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10/06/08 0759 GPS vulnerable to hacking
"Brent Ledvina of Virginia Tech said there is shedloads of infrastructure based on GPS and it is wide open to hackers. Ledvina even built a spoofer to show weaknesses in the system."

10/06/08 0758 BlackBerry Storm
"The sneaksters over at Boy Genius Report have somehow gotten their hands on an official Powerpoint presentation of the soon-to-be-released BlackBerry Storm."

10/06/08 0755 Microsoft cash for search is working
"The results for Live Search Cashback weren't so bad a month in, and according to Hitwise Intelligence, new data shows the service is now starting to pick up. "

10/06/08 0754 Steve Jobs did not have a heart attack
"Katie Cotton, Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Communications quickly shot the rumor down as false, though not before Twitter exploded with tweets on the story and Apple’s stock tanked, before bouncing back."

10/06/08 0752 Deus Ex 3 Details
"this time around combat won't be influenced by stats, but will rely purely on your personal marksmanship skills. Instead stats will influence "a vast array of fully upgradeable and customisable weapons"

10/06/08 0747 Linux is 17 years old

10/06/08 0747 American's need better security awareness
"For instance, according to a study released Oct. 2, more than 80 percent of American computer users polled claimed to have a firewall installed on their systems, but, in fact, only 42 percent had adequate firewall protection. The study, conducted by the NCSA (National Cyber Security Alliance) and Symantec, combined polling and computer checkups performed by Symantec's PC Help by Norton."

10/06/08 0746 Neosploit web infection kit
"Cybercrooks have used the latest version of Neosploit to booby-trap an estimated 80,000 legitimate sites with malicious code."

10/06/08 0745 Ehud Tenenbaum, "The Analyzer"
"The United States will ask Canada to extradite Israeli computer hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, better known as the "Analyzer," so that he can be indicted as one of the masterminds of a worldwide ring of hackers that allegedly stole millions of dollars. "

10/06/08 0744 "Warehouse" of admin login info found
"Several criminal gangs have acquired administrative log-in credentials for more than 200,000 Web sites -- including the one used by the U.S. Postal Service -- and have used the compromised domains to attack unsuspecting users' PCs with a notorious hacker exploit kit, a researcher said Friday."

10/05/08 2121 Skype America didn't know about Skype China's spying
"In a blog published Thursday, Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and storing users' instant messages that were deemed offensive by the Chinese government."

10/05/08 2121 The Kindle 2
"Boy Genius Report has gotten ahold of some photos that appear to be the Kindle 2, so we're curious what Amazon has to say now. "

10/05/08 1931 MSI Wind Linux has high return rate
"The return rates for the Linux version of the MSI Wind have been four times higher than that of the XP version."

10/05/08 1928 Iron Man brings down Paramount servers
"Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount's BD-Live servers"

10/02/08 2046 5 second Linux boot time?
"Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference."

10/02/08 2045 Space Porn.....
"Virgin Galactic has turned down a $1 million offer to do just that. The offer was made by an unidentified party who was willing to put the money up front to do a space porn movie"

10/02/08 1925 Google News for blogs
"Google's updated Google Blog Search tool will use the technology that powers Google News to track and organize the 900,000 new blog posts added to the Web every 24 hours, Google said Monday. Previously, the tool only allowed users to simply type queries to search blogs."

10/02/08 1923 Google's $4.4b plan to save the world
"The plan involves weaning the U.S. off coal for producing its electricity and turning instead to wind, solar and geothermal power. It would also cut oil use in cars by 40% and use electricity for personal transportation."

10/02/08 1533 Western Digital to buy Fujitsu
"Nikkei estimated that the sale could be worth as much as $945 million. Fujitsu's hard drive business lost more than $47 million during its last fiscal year ended in March."

10/02/08 1522 How healthy are cereals?
"Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size earned a healthful cereal score of "good"; it has 12 grams of sugar per serving but is also very low in sodium and has a solid 6 grams of fiber. "

10/02/08 1518 Nokia's iPhone 3G Competitor
"The 5800 has a 3.2-inch resistive touch screen and it's powered by Symbian S60, 5th edition. The user interface will be somewhat familiar to Symbian users, but the company has tweaked the UI for touch control. "

10/02/08 1357 China monitoring Skype
"The encrypted list of words inside the Tom-Skype software blocks the transmission of these words and records personal information about the customers who send the messages. Researchers say their discovery contradicts a public statement made by Skype executives in 2006 that 'full end-to-end security is preserved and there is no compromise of people's privacy.' The Chinese government is not alone in its Internet surveillance efforts."

10/02/08 1357 Google's CAPTCHA new broken
" In a move that is sure to surprise no one, the spammers behind 'Xrumer' have announced that they've not only cracked Google's CAPTCHA"

10/02/08 1344 New 300 movie
"Snyder also said it will take place between the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Plataea, the battle that narrator Dilios is at while re-telling the story of King Leonidas and the mighty Spartans to a new group of warriors at the end of 300. "

10/02/08 1332 Microsoft sues "scareware" vendors
"The US State of Washington and Microsoft have instituted a number of legal actions against vendors of 'Scareware' under the Computer Spyware Act. Alleged security programs are increasingly bombarding innocent PC users with fake messages detailing putative threats or infections."

10/02/08 1331 Bad guys using Google Trends
"According to security provider Webroot, cyber criminals have even begun to use Google Trends to determine the most popular search terms and then post relevant entries on their own or other, compromised, blogs."

10/01/08 2253 Microsoft's new CAPTCHA broken
"Microsoft attempted to increase the complexity of their CAPTCHA system. The CAPTCHA system was revised in an attempt to both prevent automatic registrations from computer programs or automated bots, and preserve CAPTCHA's usability and reliability. As this attack shows, those efforts have failed,' says Websense security "

10/01/08 2252 iPhone developer NDA dropped
"For developers, this means no longer having to stay underground if they wanted to share ideas and tips on their already-released iPhone apps with other developers."

10/01/08 1819 Student SSNs lost at University of Indianapolis
"The hacker -- or hackers -- broke into a server Sept. 8 and gained access to 11,000 archived records with names and matching Social Security numbers."

10/01/08 1817 Want Live Search rewards? Got to use IE.
"Microsoft Corp. today launched a rewards program to entice consumers to its Live Search site, but it requires Internet Explorer and bars users of rival browsers, including Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome."

10/01/08 1816 Ballmer's Window Cloud OS
"Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what Ballmer called "Windows Cloud." The operating system, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications, said Ballmer, who spoke to an auditorium of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored conference in London."

10/01/08 1003 Jailbreaking an Apple TV
"A developer on Tuesday released a free patch enabling Apple TV to play virtually any multimedia file with the insertion of a thumb drive into the box."

10/01/08 1001 Real sued by studios over RealDVD
"The Walt Disney Co, Twentieth Century Fox, NBC Universal and Warner Bros Entertainment are at odds with RealNetworks over RealNetworks Home Entertainment's RealDVD"

10/01/08 1001 Use Live Search, earn prize points
"All users need to do is download a Volish program which tracks their every search in exchange for a magical ticket. And you can earn a maximum of 25 tickets a day."

10/01/08 0957 Lotus Notes on the iPhone
"Apple is allowing IBM's Lotus to be installed on iPhones. Recently it killed a developer submitted program that was deemed competitive with Apple's product.""

10/01/08 0954 New TCP DOS attack
"But in the case of the newly revealed flaw, only a minimum of traffic is required. "We're talking 10 packets per second to take down one service," Jack Lewis, a senior researcher with Outpost24."

10/01/08 0953 cross-site request forgery attacks
"During a CSRF attack, the hacker's request is passed through the victim's browser. The website checks the session identifier, but the site cannot check to ensure that the request came from the right person."

09/30/08 1612 WiMax in the US
" a measure of what Sprint and Clearwire will deliver in their joint WiMax rollouts starting next month. The good news is that this time, the carrier promises look to be delivered on"

09/30/08 1610 Google Lively gaming future
"creative director for Google Lively, about the virtual environment's beginnings and the plans for its future"

09/30/08 1608 Online poker cheats
"His findings led to an internal investigation by the parent company that owns both sites. It found rogue employees had defrauded players over three years via a security hole that allowed the cheats to see other player's secret (or hole) cards.""

09/30/08 0919 "Stallman: Cloud computing is 'stupidity'"
""One reason you should not use Web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. "

09/30/08 0917 New malware rootkit for Windows
""Most malware with rootkit functionality will tamper with the Windows kernel and attempt to execute code in kernel mode," net security firm F-Secure reports. "Typically, a special driver is used to do this... AutoRun.nox is different — it uses a vulnerability to do the job. For malware, it's rather unique to see such a technique being used.""

09/29/08 2112 New Facebook design disliked by some users
"A Facebook group formed for those opposed to the site's new design is nearing 2.7 million supporters, and the leaders are organizing a two-day boycott to bring their point across."

09/29/08 2112 More on Amazon's Flash movie "hole"
"there's no need to actually purchase the Amazon content one intends to record, thanks to an exploitable feature the site includes to speed video playback. Replay Media Catcher isn't free, but the demo version will play back 75 percent of a recording, more than enough to verify proof of concept."

