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For 31 days, HP and BuzzCorps are sponsoring an enormous contest where 31 sites will give away a HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook. Each notebook has a retail value of $4,500 and if you add all of the software, games, and movies it gets bumped up to $5,196 if purchased retail. If you multiply that by all the sites involved, this creates a staggering value of prizes for this giveaway. $161,076 to be exact! It is with great pleasure that we announce that Bleeping Computer has been selected as one of the sites to be hosting a contest for one of these notebooks.
On May 26th, 2008 the Bleeping Computer contest will go live and registered members of the site can enter the contest to win one of these beauties. We will announce the winner on June 2nd, 2008. As of now, the detailson how the contest will work is still being decided, but we will update this topic with more news as we go along. If you are interested in participating in this contest, I suggest you subscribe to this topic. We have also created a page, linked below, with more detailed information as to the specifications of the notebook and the various goodies that come along with it. This page will be updated on the details of our contest in the near future. The list of sites involved in the 31 Days of the Dragon giveaway are listed below:
02 May - 09 May http://www.absolutevista.com/
03 May - 10 May http://www.arstechnica.com/
04 May - 11 May http://www.osnn.net/
05 May - 12 May http://www.jkontherun.com/
06 May - 13 May http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com
07 May - 14 May http://www.bostonpocketpc.com/
08 May - 15 May http://www.the-gadgeteer.com
09 May - 16 May http://thedigitallifestyle.com/
10 May - 17 May http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/
11 May - 18 May http://www.windows-now.com/
12 May - 19 May http://www.windowsconnected.com/
13 May - 20 May http://www.geekstogo.com/
14 May - 21 May http://www.bink.nu/
15 May - 22 May http://www.mediablab.com/
16 May - 23 May http://www.last100.com/
17 May - 24 May http://www.labnol.org/
18 May - 25 May http://www.notebooks.com/
19 May - 26 May http://www.slashdotreview.com/
20 May - 27 May http://www.neowin.net/
21 May - 28 May http://www.geek.com/
22 May - 29 May http://www.lockergnome.com/
23 May - 30 May http://www.planetx64.com/
24 May - 31 May http://www.thegreenbutton.com/
25 May - 01 Jun http://www.istartedsomething.com/
26 May - 02 Jun http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
27 May - 03 Jun http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/
28 May - 04 Jun http://www.geeknewscentral.com/
29 May - 05 Jun http://www.geekzone.co.nz/
30 May - 06 Jun http://www.thetabletpc.net/
31 May - 07 Jun http://www.gearlive.com/
01 Jun - 08 Jun http://www.gottabemobile.com/
This is going to be a great contest, with 31 chances to win one of these notebooks. If you have any questions or comments feel free to post them and I will answer them as best as I can. I also want to send a big thanks to HP and BuzzCorps for including Bleeping Computer in the contest.
We also suggest you visit each site above and become familiar with how their contest will be run as each site will be running the contest differently. These are all great sites and worth visiting even without the contest and I encourage you to do so.
Good luck!
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Posted: Apr 29 2008, 03:02 PM - 72 comments
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On April 8,2008 Microsoft Corp has announced it will end sales of XP Operating System (OS) on June 30,2008. the XP system began it's existence in October of 2001. Essentially this is a five month extension fro the previous date of eXPiration.
XP will no longer be available in stores or as a preinstalled OS after that date. I'm certain as with all the older OS's you will still be able to find some available. But it will be gone and have yielded to Vista. Not a thrill to me personally. The super low cost line of PC's will still have it for two more years. The models such as the Asus Eee PC and Intel Classmate PC will have XP Home.
System builders or small companies that build PC's from scratch can still buy until Jan. 31, 2009. Product support, including security updates, for mainstream users of Windows XP continues until April 2009.
Reuters
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Posted: Apr 17 2008, 09:24 PM - 120 comments
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Bleeping Computer was loaned a few pieces of hardware from Microsoft earlier this year in order to review them using Windows Vista. Each of these devices are Certified for Windows Vista, which means that they have not only been certified by Microsoft for their compatibility with Vista and other Vista drivers, but also to provide enhanced performance and quality.
We are pleased to announce that a review, written by Amazing Andrew, is available focusing on the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 cordless mouse and keyboard combo.
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Posted: Mar 07 2008, 04:48 PM - 5 comments
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QUOTE Microsoft is said to be working on a product called 'StartKey' that functions as a Windows companion. The concept of StartKey should strike terror in the hearts of enterprise security professionals as it would allow users to carry their Windows and Windows Live settings on USB sticks or other flash storage devices.
Full Story (NetworkWorld) here: Windows on a USB stick and Microsoft storage unification
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Posted: Mar 05 2008, 11:32 AM - 11 comments
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Microsoft yanks Vista SP1 update causing endless reboots
QUOTE Update has been pulled from Windows Update, but Microsoft has not yet produced a fix for users whose machines either won't boot or reboot constantly... Responding to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs that flooded support newsgroups last week, Microsoft said on Tuesday it had pulled an update designed to prep Windows Vista for Service Pack 1.
Full Story - InfoWorld
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Posted: Feb 20 2008, 05:58 PM - 9 comments
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In open traffic (unfilterd),global email traffic reached an outrageous high point of 96%. The quarterly average of 80% junk mail,viruses and other unwanted email peaked in October 2007.
QUOTE Since everyone reports spam levels a little differently, we’d like to take this opportunity to explain how we measure global spam levels here at Commtouch. We monitor unfiltered data streams of Internet email traffic, not including internal corporate traffic. This open traffic is analyzed to find the ratio of spam to legitimate email messages. This is the reported global spam level in our quarterly reports. This percentage represents how much of email sent in the world is junk spam email. End users likely experience lower levels of spam in their inboxes, since they may have several layers of spam filtering at the ISP and local level. Commtouch Cafe
Pdf link..Q4 2007 Email Threats Trend Report
QUOTE 2007 Highlights
�� Spam levels reached 96%
�� Blended threats combined email,
malware and malicious websites
�� New types of attachment spam
debuted
Q4 2007 Highlights
�� MP3 spam outbreak accounted for
7-10% of global spam at peak
�� Holiday-related spam and malware
outbreaks: Halloween, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Year’s
�� Storm P2P botnet remains an
imminent threat
�� 70% of spam features sexual
enhancers
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Posted: Feb 08 2008, 10:21 AM - 0 comments
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 Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.
...Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a "unique monitoring system" that could link workers to their computers. Wireless sensors could read "heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure", the application states....
From The Times
January 16, 2008
Alexi Mostrous and David Brown
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Posted: Jan 17 2008, 10:53 AM - 18 comments
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