Apple, along with fellow tech heavyweights Google and Microsoft, are accused in a new lawsuit of patent infringement for their use of icons that include a graphical representation of a file's contents.
The 4-page complaint filed this month by Arizon-based Cygnus Systems, Inc charges all three companies with infringing on its March 2008 US patent No.
, titled "System and Method for Iconic Software Environment Management."
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software.
addressed by this advisory," the company said in a bulletin published Monday.
built with SQL Server. The malicious code could allow what's known in IT security as remote code execution, a process by which hackers could, for instance, alter figures in a bank account without ever setting foot on the bank's premises.
Microsoft said SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, and
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Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update,
, to fix a
that's being actively exploited.
"At this time, we are aware only of attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability against Windows Internet Explorer 7," said Christopher Budd, Microsoft security response
lead, in an e-mailed statement. "Our investigation of these attacks so far has verified that they are not successful against customers who have applied the security update. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s a well-known that in a lot of cases if you give someone a medical dictionary, they’ll probably have a read and decide they show symptoms of one or more serious ailments. In some cases, you get hypochondriacs, who are always worried about being ill and mis-diagnose problems as much more serious than is actually the case.
Now a study carried out by Microsoft Research has found the Internet is not helping matters when it comes to Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Internet firm Yahoo, a company spokesman said Tuesday, after the chief executive of the software giant was quoted as saying a deal still makes sense.
"Our position hasn't changed. Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo. There are no discussions between the companies," the Microsoft spokesman said.
The Redmond, Washington-based company issued the statement after Microsoft CEO Read the rest of this entry »
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As a sign of how desperate Microsoft is to draw U.S. Internet users to its Live Search site and away from rival Google, the
company is now offering frequent flyer miles to frequent searchers -- but only if they surf with Internet Explorer: Users
of Firefox, Chrome or Safari are out of luck.
Frequent flyer miles with companies including American Airlines, Delta and US Airways are just some of the perks Microsoft
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