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New DOS attacks threaten wireless data networks
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| Forget spam, viruses, worms, malware and phishing. These threats are
| apparently old school when compared to a new class of denial-of-service (DOS)
| attacks that threaten wireless data networks.
|
| The latest wireless network threats were outlined in a talk here Thursday by
| Krishan Sabnani, vice president of networking research at Bell Labs, at the
| Cyber Infrastructure Protection Conference at City College of New York.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/060509-wireless-dos-threats.html
Microsoft wins competition court case
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| The Seoul District Court in South Korea accepted that Microsoft's behaviour
| broke South Korean competition law, but said the companies had not provided
| evidence that their losses were Microsoft's fault, according to AP.
|
| [...]
|
| Korean regulators found Microsoft guilty of anti-competitive behaviour over
| its bundling strategy in 2006. It agreed to pay a fine and offer versions of
| Windows which offered links to alternative messenger services.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/06/11/microsoft_antitrust_win/
Recent:
Oops: Microsoft wonk hits Live Messenger red button
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| Microsoft has said sorry to users of its Windows Live Messenger service after
| it sent out a missive yesterday wrongly instructing people to change their
| email addresses.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/08/windows_live_messenger_accidental_email/
About those Windows Live Messenger outages…
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| On Thursday September 11, I — like many of my IM contacts around the world —
| couldn’t sign into Live Messenger for a number of hours.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1585
Related:
Pidgin IM vs MSN Messenger
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| Pidgin is open-source
|
| An open-source software have many advantages: It’s free most of the time, and
| its source code is accessible, so you can be sure that no backdoor exists in
| the program
|
| Pidgin can deal with 16 IM protocol
|
| Of course, Pidgin works with the MSN protocol, but also on AIM, Bonjour,
| Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE,
| Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo! Messenger and Zephyr, for a total of 16 IM protocols.
|
| Remember some years ago, when you had to download a new client just because
| the friend you wanted to talk to didn’t use the same protocol as you? With
| Pidgin, this time’s over.
| Note, Pidgin can also work with the Skype protocol.
|
| Pidgin is advertising-free
|
| Microsoft makes lots of money with the Windows Live Messenger ads. Pidgin
| developers aren’t that interested in money: The software is advertising-free,
| which results in more speed and less memory use.
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http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/08/pidgin-im-vs-msn-messenger/
Trojan horse spreads quickly through Microsoft's IM
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| "This is really growing rapidly," said Lichtman. Six hours after it first
| found the Trojan horse, Aladdin put the total number of assembled bots at
| about 500; three hours later, that had climbed to several thousand. By 12:30
| p.m. EST Monday, the botnet had been built out to 11,000 machines.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;959081077;fp;4194304;fpid;1
Is Microsoft Missing the IM Interoperability Boat?
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| IBM's Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging customers can now
| communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk, and will be able
| to do so with Yahoo Messenger in a matter of weeks.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/is_microsoft_missing_the_im_interop_boat.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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