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Issue #6
Welcome to the
latest issue of our eNewsletter: ESP News, we hope you like it!
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In this month’s
issue we look at the changes Google is making to its online Docs facility
and carry a warning about one of the nastiest Trojan Viruses we have seen.
Microsoft have
admitted that Vista wasn’t as good a product as they were hoping as they
launch Windows 7 and we see how a company in Durban has found a way around
its slow broadband connection using an old-school and environmentally
friendly technology – carrier pigeons!
Finally, about
our race team’s success at Snetterton in August.
We’ll keep
doing our best to make sure we send you genuinely useful snippets and if
you have any comments or suggestions for a future article, please drop us
a line. And don't forget to tell your friends!
Mark Nutburn
Director, Sixth Sense ESP
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Google Docs opens up to search engines
Google will
allow browsers to go through and index documents, spreadsheets and
presentations that Google Apps users have published to the web.
"In about two weeks we will be launching a change for published docs.
The change will allow published docs that are linked to/from a public
website to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in
search results you see on Google.com and other search engines," the
company said on a help centre post.
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World's nastiest Trojan tricks Antivirus software
One of the
world's nastiest Trojans is stealing passwords, evading detection by
Antivirus programs according to a study of 10,000 machines.
The Trojan in question, is called Zeus, a very stealthy piece of
malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank
websites.
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Microsoft admits Vista was a less good product
A Microsoft
executive has admitted that "Vista was a less good product", as the
launch of Windows 7 dawns upon us.
The comment was made during an investor webcast, when Charles
Songhurst, Microsoft's general manager of corporate strategy, was
asked how Vista had affected the company's fortunes.
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Pigeon
beats broadband in data transfer race
A financial
services company based in Durban, South Africa, has become so
frustrated with its slow broadband connection that's it begun
transferring large files via homing pigeon.
This pigeon named Winston carried a USB stick against its broadband
connection to find out which would be faster transferring the data
between its two offices 80km apart.
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Snetterton race report
At the end
of August, the Sixth Sense ESP sponsored Lotus Motorsport Elise was
back racing in the Britcar Production championship at Snetterton.
With some
luck due after two previously disastrous races, everyone was hoping
for mechanical reliability at a circuit where we had already gained a
class victory.
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