The company could make Yahoo its default content provider across a wide range of devices.

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She also said "child friendly" computers that filter out adult content by default should be looked at.

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Screen content, in general, is replacing documents as the default media.

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Microsoft added in a follow-up blog post that IE 8 users are protected by default from the attack by Data Execution Prevention, a safeguard designed to prevent content data from being misinterpreted by a program as executable commands.

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Although most platforms will be open to third-party content, the ability to configure their phones to start up with their own portals as the default home article gives them a huge advantage.

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