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12/05/2006 - Intel: chiusura del centro R&D di Glasgow - Il colosso di Santa Clara continua la propria delicata fase di ristrutturazione: entro la fine dell'anno verrà chiuso un centro di ricerca e sviluppo situato nel Regno Unito |
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12/05/2006 - Skype, ora anche universal binary - Il popolare software per le comunicazioni VoIP rilasciato anche in versione universal binary. Disponibile anche un widget per la dashboard di Mac OS X |
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12/05/2006 - Apple brevetta un'altra nuova tecnologia touchscreen - La casa della mela morsicata registra un altro brevetto relativo ad un'interfaccia touchscreen, questa volta in grado di tenere traccia di più segnali simultaneamente |
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12/05/2006 - AVCHD: nuovo formato video da Sony e Panasonic - I due colossi dell'elettronica di consumo annunciano le specifiche di uno standard per la registrazione di video ad alta definizione |
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12/05/2006 - Memorie DDR da 1 Gbyte a bassa latenza - Kingston annuncia nuove memorie da ben 1 Gbyte di capacità per modulo, con latenze pari a 2-2-2-5 |
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12/05/2006 - Processori notebook in sistemi desktop: più focus per Intel - I produttori taiwanesi si preparano ad adottare la piattaforma notebook Santa Rosa anche in sistemi desktop di ridotte dimensioni, a partire dal 2007 |
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12/05/2006 - Il JEDEC ufficializza le specifiche FB-DIMM - Il JEDEC ha confermato in via formale le specifiche FB-DIMM per le piattaforme workstation di recente introduzione |
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12/05/2006 - Due nuove GPU AGP per NVIDIA? - Attese per le prossime settimane nuove soluzioni video NVIDIA dotate di supporto alle schede madri AGP 8x |
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12/05/2006 - L'ICANN vota contro il dominio .XXX - Per la terza volta viene affossata la proposta per la creazione del dominio di primo livello .XXX, per contrastare la diffusione di siti pornografici nel dominio .COM |
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12/05/2006 - Da Abit motherboard con HDMI - Abit sta terminando lo sviluppo di una motherboard per cpu Mobile DualCore che mette a disposizione una connessione video HDMI |
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12/05/2006 - Il senato francese vota le modifiche alla "Legge DRM" - Il senato francese ha confermato le modifiche alla proposta di legge per l'interoperabilità dei sistemi DRM. L'obbligo permane, ma con clausole e scappatoie |
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12/05/2006 - Teac, hard disk esterno USB 2.0 ed eSATA II - Teac annuncia l'imminente presentazione di un disco rigido esterno con interfaccia USB 2.0 e SerialATA |
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12/05/2006 - In forte crescita il primo trimestre 2006 di NVIDIA - Il produttore americano fa segnare consistenti crescite sia di fatturato che di utile netto, per i primi 3 mesi del proprio esercizio fiscale |
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12/05/2006 - Open NAND flash interface per semplificare l'uso di NAND memory - Intel e altri importanti marchi dell'informaticae dell'eletronica di consumo hanno creato l' Open NAND flash interface (ONFI) per semplificare l'integrazione delle memorie NAND sui dispositivi di elettronica di consumo |
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11/05/2006 - Microsoft rilascia aggiornamenti del mese - Microsoft, come di consueto, ha rilasciato lo scorso gli aggiornamenti per il mese di Maggio. Sono 3 le patch da installare. |
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11/05/2006 - HP rinnova il parco macchine - HP presenta il rinnovamento della linea di portatili professionali per le esigenze della mobilità e una nuova filosofia per i prodotti consumer spiccatamente orientati al multimediale |
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11/05/2006 - Google Desktop 4: arrivano i Gadgets - Google Desktop 4 può essere personalizzato con interessanti e utili Gadgets |
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11/05/2006 - Turion 64 X2: in arrivo il prossimo 17 Maggio - Emergono nuovi dettagli sulle cpu AMD per sistemi notebook dotate di architettura dual core: il lancio è questione di pochi giorni |
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11/05/2006 - Prima apparizione per Command & Conquer 3 - In grande riservatezza, Electronic Arts ha mostrato, durante l'E3, il primo trailer dell'attesissimo terzo episodio della serie di strategici in tempo reale più famosa. |
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11/05/2006 - Una nuova cpu Intel Pentium 4 - Appare in commercio, nel mercato giapponese, una nuova cpu Pentium 4: si tratta del modello 524 |
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11/05/2006 - Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway: mostrato e rinviato - Ubisoft ha ufficialmente annunciato un posticipo per l'interessante terzo episodio della serie di sparatutto tattici realizzata da Gearbox. |
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11/05/2006 - Windows Live Messenger disponibile la beta pubblica - E' possibile provare Windows Live Messenger di Microsoft: obiettivo VoIP e condivisione file |
