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01 November 2008

Microsoft brings Windows, Office online

This week Microsoft unveiled Azure and online versions of its Office applications--both Web initiatives that take traditional software products and put them right in your browser.   Of the two, the one you're likely to use is the online office suite, which will retain many of the core features of its software counterpart. However, Windows Azure might be the more interesting product in the long-run, as it lets you run virtual versions of Windows in your browser which are hosted on Microsoft's servers. This could open things up for immensely powerful Web and software applications that run on any hardware.
November 1, 2008
Microsoft brings Windows and Office to the cloud
This week Microsoft unveiled Azure and online versions of its Office applications--both Web initiatives that take traditional software products and put them right in your browser.
Of the two, the one you're likely to use is the online office suite, which will retain many of the core features of its software counterpart. However, Windows Azure might be the more interesting product in the long-run, as it lets you run virtual versions of Windows in your browser which are hosted on Microsoft's servers. This could open things up for immensely powerful Web and software applications that run on any hardware.
Read all of this week's Windows coverage here

Josh Lowensohn
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Webware.com
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LinkedIn's apps platform goes live
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
LinkedIn users now have another reason to hang around on the service besides polishing their resumes and looking for jobs. This week the company introduced an applications platform, letting users add a wide variety of tools that have been created by third-party developers.  Read more 
Shop Amazon.com in 3D
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Want to browse Amazon's selection of new music, books, and DVDs in 3D? Check out WindowShop, a new browsing experience that lets you fly through the latest products with your mouse or keyboard. It's not just eye candy though; you can find the latest products a lot easier than on Amazon's standard site.  Read more 
When browser meets media player
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Radus is an ambitious browser-based media-viewing service that gathers up text, video, audio, and photo items from multiple blogs and content sites (like Flickr and YouTube) and lets you view them all in one interface that strips away the framework of the originating sites so you can focus on the content.  Read more 
Hands-on with Netflix for Mac
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
We get an early hands-on look with Netflix Watch Instantly for Mac, which is coming soon to all Netflix subscribers. The new version on both Macs and PCs uses Microsoft's Silverlight to stream movies and TV shows straight to your browser.  Read more 
Third Chrome beta a notch faster
Posted by Stephen Shankland
The latest beta of Google's browser, Chrome, shows a 37 percent JavaScript performance improvement over the initial beta released two months ago.
JavaScript is a programming language used to add some pizazz to innumerable Web pages, but more importantly from Google's perspective, to power sophisticated Web applications such as Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Gmail. Users of Chrome should see that speed bump in other JavaScript services too.  Read more 
All things Google
Gmail chat gets SMS support
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Users of Gmail's Labs have a new option to send SMS text messages to Google Chat contacts right from their e-mail in-box. Behind the scenes, Gmail Chat sends text messages to people's phones from a specific Google phone number--one of about 1,000 the company reserved for the purpose--and each pair of people communicating gets to keep that number for future use.  Read more 
Google Docs gets 99.9% uptime
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Burned by Google Docs going down in the past? This week Google announced a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for its paying customers. What happens if the service goes down during that time? Users get a refund. There are no plans to bring that same uptime guarantee to non-paying users, but the increased focus on reliability could carry over.  Read more 
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job offer for you. thanks

