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Weird sticker on my DSL modem. I just got my Yahoo! DSL self-install kit in the mail, and the modem has a red sticker on it that reads:
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"ATTENTION To maximize connection speed, leave this modem on for 10 days after DSL installation is complete. Please Note: You can use your DSL service during this time. It is not necessary to leave your computer on, only the modem."
Why do I have to leave the modem on for 10 days? Is something inside it fermenting? Email me if you know. |
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Asia Carrera's hothothot barely legal casemod.  Retired porn superstar, geek, and mom-to-be Asia Carrera whipped up this nifty casemod. More on the lovely Ms. Carrera and her homebuilt PC here. |
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Pac-Mondrian competition. From the project website: "Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man. The project offers gamers a chance to compete for $2000 worth of cash prizes for high score and level design." Link (Thank you, Snoodles!) |
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WebMD acquires skills in high-end services. Purchase of ViPS gives health-care services provider a more diverse portfolio. |
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Symantec snaps up antispam firm. TurnTide's spam-sniffing router becomes another weapon in Symantec's security arsenal, after a multimillion-dollar takeover. |
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Microsoft gets specific with partner program. Looking to foster the expertise of its resellers, the company offers new incentives. |
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Ampex targets Sony in infringement suit. Having made similar claims against Sanyo, the company seeks to bar the importing and selling of digital cameras in the United States. |
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Microsoft Worker Charged with Taking AltaVista Data (Reuters). Reuters - A Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) employee
working on the world's largest software maker's search
initiative was arrested last week on charges that he stole
source code from the AltaVista search engine two years ago,
authorities said on Friday. |
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Report: Toshiba to Offer New Laptops to Help PC Unit (Reuters). Reuters - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) plans to
strengthen its ailing personal computer business with a new
series of notebook computers with advanced audiovisual
capabilities, a business daily said on Tuesday. |
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Disney Settles Patent Suit with OpenTV (Reuters). Reuters - Walt Disney Co. has settled a suit
by OpenTV Corp. and agreed to license patents to use the
Internet to supplement television broadcasts, the companies
said on Wednesday. |
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Vulns: Mozilla External Protocol Handler Weakness |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities |
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Blog :: Using Viruses to ATAK Piracy |
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ettercap-NG-0.7.0.tar.gz |
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psad-1.3.2.tar.gz |
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An Alternate Lifestyle, Part 5.  |
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Potential US buyer eyes MCI stake. MCI, which as Worldcom became the world's largest corporate bankruptcy, gets an approach from a potential buyer. |
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Canadian record labels appeal P2P ruling. A court said file-swapping was OK in Canada. The music business objects. |
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Judge's order may be good for Oracle. Judge's focus on fine points of antitrust analysis may mean Justice Department's case is shaky. |
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MSNBC News Site to Post First Profit -Microsoft (Reuters). Reuters - MSNBC.com, the eight-year-old online
news Web site joint venture between Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O)
and NBC News, will post its first profit in the latest quarter,
the world's largest software maker said on Monday. |
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Microsoft Windows Update Set for Aug., After Delay (Reuters). Reuters - A major update to Windows XP, offering
security enhancements and better stability, will be available
for download and on CD-ROMs from August, two months after its
originally scheduled date, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on
Monday. |
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Forget the PDA, Here Comes the TDA |
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Bethesda Licenses Fallout Franchise, To Make Fallout 3 |
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NIST helps on security budgets |
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News: Senate Bill Targets Phishers. Internet scam artists who use fake Web sites to dupe people into revealing sensitive financial information could face up to five years in jail and forced to pay $250,000 in fines under a bill introduced late last week in the Senate. |
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Windows XP SP2 slips into Fall. As we told you here |
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Global Net regulators aim to turn the tide on spam |
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Update: CyberGuard makes bid for Secure Computing |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw |
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Olympic-size security demands advance planning |
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Real-time GPS tracking of released prisoners. I wrote a short piece for TheFeature about the increasing use of GPS ankle bracelets to track parolees' whereabouts. Link |
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Fahrenheit 911 factchecks. Here are Michael Moore's extensive factchecking notes on Fahrenheit 911.
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1975 underground cartoonist button series.  In 1975, a bunch of underground cartoonists were asked to submit self-portraits for a button series. Denis Kitchen is selling the set of all 54 buttons for $195, or you can buy individual ones for $4.Link (Thanks, Gary!) |
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Apple's absence nibbles core at Macworld. Company chose not to come to Macworld Boston, but organizers think there's still much food for thought at confab. |
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Oracle Extends PeopleSoft Offer (Reuters). Reuters - Software maker Oracle Corp.
