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Google Wave

A newest and hottest communication and collaboration tool is now here. Google calls it Google Wave . Check these videos why they called it WAVE... I post some of its videos for the readers of my blog.

Malwares, Worms hits Facebook

Trend Micro, a computer security firm, is warning that social-networking sites are under attack from a new wave of malware, worms and rogue applications. Although a number of the leading social-network sites have been targeted, the problem has hit Facebook hardest. "We didn't see a lot of these until recently," said Jamz Yaneza, the threat research manager for Trend Micro. "So far, they don't seem to be affecting users that much, although at least one Facebook group has been started by malware victims." Yaneza said there is particular concern about a new variant of a dangerous worm, WORM_KOOBFACE.AZ. Within a very short period of time, the setup file for Koobface.AZ appeared on more than 300 servers, mostly in Asia, and Trend Micro expects that number to rise quickly. Researchers also estimate that as many as 20,000 PCs are being infected each day. Sophisticated Identity Theft Koobface.AZ and other rogue applications either secretly steal user informati...

Microsoft : Kumo

Microsoft : Kumo Microsoft is testing it's new Internet Search Engine called Kumo . According to Microsoft, this search engine can understand sentence unlike the google and yahoo which can only show results base from the matched words entered by the users.

Microsoft stops mainstream support in two months

Microsoft finds itself on the horns of a dilemma these days. On the one hand, the company is getting some much-needed buzz and earlier critical support for the upcoming release of its latest operating system, Windows 7. Preliminary reviews suggest the new OS is faster, less of a memory hog, less fussy about hardware, and generally less annoying. At the same time, the good news about Windows 7 is giving consumers and businesses yet another reason to hold off on the purchase of Windows Vista. Corporate sales are particularly anemic; according to some estimates, Vista is installed on just 10 percent of workplace computers. But there is also concern that many in the general public will hold off purchasing new computers until Windows 7 is released, reportedly later this year (a trend that may be driven as much by the economy as concerns about Vista). Free Upgrade for Consumers? In an effort to spur consumers to purchase computers with Vista installed rather than wait for Windows 7, Micr...

Adobe Flash Flaw Could Give Attackers Full Control

Less than a week after security researchers warned of a vulnerability in two Adobe programs that could allow hackers to compromise a PC comes yet another critical exploit that could hijack your desktop. This time, attackers have targeted Adobe's Flash animation software. According to iDefense Labs, remote exploitation of the vulnerability in the Flash player could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges. That means anything you could do with your PC, the attacker could, too. "To exploit this vulnerability, a targeted user must load a malicious Shockwave Flash file created by an attacker," iDefense Labs said. "An attacker typically accomplishes this via social engineering or injecting content into a compromised, trusted site." Adobe's Black Eye Adobe already has a black eye because of a zero-day vulnerability in Acrobat Reader that has attracted a lot of attention in the press and the security community, according to Andrew ...

Windows Azure, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 coming soon...

These statements are from a news website... Windows Azure provides a scalable and virtualized hosting environment for the development of .NET applications, and a simplified deploying and storage services. Windows 7 is the next desktop operating system designed to enable richer application experiences and integrate the best of Windows and Web services. Finally, Visual Studio 2010 helps development teams bring the next groundbreaking application to the market quickly.