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Microsoft

Submission + - Office 15 to have Facebook integration? (winbeta.org)

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BogenDorpher
BogenDorpher writes: "Microsoft's Careers Web site today posted a job listing that describes an interesting new feature set to debut in Microsoft's next productivity suite, Office 15. Apparently, Office 15 will feature integration of instant messaging services and social networks such as Facebook."
Android

Submission + - Android web browser can not upload files (google.com)

Submitted by MichaelSmith
MichaelSmith writes: I have an android phone and wrote a photo blogging application so that I could upload pictures directly from the phone. When I finally got around to testing from the browser on android the <input type=file> tag turned into a message Uploads Disabled. So I googled around and found this hilarious bug report which unfortunately confirms that Android can not upload files.
Bug

Submission + - Adobe Confirms Flash Bug, To Release Fix Next Week (ibtimes.com)

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iamrmani
iamrmani writes: "Adobe is planning to release the fix for a "critical" vulnerability that affected certain versions of its flash player during the week of March 21, 2011.

Adobe rated the bug as "critical," which, if exploited would allow malicious native-code to execute, potentially without a user being aware. In other words, the bug could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122830/20110315/adobe-flash-flash-player-bug-zero-day-bug-patch-vulnerability-excel-authplay-microsoft-adobe-reader.htm#ixzz1GfTnuinb"
Idle

Submission + - Blank sex book becomes bestseller (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "A book titled — "What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex" — containing blank pages has been lapped up by youths, making it a bestseller at Amazon. British author Sheridan Simove's book with 200 blank pages implies that men think of absolutely nothing apart from sex."
Japan

Submission + - Is there a silver bullet for reactor meltdowns? 1

Submitted by Aku Head
Aku Head writes: In the context of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what if you could cover the overheating nuclear fuel with liquid aluminum? Aluminum is a good conductor of heat so that you could spray the aluminum with sea water to avoid melting. Would this solve the problems of decay heat and hydrogen generation? What if you alloyed the aluminum with neutron poisons such as hafnium or cadmium? Any other suggestions of something that you could cover the nuclear plant with to mitigate the problem?
Games

Submission + - Lemmings is 20 years old today (scottishgames.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Happy St Lemmings Day"

LEMMINGS, one of the first truly international superstar smashes of the home computer era is 20 years old.

Created, nurtured, ported and developed in Dundee by DMA Design back in 1991, the game has gone on to appear on many of the most popular home computers, consoles, handhelds and almost anything capable of playing a videogames apart from the Nintendo Game-and-watch.
Open Source

Submission + - London Stock Exchange Completes Move to Linux (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The London Stock Exchange has successfully completed the 'go live' weekend for its new Millennium Exchange, a next-generation trading platform powered by the open source Linux operating system. Developed and named by MillenniumIT, the Millennium Exchange's inaugural weekend comes after the LSE trialled Linux as a real-time trading platform on its Turquoise trading pool back in October — finding that the switch from its outdated Microsoft .Net platform brought a massive decrease in trading latency.

Submission + - 32% of Russians Think Sun Orbits Earth 1

Submitted by mvar
mvar writes: About one third of Russians appear to believe that the sun revolves around earth, according to a recently published survey.Thirty-two percent of Russians reject a sun-centred Solar system, four percent more than in 2007 when a similar survey was conducted, the Russian Center of Public Opinion Research showed. The survey also found 55 percent of Russians believe that radioactivity is a human invention. Back in 1999 a similar poll in the US showed that 18% of Americans had the same belief.
Australia

Virus Shuts Down Australian Ambulance Dispatch Service 222

Posted by timothy from the severe-spankings-called-for-in-certain-basements dept.
angry tapir writes "Computers which co-ordinate ambulances in NSW, Australia, are back online in three of the state's regions after a major virus forced staff to shut them down for more than 24 hours. The virus crept into the Ambulance Service of NSW's dispatch system, prompting staff to co-ordinate paramedics by telephone and handwritten notes. The cause and source of the virus are not yet known."

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