(ORCL.O) on Monday said it extended its $7.7 billion hostile
bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O) until Aug. 27 as it
awaits a U.S. District Court judge's ruling on whether the
takeover attempt can continue. |
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Microsoft Apps Share Mozilla Bug (PC World). PC World - Vulnerability patched in browser last week also exists in Messenger, Word. |
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Senate Bill Targets 'Phishers' (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Internet scam artists who use fake Web sites to dupe people into revealing sensitive financial information could face up to five years in jail and forced to pay $250,000 in fines under a bill introduced late last week in the Senate. |
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Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
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Wireless directory draws cheers, jeers. The wireless industry insists that customers are clamoring for directory assistance for mobile phone numbers, although critics - including IT executives - say the move carries unacceptable risks for businesses. |
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Vulns: Mozilla External Protocol Handler Weakness. Mozilla Internet Browser is reported prone to a weakness that may permit an external protocol to be called without any user interaction. This may expose Mozilla users to ... |
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Vulns: Ethereal Multiple Unspecified iSNS, SMB and SNMP Protocol Dissector Vulnerabilities. Ethereal 0.10.5 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, including an iSNS protocol dissector vulnerability, a SMB protocol dissector vulnerability, and a S... |
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MSN search guru 'stole AltaVista code'. More Borlandgate than Watergate |
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iAnywhere Offers Security for SmartPhones |
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Critics Sue Electronic Voting Company |
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New Removable Media Security Solution Ships from Pointsec |
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Microsoft gets jump on early DRM market |
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Diagonal Security docks at IronPort |
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Online file swapping endures |
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CyberGuard Makes $297M Bid for Rival |
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Pirates cost $1.6bn a year |
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Dancing almond optical illusion. Here's a nice optical illusion. A bunch of almond-looking things arranged in a particular pattern appear to undulate. (Also, don't miss the link to the confounding checkershadow illusion, which I wrote about a couple of years ago in BB.) Link |
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To do Tuesday night in LA: RES screening. OK, look -- even if this description of tomorrow night's monthly RES screening in Hollywood doesn't get you worked up, consider this: it's followed by an afterparty featuring a DJ duo who CONVERTED AN ICE CREAM TRUCK INTO A MOBILE DUB REGGAE SOUNDSYSTEM. That is the wickedest most baddassed thing I've ever heard of in my life at least the last three hours. The screening program features:
special guest Geoff McFetridge who will share a retrospective of his video work including his music videos for the Avalanches, Simian, Plaid and his quirky spots for Jinro, X-Games, Burton and HP. The program will also include new short films from Suk & Koch, Brett Simon and Cheryl Dunn who will present the world premiere of Come Mute. Also screening: breaking new music videos for Placebo, Mr. Lif, Armand Van Helden, Supergrass, Los Amigos Invisibles, Colder and Floria Sigismondi's latest for the Cure.
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Cisco-backed start-up launches new tool. Product samples network data every few milliseconds to make sure resources are allocated properly. |
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MSNBC.com goes into the black. The news Web site says it's hit profitability for the first time since launching eight years ago. |
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Robot uses minesweeping technology to clean rugs. The newest incarnation of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner "listens" to dirt with vibration sensors. |
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Briefly: MSNBC.com goes into the black. roundup Plus: Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi...Video-on-demand startup raises funds...Computer cluster company catches cash. |
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Microsoft to Launch Online Store (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. is planning an online store to sell Windows-compatible products — and promoting it in prime real estate right on the Windows XP start menu. |
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Accounting Reform Said Hurting Software Sales (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. companies have been spending
more money to comply with new accounting laws, taking executive
attention away from major software purchases and helping
trigger a flurry of recent profit warnings by software
companies, an analyst said on Monday. |
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Tour De France Showcases Multitude Of Tech |
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Senator introduces 'phishing' penalties bill. WASHINGTON - Fraudsters who create authentic-looking Web sites in an effort to get customers of a legitimate e-commerce site to provide financial or other personal information could go to jail for up to five years under legislation introduced by a U.S. senator. |
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NEW: "Thumbs up" private in court |
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Mozilla vs. Microsoft in Browser-Flaw Debate (NewsFactor) |
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Securing your Storage Assets |
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Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions |
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Enterprise Security Calling MS-Powered Smartphones |
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BugTraq: MSOE Javascript Execution Vulnerability |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability |
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Purple Rain movieoke. Paging Anil "I was a Prince fan when being a Prince fan was uncool" Dash! Cool SF metroblog post about an upcoming screening of film classic Purple Rain this weekend in San Francisco. The host, Peaches Christ (not to be confused with that other Peaches), is projecting lyrics on the wall, transforming the whole Princetacular deal into a Rocky Horror-like sing-a-long/Movie-oke/karaoke orgy of '80s nostalgia. Show up early for the unmissably rad "80's Slut Pageant." Link |
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Google registers to list on Nasdaq. The search company chooses to list on the tech-heavy Nasdaq rather than the NYSE for its hotly anticipated IPO. |
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Dog days in the enterprise sector. The earnings warnings point to a slump in corporate software. Is Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork part of the problem? |
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IBM to bring bar codes up to code. Services offer help to retailers that aren't ready for Jan. 1 revamp of venerable product IDs. |
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Study: Online-gaming revenue to skyrocket. The industry is getting a boost from "massively multiplayer online games," especially in Asia. |
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Microsoft delays SP2, woos partners. The company is in Toronto whispering sweet nothings into developers' ears, but consumers waiting for security updates got bad news. |
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PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship |
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Modding Laser Tag Gear? |
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A faster, stronger, redundant Olympic network. ATHENS - A steady stream of taxis grinds up the hill to the headquarters of the Athens Olympic Committee headquarters, on the northern edge of the city. In the lobby it's all bustle as visitors mill around the accreditation desk and pass through security controls. But on the second floor the glass-walled technology operations center sits idle -- most of the 135 seats in the control room are empty, and all but one of the screens on the video wall are dark. ADVERTISEMENT  Download Strategic Value of Moving to Linux Business White Paper
Find out how your company can reduce IT costs or improve efficiency, you are probably considering Linux and what role it will play in your company.
