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GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ — PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware analysis and detection laboratory, has detected several malicious files that are exploiting the latest vulnerability announced by Microsoft (MS08-067) to infect users and steal confidential data, including instant messaging passwords, and online login credentials.
The vulnerability affects Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. [...]

Chrome effects can be created in Photoshop to then be put onto objects or to be used as an effective text effect for Web Design. In this tutorial I will show you how to apply a chrome effect to text or any other object.
? Start by creating a new image 500/500 pixels [...]

Dell, in keeping with Apple?s Mac mini and HP?s Slimline series, have unveiled the Dell Studio Hybrid.
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Roughly the size of a motel-bible, the Studio Hybrid is roughly 80 percent smaller than the average size desktop mini-tower and uses significantly less energy, according to Dell. Dell also announced two new Inspiron PCs: the Inspiron 13 laptop [...]

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Sounding like something from the distant future, Esquire magazine are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication by printing 100,000 special editions of its October 2008 magazine, by using a cover made from electronic paper. The cover will feature moving images and words that will move around the page, with the first ever e-paper advertisement [...]

Computer giants Microsoft have said they are considering a deal with Yahoo which would not involve buying out the company.
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Microsoft?s previous offer to buy Yahoo for a $33 a share ? a figure which valued the company at $47.5bn ? was turned down. Last week Yahoo rebuffed billionaire investor Carl Icahn?s plan to oust the [...]

Climate Counts, the non-profit organization that ranks companies on their practices to reduce global warming on zero to 100 s, have handed Apple a score of 11 some 66 points behind sector leader IBM who scored a 77.
This was the second annual scorecard where climate counts evaluate 60 companies in nine different categories. The companies [...]

As if they have not had enough of an impact upon the mobile phone market, LG are back with the long awaited next instalment from the LG Black Label series ? the Secret. While it was the LG Shine which put the company back on the map, the LG Secret is set to open [...]

Another day another report which suggests that the UK broadband market is a not quite as fast as advertised!
Advice site Broadband Expert has issued the results of their recent speed test survey which shows that on average UK broadband users are only receiving 48% of the speeds which are advertised. While this damning report [...]

For those who are seeking for a perfect Value for Money laptop, this might just end your search. Compaq Presario V3228au is priced round the thing that most of the people look for to purchase a laptop. Some might remember the model of another laptop from the Compaq called the V3155au which seemed like the [...]