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The Windows Store can now locate and delete spam reviews of apps

Usama Jawad — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 06:02:01 +0000

Microsoft is integrating a new technology into the Windows Store which will allow it to automatically detect and delete spam reviews of applications. The issue was first raised by a developer in 2013. Read more...

'Google Barge' must go, say authorities in San Francisco

Andy Weir — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:39:09 +0000

Google has been ordered to move its barge - believed to be a giant floating showroom in the making - from San Francisco Bay, after failing to secure the proper permissions for its construction there. Read more...

Google removes H.264 support in Chrome

Alan Cone — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:49:51 +0000

The official codec for HTML5's video tag has been under debate ever since developers began adopting the new technology. A current standard, H.264 was a codec thought to be just perfect for use in the... Read more...

Sony charges $50 to remove laptop bloatware; Retracts Later

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:41:48 +0000

Sony is offering to remove some of the trial software it crams onto the hard disks of new laptops, for a fee. Buyers of the configure-to-order versions of its Vaio TZ2000 and Vaio TZ2500... Read more...

AT&T Silently adds Option to Remove iPhone Data Plan

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:21:28 +0000

AT&T is now allowing iPhone users to remove their iPhone data plan, allowing them to save at least $20.00 monthly if they feel that they don't use the EDGE network enough, don't need it all... Read more...

Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard

Steven Parker — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:24:02 +0000

Make OS X a little less smug It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system. Unfortunately, that also included an upgrade to its... Read more...

Safely Remove Hardware fix for Windows Vista

Steven Parker — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:15:49 +0000

When you click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the notification area on a Windows Vista based computer, and then you click Safely remove Device_name, the device may not be removed as expected. Additionally, you... Read more...

Google ordered to remove news items or pay huge fine

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:58:19 +0000

A Brussels court has ordered internet giant Google to pay 1 million euro a day if it does not remove all news articles and pictures from French and German language newspapers on its news site,... Read more...

Microsoft to remove Sony DRM 'Rootkit'

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:14:05 +0000

Microsoft is cleaning up Sony's DRM mess amid fears that the rootkit could be used for malware purposes. The rootkit, a component of the controversial DRM scheme used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment, was discovered... Read more...

Microsoft Prepared To Remove Media Player

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:17:24 +0000

In an effort to settle its anti-trust dispute with the European Union, Microsoft is reportedly ready to remove Windows Media Player as a standard component of their Windows operating system. In reports out... Read more...

Microsoft's Longhorn platform promises to remove middleware

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:54:25 +0000

Microsoft's chief software architect Bill Gates took centre stage at last week's software developer day in London in a bid to convince UK software developers to stick with Microsoft's roadmap, even though Longhorn, its next... Read more...

Microsoft to remove support for usernames in http urls

Tom Warren — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:13:18 +0000

A forthcoming update to Internet Explorer will disallow the use of the "@" character in URLs, addressing an issue which has helped fraudsters to obscure the true destination in a web site addresses. Once the... Read more...

Security Focus: Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:19:00 +0000

Overview With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Word 2003/XP, Excel 2003/XP, and PowerPoint 2003/XP files. When you distribute an... Read more...

MSN Groups to remove calendar feature for non-members

Steven Parker — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:41:39 +0000

I just got a mail from MSN Groups informing me that the calendar feature will be removed for non-subscribers. Much like the limitation of the inbox storage when MSN Hotmail became a member service, non... Read more...

New IBM drives remove the jitters

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:04:12 +0000

Thanks youm0nt...The company's Ultrastar 146Z10 hard drive incorporates anti-vibration technology that IBM calls "rotational vibration safeguard"--technology designed to improve the performance of increasingly denser and faster hard drives. Drives are made up... Read more...

Remove SP1 "testing" text

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:12:53 +0000

Thanks to scoop for sending this in. If you were wondering how to get rid of the text in the bottom right of the screen, that you get with your legitimatly obtained copies... Read more...

Microsoft to remove or disable features of Windows if necessary

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:56:53 +0000

Microsoft are set to begin the removal or disabling of features provided by old, insufficiently tested code in Windows and their other software if there are problems which cause security issues. This is the next... Read more...

Sun to remove all free StarOffice downloads

Mon, 27 May 2002 14:37:41 +0000

Sun have announced that they will be removing links to download their popular office suite this Wednesday, following their decision to charge for StarOffice 6. Star Office 5.2 has proven one of the best office... Read more...

Ford workers ordered to remove internet porn

Steven Parker — Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:01:46 +0000

Saw this one on my subscription to LockerGnome "Bits 'n Bytes". Seems those over at Ford have been given a "safe" period to clean out their Harddrives from housing Pornographic images, funnily enough it didn't... Read more...