Microsoft is to launch an updated version of Visual Basic to coincide with the launch of Windows 2000, according to Silicon Valley News. Visual Basic packages provide tools that allow the development of applications in any Operating System, but...
Microsoft has announced a free resource for developers to share code snippets when developing in Visual Basic. The resource is to be called the Code Librarian Update and will aid developers working on Microsoft Office applications.
The FOMA N2002 phones built by NEC were withdrawn from use because a software problem was causing it to lose memory. Services such as streamed and downloaded video make heavy demands on the computer memory in the handsets.
US officials have accused the memory maker Rambus of anti-competitive behaviour. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged Rambus with violating US antitrust laws and has also warned other DRAM memory makers about similar conduct.
Camera makers Fujifilm and Olympus have announced another memory format, further complicating a crowded removable storage market. It is likely to replace the existing SmartMedia format favoured by both Fujifilm and Olympus, and further muddies the...
As detailed in Microsoft's security bulletin, a malicious user could create a document with a VBA application that's designed to overflow the buffer - the chunk of memory that's allocated to a program - and then run other code.
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