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[/url]AP - With a series of small beeps from a spiky globe 50 years ago Thursday, the world shrank and humanity's view of Earth and the cosmos expanded. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Seven years ago, 13-year-old Lauren Nelson and a few friends entered an Internet chat room during a sleepover. Within a week, an online predator was e-mailing one of them lurid photos. Link To Original Article

AP - Move over "Leave Britney Alone Guy." And all those cute kitten videos, too. The University of California, Berkeley, is posting course lectures and other campus happenings on YouTube. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc said on Thursday it is closing the gap with rival Baidu in China, after years of trying to increase market share in the world's second-largest Internet arena. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Spanish-owned O2 UK and Apple plan to launch a multi-million pound joint advertising campaign later this month as they get ready to bring iPhones to Britain. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is doing all he can to help Microsoft secure a foothold in digital entertainment, mobile devices and new Internet services, such as IP telephony and IPTV. He sat down this week with USA TODAY reporter Byron Acohido to explain why. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - When it comes to launching online attacks, criminals are getting more organized and branching out from the Windows operating system, eBay's security chief said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Google Inc is moving to attract big business users to its Google Apps service just a year after entering the software market, as the company said on Tuesday it is offering stepped up e-mail management services at no additional cost to paying users. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft will launch a frontal assault on enterprise telephony when it launches OCS (Office Communications Server) 2007 later this month but plans to win over most customers bit by bit over the next few years. Link To Original Article

CHIBA, Japan--BiCS. It's the acronym that could extend Moore's Law. BiCS, which stands for Bit Cost Memory, is a three-dimensional flash memory chip developed by Toshiba in which transistors can be stacked vertically. Stacking vertically, ideally, will allow engineers to continue to add more transistors to a chip ... Link To Original Article

If you've been waiting for Windows Vista SP1 to come out before you make the leap to the new operating system, don't, says Microsoft. Microsoft's Pete McKiernan, a senior product manager for Windows, told CNET News.com that one of the purposes of a service pack is ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - Sony Corp.'s games unit said Thursday that it had sold half a million of its new PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game machines in Japan in just two weeks after its launch. Link To Original Article

I'm working on an XP Home SP2 system that developed a problem after uninstalling AVG antivirus and installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus in its place. (This may be coincidental, I've installed KAV on a lot of machines and never run into this kind of problem.) What occurs is that when Internet Explorer is run, it just "hangs" with an hourglass, and does not display anything. This pretty much locks up the whole machine, which needs to be forcibly reset to regain control. Unistalling Kaspersky did not fix the problem, nor did installing the IE7 update. (IE7 is unable to bring up its intitial configuration screen, same symtoms.) On the other hand, Mozilla Firefox work…

Interesting enough when i turned my computer on last night i saw that my windows toolbar didn't load. All the icon and background laoded correctly, however no windows tool bar. I even tried using the windows key to see if i could open but nothing opened. how can i get the tool bar to appear again?

Interesting enough when i turned my computer on last night i saw that my windows toolbar didn't load. All the icon and background laoded correctly, however no windows tool bar. I even tried using the windows key to see if i could open but nothing opened. how can i get the tool bar to appear again?

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm running Windows Vista Business on a Virtual Machine (on VMWare's ESX) I've got a Vista Business Virtual Machine, and i've added it to a Domain thats being run from a Windows 2003 Domain Controller. However, i cannot activate REMOTE ACCESS on the Vista Business VM. Each time i do, it tells me i need to activate Windows Firewall. However each time i attempt to activate the Windows Firewall, its not allowed, the service will not start due to dependency issues. Can anyone help me with activating the Windows Firewall? Thanks!

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This update will not install. It asks for two files and I locate them and press OK. The update just will not install. It asks for WXP SP2 CD which I do not have. I have the regular XP Home CD. So I use the files it asks for from the hard drive. Any Help? Thanks; David

We have an application which is used for testing Semiconductor IC's. It uses the COM, VB and Multithreaded, Mutex technolgies of Microsoft & was developed in Win2K OS. For the same hardware configuration the application runs faster in Win2k but very slow in Win XP. "For an example, we use an empty test program in Win2K --- it takes about 50 seconds for 1000 runs execution (single site); and 90 seconds for 1000 runs quad site (Multithreaded) and the same program in WinXP --- it takes about 90 seconds for 1000 runs execution (single site); and 420 seconds for 1000 runs quad site" Can anybody suggest any settings to be done in win xp which can match the …

We have an application which is used for testing Semiconductor IC's. It uses the COM, VB and Multithreaded, Mutex technolgies of Microsoft & was developed in Win2K OS. For the same hardware configuration the application runs faster in Win2k but very slow in Win XP. "For an example, we use an empty test program in Win2K --- it takes about 50 seconds for 1000 runs execution (single site) and 90 seconds for 1000 runs quad site (Multithreaded) and the same program in WinXP --- it takes about 90 seconds for 1000 runs execution (single site) and 420 seconds for 1000 runs quad site" Can anybody suggest any settings to be done in win xp which can match…

I'm not a techy and the only reason you could be reading this is that you're not a techy also but you have a "Blue Screen Error" crash that happens whenever you do the following: 1) Loading Microsoft Windows 2) Loading Microsoft Excel 3) Using a Tally software 4) You moved your mouse Its also know as the Blue Screen of Death, where the entire computer screen turns blue, and asks if you have installed any new hardware or software in the past. Here are a few things you can do to help you fix the problem.... Details at http://bluescreenofdeatherrors.blogspot.com/

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At the Welcome screen, the password can be typed in to either of the two user accounts. However, for one user, the keyboard will not type at all. For the other user, the keyboard works correctly. The only thing in the faulty user's startup menu is desktop.ini. Where else are items specific for the user loaded from? -- Doug

At the Welcome screen, the password can be typed in to either of the two user accounts. However, for one user, the keyboard will not type at all. For the other user, the keyboard works correctly. The only thing in the faulty user's startup menu is desktop.ini. Where else are items specific for the user loaded from? -- Doug