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Following last week’s story about people pushing for anti-virus software that blocks behaviors instead of specific viruses, a new study is coming out showing that the traditional method of fighting internet worms and viruses - by responding after the fact - is completely ineffective. This gets the “well, duh” award of the day. [...]

This update addresses several stability issues with PowerPoint®, Excel, and Visual Basic for Applications for Office v. X. In order to install the update, users need to have applied both the previously-released 10.1.2 and 10.1.4 updates to their software. The update is a 6.3MB download and is available for English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and [...]

Intel will bring Hyper Threading technology to its Mobile Pentium 4 processor family during Q4 before replacing the part - at the high end, at least - with mobile versions of Prescott during the first three months of 2004.
So much we’ve been able to say for some time, thanks to Intel roadmaps we’ve seen. [...]

The Office of Naval Research next month will unveil a super-accurate atomic clock no bigger than a matchbox. The Rubidium Atomic Clock will lose only about one second every 10,000 years.
Mike’s List

( READ ATTACHED PRESS RELEASE ) Want to try the Xbox Live out for free for two months? Well, if you purchase certain Live-enabled games, you will get a two month free trial to see how you like it. Here’s the list of games, many of which will be out in the coming months:
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According to Microsoft, more than 50 Xbox Live-compatible titles will reach store shelves this holiday season, and, with the purchase of select, online-enabled games (listed below), Microsoft will grant a free two-month trial offer of Xbox Live.
As with yearly Xbox Live subscribers, downloads of Xbox Live-exclusive levels, characters, weapons, and content will be available, [...]

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of “Scarface” and promote a new DVD edition of the pic, Focus Features and Universal Pictures plan a limited release of the gangster film. New prints, which have a remixed soundtrack to take advantage of modern theater sound systems, will unspool Sept. 19 in 10 large-market cities. Producer [...]