Microsoft has a problem on its hands. Or more precisely one problem with three seemingly contradictory components:

Windows XP is too good for its own good.
It needs to die for the company’s sake.
It won’t die because nothing else — not even Windows 7 — currently approaches it.

We’re closing in on eight years since XP first hit [...]

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Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin for August 2009 with five of the nine bulletins marked as “critical” and four are labelled as “important”. These five critical patches are to patch remote code execution and the other four fix elevation of privileges and Denial of Service (DoS), where a hacker (or hackers) could allow [...]

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In a set of comprehensive Windows Web browser performance tests conducted by Betanews on August 7 — our first test of browsers running on the final Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 distributed by Microsoft yesterday — the five major families of browsers tended to run 13% faster on Windows XP Service Pack 3 than on [...]

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The talk of a slimmed down version of the PlayStation has been around for a long time, with our favorite inside source laying down the timeline for the system as well as what would happen before the hardware’s launch. It looks as if more and more of the prophecy is coming true, with a new [...]

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“New Scientist has an article examining 10 human features (bugs?) that we still don’t understand, like blushing, laughing, and nose-picking. There are some interesting, speculative evolutionary explanations listed for each. ‘[Psychologist Robert R. Provine] thinks laughing began in our pre-human ancestors as a physiological response to tickling. Modern apes maintain the ancestral ‘pant-pant’ laugh when [...]

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Here is how to establish SQL connection efficiently while you’ll be able to extract unicode charaters as well such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanes …etc:
$BlgCon = mysql_connect(’—–host—–’, ‘——-username——–’, ‘——–pass——-’) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(”——database——-”,$BlgCon) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_query(”SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=NULL”);
mysql_query(”set names ‘utf8′”);
ENJOY!

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The Georgian blogger whose Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts were targeted in denial-of-service attacks on Thursday, says he thinks Russia’s federal security service is behind it.
“This hackers was from Russian KGB,” the blogger, who uses “Cyxymu” on his accounts, wrote in a tweet early on Friday, adding later: “My twitter is online! Thank you all [...]

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At the start of the week, Gamerz Ink discovered that Kotaku and various other gaming websites around the world received a mysterious letter forged by one of the residents of Rapture looking for his missing daughter, with attached coordinates detailing the locations of beaches around the world. The make-believe man, Mark G. Meltzer described these [...]

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Rapper 50 Cent will be strapping on the bulletproof vest once again in a video game—but not one of his own. Instead, he’ll be making a cameo in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Fifty won’t be continuing the search for his diamond encrusted skull, however. The rapper will simply lend his vocal talents to Modern [...]

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A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
The blogger, who uses the account name “Cyxymu,” (the name of a town in the [...]

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