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Microsoft announced today that they will be launching Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on March 22. The version of the product being launched is second beta along with .NET Framework devleoper tools 4.0. Both products are to be released on the same day i.e. March 22.

The product has a very special feature called 'Tivo-like recording' that Microsoft has masked as Intelli Trace.

Nowadays there are many viruses, trojans, etc. everywhere on the web. Trojans are basically malicious piece of software that is designed to leak out private information from the infected computer like your ATM No, Passwords, etc.

Adobe's Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they've restricted the data collection, according to a new study.

The study comes as the U.S. government is evaluating how it uses cookies on its own Web sites. A cookie is a small piece of data that can record how a person has used the site. The information can be used to track, for example, how many times an advertisement has been viewed, allow someone to stay logged into a Web site or track the items in an online shopping cart.

Cookies don't identify individual users, but many users choose to restrict cookies through their Web browser preferences. Although cookie data is anonymous, some users worry about third-party advertising networks, for example, collecting data and building profiles.

Read the two-page article at networkworld.com

Wow! What a great news ! Toshiba is launching a fuel cell based charger.

We all are aware about the threats to the environment due to the battries currently used in devices.

Mozilla yesterday patched 11 vulnerabilities, 10 of them critical, in Firefox 3.0, the browser that has another few months to live.

VLC media player, which we all know for simplifying the playback of pretty much any codec out there, has finally released version 1.0.0.

A federal grand jury in New Jersey today indicted three people, and five people were arrested in Italy, all in connection with the hacking into the IT systems of thousands of companies around the w

Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released. The list of new features includes NILFS2 (a new, log-structured filesystem), a filesystem for object-based storage devices called exofs, local caching for NFS, the RDS protocol (which delivers high-performance reliable connections between the servers of a cluster), a new distributed networking filesystem (POHMELFS), automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4 and btrfs, preliminary support for the 802.11w drafts, support for the Microblaze architecture, the Tomoyo security MAC, DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards, asynchronous scanning of devices and partitions for faster bootup, the preadv/pwritev syscalls, several new drivers and many other small improvements.

[Via Slashdot]

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"China will require that Web filtering software be included with all computers sold in the country, another step up in its efforts to control pornography and other content on the Internet.

The move follows a government crackdown on online smut that has led to the closure of thousands of Web sites this year, and concern that such campaigns could expand to target content that is political rather than pornographic.
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PC makers will be required to pre-install the Web site-blocking program or offer it on a CD-ROM included with all PCs sold in China after July 1, according to a translation of a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology notification seen by IDG News Service.

The move is meant to protect youth from "unhealthy" information online, according to the statement."

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Facebook announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading internet investment groups globally with significant stakes in Eastern European and Russian internet businesses, has made