Dear sir or madam,
My name is Jackie Simons, I am an Advertising Manager at SocMart (www.socmart.com.ua).
The company's principal activity is investment in residential property of developing countries.
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Dear sir or madam,
My name is Jackie Simons, I am an Advertising Manager at SocMart (www.socmart.com.ua).
The company's principal activity is investment in residential property of developing countries.
Our chief objective is to attract foreign investors to the affobadle housing market of Belorussia,
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and etc. The housing prices are often high in these countries and tend to
continuously increase, whereas the quality of the property remains rather low. As far as we are eager to change the
situation, our company is now focused on attaraction of potential foreign investors to the available property market
of the former CIS countries. Our three-year experience in the property investment market has revealed an excessive number
of people willing to invest their funds into developing countries' residential property. However, we came across a problem
concerned with bureaucracy, as banking systems of the former CIS countries are still undeveloped for prompt and effective
international bank transfer service. Lack of proper relations between Western and Eastern banking systems dealing with
international bank transfer service does not allow us to process promptly our foreign customers' investments
(investments are to be on hold during 1-2 months). The fact that property prices are continuously flactuating has made
it clear that efficiency in investment processing is our priority. Considering the above we had to recourse to "investment managers"
to accelerate investment processing to the maximum extend. In case you got interested with our proposal do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail:
worldmarkettusef@gmail.com
Dear sir or madam,
My name is Jackie Simons, I am an Advertising Manager at SocMart (www.socmart.com.ua).
The company's principal activity is investment in residential property of developing countries.
Our chief objective is to attract foreign investors to the affobadle housing market of Belorussia,
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and etc. The housing prices are often high in these countries and tend to
continuously increase, whereas the quality of the property remains rather low. As far as we are eager to change the
situation, our company is now focused on attaraction of potential foreign investors to the available property market
of the former CIS countries. Our three-year experience in the property investment market has revealed an excessive number
of people willing to invest their funds into developing countries' residential property. However, we came across a problem
concerned with bureaucracy, as banking systems of the former CIS countries are still undeveloped for prompt and effective
international bank transfer service. Lack of proper relations between Western and Eastern banking systems dealing with
international bank transfer service does not allow us to process promptly our foreign customers' investments
(investments are to be on hold during 1-2 months). The fact that property prices are continuously flactuating has made
it clear that efficiency in investment processing is our priority. Considering the above we had to recourse to "investment managers"
to accelerate investment processing to the maximum extend. In case you got interested with our proposal do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail:
worldmarkettuse@gmail.comDear sir or madam,
My name is Jackie Simons, I am an Advertising Manager at SocMart (www.socmart.com.ua).
The company's principal activity is investment in residential property of developing countries.
Our chief objective is to attract foreign investors to the affobadle housing market of Belorussia,
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and etc. The housing prices are often high in these countries and tend to
continuously increase, whereas the quality of the property remains rather low. As far as we are eager to change the
situation, our company is now focused on attaraction of potential foreign investors to the available property market
of the former CIS countries. Our three-year experience in the property investment market has revealed an excessive number
of people willing to invest their funds into developing countries' residential property. However, we came across a problem
concerned with bureaucracy, as banking systems of the former CIS countries are still undeveloped for prompt and effective
international bank transfer service. Lack of proper relations between Western and Eastern banking systems dealing with
international bank transfer service does not allow us to process promptly our foreign customers' investments
(investments are to be on hold during 1-2 months). The fact that property prices are continuously flactuating has made
it clear that efficiency in investment processing is our priority. Considering the above we had to recourse to "investment managers"
to accelerate investment processing to the maximum extend. In case you got interested with our proposal do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail:
worldmarkettusew@gmail.comDear sir or madam,
My name is Jackie Simons, I am an Advertising Manager at SocMart (www.socmart.com.ua).
The company's principal activity is investment in residential property of developing countries.
Our chief objective is to attract foreign investors to the affobadle housing market of Belorussia,
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and etc. The housing prices are often high in these countries and tend to
continuously increase, whereas the quality of the property remains rather low. As far as we are eager to change the
situation, our company is now focused on attaraction of potential foreign investors to the available property market
of the former CIS countries. Our three-year experience in the property investment market has revealed an excessive number
of people willing to invest their funds into developing countries' residential property. However, we came across a problem
concerned with bureaucracy, as banking systems of the former CIS countries are still undeveloped for prompt and effective
international bank transfer service. Lack of proper relations between Western and Eastern banking systems dealing with
international bank transfer service does not allow us to process promptly our foreign customers' investments
(investments are to be on hold during 1-2 months). The fact that property prices are continuously flactuating has made
it clear that efficiency in investment processing is our priority. Considering the above we had to recourse to "investment managers"
to accelerate investment processing to the maximum extend. In case you got interested with our proposal do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail:
worldmarkettusey@gmail.com




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Apollo Business Services part-time opportunity (40/hr)  
Dear ,

Apollo Business Services company was established in 2004 by an international team
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results through solving currency exchange problem as well as online payments and
transactions, their tools being innovative solutions, high performance and e-commerce
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We offer a "work at home" part-time position "Regional Manager". This includes
processing payments between our partners' clients and our company, ensure all personal
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opportunities to improve service delivery.

Position Type: Permanent.
Working hours: 9:00AM - 1:00PM weekdays. Variable overtime is also required.
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  • Payment procedures prior experience would be an asset;
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Please REPLY to this e-mail to receive further information and application forms.

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Re: compatibility with IE6 on windows



On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:38 -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:
It is very unwise to drop support for Internet Explorer 6 on the
Ubuntu web site.  A major goal of Ubuntu is to reach out to Windows
users.  People viewing the Ubuntu site in IE6 will go away thinking
"Ubuntu sucks" because it doesn't look nice in their browser.  These
same people often don't know what a web browser is, let alone that
they are using IE6.

I am in total agreement with Denver on this.  I know how infuriated I get when I am told that I need to use IE6 or IE7 to view a site.  I generally write the site off because there is no way I'm going to install IEanything.

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) lynx - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-18.2.c4.1.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-18.2.c4.1.s390x.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) lynx - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.s390x.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 ia64 lynx - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-18.2.c4.1.ia64.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 ia64 lynx - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0865

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.ia64.rpm


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