Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.

“This can be used to forward all your incoming e-mail,” Pure Hacking security researcher Chris Gatford told ZDNet Australia. “It’s just a proof of concept at the moment but what they’re demonstrating is the potential to use this vulnerability for malicious purposes.”

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The current explosion of AJAX-powered Web sites has helped spawn countless next-generation Web apps offering everything from simple to-do lists to complex project management, not to mention the ability to share all kinds of things — documents, calendar listings, photos, video and more.
But with so many sites out there and new ones cropping up almost daily, who’s got time to try them all? Playing with dozens of Web apps to find ones you like can sort of defeat the purpose of many of these services: to boost your productivity.

Fortunately for you, we’ve already done a lot of this work…
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Hi Guys.

A couple days ago I received my first email from a customer who wanted to purchase multiple licenses for one of my products. This is the first customer in almost 2 years since I left CapeSoft who has asked about this. That means that either (a) less than 0.2% of my clients have more than 1 developer in their company, or (b) we’re not all being entirely honest here .

To help make honesty more affordable, I’ve implemented volume discounts on all of my products. Please see here for more info.

Best Regards,
Gary James

Clarion.NET Language Changes: What’s New
Clarion.NET opens up a whole new world to Clarion developers, and the Clarion language is evolving to take advantage of that world. Dave Harms explores the new language features in Clarion.NET.

Clarion.NET Language Changes: What’s Gone
The .NET platform is a lot richer than Win32, but it also imposes some requirements that aren’t fully compatible with Clarion as we know it. In this first of two articles on Clarion.NET language changes Dave Harms looks at what’s going away.

SRI International, a nonprofit R&D organization, will conduct the first demonstration of a teleoperated surgical robot in a zero-gravity environment this week. The robot is controlled with a special interface by a skilled surgeon hundreds of miles away.

The SRI robotic surgical system is designed to be stored in a very compact space for space travel. Astronauts will reassemble the device for use in the event of illness requiring surgical intervention.

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The topic was education and the talk was not optimistic at the Institute for a Competitive Workforce’s Sept. 25 workshop. A part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ICW drew several hundred participants to its event, held with the goal of promoting effective and sustainable business and education/work force partnerships.

“Our continued leadership is not inevitable and may not be sustainable,” Fred Tipson, Microsoft’s senior policy counsel, said in an afternoon panel discussion focused on upgrading the current and future work force’s digital literacy and math and science skills. “The question is whether our work force or some other country’s will be beneficiaries of new technology.”

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Lindersoft announced the release and immediate availability of SetupBuilder 6.6 Build 2000.

J-Media 1.02 has been released.
This build includes the ability to record audio! In other words, you can now record audio from the PC microphone.
I’m going to release a new build of J-Skype next week that will use J-Media to record Skype conversations! This opens up a whole bunch of possibilities..
…and How to be a hero in 8 simple steps..

Rumors of Google’s plans to create a virtual world that rivals that of Second Life have popped up once again over the weekend. The company could now be collaborating with Arizona State University to test the 3D social network, which may be tied into Google’s current applications of Google Earth and Google Maps.
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Compared to the regular 5000+ chip, the Black Edition comes with the same 2.6 GHz clock speed, 1 MB L2 cache and 65 watt power envelope, but includes a customizable clock multiplier that allows users to adjust the performance of the processor.

The processor is aims to attract the eyeballs of mainstream end-users, according to AMD.
Source: TG Daily

I want to preface that you can move logins from one SQL Server to another SQL Server in many different ways. In my experience, I have found that this is the easiest way to move logins from one SQL Server to another SQL Server while keep existing passwords.
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A new Tagkeys update is available that uses Purple Swift’s Cool Frames. A very nice addition!

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Really?

Outlook might be the busiest application in the Office suite because it does so much. But the downside of all that functionality is that easy tasks aren’t always intuitive, and some menu commands are buried under layers of choices. To be productive in Outlook, users must be able to see and view the data they need when they need it. Here are some tips to help them take advantage of various Outlook features and shortcuts.
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The next version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite appears to be on track to be released in the fall of 2009, with test releases coming as soon as early next year.
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Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004, and has revolutionized the way many of us use email. The interface has remained largely untouched since it launched, but get ready, it’s soon to undergo a change in what they describe as a “New Version”.
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