Microsoft fights "malvertising"

http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/09/17/bad-ad-going-after-the-malvertising-threat.aspx

Have you ever opened a webpage only to see flashing banners all over the place offering you a free virus scan? Or that the virus has allready been found and you have to buy a certain software to get rid of it? Many users who are not familiar enough with the internet are possible victims of these dirty tricks.

This kind of advertising is called malvertising (compare to malware) and can be potentially dangerous and causes economical losses not just to users but also to Microsoft as well. Therefore Microsoft decided to step in and put end to this malvertising.

IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi

http://www.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/802-11n-becomes-final-standard-january-2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#802.11n

It looks like that after IEEE said yes to the draft that has been here for the last three years, we will finally have an 802.11n final specification. For most users it basically means up to 12x faster networking speed. The new wifi standard is even faster than FastEthernet, todays most widespread LAN standard.

Google Chrome

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138331/Chrome_buries_Windows_rivals_in_browser_drag_race

This article compares speed of different browsers and shows that not all of them are equal. When the speed is the factor, one would like to use Chrome - it is faster and offers bigger viewing space for webpages. I personally use Chrome on my tiny netbook where every inch counts.

However, stable version of Chrome for MacOS and Linux hasn't been released yet. These users will just have to wait :)

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