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07/05/08 13:11 Love for Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 (blog.micropledge.com)
"I could only thank Adobe’s engineers, presuming they were filling up my hard drive with yummy icons, tasty DLLs, and amazing 3D JavaScript add-ons. No matter — the 210 MB it required was there to be used."

07/04/08 22:37 Google's "Friendrank" (tech.slashdot.org)
"Google hatches plans for identifying the most influential of a circle of friends and providing this 'influencer' with 'financial incentives from advertisers in exchange for permission to display advertisements on the membe"

07/04/08 22:36 Ask.com buys Dictionary.com (news.cnet.com)
"Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com."

07/04/08 22:35 Apple not patching iPhone's Safari (www.theregister.co.uk)
"As a result the Jesus phone is still vulnerable to an exploit demonstrated by Charlie Miller at the CanSec West security conference back in March."

07/03/08 12:14 Utah mandates 4 day workweek (sustainablog.org)
"but Utah has become the first US state to make it mandatory to take a three day weekend"

07/03/08 12:06 Security improvements in Internet Explorer 8 (www.theregister.co.uk)
"Internet Explorer 7 introduced a phishing filter, and IE8 Beta 2 goes beyond this with features designed to warn surfers about sites that harbour malware, as well as those designed to trick users into handing over ebanking login credentials and such to crooks"

07/03/08 11:37 Google's Ratproxy vuln scanner (www.infoworld.com)
"Ratproxy -- released as version 1.51 beta -- is quick and less intrusive than other scanners in that it is passive and does not generate a high volume of attack-simulating traffic when running, Zalewski wrote. Active scanners can cause problems with application performance. "

07/03/08 11:31 AVG now precrawls sites w/fake user agent (it.slashdot.org)
"Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with meaningless traffic"

07/03/08 09:56 Opera 9.51 is out (isc.sans.org)
" It fixes couple of security vulnerabilities and some stability issues"

07/03/08 09:55 Sony pulls PS3 2.40 firmware upgrade (www.joystiq.com)
"The release of PlayStation 3 firmware 2.40 last night seems to have caused a wide number of issues for those who updated to the new release, as we reported earlier."

07/03/08 09:47 Faulty notebook chips bring down Nvidia stock price (www.tomshardware.com)
"NVIDIA is admitting that some of its notebook chips are failing at "higher than normal rates" in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission."

07/03/08 09:44 Review of Eee PC 901 and 1000 (www.infoworld.com)
"For one, the company has put the speediest wireless Internet I've seen so far on a mini-noteboook, Wi-Fi 802.11n, which is a generation better than the 802.11b/g that's in most rival mini-laptops. Since mini-laptops, or netbooks, are mainly designed as Internet devices, a speedy wireless connection is vital. "

07/03/08 09:43 Viacom gets access to YouTube user histories (tech.slashdot.org)
"Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom"

07/03/08 08:39 Microsoft issues new "terms" for XP on "micro" notebooks (www.computerworld.com)
"Under the new terms, outlined in the documents, PC makers must limit screen size to 14.1 in. and hard-drive capacity to 160GB"

07/03/08 08:27 " Revolutionary Theory of Water Physics " (www.physorg.com)
"The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers"

07/03/08 08:26 GoogleTalk for the iPhone (googletalk.blogspot.com)
"Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. "

07/02/08 15:32 Pictures of the Eee Monitor (www.electronista.com)
"The system is also known to have dual Ethernet jacks as well as six total USB ports, and both audio inputs and outputs for outside sources; like the iMac, a webcam is built into the lid. An integrated TV tuner is reported to be part of the design, which is thought to have either a 19- or 20-inch widescreen LCD."

07/02/08 14:16 Samba 3.2, now with "clusters" (www.linuxtoday.com)
"Not just a simple "fail-over" high availability solution, Samba 3.2 with ctdb provides a scalable clustered file server solution with full Windows file sharing semantics. "

07/02/08 13:21 PDF is now an ISO standard (www.betanews.com)
"This morning, the International Organization for Standardization announced its completed publication of ISO 32000-1, rendering the Portable Document Format effectively the property of the people at large. It is no longer Adobe's PDF."

07/02/08 13:18 Laptops w/SSDs have shorter battery runtimes? (www.tomshardware.com)
"we have discovered that the power savings aren’t there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD"

07/02/08 13:17 ICQ blocking 3rd party clients (slashdot.org)
"Users of QIP, Adium, and other clients are getting a 'The client version you are using is too old."

07/02/08 10:16 Sony US Gaming portal hacked (www.theinquirer.net)
"SONY'S US GAMER PORTAL has been compromised by hackers apparently attempting to wheedle credit card details out of hapless Playstation owners."

07/02/08 10:15 Which Linux distros are dying? (codingexperiments.com)
"That’s right. Ubuntu looks like it’s almost ready to overtake Linux as a search term."

07/02/08 09:30 Office subscription service via Circuit City (news.cnet.com)
"Microsoft plans to announce Wednesday that Circuit City will be the first to offer a new Office subscription service, first known by its Albany code name and now dubbed Equipt."

07/02/08 09:12 Xbox 360 3d dashboard coming? (kotaku.com)
"This new user interface, we've been told, will recreate the increasingly cluttered dashboard "blade" system in a 3D environment that will be something more akin to the Minority Report than a filing cabinet"

07/02/08 09:12 Intel, "thousands of cores" (news.cnet.com)
"Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores. "

07/02/08 08:13 AT&T investing $400m in IP TV for Chattanooga (www.chattanoogan.com)
"AT&T said it plans to invest approximately $400 million during the next several years in fiber network upgrades, further broadband deployment and Internet-based technologies to bring new services, including "cutting-edge IP-based television," to Tennessee consumers."

