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For a limited time you can download this free ebook without stepping through any registration. First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content, organized like so:

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Part III, “Next Steps with Office 2010,” zooms up to the big picture and provides examples to help you think through interoperability. How often do you use the various Office applications together? Customer research shows that people often don’t realize how well the applications work together as a complete system—which means they might be laboring over items they could easily incorporate from somewhere else. This part of the book provides examples for integrating the applications and explores Office 2010 security and training opportunities, as well.

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After phishing-attack on hotmail the hackers (i will call them as noobs actually) targeted yahoo mail users this time .

The phishing-mail sent is almost similar to that sent to hotmail.

but in my opinion this is a very lame phishing-attack, the attacker even dint used a fake-page or some other advanced techniques. i wonder how that much many people are felling for it ..

Today i got it in one of my mail box. Here is a screen shot of the same :-

I request u people not to fell for this lame trick and become victims.

Remember Yahoo,Hotmail or even any other e-mail providers will never ask for ur details in such a way.

Just came to no that the similar attack is also targeted on gmail and other e-mail providers also

So protect yourself from Phishing-Attack, just go through our exclusive article on the same :-

http://www.9-zone.com/security/pagefake1.html

Spread this news and the prevention tips to your friends also…

Thousands of accounts on web-based e-mail system Hotmail have been compromised in a phishing-attack, software giant Microsoft has confirmed

More details are posted in BBC news and cnet’s official websites:-

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10367348-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8291268.stm

According to Microsoft, it “learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials were exposed on a third-party site” at some point over the weekend. Neowin originally reported that the credentials were posted to a developer forum on Pastebin.com on October 1.

Check out the post at Neowin:-

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/05/thousands-of-hotmail-passwords-leaked-online

Microsoft is organizing an event called VirtualTechDays which is a 3day online training camp scheduled be held between Agust19-21 at 10amto7pm IST. During these three days you will have an opportunity to learn about Microsoft technologies and to get your doubts solved form the technology experts.

This is a liveOnlineTraining session and you can find the list of speakers here

Languages in VirtualTechDays includes Telugu, Hindi and Tamil.
Topics covered:-
13 tracks and 52 insightful technical sessions. This edition of Microsoft Virtual TechDays provides you a rare opportunity to deep dive into latest Microsoft Products & Technologies.
Tracks forDevelopers
• Windows7Client
• Software+Services
• RIA-RichWeb
• CloudPlatform
Tracks forITProfessionals
• ExpressionBlend3
• SQL erver
• Windows7
• WindowsServer2008R2

You can register by visiting the following link for free:-

http://www.virtualtechdays.com/

You can get trainingDirectly from Microsoft so dont miss this opportunity

You need a active internet connection and MicrosoftOfficeLive meeting client installed in Your system to attend this event.

The Officelive meetingClient can be downloaded from Here

In that page just click on accept terms and install client.

I will focus on discussing mainly two types of addressing in this section:

1. Logical addressing
2. Physical addressing

Click here to know more about them

Here I am discussing a shortcut for decimal to binary conversion and vice versa. I am taking it for granted that you already know the conventional method of dividing the given decimal number by 2 and writing down the remainders upside down to calculate binary equivalent.

Click her to learn about Decimal to binary conversion

Click her to learn about Binary to decimal conversion

Root refers to top level user or super user or system administrator

A rootkit is a software which is typically a collection of tools that enable administrator-level access to a computer or computer network and to hide the attacker presence on a computer system.

Click here to learn about rootkits

Dont ever believe the e-mail received by you saying that you have one some huge amount in a Internet lottery, or asking you about a business proposals etc.

Click here to learn more

Geocities form Yahoo which is one of the oldest free webhosting/blogging service is going to be discontinued from October 26, 2009.

I had just now received a mail from yahoo regarding the same. It said as follows:-

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I think Yahoo wanted to get more profits …

Hope it dosent discontinue its free e-Mail service ……..Just kidding…

After a lot of gossips and discussions online Google had officially announced the release of it operating system Google Chrome Os.

I should say google is going to give new clothes/outfit for Linux as this os is built on it. So let us see whether it is going to give competition to Windows or not.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.

->This is the area where windows Operating system fails, While xp is going to be discontinued in near future I don’t expect people running windows vista or 7 on netbooks at ease.

Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010

->So it is open source, and open source had its own set of pros and cons.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

->Oh My God, Google talking abt security :O ???, I will just thank god if it doesn’t collect user’s computing information, and Linux is itself somewhat secured .

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

->Its okk ,good

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android.

->Its ok, Android is only for PDA’s and smart phones,

Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web

->I guess its desktop will be messed with full of Google gadgets available over web.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

->Guess, one also do it with present operating systems like windows7, Ubuntu so let us wait and see what it had to offer more, and Asus is offering one quick boot Linux in its basic netbook already

->So let us wait and see whether it is going to give good competition to Windows or just end up giving competition to other Linux operating systems.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html