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• Today, important action of the Romanian police against phishing

  Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

  Today in the morning, very early, the Romanian police (DIICOT – the department for organized crime), in cooperation with FBI, started a very wide action against the identity thieves, especially in five counties known as the main headquarters of the thieves: Vâlcea, Teleorman, Sibiu, Hunedoara, and Bucharest.
  Phishing is a criminally fraudulent [...]

• The digital Europe – i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Astronomy live with Microsoft: WorldWide Telescope

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Microsoft researchers has been developing an interesting astronomy application, now as a public beta, allowing you to see pictures from several observatories. The service is free of charge and uses high-resolution images from the world’s best land- and space-based telescopes.
  WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 application allowing people to easily [...]

• Microsoft to buy Calista Technologies and join Citrix Systems for virtualization

  Monday, January 21st, 2008

  Microsoft intends to develop in the virtualization field, with a more extensive strategy that includes the relaxing of the licensing for its virtualization software and lower prices.
  Virtualization is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact [...]

• Mass of Media: Steve Jobs

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  Violet Blue: Steve Jobs snubbed me
  CNET News.com, CA
  If you want to look at how the personalities of Apple’s two co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, differ, perhaps one way would be to measure their …
  Investors Boo Steve Jobs
  Red Herring, CA
  As has become tradition, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sought [...]

• MySQL bought by Sun Microsystems

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  A new try for Sun Microsystems to come back between the leaders of the IT industry, by buying the most popular open source database, for $1 billion.
  MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. The basic program runs as [...]

• Webmasters, take care, a trojan steals your money!

  Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

  BitDefender has detected a new trojan, which hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with ads from a different provider. The threat, which is identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Qhost.WU, modifies the infected computers’ Hosts file (a local storage for domain name / IP address mappings, which is consulted before domain name [...]