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RSS txtGoogle bots are crawling in a new way
News The new Google indexing practice involves only "high quality" websites and doesn't run on sites with 'robots.txt' files or other standard mechanisms of warding off indexing software. Google's search bots, which scour the... [16 Apr 2008]
Remove Personal or Hidden Information
White Paper If the user saves a document in a file format that can be read by a great number of programs besides Microsoft Word - for example, .txt, .htm, .mht, and .xml formats - any personal information described in this topic is... [16 Apr 2008]
Deploying Windows Server 2008 With System Center
White Paper Some administrators went a step further and built unattended setup routines by creating a unattend.txt file and perhaps using Remote Installation Services (RIS) to automate the install process to avoid having to be... [29 Mar 2008]
Mobile tickets for bus travel
News One of the leading bus companies in the North of England, Go North East, has claimed to be the first in the UK to offer customers the ability to buy tickets using their mobile phones. By texting "txt2go" to the number 60060, a passenger... [08 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment Virtual txt Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Microsoft vs open source UK 'a closed shop for open source' Microsoft Works' is an oxymoron! [20 Sep 2007]
Swiss Content Provider Cuts Costs for Setting Up New Content Services by 70 Per Cent
White Paper Schweizerische Teletext (SWISS TXT), based in Switzerland, has achieved great success channelling content to media owners across multiple media channels, but the company needed a fully integrated content aggregation and... [22 May 2007]
Janet chalks up text service
News The service - called 'Janet txt' - will allow the UK's educational and research institutions to send individual or group SMS messages to mobiles, landlines, email and pagers through one interface. Janet... [03 May 2007]
Deploying Windows Vista
White Paper Unattended installs are preferable but are complicated because of multiple file formats like unattend.txt, sysprep.inf, winbom.ini, and so on. This paper examines the new tools and procedures for deploying Windows Vista... [17 Nov 2006]
Packaging, Testing, and Submitting the Assignment Application for the Java 2 Developer Exam
White Paper Several other items must be included in the package, such as HTML/javadoc documentation for all classes, user documentation for the database server and GUI client, a README.TXT file, and a design choices document... [23 Jun 2006]
GPS Security System
White Paper Among those GPS security systems, to mention only a few, are the Redcare Auto-Txt Bluetooth GPS security system, Tracker GPS security system, and the WorldPay genesis GPS security system. As the society continue to... [14 Jun 2006]
PayPal users get to buy by text message
News eBay-owned internet payments outfit PayPal has announced it is venturing into the world of mobile payments. PayPal Mobile will launch in Canada, the UK and the US over the course of this month. Any PayPal user will be able to access the... [26 Apr 2006]
Data thief gets eight years in the clink
News According to court documents, Levine and others broke into an Acxiom server used for file transfers and downloaded an encrypted password file called ftpsam.txt in early 2003. Then they ran a cracking utility on the... [23 Feb 2006]
Dell gets Googled
News Webmasters who want to keep some or all of their site private from the Googlebot can put a standard document called "robot.txt" at the root of the server that instructs the crawler not to download content. [02 Feb 2006]
This Man Could Lose Several Million Dollars Overnight
White Paper If temperatures plummet, Graeme is automatically alerted by a TXT message sent to his Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone. Graeme MacKenzie has over thirty hectares of kiwifruit plantings, spread across several blocks of land. [24 Mar 2005]
Protect yourself from 'Google hacking'
News Heiser explained that most search engines look for a file called 'robots.txt', which specifies which areas of a site, if any, can be indexed. Using robots.txt and other techniques to prevent indexing is... [14 Jan 2005]