09/29/08 2110 Bailout kills House's servers
"We're referring, of course, to the machines running the House's official web site. Millions of individuals seeking information about the forsaken legislation have slowed its 10 servers to a crawl."

09/29/08 1509 Norway tells Apple open up FairPlay
""iTunes [sic] has now had two years to meet our demands regarding interoperability. No progress has been reported by iTunes since our meeting in February.""

09/29/08 1508 Nero/TiVo team up
"The new LiquidTV / TiVo PC package includes a (USB-based) high definition ATSC digital/analog TV tuner, antenna, remote control, IR blaster, Nero's LiquidTV software, and a 12-month subscription to the TiVo service"

09/29/08 1506 Oracle's Database Machine
"Oracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage, a new method of retrieving data more quickly and intelligently, and -- wait for it -- a $2.33 million price tag. "

09/29/08 1505 "Carders" may be trading/selling your info
"Getting to this level of access hasn't been easy, Rusin said. Carders are tremendously paranoid. Often, just to gain access to the forums, you have to demonstrate your chops by providing up to five active credit card account numbers. It's the equivalent of gang or mafia initiation. "

09/29/08 1455 New Vista Ultimate Content
"The new add-ons include “Tinkers”, a puzzle game; A Windows sound scheme based off of Tinkers; and new content for Dreamscape – a video-based screensaver."

09/29/08 1306 "Antipiracy" PRO-IP bill passes the House
"The U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday passed a bill that would significantly increase penalties for copyright infringement and create a new office of intellectual-property enforcement coordinator in the White House."

09/29/08 1305 60 minutes inside the HLC
"60 Minutes, Steve Kroft talked to a number of the scientists involved--one reckoned that half of all U.S. particle physicists are there--and ventured underground for a closer look at the one-of-a-kind machinery built by CERN"

09/29/08 0915 Multimedia DS coming
"Nintendo is expected to release a multimedia DS this year. Nikkei states the new handheld will feature a built-in camera, music playback, improved wireless and larger screens."

09/29/08 0914 Visual Studio 2010 "black box" for debugging
"In an interview last week, Microsoft Developer Division Director Dave Mendlen said the feature is designed to avoid the all-to-frequent conflict that occurs when a software tester finds a bug that the developer says it can't reproduce. Internally, the feature has been called "TiVo for debuggers.""

09/29/08 0836 Safari gets 100% on Acid 3
"Apple's Safari for Windows pass the Acid3 rendering test from the Web Standards project: 100%."

09/29/08 0836 Windows 7 beta goes public soon
"Attendees at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference next month are in for a treat: everyone going will get a 160GB hard disk with a copy of all the software on show, including Windows 7"

09/29/08 0834 Microsoft site for new Xbox Experience
"Microsoft still hasn't given an exact release date for when the "New Xbox Experience" dashboard overhaul will be released, but if you want to get an early impression of what to expect (coated in a delicious glaze of Microsoft's promotional exaltations), then head over to their new website -"

09/28/08 1442 Malware "sensing" Linux kernel
"If the kernel senses abnormal activity, it stops the program from working before malicious actions occur. 'When we see a deviation, we know for sure there's something bad going on'"

09/27/08 1248 Yahoo/Gmail security problems
"The new Yahoo! desktop program transmits the authentication information in plain text. The flaw was discovered during a Yahoo 'hacku' Day at the University of Waterloo (the only Canadian school part of the trip). Compared to the recent news about Gmail exposing the names associated with accounts, this seems downright scary."

09/27/08 1247 WalMart ends DRM support for music
"Wal-mart 'will no longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.' Support ends October 9th.""

09/27/08 1241 Browser Speed Tests
"Well, today we've patched together all our data, thrown in a fresh test of the Opera 9.6 beta, and we're sharing all the graphy goodness. Read on to see a full comparison of the major browsers you can load on Windows."

09/27/08 1240 Paul Newman is gone
"Hollywood legend Paul Newman has died of cancer at the age of 83, his spokesman has confirmed."

09/27/08 0806 Adobe flaw allows flash movie downloads
"The software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players."

09/27/08 0805 US new copyright czar
"U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a cabinet-level position of copyright czar as part of sweeping intellectual property enforcement legislation that sailed through the Senate on Friday."

09/26/08 1259 3 major ISPs wont use behavioral ads
"Verizon, AT&T and Time Warner also said they do not employ behavioral advertising and have no current interest in tracking users' Web travels in order to serve up targeted advertising. If they decided to use behavioral advertising models, the broadband providers said, they would allow users to opt in to the program."

09/26/08 1251 Stallman on 25 years of GNU
"Stallman expresses some guarded satisfaction with the growth of the free software movement, but also some bemusement about how it has grown more complex as it has faced new challenges from within and without, and an awareness of how far it still has to go to reach its goals."

09/26/08 1249 No DRM on MySpace music
" the music sold through MySpace's new service won't contain the protections that limit how many times a track can be copied"

09/26/08 1248 Congress OK's open source for military
"includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles."

09/26/08 1243 Admin of Warez server gets probation
"Fiatarone, who went by the nickname "kidzap," uploaded 23,572 files to the server and downloaded 40,487 files between November 2002 and April 2003, according to the indictment."

09/26/08 1108 "Net Pollution"
"Have you heard of "net pollution"? If not, you soon will, because it's a term being pushed by Arts+Labs, the new group backed by AT&T, Viacom, NBC Universal, Cisco, and Microsoft. Arts+Labs wants to be a sort of Internet plumber"

09/26/08 0753 GNOME version 2.24
"Other minor but welcome new features include a task manager/to do list applet for the GNOME panel, additional screen resolution tools for those with multiple monitors, and support for high-resolution YouTube videos in the GNOME Movie Player app."

09/26/08 0750 Vint Cerf, "We're running out of IPs"
"He told the Times that the world is about to run out of the IP addresses unless companies pull finger and upgrade to the new system."

09/26/08 0748 Los Alamos National Lab fails security test
"The evaluation included a mock terrorist attack on a sensitive laboratory facility and concluded that Livermore's security program had significant weaknesses, particularly with respect to the performance of Livermore's protective force and the physical protection of classified resources."

09/26/08 0747 Mr. Ballmer talks search tech
""While we have made a lot of progress, we still have a lot of work we need to do to try to fundamentally reinvent the search experience, the search business model," Ballmer said. "

09/26/08 0744 McAfee spends $500m on Secure Computing
"Secure Computing provides network security products including Webwasher that filters corporate web traffic, Ironmail encrypted mail servers, Sidewinder firewall appliances, and SnapGear virtual private network (VPN) devices to businesses of all sizes."

09/26/08 0743 Firefox 3.0.3 soon
"Mozilla Corporation fast track the release of Firefox 3.0.3. A bug in the password manager means that if a passwords for a site with an IDN domain name"

09/26/08 0740 AT&T and Verizon stick with opt-in user tracking
"AT&T and Verizon, two of the nation's leading Internet service providers, pledged yesterday to refrain from tracking customer Web behavior unless they receive explicit permission to do so. "

09/25/08 1954 Transmeta for sale
"After giving up on the CPU manufacturing business in 2005, low-power CPU designer Transmeta has announced that it's up for sale. I"

09/25/08 1609 OS X on a PC using a dongle
"Gizmodo's review of a USB dongle, made by a company called Efix, which allows for an effort-free transformation of a non-Apple computer into one that runs Mac OS X."

09/25/08 1153 Personal use of the Internet at work
"Most people spend more than 25 per cent of their time online at work on personal activities."

09/25/08 1153 Google Moderator
"Google Moderator, earlier named "Dory" after the inquisitive fish from Finding Nemo, started out as an internal tool. It was originally intended for the audiences at Google's "Tech Talks" series, then was extended to company all-hands meetings and other lectures at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters."

09/25/08 1152 Adobe Photoshop Mobile
"Adobe Systems has gradually extended its Photoshop brand from its beginning as high-end image-editing tool to its Elements consumer-oriented photo software and its Express online photo-editing site."

09/25/08 1149 From Google's Chrome comes Iron
"SRWare has developed a Google Chrome Spin off called Iron aimed at people who are concerned or have questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data"

09/25/08 0845 Microsoft SideWinder X6 Keyboard
"Now, finally, Microsoft completes the duo with its SideWinder X6 Keyboard. From the company that probably sells more keyboards than anyone else comes their first keyboard designed specifically for gaming "

09/25/08 0833 CRITICAL:Apple Java
"Apple has closed numerous security holes with the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2. Several of these holes are critical because they allow attackers to inject and execute code but successful exploitation of these holes requires users to visit a specially crafted web page with a Java-enabled browser."

09/25/08 0828 Yahoo's ad platform
"Yahoo rolled out part of a new advertising platform on Wednesday that's intended to streamline how digital ads are bought and placed across the Web. "

09/25/08 0828 Toshiba puts money into HD downloads
"The scheme follows the Japanese giant's decision to invest $20m in US digital content deliver specialist MOD Systems in addition to the $4m it's already pumped into the company."