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Fujitsu adds fingerprint sensor to LifeBook P series. BOSTON - Fujitsu Ltd. introduced a new model in its line of ultraportable LifeBook notebooks on Monday with almost as many features as a regular-sized notebook, including a DVD drive and a fingerprint sensor. |
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Pivotal CEO departs. NEW YORK - Pivotal Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bo Manning said Monday he has left the company and been replaced by four-year Pivotal veteran Divesh Sisodraker, who most recently served as the company's chief financial officer. |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw. BOSTON - Popular Microsoft Corp. products may be vulnerable to a security vulnerability that is similar to one patched for the Mozilla Web browsers last week. |
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Olympic-size security demands advance planning. If there's one thing the Atos Origin team understands as lead contractor for the Olympic IT infrastructure, it's that you must learn from your mistakes. |
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Microsoft products also vulnerable to Mozilla flaw. BOSTON - Popular Microsoft Corp. products may be vulnerable to a security vulnerability that is similar to one patched for the Mozilla Web browsers last week. |
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Olympic-size security demands advance planning. If there's one thing the Atos Origin team understands as lead contractor for the Olympic IT infrastructure, it's that you must learn from your mistakes. |
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BugTraq: MSOE Javascript Execution Vulnerability. Sender: Paul [paul at greyhats dot cjb dot net] |
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BugTraq: Re: HijackClick 3. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com] |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability. The Linux kernel is reported prone to a data disclosure vulnerability. The issue is reported to exist because the Kernel context switch code checks only the psr.mfh bit a... |
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The Finger Server Shell Metacharacter Arbitrary Command Execution |
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NAI PGP Keyserver LDAP Overflow |
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ethereal-0.10.5.tar.gz |
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BugTraq: RE: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability |
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BugTraq: Re: HijackClick 3 |
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Very long NYT magazine article about "serious" comic books. Every couple of years, some newspaper or magazine runs an article about how comic books aren't just for kids anymore. The latest one is from this Sunday's NYT Magazine. It's over seven thousand words long! I haven't read the whole thing yet, but it looks like a great intro to the "graphic novel" genre. There's also a good group photo of Seth, Chester Brown, Adrian Tomine, Speigelman and Joe Sacco. Don't miss the slide show with audio commentary by the cartoonists.
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There was a minor flowering of serious comic books in the mid-80's, with the almost simultaneous appearance of Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking ''Maus''; of the ''Love and Rockets'' series, by two California brothers, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez; and of two exceptionally smart and ambitious superhero-based books, ''Watchmen,'' by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and ''Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,'' by Frank Miller. Newspapers and magazines ran articles with virtually the same headline: ''Crash! Zap! Pow! Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!'' But the movement failed to take hold, in large part because there weren't enough other books on the same level.
The difference this time is that there is something like a critical mass of artists, young and old, uncovering new possibilities in this once-marginal form, and a new generation of readers, perhaps, who have grown up staring at cartoon images on their computer screens and in their video games, not to mention the savvy librarians and teachers who now cater to their interests and short attention spans. The publicity that has spilled over from movies like ''Ghost World,'' originally a graphic novel by Dan Clowes, has certainly not hurt. And there is much better distribution of high-end comics now, thanks in part to two enterprising publishers, Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal and Fantagraphics Books in Seattle, which have managed to get their wares into traditional bookstores, not just the comics specialty shops. Some of the better-known graphic novels are published not by comics companies at all but by mainstream publishing houses -- by Pantheon, in particular -- and have put up mainstream sales numbers. ''Persepolis,'' for example, Marjane Satrapi's charming, poignant story, drawn in small black-and-white panels that evoke Persian miniatures, about a young girl growing up in Iran and her family's suffering following the 1979 Islamic revolution, has sold 450,000 copies worldwide so far; ''Jimmy Corrigan'' sold 100,000 in hardback, and the newly released paperback is also moving briskly.
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Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi service. Business travelers will have wireless Internet access in 29 U.S. airport lounges. |
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Briefly: Continental Airlines offers free Wi-Fi. roundup Plus: Video-on-demand startup raises funds...Computer cluster company catches cash...Apple sells 100 millionth download...Accenture says federal probe looming. |
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EarthLink broadens its Wi-Fi net. Deal will give 5 million of the ISP's subscribers access to Boingo's worldwide network. |
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Planning a VoIP Tech Infrastructure (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - There is little doubt that VoIP will be the bedrock of corporate communication in the future. "Ten years from now, we won't be questioning VoIP," says Yankee Group vice president of enterprise infrastructure Zeus Kerravala. "It will be the status quo." |
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Windows XP to Get Major Security Upgrade (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. will release a major update to the Windows XP computer operating system in August that focuses on boosting protection against malicious intrusions. |
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Mozilla vs. Microsoft in Browser-Flaw Debate (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The gods are having a good laugh at the expense of Mozilla enthusiasts right now. An open-source alternative to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer, the Mozilla browser has long been embraced by techies disdainful of Microsoft technology, and more recently by users fearful of the onslaught of viruses and worms aimed at Microsoft. |
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Sony Sets Launch Date for New PlayStation (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - The new Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation games console will be on display at the May 2005 E3 Expo, the annual video games trade show in Los Angeles. |
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iTunes: 100 Million Songs Served (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes online music store is celebrating its 100 millionth download since its launch in the U.S. in May 2003. The company said that Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas, had downloaded the 100 millionth song, a version of dance act Zero 7's "Somersault." |
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NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels? |
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PC Magazine Reviews Firefox, Opera |
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BugTraq: HijackClick 3. Sender: Paul [paul at greyhats dot cjb dot net] |
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BugTraq: RE: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability. Sender: Drew Copley [dcopley at eEye dot com] |
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OIS Fights Internet Danger |
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IE Flaws Should Come as No Surprise |
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CyberGuard Bids For Rival Secure Computing |
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TI Readies Fingerprint Biometrics Tool |
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IE's Market Share Drops, Security Gaffes To Blame |
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iAnywhere Secures Enterprise Smartphones |
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Laurie Anderson, NASA artist-in-residence. 
