News to know for April 18, 2008, features stories about: PayPal browsers, Flock, Google's strong earnings, NetSuite's OneWorld suite, and much more.

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PayPal could resort to an outright ban of Web browsers that it considers to be old and vulnerable from using its services. Some of the key criteria appears to be the support of the relatively new EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) standard as well as some form of anti-phishing protection.

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News to know for April 17, 2008, features stories about: the rise of CIO salaries, GUI changes in Microsoft Vista SP1, Fixed Mobile Convergence, Hyper-V, and much more.

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Experts have been talking about IP addresses for several years now, because the current version of IP limits the number of such addresses to a theoretical maximum of 4.7 billion. Though the number of Internet connected devices is much higher than that already, we have not run out of addresses, mostly due to the magic of Network Address Translation, or NAT. However, the experts are now telling us that China will probably run out of IP addresses by 2010, which means that IP version 6 (IPv6) will need to be rolled out in the very near future.

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The folks over at Neowin.net have got their hands on the internal schedule for the release of SP3 for the venerable Windows XP operating system. If you have been looking forward to it, do take a minute to check out the milestones.

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News to know for April 16, 2008, features stories about: the epic Microsoft-Yahoo saga, Zune VideoX, MySQL 5.1, Pystar's Mac clones, and much more.

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Listening to consumer feedback in a meaningful way is an art often lost on companies. In the increasingly online world we live in, Starbucks has found a way to reach out to their customers so that their feedback IS meaningful. MyStarbucksIdea.com is proving to be a popular portal that allows customers to tell Starbucks what they want. And Starbucks is listening.

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A new phishing attack has been circulating lately, but instead of trying to dupe millions of computer users into giving up their financial information, this one is aimed at high level executives. The email scam purports to notify the executive about court proceedings and tries to get them to click a link that installs keylogging software as well as software designed to let a hacker take control of the computer.

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News to know for April 15, 2008, features stories about: Oracle security holes, green IT, Google revolution, Windows' pricing, PhysX, Apple updates, Mac clones, and much more.

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Microsoft has a way of rubbing people the wrong way sometimes. In fact, so many people dislike Microsoft because of buggy code, the way it runs over competition, and the fact that it is the biggest player in the industry, that you wouldn't think that Microsoft would actively attempt to annoy users, but it has. At the RSA Security conference last week, a Microsoft official claimed that annoying users was the actual aim of the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Vista. Microsoft's goal, he said, was to try to force smaller software vendors to write more secure code.

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With the increasing emphasis on reducing the negative impact on our environment, you must be wondering if there is anything practical at all that you can contribute. Well, PC World has come up with some tips that IT professionals will do well to implement.

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The associate professor of information systems from Deakin University believes that the popular online encyclopedia promotes an environment of blind trust among users searching for information.

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News to know for April 14, 2008, features stories about: Salesforce and Google, swarm intelligence, Live Mesh, cloud computing, Sun Microsystems' data center, and much more.

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With the growth of the Internet and human beings' natural desire to group together, the "hive mind" has become a reality. Now all we have to do is figure out all the myriad applications of that mind.

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News to know for April 11, 2008 features stories about: military equipment winding up on Craigslist and eBay, Gartner analysts' prediction that Windows is "collapsing," tips for handling technology failures, the latest on Microhoo, and much more.

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It would appear that you really can buy anything on Craigslist and eBay -- even military gear that should never be resold. The Government Accounting Office has proven that much to be true, purchasing items like F-14 parts and body armor online.

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Speaking at a Gartner-sponsored conference, two analysts noted that Microsoft's flagship Windows operating system risks becoming a "has-been" if radical changes are not made. In their presentation, they added that the "situation is untenable."

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News to know for April 10, 2008 features stories about: the latest twists and turns in the Microsoft/Yahoo deal, open source commandments, CTIA Wireless 2008's efforts to go green, Windows 7 release date predictions, HP's USB sticks with malware, and much more.

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In yet another case of infected media being sent out direct from a manufacturer, HP's software security response team has issued a warning on this to AusCERT earlier this week. Affected was a batch of USB flash drive for a range of Proliant servers. Apparently, they come with worms that could allow an attacker to compromise an infected system.

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Microsoft is playing hardball in their bid to acquire Yahoo, issuing an ultimatum and threatening to take the $31 per share offer directly to stockhoders. Microsoft may have some help in their efforts, as News.com has offered to join forces with Microsoft in order to make the acquisition happen, though talks between Microsoft and News.com were reported to be in the very early stages.

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