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Entries for December 16th, 2008

A Heads Up For IE Users

Users of all present versions of the Internet Explorer web browser could be in danger of having their computers compromised. This si due to a severe security issue with the software that has not yet been fixed.
The defect allows crooks to hijack the computers of innocent web surfers, by the use of web sites corrupted [...]

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Some Interesting Spam Statistics

A new report from the people at Cisco Systems indicates that over 9 billion spam email messages are sent from Canadian-based computers each day. That is approximately five percent of spam sent daily world-wide. Cisco had lots of interesting numbers to share in their report, such as that ninety percent of all email messages sent [...]

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Another Issue For BitTorrent

BitTorrent just can’t get a break these days, can they? It seems as though it’s becoming commonplace for Internet providers to take action against the high-bandwidth using site. In America, giant cable-company Comast was recently caught traffic shaping by slowing down the download speed of heavy BitTorrent users. And now, across the pond and into [...]

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It’s Not All Roses For Apple

Research from the NPD Group indicates that November Mac sales fell a percentage point from November of last year. This is surprise, considering overall PC sales were up two percentage points from the same point last year. The decline is largely due to the under performance of Mac’s desktop offerings, for which sales are down [...]

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Mac OS X Goes Through Major Update

Apple is offering a free download of the Mac OS X 10.5.6 update including major fixes which improve the compatibility,stability and security of its Mac computers. The update is for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 to 10.5.5 users. This update has more than 30 fixes, therefore Apple had alerted Mac users to be aware if [...]

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