Newsweek's Brian Braiker recently did a Q&A session with legendary geek art goddess Laurie Anderson, who is currently -- of all things -- NASA's first-ever artist-in-residence. The woman many remember best for "O Superman" is as superfly as ever, and happily cooking with multiple pots: composing garden music for Japan's world expo, planning a fall tour and going on ten-day long walks. So cool. Link |
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Wget helps you cope with MP3 blog overload. Great item on Jeffrey Veen's blog last week -- a helpful tech tip for compulsively-downloading MP3 blog junkies:
[H]ow to keep up? For a while, I just visited a couple of interesting and well written mp3 blogs, but then they'd link to a couple more, and I'd start reading those. And then that happened a few dozen more times. My desire to stay in touch was in conflict with my increasingly limited free time.
Wget to the rescue. It's a utility for unix/linux/etc. that goes and gets stuff from Web and FTP servers -- kind of like a browser but without actually displaying what it downloads. And since it's one of those awesomely configurable command line programs, there is very little it can't do. So I run wget, give it the URLs to those mp3 blogs, and let it scrape all the new audio files it finds. Then I have it keep doing that on a daily basis, save everything into a big directory, and have a virtual radio station of hand-filtered new music. Neat.
Link (Thanks, Skye Ashbrook) |
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Robert Yager's gang photos. 
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An online gallery of gang photography by Robert Yager. Not new, just something rediscovered that kicks the ass of my eyes all over again. Link (thanks, Siege) |
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Living replica of set for TV show "Dallas" -- in Romania. Blogger and journalist Emmanuelle Richard just got back from Romania, where she photoblogged these incredible snapshots of what must be the Nth great wonder of the world -- a gigantic, sprawling replica of the set of the TV show "Dallas." Even Larry Hagman said it's a perfect match of the real thing, according to Emmanuelle:
The florid theme park is not as glorious as it used to be! "Southforkscu" as locals call it was opened in 1996 in Slobozia, South-Est of Bucharest, by the King of Romanian cheddar, Ilie Alexandru: he's one these egomaniac and corrupt nouveau-riche entrepreneurs typical of post-Communist Eastern European countries. It's like a cross between an amusement park and a luxury resort. Originally, visitors could tour the ranch, ride horses, swim in the swimming pools, visit a small zoo, enjoy the lake and climb the 50 meters Eiffel Tower. And of course, spend a night in the Dallas ranch. Larry Hagman even visited! But Alexandru went to jail for fraud. A string of investors have failed to revive the place. One of them, a Russian dude even painted the ranch in ORANGE! The zoo is closed, the horses are gone... The Romanian hotel chain now in charge wants to remodel it, open a night-club. We interviewed the manager - pure Commie style, just unbelievable. I don't have much faith in this guy's management!
This artist Sean Snyder produced an exhibit about the esthetics of the place "Script For Dallas Southfork In Hermes Land, Slobozia, Romania (2001)" It went to Paris and Berlin (Link). This page contains details about the place and a pic of the ranch before the paint job. It's quite surreal, especially when you see the Eiffel Tower from the road, behind rows of cornfields.
Link to Emmanuelle's moblog, Link to related gallery exhibit, and more on the moblog of Emmanuelle's husband and travel companion, journalist/blogger Matt Welch: Link 1, Link 2. |
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Briefly: Video-on-demand startup raises funds. roundup Plus: Computer cluster company catches cash...Apple sells 100 millionth download...Accenture says federal probe looming...IBM tweaks e-mail for midsize businesses. |
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Yahoo acquires Oddpost to bolster e-mail. Massive portal buys small vendor that sells low-priced Web mail accounts and news aggregation services.
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StorageTek wins copyright injunction. In latest twist in controversial "anticircumvention" law, federal judge orders tape backup maintenance company to cease and desist.
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OpenScape builds presence. Siemens presents an update to its application for managing office communcations. |
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Apple Reinvention Transforms Stock Value (Reuters). Reuters - The more than 50 percent rise in
Apple Computer Inc.'s stock price this year has mirrored the
brisk sales of its market-leading iPod digital music player and
growth at its retail stores. |
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Evite Revamps Web Site, Mulls Social Networking (Reuters). Reuters - Evite, an online party invitation
and event planning service, expects to roll out a new version
of its Web site on Monday and is considering adding social
networking features, the president of the InterActiveCorp
(IACI.O) unit said. |
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Blair's Government Urges BBC Over Content (AP). AP - A British government report suggests that the British Broadcasting Corp. drop some features from its popular Web site to better concentrate on news. |
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Apple Crosses 100 Million Tracks Sold on iTunes (Reuters). Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. has sold 100
million songs on its iTunes Music Store, solidifying its
position as the leading legal music download site, the maker of
the iPod and Macintosh computer said on Monday. |
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Ask Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales About Online Collaboration |
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Isn't Now the Time to Try a Linux Desktop? |
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Infocus: Metasploit Framework (Part One). This article provides an elaborate insight into the Open Source exploit framework, the Metasploit Framework, which is meant to change the future of penetration testing once and for all. Part one of three. |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-09 ] MoinMoin: Group ACL bypass. Sender: Kurt Lieber [klieber at gentoo dot org] |
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BugTraq: MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability. Sender: Paul [paul at greyhats dot cjb dot net] |
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BugTraq: Media Preview Script Execution Vulnerability. Sender: Paul [paul at greyhats dot cjb dot net] |
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BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-10 ] rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon. Sender: Kurt Lieber [klieber at gentoo dot org] |
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Scientists horrified by Bush's Bad Science. She blinded me with politics |
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NEW: Utah Marine questioned |
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NEW: More time for Filipino hostage |
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ADV: Free White Paper: Search and the Strategic Value to the Enterprise |
| 24. |
BugTraq: Re: Covert Channels allow Cross-Site-Java in Microsoft VM |
| 25. |
BugTraq: [ GLSA 200407-10 ] rsync: Directory traversal in rsync daemon |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel chown() System Call Group Ownership Alteration Vulnerability |
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Vulns: CacheFlow CacheOS HTTP HOST Proxy Vulnerability |
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iPod popularity may put a damper on copy-protected CDs. For the first time in the US, a copy-protected music CD has hit #1 on the charts. However, some consumers are complaining that they can't rip the tracks to their iPods. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Hello Kitty robot. Sanrio has shipped a $3700 immobile, talking Hello Kitty robot with face- and speech-recognition.