07/02/08 08:11 Firefox 2.0.0.15 (isc.sans.org)
In case your still using FF 2, you should upgrade to the latest version.

07/02/08 08:09 Microsoft tries for Yahoo with help from Time Warner (www.computerworld.com)
"Microsoft Corp. is seeking partners including Time Warner and News Corp. in a new bid to acquire Yahoo Inc.'s search business, the Wall Street Journal reported today."

07/02/08 08:07 Coreflood Trojan (www.computerworld.com)
"Then, when a system administrator logs onto that desktop machine -- to perform routine maintenance, for example -- the malicious software tries to run PsExec and install malware on all other systems on the network."

07/02/08 08:06 War of the ultrathin laptops (www.computerworld.com)
"Rather, Tom Thornton, senior research scientist at Perceptive Sciences, and his team focused on the usability of the hardware. Perceptive Sciences developed nine tasks for these ultrathin laptops and then examined how quickly and easily the testers completed those tasks."

07/01/08 22:11 Microsoft buys Powerset search (arstechnica.com)
"Microsoft's Live Search team says that Microsoft bought the company because it was impressed with the people there, but also because they share a vision to take search to the next level by understanding the intent and meaning behind people's search terms."

07/01/08 22:10 TiVo tracks the ads you skip (arstechnica.com)
"However, the devices also report, anonymously, every click of a remote back to the main offices, and track that aggregated information for clients of the company's Stop

07/01/08 22:08 Textbook P2P sharing (arstechnica.com)
"Textbook companies are getting worried about the sharing of their bread-and-butter online, and have started a campaign designed to block the sharing at its source. "

07/01/08 22:08 60% of surfers use up-to-date browsers (arstechnica.com)
"According to the report, a clear majority of users (some 59 percent) are using the latest version of their preferred Internet browser—but that still leaves 40.1 percent who aren't"

07/01/08 22:07 Citibank ATMs "PINS" hacked on 7eleven network (biz.yahoo.com)
""PINs were supposed be sacrosanct -- what this shows is that PINs aren't always encrypted like they're supposed to be," said Avivah Litan, a security analyst with the Gartner research firm. "The banks need much better fraud detection systems and much better authentication.""

07/01/08 14:38 Netgears 2nd "open source" router (www.theinquirer.net)
"NETGEAR HAS LAUNCHED its second Open Source router in the WGR614L, it’s fully functioning with 802.11g wireless and aimed at those communities of Linux bods who like to tinker."

07/01/08 14:38 McAfee reports on "spam volunteer" study (news.cnet.com)
"Over the course of the month, McAfee's test subjects accumulated 104,000 e-mails, or roughly 70 spam messages per day per recipient. Put another way, 87 percent of all the e-mail captured on the test laptops was considered to be spam. That isn't too surprising. "

07/01/08 13:57 AT&T gets you ready to buy an iPhone (www.engadget.com)


07/01/08 12:52 Hawaii now requires solar water heaters (www.enn.com)
"Hawaii has become the first state to require solar water heaters in new homes. "

07/01/08 09:19 Fsecure releases F-Secure bootable CD (www.f-secure.com)
"Rescue CD scans the computer and renames all files containing malwareto .virus file extension" Updates automatically if an Internet connection exists.

07/01/08 07:51 Fench court fines eBay $61m (www.computerworld.com)
"for allowing the sale of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture counterfeit goods on its Web site"

07/01/08 07:37 Pictures fool Japan's age verification vending machines (www.reghardware.co.uk)
"From July, Japan’s set to introduce tough regulations allowing prosecutions to be brought against vending-machine companies whose dispensers sell tobacco to someone under the country’s legal smoking age of 20."

07/01/08 07:33 AMDs low power Phenom chips (arstechnica.com)
"Today, the company is making up for lost time, debuting two new 65W energy-efficient Phenom X4s at 1.8GHz and 2GHz, while simultaneously releasing a new higher-end chip at 2.6GHz."

07/01/08 07:31 Nugache trojan writer gets 5 years (www.heise-online.co.uk)
"He faces up to five years behind bars, three years supervised release with restricted access to the internet, a quarter million dollar fine and almost $74,000 restitution."

07/01/08 07:28 Adobe working w/Google, Yahoo on searchable Flash files (www.washingtonpost.com)
"The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users"

07/01/08 07:26 Kaspersky adds virtual keyboard (www.techworld.com)
"Full details have yet to be confirmed, but it is understood that the program will let users bring up the keyboard from which to enter login details for websites such as online banks that might be vulnerable."

06/30/08 22:09 Microsoft releases details on binary Office formats (developers.slashdot.org)
"Microsoft has released the specifications for the binary file formats used by pre-2007 Microsoft Office applications."

06/30/08 22:07 Xandros buys Linspire (linux.slashdot.org)
"reported on his blog that Xandros and Linspire signed an agreement in principle to buy Linspire June 19"

06/30/08 22:06 iGoogle gets more social (www.pcworld.com)
"Google has quietly begun limited testing of several new social features created for its iGoogle personalized start page. The updates include chat, activity streaming and a new interface for the gadgets offered on the start page."


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