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MSU, in partnership with a large international call center infrastructure provider, is studying options to setup call centers in Mindanao that are targeted to serve Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern countries. There have been a lot of talk about this in the past few years. It is nice to see that some progress is being made.
THE MINDANAO […]

In this article covered by Netcraft, Paypal users are now faced with a new threat. Phishing email send by spammers and worms than redirect users to the valid Paypal site while using a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to insert code into the Paypal site to steal personal information. Here are the details of the […]

After hearing all the fuss about the Microsoft MSDN Blog entry about the reason why MS Windows Vista has slipped its delivery date here, I got into some software engineer (SE) thinking. By the way, the article was pulled so here is a full copy in Slashdot. The article is called the “Broken Windows Theory” […]

Here is an article on Google’s new secret facility in Oregon by The New York Times. This new facility is a new node added to the thousands of inexpensive computer systems data centers around the world that form the large and powerful computing system called the Googleplex (Which is also the new of a very […]

I personally have been a big fan of virtual machines (VM). I remember writing my first virus (in college) on a QEmu-hosted MS-DOS installation (My desktop was running only Linux and didn’t have the guts to start writing a Linux virus). The virus was called MrClean and it would scan and remove a number of […]

Things seem to be heating for Microsoft after it released the notorious Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tools. WGA comes in two (2) parts. One part is the WGA validation tool that checks if you are using a licenced copy of MS Windows XP. The second part is called the WGA notifier. This part will inform […]

Is it really time to bury RSS? ZDNet Blogger Phil Wainwright and many others [1] [2] have this take on the faults of RSS reading and why RSS isn’t the way to go for feed reading.
When I wrote of the Death of the RSS reader last week, I little realized just how many people […]

After years of being on the sidelines of High Performance Computing (HPC), Microsoft has finally decided to officially join it by offering MS Windows 2003 Compute Cluster Edition. This Information Week article covers this story:
The new software, which Microsoft said has already been successfully used by several customers, fulfills a promise made by the firm’s […]

While reading through Slashdot (with the new look), I bumped into this nicely written little article on Microsoft pulling the plug on MS Windows 98, SE and ME. This is earlier than its July 2006 support end of life date. This quotation was taken from the Microsoft Technet Blog describing the reason why the current […]

After a period of deliberation, the US House of Representatives have decided to deep six the Net Neutrality provision in the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act). I covered the introduction of this provision in a previous blog entry. This latest story covered by the BBC, reports that congress has defeat the […]