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Update: Brian sez, "The robot wasn't developed by Sanrio, but by Nagoya-based robot developer Business Design Laboratory Co. And the robot won't be released until Nov. 1, which is apparently Hello Kitty's 30th birthday." |
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1982 British TV PC ads. 
Here's a collection of downloadable TV ads for videogame and PC technology aired on British television in 1982, including Frogger and the Atari VCS.
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One backpack to shlep, store and *charge* the whole device-array.
The JuiceBox is a backpack crammed with one man's entirety of chargers, docks and wall-warts, wired together so that plugging in one single lead powers the entire device-array. Included devices are a Dell Axim X3i, Jabra BT250 headset, Nokia 6310i, iPod, etc...
When the front flap is open, you can see the USB hub to which are connected a BT receiver, iPod sync cable, palm sync cable and webcam cable. Behind the cables sticking in the hub you see the BT gps receiver (from www.tomtom.com), to the right of the hub the webcam itself, beneath it a pen (with a little LED light, yay!). And below that my two toolkits, one containing often used tools (crosscable, various jeweller's screwdrivers,knife, PCMCIA HD, USB storage, and sticky notes) and the other containing various nuts and bolts, some PCMCIA network cards, some torque screwdrivers, and some electrician's tape)
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Paranoid locking coffee cup. 
The LockCup is an Israeli-invented coffee-cup that is only liquid-tight when a locking pin is inserted -- no more sharing microbes with the office cup-thief.
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Microsoft 'to cut costs by $1bn'. Microsoft is to slash annual costs by $1bn after a sharp rise in spending over the past three years, reports say. |
| 7. |
Pace Micro shares up on profits. Europe's biggest digital set-top box maker unveils annual profits of £3.9m, after suffering 18 months of losses, prompting a surge in its shares. |
| 8. |
Rivals nibble at Microsoft's IE. Security flaws in Microsoft's web browser are prompting net users to try alternatives, research suggests. |
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Java Desktop support site launched. The site features how-to articles, user forums and software downloads designed to help newbies use Sun's low-cost operating system. |
| 10. |
Video-on-demand startup Akimbo raises funds. Investors met the company's demand for cash ahead of the launch of its Net-based video service. |
| 11. |
Computer cluster company raises cash. Scali, maker of software for clustering connectivity, attracts $7.5 million to boost growth. |
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New PlayStation Targeted for March 2005 (AP). AP - Sony Corp. said it plans to unveil its next-generation PlayStation video game console before the end of March 2005, according to a news report on Monday. |
| 13. |
Google Applies to List on Nasdaq (Reuters). Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc., which
has filed for a $2.7 billion initial public offering, has
applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
(NDAQ.OB), the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday. |
| 14. |
Qualcomm Sampling Multimedia Chipset (Reuters). Reuters - Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O), a wireless
technology company, on Monday said it had begun sample
production of cell-phone chips that incorporate both phone
functions and a range of advanced multimedia capabilities like
high-resolution photography and video capture. |
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Unix To Beef Up Longhorn |
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PlayStation 3 To Debut at E3 2005 |
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| 17. |
WLAN management vendors bombard IT with solutions. With wireless LANs becoming a major component within an enterprise network, a new class of vendor offering distributed wireless monitoring and management is coming to the fore. |
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Elsewhere: Have a flutter on a worm. When will the next big worm strike be? Who will be the next high-profile victim of a DDoS attack? If you know, you could make money at Tradesports.com
Controversial Iris... |
| 19. |
Elsewhere: Advice to hackers: Do no harm. Experts at a conference seek to deter younger tech wizards
Stephen Wozniak, a founder of Apple Computer, was preaching to the choir at a conference in Manhattan, recall... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel chown() System Call Group Ownership Alteration Vulnerability. The chown(2) system call is a POSIX standard system call allowing the modification of user and group ownership of files. Regular users are able to change group ownership ... |
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Vulns: GNU Mailman Unspecified Password Retrieval Vulnerability. Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and SmartList. It is written and maintained by the GNU Project and is available for the Lin... |
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Vulns: CVS Multiple Vulnerabilities. CVS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. Some of these issues may be leveraged to execute arbitrary code, while other issues may only result in a denial of service.
Th... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Multiple Device Driver Vulnerabilities. It has been reported that the Linux kernel is vulnerable to multiple device driver issues. These issues were found during a recent audit of the Linux kernel source.
