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Submission + - SPAM: Dolphins Web sites hacked in advance of Super Bowl

Submitted by

alphadogg

on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:09PM

alphadogg writes: "The Web sites of Dolphin Stadium and the Miami Dolphins, host to Sunday's Super Bowl football game, have been hacked, and malicious code on those sites have been attempting to infect PCs for at least a week, security experts said Friday. The breach on the stadium site was discovered by Websense's automated tools on Jan. 26, but the engineers at the company were not alerted to the problem until this week, when Websense customers complained that they were unable to visit the site. [spam URL stripped]h ins-web-sites-hacked-in.html"

Submission + - The Top 10 Improvements In Windows Vista

Submitted by digihome on Monday January 29, 2007 @08:53PM

digihome writes: From the bet-you-didn't-think-they-could-find-ten department: Now that Windows Vista is really here, CRN.com chooses the top 10 reasons that it beats Windows XP. See for yourself. http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingn ews.jhtml?articleId=197000653

Submission + - Why Microsoft Really Wants PC Gaming to Revive

Submitted by thegamebiz on Monday January 29, 2007 @05:06PM

thegamebiz writes: Amped News has an interesting article reflecting on the current state of PC gaming and how Games for Windows is meant to not only boost PC gaming, but help Microsoft set up dominance for the Xbox 360 in the console space. From the article: ""Mark your calendars: January 30th 2007 will be the most significant day in gaming for the next several years.' It's difficult to know if he's right. Taking history into consideration, the launch of new operating systems has caused gamers more pain than pleasure, at least initially. Anyone playing PC games during the transition from MS-DOS to Windows 95 can testify to that...The foundation must be laid with care, no matter what the initial inconvenience. Because Microsoft knows this, January 30th, 2007 is a day that not only marks a rebirth of sorts for the PC gaming industry, it will also be known in history books as the day Microsoft launches a surprise attack for console dominance."

The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines 108

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 29, 2007 @10:12AM

ReadWriteWeb writes "Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) Charles S. Knight has compiled a list of the top 100 alternative search engines. The list includes Artificial Intelligence systems, Clustering engines, Recommendation Search engines, Metasearch, and many more hidden gems of search. People use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But Knight has discovered, via his work as an SEO, that in the other .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines around."

Who Killed the Webmaster? 334

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 29, 2007 @03:57AM from the smoking-guns dept.

XorNand writes "With the explosive growth of the Web in the previous decade, many predicted the birth of a new, well-paying, and in-demand profession: the Webmaster. Yet in 2007, this person has somehow vanished; even the term is scarcely mentioned. What happened? A decade later I'm left wondering: Who killed the Webmaster?"

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