Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors.

The information was a part of Symantec’s 11th Internet Security Threat Report. The report, released this week, covered a huge range of security and vulnerability issues over the last six months of 2006, including operating systems.

Source: internetnews.com

Well, Apple’s Mac adverts are no longer funny, just misleading! 

We’ve seen pictures of the next version of Yahoo! Messenger, designed specifically for Windows Vista as it’s written purely in the Windows Presentation Foundation. Well, on10 has a video of it at some big conference event. What are you waiting for? Download!

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Here are the first decent pictures of Halo 3. Halo 3 is slated for a 2007 Q4 release.

Looking at the pictures, you can see that they have got the MA5B Assult rifle back, it was discontinued on Halo 2 with the SMG and Battle rifle being the common weapons. MA5B, you were truly missed! Welcome back…

Source: Flickr - Dean

Update:
Here is a screenshot of the Halo 3 start menu:

Source : 360 HQ 

MyToons, which is currently in private beta, is an impressive new video and image-sharing site for cartoons. You can upload your own videos and artwork, and find the most viewed, top rated, most discussed and most recent media in these sections.

As is often the case, the media is trying to extract the “interesting bits” from Rupert Murdoch’s keynote interview at the McGraw-Hill Digital Media Summit in New York yesterday. The best tidbit seems to be that MySpace is pulling in nearly $25 million per month in ad revenue, with a growth rate of 30% per quarter.

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D-Wave is claiming next Tuesday it’ll finally debut the first quantum computer: a 16 qubit processor capable of 64,000 simultaneous calculations in quantum space(s).

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