Anyone wake up from their hangover in the year 2016? Seems a new bug has afflicted our phones today: text messages come dated six years from now. We'll keep updating this story as more information comes along!  Please tell us your experience in comments and give device/OS/carrier info too. ?  Today's date 010110 is binary for 16 (hex) thanks to Zi.. more »

Parallels released Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Build 9308, a maintenance update for the virtualization software for Mac OS X. The company said that the update fixes the problem of slow launches of the application, which MacWindows readers have been reporting. The update also includes several dozen fixes and improvements with Windows, Linux, and Mac .. more »

Today at TechEd Europe 2009, one of our Windows 7 enterprise customers, Petter Wersland, Lead Architect at , participated in a panel discussion with , President of Microsofts Business Division as a part of the keynote presentation. We caught up with Petter Wersland just before this appearance to get more information on their Windows 7 deployment. .. more »

than weve ever had for a release of Exchange. (one of the worlds leading inter-dealer brokers) has already saved $1 million by replacing their SAN with DAS (direct-attached storage) using Exchange 2010, and expects to save 50 percent on their storage costs. (a US-based investment firm) is cutting storage costs by 15% and has saved $400,000 in .. more »

There's a Zune HD firmware update that has just been released - it will take your Zune HD from 4.1 to 4.3...I don't know why they skipped 4.2, nor do I know what this firmware update adds or fixes. There's no information about this firmware update at Zune Insider. My Zune HD didn't automatically detect the new firmware update - I had to go into .. more »

Hi Steven Michalove here, I’m a principal program manager on Microsoft IT’s Information Security (InfoSec) group. For the last of couple weeks, we’ve been talking about Microsoft IT’s (MSIT) dogfooding process, known as the First & Best program. Concluding this dogfooding blog series, I would like to share with you how we help influence the deve.. more »

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team. This blog post is in continuation with How To: Identify Memory Leaks In An Unmanaged Application blog post. I will show how to setup perfmon to collect data for the selected counter in Windows 7. Steps to configure perfmon Click on start –> Click on Run Enter Pe.. more »

Client App Dev MVP Jason Rainwater has recently released his Razre Framework on CodePlex. This is a WPF Application Framework intended to provide base functionality for creating robust WPF applications. This project will be on-going adding new features and enhancements. The current version of the framework includes the following functionality: .. more »

Context-Aware Online Commercial Intention Detection.. more »

Hackers are exploiting web users searching for Halloween-related content on the web, says Panda Security... more »

We just can't quite figure out what to make of Wal-Mart's new Modern Warfare 2 ad. Sure, it's kind of funny, featuring two dudes ragging on one another. It gets across the idea that people can buy the game at Wal-Mart really fast, continuing the store's "fastest way to play" campaign. It does not, however, help us decide if Modern Warfare 2 is .. more »

A new version of Nand Pro has been released a few days ago (sry for the late posting). It's a PC tool that allows you to read and write on the Xbox 360 NAND via USB or LPT with some simple wiring (for LPT at least).From the readme/nfo:[QUOTE]This release fixes a bug when a sector fails to write, ie it will retry the block now. Before it could .. more »

October 29th, 2009. Security Now 220: Listener Feedback 78. View original here: The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte.. more »

Like many Hyper-V users, I have created ISO images of most of my CDs / DVDs (and in the case of my MSDN software have downloaded in ISO format to begin with). I then have these images stored on a file server. It is possible to connect a CD ISO image on a file server to a Hyper-V virtual machine, as long as you are working in a domain environment .. more »

We are pleased to announce the availability of Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 for downlevel operating systems on Wednesday, October 28th. KB969084 provides a detailed description of available functionality and provides links to the download package. This follows the previous post here that described in detail the functionality available using Remote .. more »

There's no denying it: the holidays are right around the corner. Have you even begun to make your shopping list yet? Yeah, we thought so -- how'd you like some help? If you're planning on picking up some disc-based fun for a friend or loved one this year, then you may want to consider ? If you know a comic junkie, then there's always the .. more »

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 delivered the first version of our Unified Messaging (UM) experience from the Microsoft Exchange and Outlook teams. UM enables you to receive voice mails and FAXs in your Outlook Inbox. You can listen to voice mail messages while in Outlook or on your phone. In Outlook 2010, weve added some cool new features to Unified .. more »

Windows Mobile 7 will not be announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February 2010.. more »

Today we are announcing the final release of the Platform Update for Windows Vista . The Platform Update for Windows Vista features a set of runtime libraries which add support for new technologies making it easier for developers to develop for Windows 7 and Windows Vista without impacting their users. The Platform Update for Windows Vista will be .. more »

Regular readers will know that I am a big fan (no pun intended) of the Xtreamer media streamer. Take a look at the following articles for a review of the Xtreamer and other things: Well a constant complaint from people about the Xtreamer is the noise that the fan makes. While I didnt think it was that bad, I could also understand why people were .. more »