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Microsoft has removed an online ad for Internet Explorer 8, which showed a woman projectile vomiting, from parts of the Web.Microsoft has removed an online ad for Internet Explorer 8, which showed a woman projectile vomiting, from parts of the Web. The ad, which features American actor Dean Cain and shows a woman vomiting after seeing her husband's Web browsing history, is still available via YouTube. However, Microsoft has removed it from the IE8videos channel on YouTube and the BrowsefortheBetter.com site. That site is part of Microsoft's campaign to promote IE8. The ad was meant to pro...

Latest News

Microsoft removes projectile-vomiting IE8 ad from parts of the Web

Microsoft has removed an online ad for Internet Explorer 8, which showed a woman projectile vomiting,...

Elizabeth Montalbano | Jul 4, 2009

Facebook simplifies privacy settings, calls them too complex

Facebook will simplify the way in which it offers privacy options to its users, as it gets ready to ...

Juan Carlos Perez | Jul 3, 2009

Twitter updates make photos, squashing spammers easier

The latest changes to Twitter are simple and unnoticeable at first, but they can make a world of diff...

Jared Newman, PC World | Jul 2, 2009
Latest Reviews

Review: Final Draft 8

Hollywood may love remakes, but ticket buyers beware: it’s often tough to tell whether you’re about ...

Tim Haddock | Jul 3, 2009

First Look: Firefox 3.5

Hot on the heels of the release of Safari 4 comes the final version of Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5. Origin...

Rob Griffiths | Jul 2, 2009

Update: Cooliris even cooler

Cooliris, the visually-enthralling free browser plug-in that allows you to navigate through onlin...

Christopher Breen | Jul 2, 2009
iPhone Central

Jailbroken iPhones leave users more vulnerable

Jailbreaking an iPhone leaves users vulnerable to attack by stripping away most of the handset’s sec...

Sumner Lemon
Jul 3, 2009

Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone

Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and...

Sumner Lemon
Jul 3, 2009

2XL Supercross for iPhone

2XL Supercross from 2XL Games is a motocross racing game for the iPhone and iPod touch full of high ...

Tim Mercer
Jul 3, 2009

Users complain about poor Pre hardware

Some Palm Pre owners are complaining about poor hardware quality of the phones, with at least one pe...

Nancy Gohring
Jul 3, 2009

Latest Help

Create Events-based iPhoto albums featuring specific people

If you use iPhoto ’09 and its Events organisational feature in a true events manner—separating your...

Rob Griffiths | Jul 3, 2009

Cataloging Mail by date

One of Entourage's endearing features is its ability to group messages by date. In moving from Entou...

Christopher Breen | Jul 2, 2009

Bugs & Fixes: iPhones that are too hot to handle

According to a report on the Web, a newly-released iPhone 3GS became so hot during normal use, that ...

Ted Landau | Jul 2, 2009
Latest blogs

Apple's Ive reveals design secrets

Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive partially lifted the veil on the sec...

Simon Jary, Macworld UK | Jul 3, 2009

Claims of Apple 'admitting' iPhone 3GS overheating are hot air

They say the iPhone 3GS is hot. Hot as in sexy. Hot as in selling like cakes that are hot. Hot as in ...

Dan Moren | Jul 3, 2009

Choose a MobileMe account for publishing iPhone media

A nifty iPhone feature is the capability to upload a photo or video directly from the phone’s Photos...

Dan Frakes | Jul 3, 2009
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