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11/05/2006 - FREE-hotspot.com anche a Milano - Ogni HotSpot situato a Milano puo' ora diventare un FREE HotSpot Certificato. Conversione gratuita per il gestore del locale |
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11/05/2006 - Il ritorno di Golden Axe - Svelato all'E3, da parte di SEGA, un nuovo episodio dell'indimenticabile picchiaduro a scorrimento orizzontale. |
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13/05/2006 - Bush: si` vi spiamo, ma non vi preoccupate - Il presidente americano minimizza le rivelazioni shock secondo cui l'intelligence americana ha avuto la piena collaborazione dei maggiori operatori TLC per registrare i dati di miliardi di telefonate |
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13/05/2006 - Parigi: ecco il DRM alla francese - Il Senato approva nuove modifiche alla legge sul diritto d'autore: il codice del DRM dovra' essere svelato per garantire la possibilita' di convertire i file da un formato all'altro. Pene leggere per chi scarica file protetti |
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13/05/2006 - Blocco dei siti, arriva l'Ufficiale Giudiziario - Il bookmaker maltese a cui il Tribunale civile di Roma ha dato ragione non riesce a smuovere i Monopoli di Stato e il suo sito rimane bloccato. Ieri ha quindi inviato ai Monopoli l'Ufficiale Giudiziario |
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13/05/2006 - Download/ Musica musicanti! - Billy suona, tra musica casuale, mp3 modificati e liste in mutazione ed in LAN. Se il Silenzio e' d'oro, la Musica e' platino puro |
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13/05/2006 - Pronti i dischi HD DVD-R da 30 GB - Il colosso taiwanese CMC ha avviato la produzione in volumi di dischi registrabili HD DVD a singolo layer, ovvero da 15 GB. Ma nel prossimo trimestre lancera' gli HD DVD-R da 30 GB |
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13/05/2006 - 4 GB per la PlayStation Portable - SanDisk si appresta a lanciare sul mercato le prime memory card per PSP con capacita' di 4 GB. Le nuove Memory Stick PRO Duo Game possono contenere decine di ore di video e migliaia di canzoni |
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13/05/2006 - Adobe offre AJAX in Spry - Il colosso dei tool di sviluppo per il web ha rilasciato l'anteprima di un framework che promette di semplificare ai web designer la creazione di pagine e applicazioni web basate sulle tecnologie AJAX |
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13/05/2006 - Sony supportera` il formato di iPod - Grazie ad un software gratuito, l'azienda fornira' ai possessori dei propri player con hard disk la possibilita' di gestire e convertire le tracce audio in formato AAC, lo stesso adottato da iPod. Ma solo per file non protetti |
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13/05/2006 - No, i domini del sesso non ci saranno - ICANN boccia la proposta di creare estensioni.xxx e questa volta potrebbe essere una bocciatura senza appello. Contrari quasi tutti. Partono i.mobi, i domini per cellulari avversati da Tim Berners-Lee |
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13/05/2006 - Il worm piu` diffuso? E' del 2004 - Lo sostiene Sophos ed e' una notizia che fa tremare l'industria della sicurezza: sono ancora moltissimi gli utenti Windows che non aggiornano il proprio sistema e non si dotano di antivirus. Con rischi per tutti |
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13/05/2006 - Software e film pirata nelle imprese laziali - Blitz della GdF in alcuni comuni: ispezionate imprese e studi professionali. Molti installavano software senza licenza, altri lo scaricavano da Internet e lo craccavano. Altri collezionavano musica e film illegali |
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13/05/2006 - USA, i pirati di Xbox patteggiano - Vendevano console Microsoft modificate e ricolme di giochi pirata a prezzi che arrivavano a 500 dollari. Arrestati, ora cercano di evitare sentenze che potrebbero essere pesantissime. Uno di loro e' latitante |
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13/05/2006 - I cani che trovano i DVD pirata - Ne parla MPAA in una nota diffusa nelle scorse ore: sono due animali utilizzati per la prima volta a Londra. Sarebbero in grado di capire se nei plichi di un corriere si nascondono DVD, originali o pirata |
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13/05/2006 - UK, il numero mobile e` temporaneo - Attivabile a discrezione dell'utente, il numero usa e getta e' pensato per coloro che vogliono garantire una reperibilita' limitata |
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13/05/2006 - Cassandra Crossing/ Biometria e SIS II - di Marco Calamari - La UE e' alle prese con un database biometrico comunitario. Ma chi lo gestira'? Con quali? Dentro anche i dati della Carta di Identita' Elettronica italiana? L'onda lunga della Biometria |
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13/05/2006 - Scarica un file, gli sequestrano tutto - Drammatica testimonianza di un lettore di PI, indagato perche' tra i file scaricati da eMule uno era a contenuto pedopornografico. Svegliato all'alba dalla PolPost non ha piu' il PC ne' un backup dei suoi dati |
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13/05/2006 - Incontri/ Appalti nell'era digitale - A breve |
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12/05/2006 - Feds Add Two Years to Microsoft Antitrust Deal - The Justice Department is seeking to extend the term of its landmark antitrust settlement with Microsoft by two years, blaming Microsoft's slowness in providing technical documentation to rivals.
