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Apple enjoys Leopard success

21 December 2007, 11:36

We've all read the on going reports outlining shortcomings in new operating systems from both Apple and Microsoft, but not all is doom and gloom. NPD figures reveal that Apple's ...

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Adobe issues patches to fix critical Flash vulnerabilities

20 December 2007, 10:37

Warning of vulnerabilities in its Flash player "that could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code", Adobe has issued a critical patch to fix at least nine vulnerabilities and ...

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Microsoft readies IE8 for the first half of 2008

20 December 2007, 09:56

The next version of Microsoft's widely used web browser, Internet Explorer, is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2008. In the meantime, the IE team's developers claim to ...

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Windows XP SP3 release candidate now available

19 December 2007, 10:12

Following its release six years ago, Microsoft's Windows XP is still going strong. Users of the ever popular operating system are now able to download a release candidate of Service ...

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Apple deploys security update for Mac OS X

18 December 2007, 12:43

Apple, like Microsoft, end the year with a massive security update for its flagship operating system. The update fixes over 40 vulnerabilities, several of which are rated as critical.

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Flickr adds stats system and releases Uploadr 3.0

14 December 2007, 11:37

The best online photo management system continues to improve as it implements a new stats system for its pro customers as well as launching a new version of its Flickr ...

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Google goes Wiki with Knols

14 December 2007, 09:07

Google is forever developing new products, some become incredibly useful and others just fade out. One upcoming product we find may becomes incredibly useful, is Google Knols.

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Opera files antitrust suit against Microsoft

13 December 2007, 13:08

Redmond software giant Microsoft looks to be heading back to its least favourite place, the EU courts, as web browser maker Opera files an EU antitrust suit accusing Microsoft of ...

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Microsoft end the year with patches and updates galore

12 December 2007, 10:21

The staff over at Microsoft have been keeping busy. A Windows update this morning totalled some 220MBs and I've still more updates to choose from.

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A year after Vista's launch, it's time for a poll

12 December 2007, 09:37

It has been a year since Microsoft's much talked about operating system, Windows Vista, launched amid much fanfare and HEXUS are now running a poll asking if you would be ...

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Microsoft outlines Vista SP1 in 17-page changelog

10 December 2007, 10:33

Want to know exactly what will be changing under the hood of Microsoft's Windows Vista when release candidate 1 of its first service pack launches this week? Find out in ...

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Yahoo Messenger for Vista now available

6 December 2007, 16:46

After being announced what seems like many years ago, Yahoo finally releases its Messenger client for Windows Vista. After so many months of development however, it still needs a lot ...

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DivX 6.8 promises 50 per cent HD speed-up for multi-core CPUs

6 December 2007, 10:16

That's what the change-log proclaims.

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Windows Vista SP1 release candidate ready to roll

5 December 2007, 19:51

Announced on Microsoft's official Windows Vista Blog, the release candidate of its forthcoming Service Pack 1 has been made available via Microsoft Connect and will be available to the public ...

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Adobe launches new Flash products

5 December 2007, 11:46

Bringing HD quality video and audio to its products, Flash Media Server 3 and an update to Flash Player 9 are now available from Adobe.

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Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

4 December 2007, 12:25

The anti-piracy system featured in Microsoft's Windows Vista, commonly known as Windows Genuine Advantage, is set to lose its ability to degrade usability. After the deployment of Windows Vista Service ...

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Google has plans galore for Google Apps in 2008

3 December 2007, 10:37

At an event in Ann Arbor last week, Google gave an insight into the future of Google Apps and what it'll have in store for 2008.

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Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

29 November 2007, 17:38

A few days ago, I had an e-mail from Microsoft stating I'd been invited to be part of a "select group" getting an exclusive preview of the next Windows Live ...

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available

21 November 2007, 10:22

Mozilla's ever popular browser has reached Beta 1 of version 3 and has been made available for testing purposes.

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Windows Vista Ultimate becoming less Ultimate by the day

14 November 2007, 20:23

Users of Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate have been asking the same question repeatedly since the operating system launched early this year; whatever happened to those Ultimate Extras?

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Register your @live.xx e-mail address now

7 November 2007, 09:34

Did you fail to get yourname@hotmail.co.uk or yourname@gmail.com? Better act fast as Microsoft have now opened up registration for live.co.uk e-mail addresses.

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Windows Live Wave 2 finally available, x64 support at last!

6 November 2007, 08:58

Seems like we've been using beta versions of Microsoft's Live Suite since as far back as we can remember. Until now that is.

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The world keeps on folding, HEXUS enters top 500

3 November 2007, 17:21

Stanford's Folding@Home distributed computing operation has been in the news this week for hitting over 1 petaflop and entering the record books. In the same week, the HEXUS.community's team of ...

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WHOIS faces the axe

30 October 2007, 11:55

A growing group of net privacy advocates is presurring Internet overseer ICANN into scrapping WHOIS, the web's domain-name 'phone book'.

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Major Mac OS X Leopard SMB bug solved!

26 October 2007, 22:07

Soon after deploying OS X Leopard on a series of iMacs, we noticed some worrying behaviour when trying to connect securely to SMB shares. Happily, though, HEXUS discovered a workaround ...

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Installing Windows XP

20 October 2007, 00:00

Installing Windows from scratch for the first time can be a daunting experience. Usually you’ve just successfully built your first home-made PC and the last thing you need is for ...

Setup up Windows XP with a RAID driver

20 October 2007, 00:00

When installing Windows XP, most of the time you’ll find that it has the basic drivers it needs to install itself. However, sometimes you might need to intervene. This tends ...

What is the state of play with Ageia's PhysX - 18 months after launch?

17 October 2007, 09:46

HEXUS first examined Ageia's PhysX proposition in April 2006. With WARMONGER and UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3 itching to go, Ageia asked HEXUS.tv to create a promo-feature that brings their complete story ...

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Apple now taking pre-orders for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

16 October 2007, 14:07

Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is shipping on October 26th and promises over 300 new features. Pre-orders start today....

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Vivendi claims iTunes contract is 'indecent'

26 September 2007, 11:38

There may be trouble ahead... For either Vivendi or Apple, or even both as Vivendi fail to reach an agreement on contract terms for selling their music through Apple's iTunes ...

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Excel can't multiply - Major bug found

25 September 2007, 10:32

It's a given that every major software release, being the complex things that they are, has a few bugs here and there... but this multiplication bug in Excel 2007 is ...

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Intel CTO Shares Vision for 3D WEB

24 September 2007, 09:54

Named 'Scientist of the Year' back in 1989, Justin Rattner is a surprisingly warm and friendly character - with the kind of long term strategic vision that means he knows ...

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Hands-on fiddle with Nero 8 burning suite

21 September 2007, 08:00

V8 of the Nero media-burning suite is due October 1. We go hands on to check out the improved usability and to try to figure out if its backup is ...

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