" malware
(AP)
AP - Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting — with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in.
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Interpol: Olympics Cyberattack Not a Major Threat
(PC World)
PC World - With cybercrime now a global phenomenon, perhaps it will take a global police organization to keep it in check.
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Microsoft Helps Law Enforcement Get Around Encryption
(PC World)
PC World - The growing use of encryption software-- like Microsoft's own BitLocker-- by cyber criminals has led Microsoft to develop a...
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Man gets prison after hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails
(AP)
AP - A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.
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Microsoft Botnet-hunting Tool Helps Bust Hackers
(PC World)
PC World - Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft.
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Security Vendors Slam Defcon Virus Contest
(PC World)
PC World - There will be a new contest at the Defcon hacker conference this August, one that antivirus vendors already hate.
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Web 2.0: Whatever Google Knows About Spam, It Isn't Saying
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Trust and reputation systems are a great way to reduce spam, but Google avoids talk of an ongoing flood of malware-infected porn on Google Groups pages.
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Spammers Ramp up Siege on Google's Blogger via Bots
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PC World - Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing...
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