09/25/08 0824 MySpace Music
"MySpace has unveiled an online music store that lets its US members listen for free but pay for downloads."

09/25/08 0824 Oracle's first hardware product
"The new Exadata Storage Server, the first hardware device that Oracle will sell under its own brand, uses Oracle software and Intel processors built into a disk-drive storage system that Ellison said will perform faster than competing products because the processors are able to sort data before sending it to a traditional database server."

09/25/08 0823 Texting while driving illegal in CA
"California drivers chafing at the ban on holding cellphones can soon forget about texting, too: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has banned motorists from sending, writing or reading messages on electronic devices starting Jan. 1."

09/25/08 0823 What's happening in Palin cracker case?
"FBI agents searched the home of David Kernell, a University of Tennessee student and son of state representative Mike Kernell,"

09/25/08 0821 EA faces Spore DRM lawsuit
"A woman named Melissa Thomas filed a class-action lawsuit against EA for their inclusion of the SecuROM copy-protection software with Spore."

09/25/08 0820 Comcast's new bandwidth "hog" policy
"The company said that under its new system, traffic will be analyzed every fifteen minutes. Users who are found to be occupying large amounts of bandwidth will be placed at a lower priority for network access behind users with less bandwidth-intensive traffic."

09/25/08 0819 Adobe releases GPU-accelerated apps
" Adobe has now released a GPU-accelerated version of its Creative Suite, comprising Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro"

09/25/08 0819 General public has problems with modern tech
"stated that 80% of mobile phones being sold today have cameras on them, yet the number of people who actually know how to use them or get the images off the phones ranges between 10% and 50%"

09/25/08 0815 Review of Android G1 phone
"and I got a chance to try out the new handset at HTC's office in Taipei."

09/25/08 0802 Why are so many Google products still beta?
"We have very high internal metrics our consumer products have to meet before coming out of beta. "

09/25/08 0801 Discuss DRM on Spore Forum, get banned
""Please do not continue to post these threads or you account may be at risk of banning, which in some cases would mean you would need to buy a new copy to play Spore.""

09/24/08 1520 Windows 7 will be leaner
"remove a lot of the standard apps from Windows 7 in order to make the new OS 'cleaner.' Among the apps for the chop are Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker"

09/24/08 1459 Linking to a business by their trademark to be illegal?
"suing internet startup BlockShopper over the issue of whether linking to a business with their trademarked name should be legal."

09/24/08 1436 13 greatest error messages
"In multiple ways, most of them represent technology at its most irritating."

09/24/08 1339 USA is Cracker Central
"The former British Colony of Virginia, now called the United States of America, has taken the top slot in the list of countries most likely to be the source of a hack attack."

09/24/08 1339 Second cracker pleads guilty in TJX case
"He could face a sentence of up to 22 years in jail and a fine of up to $1m (£538,000)."

09/24/08 0958 NASA's search for ET rap
" produced a six-minute YouTube rap video on astrobiology, the scientific search for extraterrestrial life"

09/24/08 0958 Internet radio "saved"
"Instead of facing massive increases per song played, they will be generally charged 10.5% of their yearly revenue.""

09/24/08 0957 ATM hackers caught
"It took a high-speed chase and some gunplay, but two men in Lincoln, Nebraska, are the first to face felony charges for using default passcodes to reprogram retail cash machines to dispense free money. "

09/24/08 0952 Dell's privacy filter for laptop screens
"Dell has introduced what it claims is the world's first fully electronic screen filter - digital version of the clip-on sheets offered by the likes of 3M to shield screens from prying eyes."

09/24/08 0951 Review of HTC Touch Pro
"there have also been several improvements, all of which go to make this arguably HTC's best handset yet... and that's saying something."

09/24/08 0951 Coexisting in the 2.1GHz band
"M2Z Networks says that the experiments, completed by the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) in the first week of this month, demonstrate that different wireless transmission technologies can peaceably coexist in the 2.1GHz band, contrary to the assertions of T-Mobile, the proposed service's biggest critic. "

09/24/08 0949 Spiderman the Musical
"Spider-Man will translate adequately to the musical stage will be relieved to know that the score comes from none other than Bono and The Edge"

09/24/08 0947 IBM does not like Microsoft OOXML
"Big Blue has issued a thinly-veiled threat to the international standards body ISO following its approval of Microsoft’s contentious Office Open XML document format."

09/24/08 0945 Protest against patents on Sept 24th
"We declare the 24 September as the World Day Against Software Patents, in commemoration of the European Parliament First Reading in 2003"

09/24/08 0944 Google "In Quotes"
"Called "In Quotes," the Google Labs project lets you search for a given term (say, "economy") and Google will bring up a quotation from each presidential candidate that mentions the term."

09/24/08 0944 Cisco's Unified Communications
"Cisco's Unified Communications release 7.0 adds support for Windows Mobile, in addition to Symbian and Blackberry. iPhone support is in the works, McConnell said, but Android support is not planned at this point. It also interoperates with collaboration suites from competitors such as Microsoft and IBM. McConnell said that the software suite no longer requires a router for connections from a remote location, such as a home."

09/24/08 0943 BBC radio on your iPhone
"The BBC has confirmed that its radio programmes can now be accessed on-demand through the iPhone and iPod Touch."

09/24/08 0940 CRITICAL:Firefox 3.0.2
Firefox has released a new version. All users should upgrade ASAP. I'll have it on Slug soon.

09/24/08 0937 Problems for Amazon's cloud services
"Between September 9 and September 11, increased error rates also rocked SQS and, although Amazon restored the service's stability, the company didn't fully diagnose and fix the problem until September 18."

09/24/08 0935 Office 2003 users need to upgrade to SP3
""Security updates released after October 14 will support only Service Pack 3.""

09/23/08 1040 PDF exploits growing
"Typical functions like caching the already infected users are deployed by this toolkit on the sever-side. Whenever a malicious PDF exploit is successfully delivered, the victim’s IP address is remembered for a certain period of time. During this “ban time” the exploit is not delivered to that IP again, which is another burden for incident handling."

09/23/08 0857 Windows 7 screenshots
"Overall, the screenshots show a distinctly Vista-like interface,"

09/23/08 0856 Single atom thick membrane
"And unlike your average party balloon -- or even a thick, sturdy glass container -- the membrane is ultra-strong, leak-proof and impermeable to even nimble helium atoms."

09/23/08 0854 Mars Rover to study larger crater
"NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is about to set off on what may be its final odyssey - a seven-mile (11.3 km) jaunt to a crater around 20 times larger than the Victoria Crater from which it extricated itself earlier this month."

09/23/08 0853 It's hard to determine "real" Windows popups
"The authors suggest that user training might help more people recognize the risks involved with fake popups and the diagnostic signs of genuine Windows dialogs, but the fact that the students didn't appear to spend any more time evaluating the fake dialogs raises questions as to whether education is enough. "

09/23/08 0852 Windows Mobile 7 delayed
"Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its cell phone operating system."

09/23/08 0851 Hulu improvements
"In a press release Tuesday, Hulu announced that it now has over 900 series and movie titles in its library from over 100 content providers. So, in conjunction, the video hub--started as a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp.--has done some cleanup work."

09/23/08 0838 O'Reilly's personal site cracked
"Someone else took it as a challenge and O'Reilly's personal site was compromised over the weekend. The list posted to Wikileaks contains at least 205 names, e-mail addresses, billing addresses and passwords of subscribers to O'Reilly, which were not protected or encrypted."

09/23/08 0837 Sony TT featherweight Vaio
" TT series—a 2.9-pound ultraportable that measures less than one inch thin"

09/23/08 0837 Google/TMobile G1 phone
"T-Mobile, the country's fourth largest cell service provider, will unveil the G1 today, the first mobile phone to feature Google's Android operating system."

09/23/08 0835 HLC offline for two months
"Just days after a faulty transformer was repaired, an apparent melted electrical connection between two magnets has brought the Large Hadron Collider down for two months."

09/22/08 1308 Oracle 11g
"Moreover, 11g R2 is expected to introduce major new features in the areas of storage and database performance that could finally compel organisations with aging databases to make the move, he said."

09/22/08 1242 Microsoft's Tent Servers
" Microsoft has tested running a rack of servers in a tent outside one of its data centers. In seven months of testing, a small group of servers ran for seven months without failures, even when water dripped on the rack."

09/22/08 1034 Dell 16G QuadCore Laptop
"This is going to be huge. Unfortunately, we're talking size not marketplace impact when Dell's 17-inch Precision "mobile workstation" rolls out this fall."

09/22/08 1032 Blu-Ray player under $200
"Online clearinghouse Second Act has refurbished Sharp BD-HP20U Blu-ray players for $169.99. Ground shipping will run you about $15. According to the product page, this deal ends yesterday, so I don't know how much longer it'll be available."

09/22/08 1025 Comcast stops USENET service
"First with the cap put on its customers several years ago on amount of traffic provided as part of the customer high-speed package, as of September 16, the service is no longer provided. "

09/22/08 0913 Kodachrome retired.
"While Kodak won't say when the last production occurred, its current stocks currently on sale have a 2009 expiration date and there is talk that the film maker will not bother releasing anymore."

