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Microsoft funds a Russian BitTorrent killer

A Russian startup developer is claiming to have a new method for tracking and shutting down any trading of copyrighted works on BitTorrent, and it is getting help from Microsoft to keep the development going.

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  • Ms. Smith Privacy and Security Fanatic

    Privacy and Security Fanatic

    Microsoft Kinect ads will watch you while you watch them by Ms Smith

    Do you watch commercials or do use that timeslot to run to the restroom or to the kitchen? Do you fast-forward to skip as many commercials as possible when watching TV via a DVR or On Demand? Microsoft hopes to change all that by offering Kinect-powered interactive commercials called NUads (Natural User Interface Advertisements). According to CNET's Declan McCullagh, Microsoft manager Lyn Watts stated that advertisers can "go after the holy grail - the living room" with Kinect Nuads. Whether...

  • Tim Greene

    Mostly Microsoft

    Why aren’t Apple and Amazon dumping on Windows RT? by Tim Greene

     Mozilla’s top lawyer is upset because he’s pretty sure Windows RT won’t support a fully featured Firefox browser. Intel’s  CEO Paul Otellini hip-checked Windows RT because he says it won’t support legacy Windows 7 applications. Despite their loud and public protests, their Windows RT problems are nowhere near those of Apple, Amazon and a host of other vendors who make tablets and other devices based on ARM processors. That’s what Windows RT is – software bundled with...

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    Privacy and Security Fanatic

    This is why people pirate Windows by Ms Smith

    Once upon a time during college and working IT, running a computer repair shop on the side, and then later corporate world days, Microsoft Windows pretty much guaranteed plenty of work what with the constant world of updating Windows patches, testing then pushing out updates, and installing or reinstalling Microsoft software after poor user input to name but a few reasons. I could not even begin to recall how many hundreds of PCs and laptops that I have reformatted, validated as "genuine" and...

  • Ms. Smith Privacy and Security Fanatic

    Privacy and Security Fanatic

    SOPA supporters meet in secret to strangle Internet freedom & online speech by Ms Smith

    I was so proud of "us," the Net, for what we accomplished in stomping out SOPA/PIPA, even though a former DHS cybersecurity dude who wishes to remain anonymous warned me that the fight was nowhere close to over and to expect it to be pushed through under another name and this time much more secretly. Sure enough, a trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has an intellectual property (IP) chapter that is being worked out behind closed doors to keep us in the dark so we don't...

  • Kerrie Meyler

    Managing Microsoft

    What's up with Google Drive? by Kerrie Meyler

    Now that Google has rolled out their competitor to Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive, and both the Dropbox folks and Microsoft have made adjustments in their products to respond to what Google offers, let's take a step back to see what the newcomer is bringing to the table. Most obvious is the capability to use the cloud to store everything you do in Google Docs - making it accessible from anywhere and making Google's offering conceptually similar to the other cloud-based storage offerings.James...

  • Microsoft Explorer

    Here’s Microsoft’s Impressive Green Datacenter Initiative, Set to Launch this Summer by Andy Patrizio

    Starting this July, just as things get hot even in Seattle, Microsoft will launch a green initiative to make all of the company's facilities, "including data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings," go carbon neutral.The plan was announced by Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner in a blog post on Wednesday. Turner said Microsoft has created an accountability model which will make every Microsoft business unit responsible for the carbon it generates, so they will be...

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    Privacy and Security Fanatic

    Fight the Patriot Act and win. Next? Promise privacy, a surveillance-free ISP by Ms Smith

    If an ISP said privacy is more important than profit, would you believe it? What if that ISP and mobile wireless carrier charged you as little as $20 a month, provided end-to end encryption on all electronic communications, and said "no" to any kind of government surveillance? Would you believe and help support it then? The Calyx Institute Founder Nicholas Merrill fought the Patriot Act and won; he said he had to live as a "liar" from 2004-2010, lying by omission to everyone he knew because he...

  • Marco Chiappetta

    Microsoft Insights

    Microsoft revamps chkdsk tool in Windows 8 to minimize downtime by Marco Chiappetta

    In a recent post on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Senior Program Manager, Windows Core Storage and File Systems, Kiran Bangalore, discusses a new NTFS health model and redesigned chkdsk (check disk) tool coming with Windows 8 that can detect and fix data corruption issues much more quickly than Windows 7, and presumably older versions of Windows.In the post, some examples are given that show Windows Server 8 recovering from issues in less than two seconds, where it took Window Server 2008 R2 up...

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    Privacy and Security Fanatic

    Counterintelligence Surveillance Swelled Another 10% in 2011 by Ms Smith

    Surprise, or maybe not so much, counterintelligence surveillance increased in 2011 according to the new annual Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) report [PDF]. The Justice Department filed 1,676 applications to conduct electronic surveillance in 2011, which is up from the 1,579 filed in 2010. In total, the DOJ submitted 1,745 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) seeking authorization to conduct electronic surveillance or physical searches, jumping up...

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