Microsoft IE vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of the "createTextRange()" method call applied on a radio button control. A radio button is a form field that presents the user with a selection that can be chosen by clicking on a button.

"Microsoft has determined that an attacker who exploits this vulnerability would have no way to force users to visit a malicious Web site . Instead, an attacker would have to persuade them to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link that takes them to the attacker's Web site," Microsoft said in its Security Advisory.

The unpatched CreateTextRange vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer is already being used by at least one Web site to install spyware on users' machines, a security organization said Friday.
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Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that it is also pushing the mainstream launch of Microsoft Office 2007 till next year.

As with Microsoft Vista, Microsoft hopes to finish the code for Office 2007 by this year. The company said that work will be completed by October and it will make Office 2007 available to business customers that have signed up for Microsoft's volume licensing program.

Microsoft again plans to ship retail and original equipment manufacturer versions of the product in January.
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Microsoft insider has confirmed that up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems. Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS.

Microsoft has also admitted that it has major problems in it's Windows division and has has immediatly initiated a total restructure of the division, a move that comes after a costly delay in rolling out its Vista program.

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SlingPlayer has comeup with a brand-new mobile program that allows to watch TV on your smart mobile phones.

First of all to make this work, you need a Slingbox. That's the cute little device that attaches to your cable/satellite TV box (or VCR/DVD) and your home computer network (which, in turn, is connected to a high-speed Internet connection). Then Slingbox lets you control your video source and channel the audio and video to your computer via the Internet.

A trial version of SlingPlayer Mobile is now available as a free download as part of the public beta program. Slingbox owners who buy and register their Slingbox before April 26 will receive a free license for the mobile software.

Source: M.S.N.B.C
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SONY PSP Core Pack(previously available only in Japan) would be available in US, websites such as EBGames are already offering pre-orders for this new package.

SONY PSP Core Pack comes with only the PSP, Battery, and AC Adapter for $199. Everything else, including the 32MB memory stick you'll have to buy separately.
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A homeowner in Chanhassen, Minnesota, lost his house to a fire last month. When Veltkamp noticed that the fire had started, he immediately called 9-1-1 using Vonage. Unfortunately, Vonage put him on hold, causing a delay in the response from emergency workers. By the time fire crews arrived, the fire had become a five-alarm blaze. The house was a total loss, but no one was injured.

Vonage claims that nearly 70 percent of its customers now have E911 access, a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number.

Vonage has been updating its service with this feature steadily for the past six months. The company has announced that it has been turning up on average over 112 calling centers in more than 45 new counties each week. This month, Vonage has equipped an additional 170 calling centers in over 35 new counties with E911, bringing the total number of calling centers across the nation with emergency service to over 3600.
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Google released the first public beta of its Google Pages service, allowing users to begin creating personal websites using an easy-to-use, browser based interface. The service gives each user 100MB of free storage space on Google servers.

Early tryout showed that graphics and text were easily inserted and that the page were saved very quickly. A complete page with a graphics on it could be published to the Web within minutes.

Already over six thousand early subscribers had joined the Google Page Creator Update email group, with about 200 more joining every hour.

Google is looking for feedback from its users, so you can enter your own comments here. Some of the early issues from users, according to Google include scroll bars and editing HTML problems.
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PC maker Dell today bought Alienware a boutique computer outfit in a move that would boost Dell position in the growing market for gaming PCs.

Alienware enjoys the same reputation with technophiles as do certain underground bands among music aficionados. Hard-core gamers and others who like computers with high-end graphics are proud to own machines unfamiliar to the common masses.

Mr. Pearson said Dell, will allow Alienware to operate independently, maintaining control of everything from development to pricing also here won’t be any Dell logos on Alienware machines. That will make the company stand apart from Lenovo, which added its name to IBM’s ThinkPads when it acquired Big Blue’s PC division

Regardless, the companies and the analyst all noted that Alienware’s and Dell’s core customers are as different as a racecar driver and a soccer mom would be in the auto market. Prices—Alienware’s desktops start at about $900, the same as Dell’s highest-end machine—aren’t expected to change immediately.

Dell’s strong connections with suppliers could help lower Alienware’s costs, which in turn could increase its profit margins.
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Microsoft will delay the consumer release of its new Windows Vista until January 2007. The delay in Windows Vista is caused due to Microsoft needing more time to enhance security and other functions, this will come as a blow to Microsoft partners who were looking forward to a new operating system to boost holiday sales.

However Microsoft will release some versions of the Vista operating system for big businesses in November as planned, but the consumer version will be postponed until January, said Jim Allchin, co-president of the Microsoft division that includes Windows.

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Yahoo is launching a service in the US that lets people make phone calls through the company's instant messaging software.

Available in several other countries since December, the service allows people to make calls from their computers for just 2 cents a minute or less to the top 30 national phone markets, including the United States.

The "Phone Out" service also allows calls from computers to regular phones at varying rates to a total of 180 countries.

Using instant messaging for phone calls is one of the latest ways that technology companies are finding cheaper ways to allow people to talk all over the world without relying on traditional phone networks.

Yahoo Messenger with Voice rates average between 20 percent and 30 percent much lower compared to Skype, according to a comparison furnished by Yahoo.

Source: Yahoo!
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Google has finally launched its own Google Finance service. For years now, those seeking financial information via Google were been sent to competitors such as Yahoo and MSN. Now Google's is providing financial information directly to its own users.

Aside from charts, Google will be offering news and blog search results related to companies listed in the finance area. Google Finance will initially cover only companies in North America, but Google said it plans to expand "very quickly" to other countries and regions of the world in the future, though there's no exact rollout schedule.

Google is allowing people to save a portfolio, a further extension of the stock tracking it already introduced for its personal home page service, this feature that may help keep searchers sticking with it.
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Microsoft is investigating a newly reported flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 that could cause the browser to crash when viewing a malicious Web page, the company said today.

Details of the security weakness in the Web browser were published here last week by researcher Michal Zalewski.

The flaw can be exploited by an attacker to crash IE, Secunia said in an advisory published Monday. The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched PC running IE 6 and Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the security monitoring company said.

Source: CNET
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No press release(yet) from Microsoft on this one. But it looks like that Microsoft is about to acquire remote-sensing vendor Vexcel Corp. for an undisclosed sum. The Vexcel purchase is expected to tie in with Microsoft's Live search and mapping technologies in some way.

Vexcel Founded in 1985, with ongoing leadership from President and CEO, John Curlander, Vexcel is now a multi-national organization with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado and offices in Austria, Canada and the United Kingdom.

The products and services originating from these offices span three technical categories:

Advanced Radar Technologies
Mapping and Photogrammetric Solutions
Satellite Ground Systems

Vexcel has established itself as a world leader in these multiple remote sensing technologies, with a staff of engineers, scientists, and technicians who are highly qualified in their respective fields and bring a depth of experience to a wide variety of products and projects.

Source: blogs@msdn
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