09/22/08 0824 Linux based Palm phones next year
"The company said the Linux-based system software known as Palm OS II and 'Nova' is "on track" for completion by the end of calendar 2008. Handsets based on the OS will following the first half of 2009, it said."

09/22/08 0824 Timberland settles text spam lawsuit
"Timberland, the boots and clothing company, and another company, e-commerce provider GSI, were the subject of a class-action lawsuit that charged them with sending text messages to customers in violation of the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act."

09/22/08 0816 SlotMusic, music on an SD card
"The latest is slotMusic, a microSD card containing music in MP3 format without DRM (digital rights management), playable on pocket devices such as mobile phones."

09/22/08 0815 Intel's Atom 330
"The Atom 330 is designed for desktop computer and has two 1.6GHz processor cores and 1MB of Level 2 cache. The chip also supports 667MHz DDR2 memory. The single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230 chip supports slightly slower 533MHz DDR 2 memory."

09/22/08 0813 Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries
"LiFePO4 batteries also offer faster charging rates, and they provide full power until they are completely discharged. LiFePO4 chemistry is also environmentally friendly — it’s the least toxic of all the battery types."

09/21/08 1633 Google's goof on Antiphishing list
" Today Google blocked a host of legitimate web sites by listing mine.nu. mine.nu is available as a dynamic dns domain and anybody can claim a sub domain"

09/21/08 1624 Cisco's Internet for Things
"Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance to promote the 'Internet of Things,' in which everyday objects such as thermometers, radiators, and light switches are given IP addresses and are connected to the Internet"

09/21/08 1623 Palin email cracker is a UTK student?
"the hacker, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, posted a message detailing his methods. Wired has a story examining the potential legal consequences for the hacker. "

09/20/08 1314 Activision sues individuals
"Activision has begun suing individual pirates of console games. Edge Online is reporting that they are going after a New York resident for allegedly copying Call of Duty 3 for the Xbox 360 and other games, seeking $30,000 to $150,000 in damages for each infringement."

09/20/08 1259 New Nmap features
"One of the emails that caught my attention was a write up on Fyodor's announcement at Defcon of new features in the new version of Nmap (was 4.75, 4.76 is out now) and the subsequent email from Fyodor on the nmap-hackers list. A few of these features caught my attention."

09/19/08 2317 Will ClickJacking be the next big security problem
"According to the description provided by Hansen and Grossman, a combination of the flaws they discovered would enable an attacker to make a user click on a virtually invisible, or only briefly visible, link instead of a legitimate one. This kind of weakness would be a goldmine for phishers and could provide a springboard for a host of other attacks."

09/19/08 2207 Apple Recalls iPhone 3G Power Adapter
"Apple is recalling a USB power adapter that shipped with the iPhone 3G because it could potentially be dangerous, the company said Friday. "

09/19/08 2156 SquirrelFish Extreme, Webkit's new javascript engine
"The new JavaScript engine is already available in the latest WebKit nightly builds. According to comparative benchmarks, the new engine is around 35% faster than the V8 engine recently introduced in Google Chrome, and 55% faster than Mozilla's TraceMonkey."

09/19/08 2046 "I'm A PC" ads created w/Macs
"Microsoft was not only using Macs but also Adobe's software in place of its own Expressions Studio, which the company bills as software that "takes your creative possibilities to a new level.""

09/19/08 2044 Facebook "hole" allows unwanted viewers
"A new hole in Facebook allows members to see the fan pages of people on the networking site who they aren't friends with, an outside researcher revealed on Friday."

09/19/08 2042 Cisco to buy Jabber?
"Cisco Systems plans to assimilate the instant messaging software maker Jabber Inc. into the corporate collective, bolstering the network giant's arsenal of enterprise communication and collaboration tools against the likes of Microsoft, Google, IBM and others."

09/19/08 0941 It's ribbons for Windows 7
"but now there is - supposedly - a milestone 3 (build 6780) release, and there is a screenshot, and more information on UI changes. According to Microsoft blogger Stephen Chapman, the ribbon will make its way to Windows 7."

09/19/08 0915 Indian moon mission next month
"While the spacecraft itself will not land on the Moon, it will act as an orbiter and land a rover on the surface. "

09/19/08 0915 IBM 22nm fabrication tech
" but IBM says it can go much further with a strategy to produce future chips using a 22nm fabrication process. The company is adopting a technique called 'computational scaling' in order to manufacture circuits small enough to deliver more powerful and energy-efficient devices."

09/19/08 0913 1st pictures of extra-solar planet?
"Thanks to the distortion-reducing power of the ALTAIR adaptive optics system on the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, three University of Toronto scientists were able to capture images of the star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 from a distance of about 500 light years away."

09/19/08 0910 Oracle's big announcement?
"On Wednesday next week database users and buyers will behold one of the wonders of the modern world - Larry Ellison live on stage. He'll hold them in the palm of his hand as he talks in an "Extreme. Performance." keynote about something wondrous for the database world."

09/19/08 0910 Nvidia reduces workforce
"Roughly 360 people worldwide will be shown the door by the end of this October. "

09/19/08 0908 The FitPC
"Measuring a tiny 100mm x 110mm x 30mm in size, it is smaller than a 3.5-inch HDD and weighs only 380-grams. What is even more impressive is its power consumption, using just 4 to 6 W of power from a 12 V power supply."

09/19/08 0907 3D Surfing with ExitReality
"Thursday, it released a plug-in named after itself that "allows anyone to view every web page in 3D." "

09/19/08 0907 Dell XPS to get Killer NICs
"A lot of readers might remember the release of the Killer NIC in 2006 from Bigfoot Networks. At a ludicrous price for a network card, it was big news."

09/19/08 0902 New Conan movie coming
"We got word today that Nu Image is offering the long-awaited new Conan movie to, of all people, Brett Ratner. "

09/19/08 0900 CRITICAL:Debian "Etch" OpenSSH Bug
"An error in the signal handler which manages the login timeout in Debian's version of OpenSSH server used functions which were not signal-safe. This would lead to an accumulation over time of zombie sshd processes which could eventually prevent users from logging in."

09/19/08 0858 Comodo Registry Cleaner
"Ever wondered why your computer has got slower and slower as time passes? Problems with the registry can make a Windows system slower, less reliable and in extreme cases, totally unusable." Use it at your own risk. I haven't tested it yet. I'd recommend Crap Cleaner.

09/19/08 0855 How Palin's Yahoo mail was hacked
"The hacker guessed that Alaska's governor had met her husband in high school, and knew Palin's date of birth and home Zip code. Using those details, the hacker tricked Yahoo Inc.'s service into assigning a new password, "popcorn," for Palin's e-mail account, according to a chronology of the crime published on the Web site where the hacking was first revealed. "

09/19/08 0852 CRITICAL:Patches for VMware ESX(i) 3.5
"VMWare released a new security patch and updated two old patches for ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 today."

09/19/08 0720 "I'm A PC" Windows Ad
Much better..I understand this one...

09/18/08 1318 XTM "super" firewalls
"Dubbed ‘XTM' (for eXtensible Threat Management), the first product in the series is the XTM 1050, a sort of super-UTM for the data centre which loads a 10Gbits/s firewall, 2Gbits/s IPsec packet forwarding, and cryptographic acceleration into a box designed around two standard Intel quad-core processors."

09/18/08 1317 Managing VMware w/your iPhone
"VMware's VirtualCentre management software to Linux and the iPhone. "

09/18/08 1305 Yahoo search with full song results
"Now any time you do a search for an artist or song name you'll be able to play up to four of their tracks, in full length, right from the results. Previously the system only allowed for 30-second previews."

09/18/08 1302 Google not buying Valve
"So we checked in with Lombardi himself this morning and he put our minds at ease, telling us it is purely a rumor, a bit of fiction."

09/18/08 1046 More on the next Microsoft ad
"More than 60 Microsoft employees will appear in the ads, along with their e-mail addresses. Bill Gates, who was in the controversial first two ads, will show up in the subsequent ones, along with celebrities such as actress Eva Longoria, author Deepak Chopra and hip-hop singer Pharrell Williams."

09/18/08 1034 Mozilla to remove Firefox EULA
"The Mozilla Foundation’s chairperson, Mitchell Baker, has agreed to entirely remove the Firefox EULA"

09/18/08 0922 Microsoft's Live Movie Maker
"Microsoft's new Live Movie Maker -- the latest beta in "Wave 3" of its Windows Live services -- leaves quite a bit to be desired at this point, as it lacks the ability to do anything except arrange clips and photos with the option to include background music."

09/18/08 0828 AMD Fusion for Gaming
"Making a whooshing sound when clicked, the button – AMD’s Fusion for Gaming Utility - shuts down background apps so Vista users can play games faster. Yep. That’s it. No big CPU/GPU design after all, just a glorified ‘standby mode’ button."

09/18/08 0816 Toshiba's Netbook
"The NB100 is an 8.9in model - the display resolution is 1024 x 600 - and powered by Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270. Depending on the version you choose, it'll come with 512MB or 1GB of memory and up to 120GB of hard drive capacity."

