Old news for July 2006

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Google Supports NOODP Tag

2006.07.14To direct all search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP information for the page's description, use the following: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP"> To direct Google specifically from using this information to describe a page, use the following: <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP">

 

Google rolls out video service to new countries

2006.07.12Internet search giant Google is rolling out eight country-specific versions of its video-sharing community website, Google Video, to widen its appeal and compete with runaway market leaders YouTube and myspace. Google Video, which has so far existed solely as a US-based site, will today roll out targeted services for the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Canada.

Microsoft Patches 18 Security Flaws in Windows and Office

2006.07.12Microsoft Corp. today released seven security updates to address 18 separate flaws in its Windows operating systems and Office software, including 13 problems that earned a "critical" severity rating, the company's most dire. Three of the patches mend flaws in Microsoft Office, including eight specific to Microsoft Excel. As Security Fix noted in recent posts, software blueprints showing would-be attackers just how to exploit two of these Excel flaws are already available online.

Google is Building a Research Center in Ann Arbor Mich

2006.07.11will have up to 1,000 employees, people who had been briefed on the plan said Monday night. The announcement is set to be made Tuesday morning by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm at a news conference at the state Capitol in Lansing. Google is expected to open the center in downtown Ann Arbor, the hometown of the University of Michigan, where Larry Page, one of Google's founders, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering.

IBM unveils Lotus Notes for Linux users

2006.07.10IBM Corp. will today unveil the first version of its popular Lotus Notes software designed to run on the Linux operating system. It's the latest move in IBM's campaign to give computer users an alternative to software products from industry leader Microsoft Corp.
The new Lotus Notes 7 for Linux software will go on sale in about two weeks, at about $130.

New tool: Link Popularity

2006.07.10Find how many links your domain has on the most common search engines.
http://www.webmasterspy.com/tools/link_popularity.html

New tool: Google Databases

2006.07.09A list of all (almost) Google database IPs. You can check your ranking and your keyword searches in all these IPs.
http://www.webmasterspy.com/tools/google_database.html

AOL Wants to Be Free

2006.07.08America Online is paying the price for falling behind in the Internet revolution. According to this morning's Wall Street Journal, AOL is considering forgoing billions in subscription revenue by allowing households with their own broadband connections to access the service for free.
Read more here.

Microsoft faces second WGA lawsuit

2006.07.07 Microsoft has been named in a second lawsuit over its antipiracy Windows Genuine Advantage program, which plaintiffs allege acts as "spyware" on their systems.
Engineered Process Controls, Univex and several other parties filed a class action lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleging Microsoft installed "spyware" on their computers as a "critical security update." The suit comes days after another complaint containing similar allegations was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

New section: Template Shop

2006.07.05thousands  of website templates, free and non free. Flash, Photoshop, regular HTML. All the templates you'll ever need.
http://www.webmasterspy.com/tools/templates_shop/index.html

Cuebot-K IM (a worm) poses as WGA

2006.07.04Security experts have warned of a worm that poses as the Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy tool.
WGA has only just been branded Spyware, in that it collects unnecessary hardware and software data from users' PCs.
The Cuebot-K worm spreads via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), registering itself as a new system driver service called 'wgavn'. It carries the display name 'Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification', and runs automatically during system startup.

Microsoft faces second class-action spyware lawsuit

2006.07.04A second class-action lawsuit filed in less than a week against Microsoft alleges that a central pillar of the company's anti-piracy effort — installed automatically on millions of computers — amounts to spyware. 

Microsoft denies WGA will ever kill machines 

2006.07.03Software giant Microsoft has officially denied that it will switch off the machines of punters that refuse to install its super soaraway , Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA).
"Microsoft antipiracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer," a spokesVole squeaked. However she indicated that Windows Vista operating system, will force companies to activate their software differently in a bid to sink pirates.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Available to download

2006.07.01Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 is released and is now available for download here.

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