A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser. via Security Fix – Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension.

It is easy to dismiss all this with “Oh, the press just loves to hype everything Google, and loves to hate Microsoft,” but that cannot explain why even competitors like us are willing to embrace Google’s innovations, but stay away from perfectly good innovations from Microsoft, such as Silverlight? It comes down to one word: [...]

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Another caller, hampered by a slight slur, botched the pronunciation of the product name before asking whether discount pricing might be available. Finally, he blurted, “I love rooster sauce!” (A strutting rooster, gleaming white against a backdrop of the bright red sauce, dominates Huy Fong’s trademark green-capped clear plastic squeeze bottles.) “I guess it goes [...]

A federal public health official said Tuesday the approximately 5,000 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu in the United States is “a great underestimate” and the actual number may be about 20 times as high as that number. Dr. Anne Schuchat, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Science and Public Health Program, [...]

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