09/18/08 0814 CRITICAL:Quicktime
"A hacker has released attack code that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime, just a week after the company updated the media player to plug nine other serious vulnerabilities, a security researcher said Wednesday. " No patch available. Be careful.

09/18/08 0812 Using poo to catch lazy dog owners
"The city will use the DNA database it is building to match droppings to a dog and identify its owner. "

09/18/08 0809 Virtual colonoscopies work
"Virtual colonoscopies are excellent at detecting large and medium-sized polyps that can lead to colon cancer, according to the most definitive study yet published on this controversial technology."

09/18/08 0809 The Tesla factory will be in San Jose
"Without hard hats or shovels, the top executives from Tesla Motors and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed unveiled the electric auto maker's factory site this morning."

09/17/08 2223 Next VIsta ad might be about Vista
""That was always the plan," a Microsoft spokesperson said late Wednesday. That followed a report on Valleywag that Seinfeld and Gates were getting the boot. "

09/17/08 2221 Anonymous hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo mail
"Activist hackers suspected to be from the group Anonymous have hacked into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo mail account and posted e-mails and photos from it online. "

09/17/08 1303 Google Android phone next week
"Just 10 months after Google first announced the creation of its Android open source mobile phone platform, T-Mobile will unveil the world's first Android -powered phone next week. "

09/17/08 1259 Blackberry Touch phone
"The handset, previously rumoured to be called 'Thunder', will apparently be exclusive to Verizon in the USA and features a touch screen with haptic feedback and an interface offering easy access to a more consumer-focused array of applications."

09/17/08 1258 Mobile Street Views for Google Maps
"Street View endows Google Maps with a driver's-eye view of the world, and now people actually on the street will be able to use it, too. "

09/17/08 1103 How Google indexes audio
"The way it works is through basic speech recognition tech which combs through audio and video segments and makes words uttered searchable, just like text."

09/17/08 1103 Some details on Vmware ESX 4.0
"In addition, the new hypervisor will enable businesses to configure virtual machines with eight virtual CPUs and a maximum of 256GB RAM, VMware product manager Carter Shanklin said in a technical briefing at the Las Vegas conference."

09/17/08 1102 SanDisk rejects Samsung takeover
"U.S. flash memory card maker SanDisk Corp rejected a $5.9 billion bid by top memory chip maker Samsung Electronics, but would not rule out a deal at a better price. "

09/17/08 1037 ASUS shipping cracking software on recovery DVD
"Asus is accidentally shipping software crackers and confidential documents on the recovery DVDs that come with its laptops. The startling discovery was made by a PC Pro reader whose antivirus software was triggered by a key cracker for the WinRAR compression software, which was located on the recovery DVD for his Asus laptop"

09/17/08 0924 Dropbox for cross platform file sync
"Are you looking to share files online, back up your own data or transfer files between Windows, Mac and Linux systems? Take a look at Dropbox. "

09/17/08 0829 Most kids play video games
"More than 97 per cent of young respondents play video games. That's 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls."

09/17/08 0828 Google to buy Valve (Halflife)?
"WELL PLACED SOURCES tell us that Google is going to be buying Valve any second now. "

09/17/08 0826 phpMyAdmin update 2.11.9
"All versions of phpMyAdmin, the popular MySQL administration tool, up to and including version 2.11.9.0 and the 3.0.0 release candidate 1, suffer from a code execution vulnerability."

09/17/08 0821 City opens lawsuit to remove link to site
"In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind case, the Sheboygan city attorney ordered Jennifer Reisinger to remove a link to the city's police department from her Web site. "

09/17/08 0820 Ultracapacitors as batteries?
"Two main methods exist to store electrical energy: in rechargeable batteries and in ultracapacitors, which are becoming increasingly commercialized but are not yet well known to the public."

09/17/08 0819 Bill to enforce DHS laptop returns
"property confiscated so that it could later be returned, would limit how long the DHS can keep laptops, would require them to keep the laptop's information secure, and would create a way to complain about abuse. "

09/16/08 1748 NASA back to Mars in 2013
"The $485 million mission will focus on studying the planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability."

09/16/08 1625 IMDB now shows movies/TV

09/16/08 1357 10 new things about Windows Server 2008
"Windows Server 2008, on the other hand, is a full-size helping of "new and improved". While the overall package is quite good, there are a few surprises, "gotchas", and hidden delights you will want to know about before deciding if you will be moving to Windows Server 2008 any time soon."

09/16/08 1356 Microsoft/Cray supercomputer
"The pair is expected to tout the new offering as "the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered," with pricing starting at $25,000.'"

09/16/08 1056 Study:Veggies have smaller brains
"Researchers speculate the loss of brain mass in vegetarians and vegans is due to a deficiency of Vitamin B12, which is found in meat, fish and eggs. This type of brain atrophy is linked to Alzheimer's Disease and other cognitive failings."

09/16/08 1055 Classic movie plot holes

09/16/08 1043 Safari Gears
"Originally dubbed Google Gears, the online/offline apps project had its moniker truncated in May because the internet giant sees it as an open source Silicon Valley love-in for cloud computing-obsessed web programmers."

09/16/08 1043 Intel 6 core Xeon
"With six cores and three levels of cache on one die, Dunnington is a 1.9-billion-transistor monster. "

09/16/08 1042 Ars tests Spore DRM
"A call to EA brought us to the same help person as the first call. We informed him of the error message and gave him his Spore account information as well as the product key. A few minutes later the rep determined that we had, in fact, used up all our "key activations."

09/16/08 1037 iPhone update 2.1
"Firmware update 2.1 for Apple's iPhone closes a number of security holes, some of which are critical. "

09/16/08 1036 Acer tops "netbook" competition
"That's changing quickly as a new generation of small laptops -- variously called mini-notebooks, ultrasmall laptops, subnotebooks, ultraportables, netbooks and probably something else tomorrow"

09/16/08 1007 Ubuntu to display Mozilla EULA
"Mozilla's trademark policies, however, would make it impossible to include the Firefox name or branding on any derivative that deviates from the original sources in that manner. This poses a challenge for Linux distributors who don't want to impose the EULA display screen on their users. "

09/15/08 2320 CRITICAL:Apple Software Update 2008-006
All OS X 10.4 users should apply it ASAP via Software Update. OS X 10.5.5 for Leopard already includes this security update.

09/15/08 2024 CRITICAL:OS X 10.5.5
Apple has released 10.5.5 for OS X, all Leopard users should patch ASAP. The download link will be on Slug soon, otherwise you can use Software Update.

09/15/08 1440 BusinessWeek was spewing malware
"Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected"

09/15/08 1439 Wrath of the Lich King
"World of Warcraft's second expansion. It will be in stores on November 13th in the US and Europe. "

09/15/08 1431 Berners-Lee new web foundation
"Berners-Lee indicated that the W3F would focus on three general goals: advancing a single web that is open to any device and software; extending the capabilities supported by the web and ensuring they can be accessed securely; and extending the reach of the web to everyone on the planet."

09/15/08 1302 Sun's Open Source hosting site
"Sun is set to compete with the likes of Google Code and Github through Project Kenai, an open-source project hosting site the vendor launched in beta form late last week. "

09/15/08 1045 Developer rebellion at iPhone's app store
"Part of the problem is that Apple’s policy lacks consistency. The iPhone comes with many built-in functions — a calendar, a calculator, a clock and a weather program — that are duplicated by apps the company has already approved."

09/15/08 1043 New spamming service
"on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve “spamming speed” of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per day, courtesy of the 5000 bots it comes preloaded with."

09/15/08 1028 Testing Linux distros on the Eee PC 901
"Following our Linux desktop encryption benchmarks of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and Intel Atom N270 CPU we have a performance comparison of Xandros, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva on this low-cost netbook PC."

09/15/08 1027 Layoffs at eBay?
"EBAY WORKERS may be in for a shock they didn’t bargain for, with a report claiming the firm is floundering and preparing to lay off about 10 per cent of the company's 15,000 employees."

09/15/08 1022 New look and version (9.2) for VLC

09/15/08 1018 Best Buy buys Napster
"The two companies on Monday announced a merger deal in which Best Buy is to launch an all-cash tender offer for outstanding Napster shares at $2.65 apiece, with the full acquisition valued at $121 million. That total value represents $54 million net of approximately $67 million in cash and short-term investments in Napster as of June 30."

09/15/08 1017 Rock Band 2 review
"But for those who come to Rock Band 2 not for a completely new experience, but for one that's been honed to perfection, there's a lot to love about this sequel. "

09/15/08 0750 Will HP slim down Vista?
"Since Vista is clunky and contains things that many users don't want or need, HP thinks that by getting rid of the bloat, Vista will go a lot faster on the notebooks that HP peddles."

09/15/08 0750 Nvidia the champ of Vista crashing
"According to the Vista RTM OCA - IHV breakout, Nvidia is still responsible for 48 per cent of them, a sneeze away from half. Intel has regressed to 31 per cent, no shock considering its driver woes of the last few years, and ATI picks up the rear at 19 per cent. "

09/15/08 0749 Social Networking for the Dead
"BRINGING SOCIAL-NOTWORKING to the dearly departed, a web site called tributes.com will officially go ‘live’ next week."