Mult... |
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Vulns: CacheFlow CacheOS HTTP HOST Proxy Vulnerability. CacheOS is the firmware designed and distributed with CacheFlow web cache systems. It is maintained and distributed by CacheFlow.
Malicious HTTP HOST header fields can b... |
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Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Exception Handler Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability. The Linux Kernel is reported to be affected by a local denial of service vulnerability. This issue exists in the 'i387.h' kernel source file and is due to a design error ... |
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French bid to boost open source. New license given cautious welcome |
| 27. |
Pssst, wanna spam mobile phones?. Chancer makes an offer you can refuse |
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Vulns: SSLTelnetd Remote Syslog Format String Vulnerability |
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Vulns: Sun Java Virtual Machine Font.createFont Method Insecure Temporary File Creation Weakness |
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Google IPO to happen this month?. Google's heavily-hyped IPO may happen this month. The offering, expected to raise up to US$2.7 billion, will be conducted as a Dutch auction. By Eric Bangeman. |
| 2. |
PlayStation 3 to be shown at next year's E3. Slated to be the second of the next-generation game consoles to ship, the Sony PlayStation 3 will be unveiled at next year's E3 videogame conference. By Eric Bangeman. |
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Science Museum launches games. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. |
| 4. |
Pace Micro shares jump on profits. Europe's biggest digital set-top box maker unveils annual profits of £3.9m, after suffering 18 months of losses, prompting a surge in its shares. |
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Microsoft boosts partner investments. Company also reallocates one-third of its worldwide direct customer-marketing to joint-marketing with partners. |
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Jaguar offers limited edition black iPod (MacCentral). MacCentral - Jaguar Motor Co. is offering visitors to its X-Type Web site the opportunity to win a limited edition black Apple iPod. There were a total of 75 black iPods made, but there is only one left, which will be given away on August 1, 2004 from Jaguar's Web site. |
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The History Of Pentium |
| 8. |
Bar Coding The World Away |
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CyberGuard makes bid for Secure Computing. Network security provider CyberGuard Corp. has made an unsolicited offer for rival Secure Computing Corp. in a move aimed at filling out its product suite and slashing costs. |
| 10. |
Global Net regulators aim to turn the tide on spam. Net regulators from around the globe ended last week's antispam conference sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with a pledge to try and turn the torrential flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail into a trickle -- if not dam it altogether. |
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| 11. |
Linux Security Week - July 12th 2004 |
| 12. |
Gentoo: rsync Directory traversal vulnerability |
| 13. |
Gentoo: MoinMoin ACL bypass vulnerability |
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| 14. |
Elsewhere: Corporate weak points persist. The Global Information Security Survey has highlighted the vulnerabilities felt by businesses across the globe.
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Vulns: SSLTelnetd Remote Syslog Format String Vulnerability. SSLTelentd is a utility that implements the telnet protocol over SSL; attempting to facilitate a secure telnet environment. It is available as a FreeBSD port.
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X-prize race hots up. Canadian challenge to SpaceShipOne |
| 17. |
Huge comms satellite ready for lift-off. Six tonnes of broadband-delivering kit |
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Howard Lovy, free agent. For several years, Howard Lovy has been mine and Mark's editor at Small Times. As of last week, Howard is no longer with the magazine. Howard is a top-notch editor and writes about nano with a rare combination of insight, intelligence, clarity, and wit. I can't wait to see what he does next! In just one year, his personal blog, Howard Lovy's NanoBot has become essential reading for anyone interested in nanotechnology, from the deepest nanohackers to future-minded laypeople:
"Here's what I do: I tell stories. I tell them simply. And I tell them in a way that is understandable to the industry's real business and financial leaders – the average consumer, the average voter, the average investor, the average reader. They are my true bosses and, ultimately, they will dictate the future course of nanotechnology as a science, an industry, an idea."
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Briefly: Apple sells 100 millionth download. roundup Plus: Accenture says federal probe looming...IBM tweaks e-mail for midsize businesses...Apple says buy laptop and iPod, get $200...Veritas faces investor lawsuit. |
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Microsoft Pushes Windows, Office Upgrades (PC World). PC World - Software giant will spend $50 million to persuade users to upgrade older apps. |
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AMD64 Windows vs. Fedora vs. SuSE benchmarks |
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Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved |
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Siemens updates OpenScape software. With enterprise communications platforms evolving from traditional telephone switches into packet-based systems that bring together many forms of messaging, Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. (Siemens ICN) on Monday is set to unveil the second generation of its OpenScape software. |
| 7. |
Global Net regulators aim to turn the tide on spam. Net regulators from around the globe ended last week's antispam conference sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with a pledge to try and turn the torrential flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail into a trickle -- if not dam it altogether. |
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For Hackers, Shop Talk, a Warning and Advice |
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Nvidia preps Media Center PC bundles. Wants to sign up system builders |
| 10. |
Sony Vaio VGN-S1VP notebook. Review Sony's best yet? |
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Security strategies ‘not working' |
| 12. |
IE suffers security concerns, loses market share |
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Go phish: Don't do it, or you'll have been scammed |
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For hackers, shop talk, a warning and advice |
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Cost dictates security plans |
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Spies caught in parliament house |
| 17. |
CyberGuard bids for Secure Computing |
| 18. |
Sacked clerk hits bosses with 5m emails |
| 19. |
IT Admins Find Breaking Up with IE Hard to Do |
| 20. |
AirMagnet Updates WLAN Management Tools |
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Interview with Bruce Hendrix, President and CEO of ServGate |
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Security strategies ‘not working' |
| 23. |
IE suffers security concerns, loses market share |
| 24. |
