Microsoft announced that the Windows Live Messenger will be retired in the first quarter of 2013 and it wll be replaced by the Skype everywhere, except for China, which will retain the Messenger naming.
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Opera 12.10 is now available for download.What’s new in this release?
Opera 12.10 is a contains new and improved features, plus security and stability enhancements.
Operating system compatibility: Windows 8 and Mac OSX
touch support also works on Windows 7
New and improved APIs:
API for URL filtering
Context Menu API
Screenshots API
Resource Loader API
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Some important results from the latest quarterly report of kaspersky lab’s IT Threat report:
Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized 1,347,231,728 threats in Q3 2012.
Java vulnerabilities are used in more than half of all attacks.
28% of all mobile devices attacked run Android OS version 2.3.6
56% of exploits blocked in Q3 use Java vulnerabilities.
TOP malicious program detected on the Internet is Trojan Script Generic and on user’s computer is Trojan Win32 Generic.
A total of 91.9 million URLs serving malicious code were detected, a 3% increase compared to Q2 2012.
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iOS 6.0.1 is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. what’s new in this release?
Fixes:
prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air
horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard
issue that could cause camera flash to not go off
Improves reliability of iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation) when connected to encrypted WPA2 Wi-Fi networks
an issue that prevents iPhone from using the cellular network in some instances
Consolidated the Use Cellular Data switch for iTunes Match
a Passcode Lock bug which sometimes allowed access to Passbook pass details from lock screen
affecting Exchange meetings
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is now available for download for everyone.It provides the tools that you need to develop apps and games for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.5.
It also provides a stand-alone Visual Studio Express 2012 edition for Windows Phone or works as an add-in to Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium or Ultimate editions.
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CONNECTwww.com is proud to announce our second giveaway of 10 free AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition licenses (Worth over US $36 x 10), thanks to AOMEI Technology.
We will end the give away when we have enough participants.
we will randomly pick 10 winners and send you the keys and product download link.
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Google is celebrating halloween with a interactive with music google doodle on its homepage.This doodle features a haunted mansion (numbered 13) with black alley cat, a crowing crow and a spider. Just click each door to reveal google logo.
Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of “All Hallows’ Evening”),also known as All Hallows’ Eve is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows (or All Saints). According to many scholars, it was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals and festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain. Others
maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has Christian roots.
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Maintenance mode Z is a free wordpress plugin to add Maintenance notice in your wordpress.
Main features:
4 strict and funny templates
custom image slider
time based maintenance
custom logo and custom text
social icons
access rules by IP and user
custom css
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VirtualBox 4.2.4 is now available for download.This is a maintenance release.What’s new in this release?
GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain conditions
VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of ballooning module
VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest
BIOS: fixed broken DMI information
BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks
EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot
Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty error
NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used
Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances
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Mozilla firefox 16.0.2 final is now available for download.This is a security fix release.
what’s new in this firefox 16.0.2?
Fixed Security Vulnerability in Firefox 16.0.1.
Fixes for Location object issues.This is a critical Vulnerability.
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