09/15/08 0746 Facebook security
"The validation badge will give Facebook members a gauge to use in deciding whether to add a particular app or not. Experts praise Facebook's effort, but say apps posing security risks will still be around despite that, partly because of the popularity of the network."

09/15/08 0745 Interview w/Microsoft CIO
"Everybody thinks Microsoft runs all on Microsoft and there is no other stuff there. That turns out just not to be true. We're predominately Microsoft but not exclusively. I want to take some of the learnings we have in those other environments...and make those experiences relevant to our customers"

09/15/08 0743 Bypassing keyloggers w/virtual keyboards
"The system works around a virtual keyboard feature, built into the encryption utility TurboCrypt, which can encrypt keyboard characters on-the-fly, before keylogging or screen capture malware has had a chance to record what is being entered."

09/15/08 0742 Apple vs "garment" hackers
"Apple is trying to make it harder to hack your shoes by working out a patent that uses the authorized garment system. Most think that this will be an RFID chip that is embedded in the garment to make sure it is an actual authorized Garment."

09/15/08 0740 HLC website defaced
"The hackers, calling themselves the "Greek Security Team," defaced the CERN Web site with comments made in Greek, according to the Daily Telegraph, which reported the incident today."

09/15/08 0740 College course on defeating AV programs
"Professor George Ledin at Sonoma State University has been teaching students how knock out AV programs with the idea that if kids think like hackers then they can clean up after them."

09/15/08 0739 Yahoo invites in "hackers"
" Hackers armed with laptop computers, camping tents and dreams of software glory invaded Yahoo during the weekend as the Internet pioneer opened its strategy and its doors to outside developers."

09/15/08 0735 Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE)
"leading retailers and consumer-electronics firms to essentially transform the paid download into an experience akin to buying a DVD. The goal is letting video purchased at any outlet be played on any device worldwide."

09/13/08 1857 Apple's iPhone app "monopoly"
""Let's be clear: forbidding 'duplication of functionality' is forbidding competition. The point of competition is to do the same thing, but better.""

09/13/08 1718 CRITICAL:Microsoft release MS08-052
"This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using affected software or browsed a Web site that contains specially crafted content. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights."

09/13/08 1341 CentOS 4.7 Released

09/13/08 1338 Spore on P2P
"also included step-by-step instructions for how to disassemble the copy protections, along with a set of numerical keys for breaking the software's encryption. For many users, that made the pirated version more appealing than the legitimate one. "

09/13/08 1158 Optical "wifi" sets new speed record
"They report that they were able to achieve throughput speeds above 1.2 Terabits per second, which they say beats the previous wireless data transmission speed record of 160 Gigabits per second by Korean scientists"

09/13/08 1157 "Domain" (not dns/web) based DRM
" The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) would establish a list of devices in your personal "domain" (unrelated to web domains), and minimizes or removes restrictions within that domain."

09/13/08 1148 MySpace Music teams up with big 3 for free music
"It will enable MySpace users to listen to any song from the catalogs of the three music giants free. There will be on-screen ads along with that music, but yes, it will be free."

09/12/08 1800 The second Vista commercial...
This one is funny....sort of....

09/12/08 1601 Supreme court voids spammer conviction
"The court found that the law was "overbroad." While the state has a legitimate interest in curtailing spam e-mail, the court also noted that the right to anonymous speech is a key part of US free speech law; punishing someone for faking the header information of an e-mail in order to remain anonymous is not, in the court's view, constitutional. "

09/12/08 1559 Yahoo wants to help you buy music
"Yahoo is planning to be a sort of guide to the Web's top music services, executives said this week. Yahoo Music users will be able to set up Web pages where they can track content offered by sites such as iTunes, YouTube, Amazon, Last.fm, and Pandora."

09/12/08 1558 No more terrorist vids on Youtube
"Senator Joseph Lieberman claims to have struck a mighty blow against the forces of al Qaeda this week by pressuring YouTube to forbid users from uploading terrorist training videos."

09/12/08 1515 Windows "Geniuses" in BestBuy
"Microsoft will hire an initial wave of 155 'Windows Gurus' to walk around Best Buy and Circuit City stores to answer customer questions and defend Vista's reputation against skeptics, reports say."

09/12/08 1514 Your iPhone is spying on you
"Jonathan Zdziarski showed that every time you press the Home button on your iPhone, a screen capture is taken in order to produce a visual effect. This image is then cached and later deleted"

09/12/08 0729 Jedi college courses
"The university's publicity material reads 'the course "Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way"

09/12/08 0728 Firefox 3.1 to get privacy mode
"according to notes posted on its Web site, and is on track to deliver one in 3.1"

09/12/08 0727 The brain's navigation system
"The study showed that a region of the hippocampus was enlarged in London taxi drivers compared to the general population. Even bus drivers do not have the same enlarged area, and general skill at navigating is not related to hippocampus size, suggesting that the difference is linked to 'The Knowledge' of the city's 250,000 streets built up by taxi drivers over many years."

09/12/08 0726 How the HLC works

09/12/08 0725 Microchip is 50
" now we’re celebrating its 50th Birthday and you’re all invited."

09/12/08 0725 Paedophiles tactics changing, watch your kids
"in favour of hacking into social networking profiles and email accounts in order to blackmail children into acquiescing to abuse. CEOP reckons the change is happening partly because youngsters are becoming more savvy about conventional grooming tactics, and more willing to report concerns to police agencies."

09/12/08 0723 32GB Compact Flash
"SANDISK HAS INTRODUCED a new 32GB Compact Flash card geared towards digital photographers and videographers."

09/12/08 0722 Google Android this month
"Two individuals with firsthand knowledge of the secret plan have claimed that Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Google will present details of the release on 23 September."

09/12/08 0721 Interplanetary Internet
"Interplanetary Internet is now being tested in space, using the Bundle Protocol developed by the Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group."

09/12/08 0706 Blackberry "lifestyle" apps
"In what looks like an attempt to compete toe-to-toe with Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion announced a slew of new integrated application deals on Thursday to make its e-mail-optimized smartphone more appealing to consumers."

09/11/08 1929 iTunes 8 "Blue Screening" Vista
"Apple 's latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple's support forum"

09/11/08 1446 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Mobile
"Microsoft still isn't quite ready to release its new mobile browser, but I did get an advance look at Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Mobile at a Microsoft event Wednesday night. "

09/11/08 0917 Phillips 3D w/o glasses
"The company has its special 'no-glasses-required' displays set up with three demos designed to show how easy it is to tack on this feature to existing content distribution infrastructures without sending the storage or bandwidth requirements through the ceiling."

09/11/08 0909 Fedora releasing updates again
"Late yesterday, Fedora emailed its users to let them know that it would soon issue updates for its most recent Fedora 8 and 9 operating systems."

09/11/08 0909 Winzip 12.0
"WinZip 12.0 adds support for the 7Z, CD/DVD .ISO and .IMG disk image file formats, and a new password policy for compressed archives allows " customisation of the encryption password requirements to achieve a desired password complexity"."

09/11/08 0907 Joomla 1.5.7
"Joomla 1.5.7 "Wovusani" has been released by the Joomla developers, closing four security problems"

09/11/08 0907 Nmap 4.75
"4.75 and gained the ability to graphically display the network topology it scans and maps. The update also includes hundreds of new OS signatures and new scripting engine modules."

09/11/08 0904 Review of new iPod nano
"To use the new Nano, you must upgrade to Apple's iTunes 8 software with its laundry list of hardware requirements; the rounded screen invites glare; sound quality is only average."

09/11/08 0753 Shredding hard drives for a living
"But one day, a customer had trouble parting with the hard drives of those computers because a massive data breach had made the news. The brothers immediately saw the opportunity before them."

09/10/08 2118 Spore's "rootkit"
"The main reason behind this demonstration is the install limit that EA has set in place, limiting consumers to just three installs. If you install/uninstall games frequently, have a laptop or simply own more than one computer to game on, you can imagine you’ll be dialing up EA to ask them to reset the install counter, despite the fact you paid top dollar for the game. "

09/10/08 1055 Email "wrecks" thought trains
""It takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. So people who check their email every five minutes waste 8 1/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.""

09/10/08 0926 Google flub nukes Airline stock
"UNITED AIRLINES' share price went tumbling when a quirk of Google recycled an ancient story about it going bankrupt."

09/10/08 0925 Today isn't HLC end of the world day
"All of these excellent possibilities require the LHC boffins to actually collide some hadrons - well, duh. The clue's in the name. But they aren't ready for that yet."

09/10/08 0924 Intel's 6 core chip
"Moving multiple virtual machines (VMs) to a six-core chip will improve management of virtual as well as physical systems. "

09/10/08 0920 Blackberry Pearl Flip
"The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 will be available later this year through operator T-Mobile, although RIM didn't say at what price. "

09/10/08 0919 Lawsuit claims Nvidia flaw
"The lawsuit charged that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and CFO Marvin Burkett knew as early as November 2007 about a flaw that exists in the packaging used with some of the company's graphics chips that caused them to fail at unusually high rates."