Go phish: Don't do it, or you'll have been scammed |
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For hackers, shop talk, a warning and advice |
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Cost dictates security plans |
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Rivals nibble at Microsoft's IE. Security flaws in Microsoft's web browser are prompting internet users to try alternatives, research shows. |
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BBC tech staff to strike over outsourcing. Strike vote comes after Siemens wouldn't meet union demands over pensions or job guarantees for current BBC workers. |
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Apple sells 100 millionth download. Fourteen months after the iTunes service launched, Kevin Britten of Kansas helped Apple reach a milestone by downloading the song "Somersault." |
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Sun Needs to Accept Its Software Success (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Opinion: Sun Microsystems has been working so hard to restructure its business model that it may not be prepared for success. |
| 5. |
Sun's Schwartz Opens Up on Solaris Plan (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Q&A :The company's president says its strategy to open-source Solaris gives it the chance to "deliver a better license that addresses a broader community and still opens more market opportunities rather than somehow threatening our economic model." |
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NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels |
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URPMI For Fedora Core 2 |
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Microsoft to put online store on Start menu. TORONTO -- Microsoft Corp. is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to advertise in the Windows XP Start Menu and the Internet Explorer Web browser. |
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Sony delays UK, US PSX launch. PS2-based PVR slides into 2005 |
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Swansea IT jobs are 'safe', says council. But outsource-threatened staff ballot for strike action |
| 11. |
Travel to the stars for $1,000. It's a one-way trip, though |
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Prince accused on nanotech. Fertility expert Lord Winston accuses Prince Charles of feeding unfounded suspicion of science in society. |
| 2. |
iTunes tops 100m downloads. Apple's iTunes service reaches 100 million legal downloads since its US launch in May last year. |
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New PlayStation set for May debut. The next-generation PlayStation games console is due to be unveiled in May next year, Sony has said. |
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Microsoft, BT Expand Partnership (AP). AP - Software giant Microsoft Corp. and the British telecommunications company BT Group PLC will work more closely together to sell phone and Web conferencing technology, hoping to convince companies that buying such tools will allow them to save substantially on business travel costs. |
| 5. |
Novel Designed for Text Messaging Service (AP). AP - A Chinese author has written a novel meant to be read in 70-word chapters transmitted by cell phone text message. |
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120 Years of Electronic Music |
| 7. |
iTMS Sells 100,000,000th Song |
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NEC grid middleware keeps applications under control. Researchers at NEC Corp. have developed a prototype middleware system for grid computing environments that is capable of controlling the hardware and network and the applications and services that are running on data center servers. |
| 9. |
Microsoft, BT launch global conferencing alliance. Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to muscle market share in the Web conferencing market, with its announcement on Monday of a global strategic alliance with European telecommunications provider BT. The agreement is an expansion of an existing arrangement BT held with PlaceWare before it was acquired by Microsoft last year. |
| 10. |
Microsoft, AmberPoint link on Web services development. Microsoft and AmberPoint are hooking up to boost Web services development in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 tool box. |
| 11. |
Windows XP SP2 to go gold in August. TORONTO -- Microsoft Corp. expects to finish work on Service Pack 2 for Windows XP next month. The much-anticipated security focused update should be available to users shortly after that. |
| 12. |
IBM opens server development center in Taiwan. IBM Corp. has set up a development center for its xSeries servers in Taiwan to be closer to Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, the company said in a statement released last week. |
| 13. |
Fujitsu, Toshiba begin 65nm chip trial production. The first semiconductor wafers produced by Fujitsu Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. using a next-generation production technology have begun rolling off trial production lines at factories in and near Tokyo. ADVERTISEMENT Download Strategic Value of Moving to Linux Business White Paper
Find out how your company can reduce IT costs or improve efficiency, you are probably considering Linux and what role it will play in your company. |
| 14. |
IAnywhere helps secure Windows smart phones. Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Inc. has added smart phones based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile software to the list of platforms supported by its Afaria software for securing devices in the field. |
| 15. |
CyberGuard makes bid for Secure Computing. Network security provider CyberGuard Corp. has made an unsolicited offer for rival Secure Computing Corp. in a move aimed at filling out its product suite and slashing costs. |
| 16. |
EDS virtualizes desktop services. Electronic Data Systems (EDS) this week will detail what it calls "hands-off automation" of desktop PC management. |
| 17. |
IP telephony meets collaboration. Bridging presence awareness with IP telephony, multiple communication devices, and applications, Siemens Information and Communication Networks this week is rolling out Version 2.0 of its HiPath OpenScape collaboration portal. |
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Automate backups on Linux |
| 19. |
Windows vs. Linux security: No unbiased reports |
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Sacked clerk hits bosses with 5m emails. Spam tsunami swamps insurance company |
| 21. |
Gizmondo pushes Button after Jordan F1 deal deflates. From Gametrac to pit-lane |
| 22. |
Mozilla takes bite out of IE. Security concerns drive browser defection |
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| 23. |
Little Brothers Like IP Cameras |
| 24. |
Cities Say No to the Patriot Act |
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Cartoon sound effects catalogue. The Sound Ideas Cartoon Express Sound Effects Series Complete Track and Index Listing is an amazing tour through the speicalised vocabulary of a cartoon foley artist:
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ZOOM IN, SKID AND POP
ZOOM IN, SKID AND CRASH
ZOOM IN, SKID, TRIP AND FALL
BOW STRETCH AND TWANG, ARROW HIT AND VIBRATE
SHOOT ARROW AND POP BALLOON
STRETCH, SNAP AND CRASH
STRETCH, BOING AND HIT BULLSEYE
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Energy heats up high tech. As oil prices rise, solar and other alternative energy technologies are getting better. It's a situation that venture capitalists say could lead to a slew of new opportunities.
