Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the company’s embrace of the open source paradigm, even if it was not necessarily for altruistic purposes.

The presentation by Microsoft’s Stuart McKee, who holds the title of national technology officer for the United States, continued a pattern in recent years that has seen Microsoft publicly embracing the open source movement and even funding it…

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Facebook users are currently reporting that they’ve been receiving an email that states “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation” but as usual, this email is completely fake. In fact, it’s not only fake but it also contains a virus. Facebook is currently letting users know that the email is fake but they need help in spreading the word, so be sure to let your friends know!

The text of the message is as follows:

Dear user of facebook,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in the…

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Mary Jo Foley: It’s been a day full of Windows Phone 7 content here at the Microsoft Mix 10 conference. I’ve gone to a couple of sessions, a press conference and a one-on-one meeting with Charlie Kindel, who’s spearheading the Windows Phone 7 development charge.

Here are five new things I learned about the platform via these various channels. All of these are questions I keep hearing from potential developers and customers trying to decipher Microsoft’s evolving mobile story…

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Google tries to explain in three beautiful videos the main principles behind its three core businesses: search, ads and apps. “Search is our core technology; ads are our central business proposition; and apps are the umbrella over our web-based software that you can access anywhere, any time,” according to Google…

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In what must be an embarrassing blow to Google, Motorola has chosen Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine on Android phones in China. Android, of course, is the mobile operating system from Google and China represents the world’s largest mobile market.

Can you imagine the new Windows 7 phones featuring Google search or the iPhone promoting a browser other than Safari?

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In the houses “ tecnologiche” a router cannot lack. This that I introduce to you is the Belkin Router Wireless N F5D8236nt4 model which, even if is not l’ last arrived in Belkin house, it offers optimal performances to contained prices and therefore to the capacity of all. Technical characteristics: Bandwidth
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IEE 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n Firewall
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With IntelliType Pro keyboard software you can customize the unique features of your Microsoft keyboard to fit your needs Many keys can be reassigned to open a program file or Web page or to perform commands such as Find Show Desktop or other application specific functions You can also disable keys you sometimes press accidentally such as CAPS LOCK and modify keyboard settings such as updated horizontal scrolling and zoom slider functionality IntelliType Pro software even offers extended application support as well as biometrics support for advanced identity management With IntelliPoint mouse software you can customize the unique features of…

AnyDVD is a driver which descrambles DVD Movies automatically in the background This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well With AnyDVD 39 s help copy tools like CloneDVD Pinnacle Instant Copy InterVideo DVD Copy etc are able to copy CSS protected Movies You can remove the RPC region code thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like AnyDVD…