Microsoft announced on Monday that it would offer a £155,000 ($250,000) reward for information that leads to the arrest of the creators and operators of the Rustock botnet spam operation. The creators of Rustock botnet, the mother of all spam bots, is based in Russia. It was reported to sent out around 30 billion spam emails per day, mostly for Viagra. They are also resposible for cyber crimes, counterfeit items and pirated software. With the help of Microsoft, the operation was shut down in March. “Last month, I shared with you...
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Facebook became the second most popular website in the UK, overtaking Microsoft for the first time last month. Reports from UKOM/Nielsen said that people aged 50 and above flocked to social networks, giving Facebook the second place, next to Google. Facebook has attracted a record 26.8 million visitors in the UK, a 7 percent year on year increase, beating the 26.2 million people who visited the MSN/Bing/WindowsLive websites that are owned by Microsoft. Google had a staggering 33.9 million visits. Twitter also has increased its visitors...
Internet Explorer 9 has only been out in the wild for two days racking up 2.3 million downloads in its first 24 hours online. If you do some quick sums that equates to 27 downloads each and every second – imagine the bandwidth needed to support that! The most noticeable difference with IE9 is the stripped back look and feel the browser has, its much like Google’s Chrome in that respect. Microsoft has removed cumbersome tool bars in the header choosing to focus on the actual websites for a change – the internet suddenly looks less...
On Sunday 20th March Covent Garden is set to come alive with a PR event to promote the hit game Dance Central for Xbox 360 and Kinect. The larger than life Louie Spence will host the event which will see the dance group Happiness (Got to Dance) against Britain’s Got Talent contestant Kevin Cruise. It seems Microsoft want fans to get in on the action too as they have invited them to align themselves with their favourite side forming ‘Team Happiness and Team Cruise’. The event will give attendees the chance to win some exclusive merchandise...
In a recent survey of UK gamers Microsoft conducted revealed avid gamers will spend over £100 per month. Average spending landed at just over ½ of that, around £64 per month. While the sampling of gamers was merely a few hundred, they are self-proclaimed ‘avid’ gamers and play their gaming systems up to 3 hours a day. The sampling of 360 players primarily consisted of males between the ages of 25-34 who make up the largest spending sector of gamers. Other findings in the survey included game trends, noting that shooting games...
Have you ever fancied working for Microsoft on a cutting edge new games system? Have a little peep at the professional person’s networking site LinkedIn and you will see that Microsoft have put on a few job vacancies such as “VLSI performance architect” and “hardware verification engineer”. The Xbox first appeared in 2001 and was a huge success before being replaced by the Xbox 360 in 2005. The life span of the Xbox 360 was said by Microsoft to run up to 2015 but we have been hearing whispers for a while about a new version being...
Microsoft will be hoping that they can get over their recent update saga by bringing a plethora of games from other platforms to Windows Phone 7. Early adopters who have grown frustrated with the lack of big name titles will get an influx of game including the wildly popular Angry Birds which has topped gaming charts both on the Apple and Android app stores. Other games that have been confirmed include Doodle Jump, Plants Vs Zombies, Sonic the Hedgehog, Geodefence and Hydro Thunder Go. The official launch date for all of these titles on...