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Windows update will be late, Microsoft says. Customers will have to wait until August for the long-awaited update to Windows XP, which will include new security features. |
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The Cloud set to fly with 3i and Accel backing (FT.com). FT.com - The Cloud, a pioneer of wi-fi hotspots, has won a major investment from venture capitalists 3i and Accel Partners and made two high-profile appointments. The moves mark The Cloud's emergence as an independent business. |
| 5. |
Sony Says New PlayStation to Be on Display at E3 (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp. expects to show off its
latest PlayStation at the E3 trade show next May, it said on
Monday, increasing pressure on Microsoft Corp. to take the
wraps off its Xbox successor at that time. |
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UK Wi-Fi network wins 'significant' VC funding. 3i cash to help The Cloud sell to service providers |
| 7. |
Prince Charles gives forth on nanotech. No grey goo apocalypse, but caution required |
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| 8. |
Norton Virus Definitions July 11, 2004 |
| 9. |
Hacker convention wraps up with demos, helping of Jello (USATODAY.com) |
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IAnywhere Heads to Smart Phones (PC World). PC World - Windows-based phones now among handheld devices supported by Afaria security software. |
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StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA |
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We want our e-voting paper trail. Letter El Reg is 'beyond obtuse' |
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Ebbers sued for $400m. WorldCom wants its money back... |
| 5. |
BBC Tech strike over outsourcing. Staff not happy... |
| 6. |
MS cheers as Amazon offers 'iPod killer' Media Centers. Store taking orders - but when will it ship them? |
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CyberGuard bids for Secure Computing. Consolidation play |
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FCC Boss Blogs Silicon Valley. Michael Powell launches his own Web log to connect with the tech community, bypassing Washington lobbyists. Saying he wants to avoid regulating new technologies for fear of stifling innovation, the FCC chairman solicits direct input. |
| 9. |
Democrats Approve Some Bloggers. More than 30 independent Web journalists have been tapped to cover the Democratic convention, while others were 'disinvited.' Republicans say they'll also authorize bloggers, who will join traditional journalists at the conventions. |
| 10. |
HP Multi-User PC Sparks Debate. Hewlett Packard's new computer that can be used by four people at once can save schools a bundle in computer costs. Trouble is, the company will only release the machines in developing countries -- the heck with cash-strapped U.S. and European schools. |
| 11. |
Rapid Test: Cut Natal HIV Spread. Scientists from CDC report on a test to detect HIV for women in labor that could prevent mothers passing the virus to their babies. Many pregnant women in developing countries do not know their HIV status. |
| 12. |
U.S. Should Approve HIV Generics. Access to generic antiretroviral drugs overshadows the International AIDS Conference. Leaders in the fight against AIDS urge the U.S. to fast-track approval of Indian-made 3-in-1 generic drugs, but some are skeptical of the FDA's role. |
| 13. |
FCC Rule Change Meets Opposition. The Department of Homeland Security opposes an FCC proposal to expand power-failure reporting requirements to wireless and other communications companies. Are phone companies jumping on the security bandwagon as a way to dodge reporting rules? |
| 14. |
Calif. Whistleblowers Sue Diebold. Unsealing a lawsuit by electronic-voting critics filed in November, California's attorney general reveals the details of a suit against Diebold that alleges shoddy balloting equipment exposed California elections to hackers and software bugs. |
| 15. |
Olympics: Coming to a PC Near You. This summer, viewers will be able to tune into highlights of the Olympic Games over the Internet, as NBC and BBC beef up their video offerings for broadband users. By Kendra Mayfield. |
| 16. |
Macworld's Back in Beantown. Macworld returns to Boston this week after a six-year absence. Apple is missing and it's a much smaller show, but Macworld veterans are pumped. The expo's more intimate, Beantown's cozy and, besides, NYC smells bad. By Leander Kahney. |
| 17. |
More Extensions for Mozilla. A previous story about extensions for Mozilla elicited a ton of e-mails from readers who accused us of ignoring some of the best ones. So to stop the barrage, here's a rundown of some of the other great browser add-ons. By Michelle Delio. |
| 18. |
Friendster's Fakester Buddies. Creating fake profiles of bogus people has long been a big no-no at Friendster. Now, in an abrupt turnabout, the social-networking company is promoting Anchorman with intros of the film's characters. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Moodle Teacher Account Arbitrary Administrative Access |
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Moodle Non-descript Text Filtering Failure |
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Piracy blitz unites film industry. Film companies in the UK join forces to convince fans that buying pirate DVDs funds terrorism and drug dealing. |
| 3. |
Body movement to create music. Scientists are developing ways of capturing human movement to make music by simple gestures. |
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Microsoft, BT team on Web meeting software. British communications giant will become a reseller of Microsoft's Live Meeting service. |
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419 scam 'bank' bites the dust. Plug pulled, justice done |
| 6. |
Apple, Swatch to make e-mail watch. It was five years ago today... 12 July 1999 |
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Video Chat Via Transparent Desktop Overlay |
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TROJ_SMALL.KR |
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Philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller dies at 94 (AFP). AFP - Laurance Rockefeller, a prominent philanthropist and one of the grandsons US business legend John Rockefeller died at his home in Manhattan, The New York Times reported on its Web site. He was 94. |
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