Monthly Archives: April 2008

Some funny images

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 30, 2008
The tax season ended and I started coming across pictures making fun of the IRS. Here’s the first one…
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IRS Stimulus Rebate Used for Phishing

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 29, 2008
The IRS Stimulus Rebates being sent to tax payers has provided another opportunity to phishers to harvest personal information. The emails arrive with the subject line ’2008 Economic Stimulus Refund’ which is sure to catch the attention of many people who are eager to know their status. Remember, the IRS never sends emails soliciting information. [...]
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Microsoft releases XP Service Pack 3

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 22, 2008
Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its manufacturing channels (RTM) and hopes to reach OEM and enterprise customers by the end of April. The Beta release includes the new Windows Installer 3.1 v2, IPsec Simple Policy Update, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), and Network Access Protection (NAP) among others. We hope this won’t [...]
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CO2 map shows sources of greenhouse gases

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 8, 2008
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Google Virgle Pioneer and Gmail Custom Time

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 1, 2008
Google’s Virgle Pioneer and Gmail’s Custom Time were pretty impressive April 1st pranks. I wonder how many applications they received asking for an opportunity to go to Mars! Look at the cool stuff that they created so hard for us to fall for…..
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