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Microsoft is giving away copies of Vista Ultimate and Office if you will let the Vole closely monitor how you use the software. While the more cynical amongst us might think that Vole can’t sell its software and so is giving it away, the deal is part of Microsoft’s Feedback programme. According to its website, [...]

A major upgrade to Gmail is getting the thumbs down from users who complain that the new version is extremely slow, often fails to load pages and even crashes their browsers. Discussion forums have been flooded with complaints since Google Inc. began “upgrading” users about two weeks ago to the new version, popularly referred to [...]

The so-called “impenetrable” BD+ DRM scheme has reportedly already been subverted We haven’t broken down the minutes and seconds or anything, but we’re fairly certain that July 10th wasn’t exactly ten years ago. Nevertheless, the so-called “impenetrable” BD+ DRM scheme has reportedly already been subverted, and it’s no shock to hear that the folks behind [...]

Microsoft installed a resource hungry search application on thousands of PCs Wednesday, bringing them to a standstill. This happened even though administrators had configured their systems not to use the search tool. And the incident is the second in as many months where administrators thought they had locked down their machines and had obtained configuration [...]

Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista’s numbers keep growing Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista’s numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying Thursday that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount [...]

A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. It may not be the most popular thing to consider, but high-end graphics cards contain a very powerful internal computing engine, called the GPU.  This massively parallel device can attack a problem in parallel, [...]

It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail, but it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment. When we checked Gmail Help database this evening, Gmail had said that they support POP, but not IMAP. Then a few minutes later, that doc was [...]

AbsolutePoker.com says ‘geek’ hacked system to prove it could be done. In a case that illustrates the perils of online betting, a leading Internet poker site said Friday that a hacker exploited a security flaw to gain an insurmountable edge in high-stakes, no-limit Texas holdem tournaments — the ability to see his opponents’ hole cards. [...]

Google has released a new version of its Gmail for mobile application, which works on most phones that are Java ME enabled as well as BlackBerry devices. The new version is faster than before (30% faster overall and 80% faster for some tasks), consumes a lot less data and boasts a fair bit of new [...]