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No Free Lunch: Microsoft Fumbles the Patent Ball
Microsoft’s decision to drop the other shoe on Office 2003’s XML schemas may come back to haunt it. News reports of patent filings with New Zealand and the European Union triggered fears that third-party vendors would be prevented from accessing Office documents without licensing the new formats. According to a reply from Mark Martin of…
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Gateway to Buy EMachines
Gateway Inc., which has spent the past year trying to expand beyond its PC-making roots, on Friday announced it was buying privately-held computer-maker eMachines Inc. for about $235 million. Officials with Gateway, in Poway, Calif., said the combined company will create the third-largest computer maker in the country behind Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc.—and eighth…
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Dealers Begin Tipping Prescott Prices, AMD Cuts
Dealers have begun to release pricing for the Intel’s new Pentium 4 and “Prescott” chips expected next week, and have also tipped AMD’s expected price cuts later in February. As expected, the prices for a Prescott and a Pentium 4 running at the same clock speed are virtually identical, with a gap of just a…
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Gateway-eMachines Merger: Beware the Retail Juggernaut?
Carly Fiorina got it right: For some time, the HP CEO has been saying the marketing will continue to consolidate, and today’s news that Gateway plans to buy eMachines proves the wisdom of her words. Interestingly, this merger was prompted more by Gateway’s desire to expand its retail presence than any move to push online…
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Microsoft to Change IE Behavior to Block Spoofing Attacks
Microsoft Corp. has announced in a support document that it will be releasing a software update to Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer to disable the use of certain syntax in HTTP URLs. The syntax, designed to allow a username and password to be passed to a password-protected page, has a history of abuse. The company…
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Another IE Spoofing Hole Found
Security researchers are warning of another spoofing vulnerability in Internet Explorer, this time one that allows an attacker to mask the true file extension of malicious downloads. The file-extension spoof means that an attacker could lull a user into opening a malicious file from a Web site by making the file appear as a legitimate…
