Facebook shuts down KKK group
Group called “Keep the Isle of Man white and free from foreigners” is removed by Facebook after being reported by the school dozens of the group’s members attend.
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Microsoft Office coming to the iPhone?
Exec gives an indication that Microsoft is eyeing the iPhone and that Office may be coming soon, but then backtracks
Robots of the future unveiled
Experts predict that an ageing world population and continuing global military conflicts will be the two main drivers of robot design and function in the coming years.
Speaking at the Robo Business 2009 Conference and Expo in Boston, Tandy Trower, the general manager of Microsoft Robotics, noted that in the next 40 years, the number of pensioners – those aged 65 and over – is set to increase by two billion worldwide.
Bluetooth 3.0 Goes Live
Tuesday marked the official unveiling of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 + High Speed (HS), the next iteration of the personal area networking technology.
Office 14: New details surface
TechARP has come up with the preliminary dates planned for the program milestones of Office 14, the latest version of Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. Accoring to this latest schedule:
- Office 14 SKU lineup will be announced in Q2, 2009
- Office 14 OEM royalty rates will be announced in Q3, 2009
- Office 14 marketing strategy and opportunities for OEM partners is scheduled for Q4, 2009
Neowin earlier cited that Office 14 beta 1 would be released in early July and Office 14 beta 2 in early November. The RTM release could happen as early as March 2010 and could arrive in 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.
Nothing new is said about the RTM release schedule, Office 14 will not be released until 2010.
Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP
Microsoft and its PC partners are going to allow Windows 7 users to downgrade not just to Windows Vista, but also to Windows XP, Microsoft officials are confirming.
Some company watchers have been wondering about the downgrade rights that Microsoft will offer when Windows 7 ships. When AppleInsider reported this weekend that HP was going to offer Windows 7 users the ability to downgrade to XP, I asked Microsoft about the story.
Here’s what a spokesperson representing the company’s Windows client division told me via e-mail on April 5:
MJF: Does Microsoft have downgrade rights for Windows XP planned as part of Windows 7?
Microsoft spokesperson: Yes. This is not the first time that Microsoft has offered downgrade rights to a version other than its immediate predecessor and our Software Assurance customers can always downgrade to any previous version of Windows.
(The spokesperson clarified later that downgrade rights allow users to install previous versions of Windows, not just the most recent predecessor. In other words, a Software-Assurance-covered user who wanted to downgrade from Vista could, technically, go back to Windows 2000 or even Windows 95, not just XP. Who knew?)
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New BackDoor Attacks Using PDF Documents – McAfee Avert Labs Blog
Needless to further remind everyone, zero-day attacks are the preferred choice of cyber criminals and will continue to be so in 2009. If the recent W32/Conficker.worm (MS08-087) and Exploit-XMLhttp.d (MS08-078, MS09-002) were not good enough to prove our point, here is another one.
New Advanced Installer 6.8 brings Inno Setup project importing
On February 5th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy MSI and EXE installers, patches and on-line updates.
Zend Puts PHP on IBM System i
Zend Technologies is teaming with IBM to preload Zend’s PHP-based Web stack with every shipment of IBM i software, the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems. More than 22 million Internet domains deploy PHP, including Yahoo and Facebook. The PHP developer community is estimated to consist of about 5 million developers and the PHP application ecosystem features key applications such as the popular Drupal open-source content management system.
RapidRepair offers 240GB 5G iPod drive upgrade
RapidRepair has posted a page touting a 240GB hard drive upgrade for the fifth-generation iPod. According 
to the product page for the Toshiba 240GB MK2431GAH 8mm, the drive will only function correctly in fifth-generation iPod units, and not the iPod classic, due to the fact that it is a two-platter drive – the latter model is currently only able to see one of the drive platters. Pricing for the drive is not available and it is listed as out of stock, although RapidRepair is offering a “wait list” link for interested parties.