09/10/08 0919 Sprint gets the HTC Touch
"Unlike last week's slip up, Sprint managed to keep this bit of news under wraps and announced on the opening day of CTIA Fall 2008 that it will offer the HTC Touch Pro starting in October (exact date is TBA). "

09/10/08 0917 Google fixes its Single Sign On
"According to a report published by a group of security specialists, a flaw in the protocol used allowed a specially prepared server to register with another service when posing as a user."

09/10/08 0913 Trend Micro stops Windows patches
"Two signature updates that Trend Micro released last Friday for its most popular consumer security software incorrectly identified up to eight different Windows files as Trojans, then quarantined those files, thinking they were dangerous. "

09/09/08 2130 Bond 22...a new trailer

09/09/08 2120 Apple's Lets Rock
"Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled updated iPods and a new version of iTunes at the company's fall music event Tuesday at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts"

09/09/08 2117 CRITICAL:iTunes,Quicktime Updates
"Following the media event announcing new gadgets, predictably, iTunes and QuickTime got updated. A bit of a surprise is that those upgrades also have a number of security fixes incorporated."

09/09/08 2116 SANS overview of Patch Tuesday
"Overview of the September 2008 Microsoft patches and their status."

09/09/08 1334 Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
"Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty Jackalope, to be released next April. It will focus on improving boot times and the convergence of desktop and web. "

09/09/08 1333 iTunes 8, New iPod Nano, iPod 120G for $249

09/09/08 1332 Preview of OpenOffice 3
"Let's take a look at the notable features so you can decide if it's worth taking another look at OpenOffice.org as an alternative to Microsoft Office."

09/09/08 1310 Intel's 80G SSD
"Intel's new X25-M (80GB) solid state disk (SSD) is officially launched, some six months after the company first announced its intention to enter the SSD market."

09/09/08 1310 More on the 3rd Gen Zune
"According to the information published by Frys, the 8GB flash-based Zune will retail for $150 and come in new colors that include blue and silver. A 16GB model is expected to fetch $200."

09/09/08 0946 CRITICAL:WordPress 2.6.2
"WordPress sites with open registration it is possible to craft a new user name which will overwrite another users password with a password based on a random value"

09/09/08 0941 Greatest American Hero Movie
"Stephen J. Cannell, creator of the cult '80s TV series The Greatest American Hero, confirmed to fans that a feature film is in the works. "

09/09/08 0923 CRITICAL:Patch Tuesday Today
"But the extent of at least two of these updates is curiously far-reaching, impacting not just Windows XP and Vista but also Media Player 11; Internet Explorer 6 (not 7); most importantly of all Microsoft Office components listed, an older one called Digital Image Suite 2006; and most importantly of all Visual Studio components listed, two versions of the redistributable Report Viewer package."

09/09/08 0921 Spore DRM
"I just discovered that dozens of Amazon users have given Spore 1-star ratings because of it's aggressive DRM. "

09/09/08 0903 "Official cease and desist" P2P SPAM
"Unfortunately, this is not the case, and there are plenty of people who may have dabbled in BitTorrent or LimeWire and would be spooked by seeing any sort of official-looking document on the subject."

09/09/08 0901 New Sony with SSD, HDD
"The AW comes with all the usual Centrino 2 laptop paraphernalia, but this caught our attention: the top-end model incorporates not only a 500GB hard drive but a 128GB SSD."

09/09/08 0900 HP's 24 hr laptop battery
"Hewlett-Packard (HP) will release a laptop next month that can run for to 24 hours using a high-capacity battery -- but only if it's running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system."

09/09/08 0859 Plastic Logic's book reader
" The touch screen reader has an 8.5-inch by 11-inch display and uses flexible (as opposed to rigid glass) plastic. "

09/09/08 0742 Will Sony have "all you can eat" music service?
"SPECULATION IS RIFE that Sony Ericsson will be forced to respond to Nokia's Comes with Music initiative. It may be contemplating launching an 'all-you-can-eat' version of its Playnow offering."

09/09/08 0741 Apple becoming Microsoft?
"Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors."

09/09/08 0741 Google to retain IPs for 9 months
"Google will half the length of time it holds data linking surfers' IP addresses to their Web searches. "

09/09/08 0738 Google to digitize old newspapers
"Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written"

09/09/08 0717 Rumor:Lance Armstrong 09 Tour de France
"The 36-year-old seven-time Tour de France champion will compete in five road races with the Astana team in 2009, the cycling journal VeloNews reported on its Web site Monday, citing anonymous sources. "

09/09/08 0716 Google TV ads on NBC
"In a joint statement, the two companies said NBC Universal will offer advertising time from several of its cable networks for Google to sell advertising through its Google TV Ads service."

09/09/08 0715 Zune, "tag it from FM, then buy it"
"On Sept. 16, Microsoft will begin offering a feature that will let users "tag" and download music they hear on its Zune MP3 player's built-in FM radio, the company said Monday."

09/09/08 0714 Apple's got something to say today
"No one knows for sure what iTunes 8 may bring, though Digg's Kevin Rose has predicted that it will include a Grid View, Genius Sidebar, and another feature that resembles the Pandora Internet radio service."

09/08/08 1659 UK stock exchange down for 7 hours
"TradElect, the Microsoft .Net based trading platform for the London Stock Exchange, was offline for about seven hours, meaning that their 5-nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years"

09/08/08 1046 The "iPod" was invented in the 70s
"Apple has all but admitted that a British man invented the iPod over three decades ago in the 1970's."

09/08/08 1045 Instant updates from McAfee
"McAfee's Marcus told CNET News that the difference is that McAfee plans to use a desktop communication channel already built into the product, so existing users won't need to download new software. "

09/08/08 1043 IBM's new services
"IBM explain that today’s infrastructure is not designed to efficiently manage the estimated two billion people who will be on the Web by 2011 nor the expected one trillion connected objects including cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines – comprising “the Internet of things.”"

09/08/08 0905 Large Hadron Collider comes online on Wed
"there's no chance that the Earth will cease to exist as CERN scientists activate the Large Hadron Collider this Wednesday. So, to all the morons, please stop writing and watch the LHC start up on September 10th using the real-time CERN video broadcast."

09/08/08 0901 Microsoft gives away Hyper-V Server 2008
"Previously, Redmond’s hypervisor came with a price tag of $28 per seat but, following on from VMware’s tactical play in July to offer its bare-bones ESXi hypervisor for free, it’s hardly surprising to see Microsoft make a similar move now."

09/08/08 0859 Real DVD, copies and plays
"Fox told Ars Technica that Real's new app is simply called Real DVD, and it's designed to be a one-stop DMCA-skirting shop for copying a DVD in its entirety to a hard drive and playing it back, CSS encryption and all."

09/08/08 0858 CRITICAL:Google's Chrome patched
"A Vietnamese security company has found a critical vulnerability in Google's new browser Chrome, but Google has already released patch for that problem and at least one more."

09/08/08 0830 WD VelociRaptor 300GB HDD vs SSD

09/08/08 0817 The doctor of Botox
"'The last session I did was six-and-a-half vials!' His face is a smooth, jowl-free mask. Imagine a tub of frozen yoghurt, not a single line or wrinkle. He is cosmetic medicine's Peter Pan."

09/08/08 0816 Charts on the odds on types of death
"At first glance, it may appear that smokers and nonsmokers die of heart disease at the same rate, but a 35-year-old male smoker is seven times as likely to die of heart disease as a nonsmoker the same age."

09/08/08 0814 Reverse Vhishing
"This is trivial for an attacker, in a similar way it is trivial to duplicate a Web site in a traditional Phising scam (except for the SSL certificate), and it can be easily acomplished by acquiring a SIP number (or set of numbers), an associated VoIP/SIP trunk, and setting up an IVR using an open-source VoIP PBX/server, such as Asterisk"

09/07/08 1744 24 hours w/o Google
"I wish Google didn't make me think of tentacles. It never did before I tried avoiding it for 24 hours -- a doomed exercise that began as a challenge and morphed into a horror show. "

09/05/08 1342 Amazon on demand video store
"TV shows cost $1.99 and movies are $14.99. Movies can also be 'rented' for 24 hours for $3.99. Purchasing allows download to two machines and unlimited viewing online. "

09/05/08 1306 Spore on the iPhone
"The variation on EA's new Spore game is designed to take advantage of the motion-sensing technology in the iPhone and the iPod Touch so that players can tilt and angle their way through a digital take on evolution."

09/05/08 0938 Next Tuesday is Patch Tuesday
"Next Tuesday, September 9, Redmond will release four updates to close critical security holes in Windows, Office, Windows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder."

09/05/08 0938 Google's Picasa being used for spam
"MessageLabs says that in recent months it has noticed an increasing number of emails with links to Picasa web albums which use Flash films to redirect visitors to spammer pages."

