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Microsoft broke silence on its Windows 7 plans today in a blog post from Chris Flores. In an honest post the Microsoft spokesperson killed off some rumours regarding Windows 7: "Contrary to some speculation, Microsoft...
Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3. Following the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Server's Remote Access...
Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. It...
Last week a Danish court ordered the ISP "Tele2″ to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay. The decision heated the debate on ISPs Internet filtering, and it now turns out that filtering traffic...
All the predictions of a bumper Christmas for Nintendo in the UK seem to be proving accurate, with news that its consoles are selling in record numbers, GamesIndustry.biz reports. The DS has now broken the...
Easily one of the most popular publicly available torrent sites, Mininova has over 3 million visitors per day which places them in the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet. The site has...
Google is preparing a future update of its search engine that lets users search content in any language by translating queries into English, performing the search and translating the results back to the original language....
According to the Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada, Internet advertising hit $1.01 billion in Canada for 2006, an 80% increase over the $562 million collected in 2005. The association forecasts that revenues in 2007 will...
It took a while, but the PS3 finally arrived in the UK last week, and already it has raked in some impressive stats, selling an estimated 165,000 in the first two days of sale, an...
Pirillo: Windows Vista I'm breaking up with you. No, seriously. When I know I have time, I'm "upgrading" from Windows Vista to Windows XP. I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of...
According to comScore Networks' Thursday report, January 2007 marks the first time when US-based Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia (including Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews and of course Wikipedia encyclopaedias) cracked the top ten list of most popular...
The upcoming release of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as a downloadable Xbox 360 game is noteworthy for a few reasons. Beyond adding the highly regarded game to the system's catalog, it breaks the mold...
Thanks to Hurmoth for posting this in BPN. German electronics company Siemens has set a new network speed record: 107 gigabits, 2.5 times faster than the previous record. The test was performed over a 100-mile...
Thanks to funding by the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the record for the world's fastest transistor has been broken once again by U.S. researchers. The new transistor, made of iridium phosphide and iridium...
IBM is expected to push its next-generation Power6 dual-core processors to run at higher speeds, rather than following the Intel/AMD concept for high-end computing that packs more cores on a die. The new CPU will...
IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that their researchers have demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies above 500 GHz -- 500 billion cycles per second -- by cryogenically...
Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen has cracked the lock on Google's new in-browser video player. Johansen, also known as 'DVD Jon' for his work on decrypting DVD security codes, has created a patch for the...
Described by its developers as "the fair interface to the ITunes Music Store," PyMusique is a new application that lets users connect to Apple Computer's ITunes Music Store and download songs without Digital Rights Management...
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today that first day sales of Gran Turismo 4 have broken the record for Playstation 2 in PAL territories. The single day sales have been impressive to say the least,...
On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone. "Thank you." says Blake on spreadfirefox.com "Thank you for helping us take this product...
The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM's prototype Blue Gene/L machine. It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, a US...
The move leaves upcoming PC racer Xpand Rally without a North American publisher. Poland-based developer Techland today announced that Strategy First will no longer publish the company's games in North America. This...
Is it possible that McDonald's - a brick-and-mortar burger seller - has outclassed its corporate peers in the IT sector with the most profound use of the Internet yet? Yes. When we first...
Fast results on ocean simulation system Nasa has completed its fastest simulation of ocean circulation using the Linux operating system running on a 256-processor Silicon Graphics Altix system. The simulation model, called...
Partnership with Ensim will target comms service providers Microsoft is to move into hosted applications through a deal with hosting automation firm Ensim. The first fruit of the venture will be...
Three years' accident data not added to database because of IT problems IT problems have delayed updates to the government's database of accidents that happen within the home. The Home Accident Surveillance...
Now you can send instant messages between AIM/AOL and ICQ. Please join us in testing out this new capability. In order to use this feature, you must have one or more of the following clients:...
IBM posted long-awaited performance scores Wednesday for its x440 server with 16 Intel Xeon processors, a system Big Blue is using to try to impose itself on a key part of the server market. ...
PlayStation 2 sold more than 6.5 million units worldwide during the month spanning Thanksgiving and Christmas, compared to five million units during the same period the previous year, Sony says. Once again Sony has rewritten...
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for the Xbox is the fastest selling game for Microsoft's console in the United Kingdom. In this launch week 40,000 copies of the game were sold. Due to this achievement, record...
Police in a small town in Wyoming, US, are trying to trace a man who breaks into houses to log on to porn websites. According to reports in the press, the porn-addict burglar...
Lindows on Monday unveiled the latest version of its low-cost operating system aimed at bringing Linux to the masses. The release of LindowsOS 3.O marks the first time the company is selling its software as...
Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. It may be a year before the 3GHz chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on...
The European Union is examining charges that Microsoft's .Net Passport system breaks EU rules on data privacy, a European Commission official said Tuesday. The official said he expected member states to make...
Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV has finally broken into the black and has forecast that it will be able to achieve revenue growth ahead of the overall IT hardware market in the current financial year. In...
Well, that same little bird that has been updating The C-A-D with the latest news about the FBI piracy busts has a sad story to tell. He himself has been raped of his computer,...
This was sent in by Mike "I thought this was worth a mention -if it hasn't been already. It seems that IE6.0 breaks McAfee VirusScan completely. More specifically, everything expect the...
PowerToys is getting a major update for one of its best utilities
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Windows 11 KB5048685 bugs break Start menu, Wi-Fi, gets stuck installing and restarting
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 KB5044284 / KB5046617 can't install new updates
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