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News.blog: Microsoft's Live changes

News This is really useful and will speed up the shopping and research process.expanded video index, scene detection, mouse-over video previews and other features that make it easier to find and watch videos.

27 September 2007, 9:13

Microsoft investigates potential new IE flaw

News Internet security monitoring company Websense has added detection mechanisms for this latest potential IE flaw to its software. Microsoft is investigating a report of a new, unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that could expose users of the...

18 August 2005, 8:32

Photos: Visualisations of Web viruses

News This encoded trojan, Trojanagentil3, manufactures constant changes to its own code to avoid detection. Security company MessageLabs commissioned Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu to create visual representations of Internet viruses, trojans and worms.

Tags: email, malware, worms, detection

12 March 2008, 9:08

Police to test bomb-detecting body scanners

News But he added that like all explosive-detection systems, the technology would need to be deployed as part of a planned security system incorporating equipment, staff and procedures to interpret and deal with the information gathered by the equipment.

25 July 2005, 9:50

US to take cybersecurity seriously

News According to the House bill, the assistant secretary would be charged with creating a "national cybersecurity response system" that would evaluate US critical infrastructure and "aid in the detection and warning of attacks" on it.

19 May 2005, 10:23

Photos: Cameras aplenty at Photokina

News It's the first Fujifilm non-DSLR to offer face detection. Photokina, the biennial German imaging trade show, is taking place this week in Cologne. With the press day on Monday 25 September, many manufacturers have already unveiled plans for new...

26 September 2006, 10:07

Anti-terror gadgets tested on London commuters

News Thousands of cameras and sensors will be installed at platforms and subway stations as part of a sophisticated electronic surveillance and threat-detection infrastructure, while mobile phone coverage will be extended underground throughout the...

12 January 2006, 9:51

Sony's antipiracy scheme branded 'ineptware'

News However, he said detection for rootkits like that used by Sony will be built into Sophos Antivirus version 6, due out in 2006. Antivirus companies are considering protecting their customers from the digital rights management (DRM) software used by...

7 November 2005, 9:37

Adobe unveils Windows Lightroom beta

News The Windows version of Lightroom is missing some features in the Mac version, including music during slideshows, camera or memory card detection, and a mechanism to create slideshows in Web pages' HTML format.

19 July 2006, 9:21

IBM pushes for broadband over power lines

News This means that BPL technology has the potential to develop a 'smart grid', which could allow for such services as automated meter reading, real-time system monitoring, preventive maintenance and diagnostics, and outage detection and restoration...

12 July 2005, 9:03

Meet Maxthon, China's hip browser

News It's highly customisable, with hundreds of 'skins', and it includes tabbed browsing, baked-in RSS detection and readers, and remote-file access in partnership with software company Avvenu. Web surfers in China frustrated by censorship in search...

23 June 2006, 10:05

Phishing IM uses Star Wars as bait

News Current McAfee products may catch the malicious software via their intrusion detection capabilities, he said. A new worm and a phishing scam are targeting members of the America Online and Yahoo instant-messaging networks, security companies warned...

25 May 2005, 10:52

Photos: Racing robot cars

News Another update to Junior is a new, high-definition 'lidar' (light detection and ranging) system, which measures the range to a target in much the same way radar does.Credit: Miriam Olsson/News.com After a two-year break since its last race, the US...

5 October 2007, 10:06

'Manual' is the mantra for new cameras

News It is the only Fujifilm camera that's not a digital SLR to offer face detection, which can identify and focus on up to ten faces in one shot. While this year's Photokina promises to be the most well-attended ever, the products introduced so far...

27 September 2006, 10:21

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News The hole detection, called pMOS in contrast to the usual NMOS sensors, can be built with no changes to semiconductor manufacturing, Kodak hopes turning one aspect of chip design on its head will help improve mobile phone cameras -- or at least help...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11