Monday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 1, 2006 at 1:30:56 PM
Macs no longer immune to viruses. Duh. Any software is not immune to bugs!
There were more bugs in OS X before this.
Businesses escape paying for taxes. Jerks.
Amazon dumps Google for Windows Live.
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He and at least one other person who clicked on the links were infected by what security experts call the first-ever virus for Mac OS X, the operating system that has shipped with every Mac sold since 2001 and has survived virtually unscathed from the onslaught of malware unleashed on the Internet in recent years.
There were more bugs in OS X before this.
Businesses escape paying for taxes. Jerks.
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The tech industry isn't alone. Government auditors analyzing IRS data in 2004 estimated that between 1996 and 2000, 61.3 percent of large U.S. corporations with at least $50 million in gross receipts reported zero tax liability mostly because of legally permissible deductions. (Similarly, a self-employed individual who makes no money because of no profits may be able to escape paying federal income taxes that year.)
Amazon dumps Google for Windows Live.
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From Aaron Wall at Thread Watch comes word that MSN Live is now powering Alexa's (update: AND A9's) search results instead of Google, the previous partner: Alexa Powered by Microsoft. Alexa results were previously Google results informed by user data from the Alexa toolbar + a number of post-search refinement buttons.