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McAfee scans, flags, and quarantines Excel
March 13, 2006 @ 7:51PM – posted by Matt Mondok
Last Friday, McAfee released a virus definition file that pinpointed Microsoft Excel as the virus known as W95/CTX, and it more than likely quarantined or deleted part of the software. Besides Excel’s Excel.exe and [...]
steve jobs #140 on Forbes List of World’s Richest People
1:35 PM EST, March 10th, 2006
Apple CEO steve jobs, with a net worth of US$4.4 billion, placed 140th on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the richest people in the world, which was released late Thursday night. Hollywood and music mogul David Geffen was among those he [...]
OWC Grabs PowerLogix
The Mac Observer
12:30 PM EST, March 9th, 2006
PowerLogix announced on Thursday that Other World Computing (OWC) acquired all of its assets earlier this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the agreement does give OWC the exclusive rights to PowerLogix hardware and software designs, copyrights, logos, brand names, and web domains.
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Spate of recent Mac security stories signal that Microsoft, others getting nervous
Monday, March 06, 2006 – 10:40 AM ESTÂ
By SteveJack
Viruses that aren’t viruses. Hysterical reports that equate mac os X security to Windows. Media reports about mac os X “worms, trojans, and viruses.” Totally unsubstantiated reports that mac [...]
New radio Broadcast Flag legislation seeks to control innovation, eliminate fair use
The radio broadcast flag is gaining momentum. House Representative Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.) is introducing legislation that would establish a broadcast flag for audio and also change the way in which the music industry licenses radio itself. The Audio Broadcast Flag Licensing Act of [...]
Here, Ars Technica answers an old-new qustion:FatBits: John Siracusa’s chirping-G5-of-Doom
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Anyway, that’s all in the past. In my original lament about the chirping, I expressed my hope that the “revision 2” Power Mac G5 would come with a silent power supply. Since then, Apple has released three more revisions of the Power Mac G5. [...]