09/05/08 0919 Ghostbusters III
"Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, Emmy-nominated writer-producers on the Steve Carell version of "The Office," to script a "Ghostbusters" sequel that would reunite Venkman, Stanz, Spengler and Zeddemore."

09/05/08 0914 US the home of "phantom registrars"
"more than 40 phantom registrars linked to The Directi Group, including PDR, one of the 10 worst offenders on the Net. "

09/05/08 0900 I hope this isn't the first new Seinfeld Vista commercial
It's weird...it's bad...

09/05/08 0858 Metallica's Lars on album leaks
"Speaking on San Francisco radio station Live 105, Lars Ulrich said: "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days." "

09/05/08 0853 ZoooS, OpenOffice on the web
"ZoooS offers speedy access to 95% of the features and look-and-feel of OpenOffice.org"

09/04/08 1508 Evil, selling parts of corpses
"Skin, bones, tendons and other parts -- some of them diseased -- were then sold around the country for dental implants, knee and hip replacements, and other procedures."

09/04/08 1301 12 Vista features you can disable for speed
"The latest Windows packs a lot of code -- more than any version of Windows ever -- and some of it is just plain unnecessary. All of that excess code has a way of slowing down an operating system. You can regain some PC performance by removing unneeded features."

09/04/08 0922 Phone phishing
"Accused of illegally sharing music, UKFSN's subscriber was savvy enough to refuse to give any details, and turned the tables on the caller, demanding to know where they were calling from. When they refused to provide credentials he hung up."

09/04/08 0920 Review of Dell Inspiron 910
"We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line"

09/04/08 0803 AT&T Outage yesterday
"AT&T announced Wednesday that it had fixed a mobile data services outage that had primarily affected the Northeastern states of the U.S. "

09/04/08 0802 Sony recalls some Vaio TZ
"The notebooks, according to Sony, contain "irregularly positioned wires near the computer's hinge and/or a dislodged screw inside the hinge [that] can cause a short circuit and overheating.""

09/04/08 0802 Phorm, not dead yet
"After its share price slumped to a new low, Phorm today sought to allay investor fears about the ISP-level adware business by repeating assurances that a critical third trial with BT will go ahead."

09/04/08 0758 "Petascale" computer to be built
"Blue Waters is expected to deliver sustained performance of more than one petaflop on many real-world scientific and engineering applications. A petaflop equals about 1 quadrillion calculations per second. "

09/04/08 0757 Chrome vs. Internet Explorer 8
"Kennedy's comparison found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB."

09/04/08 0756 Encrypting medical implant transmissions
"But the opportunities also increase the risks. Wireless implants are vulnerable to malicious attacks, which can be fatal. Experts say that signals must be securely encrypted."

09/04/08 0747 Xbox 360 price drops
"The standard Xbox 360 will now cost $299, and the Xbox 360 Elite bundle has been set at $399, the same price of Sony's PlayStation 3 base bundle in this market. "

09/04/08 0746 New iPod blueprints
" At this point, we're almost certain we'll see a new, tall, long-screen iPod Nano at the upcoming September 9th Apple event, so – while these blueprints uncovered by iLounge are unsubstantiated – we're inclined to think they are real."

09/04/08 0741 Google changes Chrome's EULA
"Google said today that it would remove one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through" the new browser."

09/03/08 1608 Google Chrome inherits a Webkit flaw
"Chrome has also inherited a potentially serious security flaw from the old version of WebKit it is based on. An attacker could easily trick users into launching an executable Java file by combining a flaw in WebKit with a known Java bug and some smart social engineering."

09/03/08 1428 Mythbuster's will do a RFID show?
"In a statement from Savage--who was speaking for himself at the conference and not appearing on behalf of the show--provided to CNET News by Discovery Channel on Wednesday, the MythBusters co-host retracted the substance of what he'd told the Last HOPE audience. "

09/03/08 1410 GhostBusters on a USB key
"You could be soon if you pick up PNY's new 2GB USB flashdrive, which comes pre-loaded with Ghostbusters. "

09/03/08 1308 China's CPU, Godson-3
"The chip, code-named Godson-3, was developed with government funding by more than 200 researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences"

09/03/08 1305 Comcast's bandwidth cap not the end of the world
"There are about 720 hours in a month, so if you spend your whole life watching one new movie after another, you will exceed the cap. Well, at least this is a good reason to spend the usual amount of time eating and sleeping.Of course, the data rate for HD movies will usually be several times higher than that for SD content. You might only be able to download 100 hours of HD movies per month without raising Comcast's ire."

09/03/08 1301 Another browser speed test
"As with my previous browser tests, I installed completely fresh copies of the three browsers on my Windows Vista laptop, with all settings left to defaults."

09/03/08 1300 Internet backbone isn't going to collapse
"But new research from Telegeography only confirms what we've been saying for some time: the Internet backbone isn't drowning beneath any kind of exaflood. In fact, backbone capacity has grown faster than Internet traffic in the last year—for the second year in a row. "

09/03/08 1300 Soft Drinks = Fat People?
"What sucrose and high fructose corn syrup have in common, and what distinguishes them from dietary carbohydrates such as starch, is their fructose content."

09/03/08 1019 The benefits of Chrome
"Perhaps Chrome's biggest draw is its multiprocess architecture, which, in a nutshell, protects you from having a bad Web page or application take your browser down. "

09/03/08 1018 Does Google's Chrome nuke your copyright?
"Granting Google 'a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through' Chrome is coming it rich."

09/03/08 0933 DirectX 11
"However, Kev Gee of Microsoft showed up and gave a quick one-hour overview on Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 11—in particular, Direct3D. "

09/03/08 0743 Highway "Body surfing"

09/03/08 0737 eBay becomes a little more eco-friendly
"In a bid to win over eco- and socially conscious shoppers, the online auctioneer will add a new retail component to its fairly new community site WorldofGood.com, which targets people who care about healthy living and the ethical treatment of workers."

09/03/08 0736 What to do with a dead geek...
"For those who enjoy jewelry, and the being thereof, LifeGem will infuse your remains into a diamond. Becoming one of the hardest substances known to humanity doesn't sound too bad "

09/03/08 0734 Microsoft, "Google is a monopoly"
"Microsoft has decided that Google is an evil empire and its planning an anti-trust action over the search outfit's new web browser."

09/03/08 0733 Mythbuster's RFID show cancelled
"The show's co-host Adam Savage claimed that he set out to do an episode on the vulnerabilities of RFID but encountered some very powerful resistance."

09/03/08 0733 External SSD
"The MicroStation line has a maximum 100GB raw storage capacity - 32GB and 64GB versions are also available - that connects using a USB 2.0 which wraps round the drive."

09/03/08 0731 8x Blu-Ray writer
"The drive has write speeds of up to 8x, achievable when using capable single-layer BD-R media"

09/03/08 0731 Adaptec goes green
"Wrapping a green cloak around its shoulders Adaptec has impressively extended its RAID controllers' capabilities by making them spin down disk drives as well. It's also joined the Green Grid, the IT industry's data centre greening group."

09/03/08 0730 eBay for knowledge
"Last night, I attended the launch of School of Everything, a new web service that acts as a kind of eBay for people who have something to teach."

09/03/08 0713 Apple's New "Something" next Tuesday
"Apple provided few details, although the event's invitation shows a silhouette of a dancing man with an iPod and bears the title "Let's Rock.""

09/02/08 1926 Gigabit WiFi
"A working group is preparing to propose what may eventually be known as IEEE 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput), in what some call the successor to 802.11n."

09/02/08 1921 Google's Satellite
"Google signed an exclusivity deal with GeoEye regarding GeoEye-1, the most advanced high-resolution, civil, remote-sensing satellite to date."

09/02/08 1254 3rd Generation Zune photoes

09/02/08 1025 Kaspersky's new variable speed scanning
"technique for varying scanning speeds dynamically according to a number of parameters such as file size, format, structure, whether it has been signed, and where the file might have come from."

09/02/08 1019 "The Voice" of movie trailers is dead

09/02/08 0909 HP TouchSmart UI
"HP's TouchSmart desktop is cool, but a blogger suggests it could be the beginning of a revolution if HP were to finally make the move of ditching Windows and building a Linux distro around the TouchSmart UI"

09/02/08 0909 So what does Chrome look like?

09/02/08 0908 "Cancer" enyzme decoded
"Now the structure of a key catalytic component of the enzyme has been discovered, paving the way to more effective anti-cancer and, perhaps, anti-ageing drugs."

09/02/08 0902 "Youtube" now in Google Premier Apps
"Google has added a video sharing component to its Apps Premier suite of hosted communication and collaboration software, betting that companies will find it useful for a variety of workplace uses."

09/02/08 0901 GNU is 25
"Today the GNU project celebrates its quarter-century. It was on 27 September 1983 that MIT slacker Richard M Stallman made his announcement that he intended to create a complete Unix-like system that would be completely open and hackable, giving anyone the right to modify and distribute the work. The Free Software Foundation is getting its celebration in early."

09/02/08 0900 Performance review of Internet Explorer 8
"Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) requires more than double the system memory of its main rival, Mozilla's Firefox , and spawns nearly six times the number of processor threads, a performance researcher said today. "

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