In a statement released Friday, the Justice Department said that it wants to extend the final judgment in the case, set to expire in the fall of 2007, until 2009. It said that Microsoft has agreed to the two-year extension of the program, under which it licenses its Windows communications protocols.
The department made its request as part of its regular status report to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is overseeing the case. "The Department of Justice is committed to full and vigorous enforcement of the Microsoft final judgment," J. Bruce McDonald, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, said in the statement. "This extension will ensure that companies interested in licensing the communications protocols receive the benefit of complete and accurate documentation for the full period of time provided by the court's final judgment."
 News source: C|Net News.com
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12/05/2006 - Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging - Joe Friend has posted a rather interesting entry on his site, covering Microsoft's Office 12 Blog feature:
Stop, don't jump to the end of this post to push the comment button yet. I'm not an idiot. I'm not endorsing you commit HTML suicide. If you've ever written a post in Word 2003 or before and then copied and pasted the text into your web browser you know what I'm talking about. Sure you can do it, but you have to run one of those HTML clean up tools so that your posts don't look mangled. Even then the HTML is not tight and clean, right?
Well no more. We've been working late into the nights and very late into our development schedule for Word 2007 and we have a special goody for all you bloggers in Beta 2 of Office 2007. That's right blog post authoring from Word. This is a very late breaking feature and is definitely beta software. That said, I hope that everyone is pleasantly surprised with where we are going with this feature.
News source: Blog: Joe Friend
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12/05/2006 - Google Sued Over Click Fraud, Again - Not for lead plaintiff Joseph Kinney and the other Internet advertisers who this week had their lawyers sue to block the $90 million settlement Google reached in a click fraud case in March. The suit isn't about the money, said Kinney, proprietor of the informational Web site SafeSpaces.com.
"The issue is not merely one of economics to me," Kinney told internetnews.com, "I just think that companies like Google need to be accountable to the people that pay them and to the public. This current settlement is not going to achieve those goals." In February 2005, Lane's Gifts and Collectibles and Caulfield Investigations filed a suit in Arkansas against Google, Yahoo, Time Warner and its America Online and its Netscape divisions.
News source: internetnews.com
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12/05/2006 - MS Researchers Tackle Automated Malware Classification - Researchers from Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team are working on an automated way to sort through the thousands of malware families and variants attacking Windows computers. The company unveiled its plans at the EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research) conference in Hamburg, Germany, proposing the use of distance measure and machine learning technologies to come up with automatic classification of viruses, Trojans, spyware, rootkits and other malicious software programs.
A research paper presented by Microsoft's lead anti-virus researcher, Tony Lee, described the existing process of manual human malware analysis as "inefficient and inadequate" and suggested an ambitious method that combines runtime behavior analysis, static binary analysis and adaptable algorithms to automate classification.
News source: eWeek
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12/05/2006 - Skype Offers Translation Service - Skype is now offering a translation service for users' Skype and SkypeOut conversations. For a fee of $2.99 a minute, users may have their voice communications translated rather quickly. The funds are automatically deducted from your SkypeOut balance, so make sure you have some cash in reserves before making that call.
While the implementation of this might conjure up images of advanced voice recognition software and on the fly translation, the actual solution Skype is using is far less glamorous. Language Line, an interpretation and translation company, has live translators on the line with your Skype call, listening in and then translation your messages to the recipient. While a third party listening in to a potentially important call might scare away some, Language Line claims 100% confidentiality.
To its credit, the service does offer an impressive 150 language options and could be very useful in certain situations. Imagine a message that must quickly get to a company's Korean office from America and no available translator. It's certainly not cheap, but it could potentially save a business deal or two.
 View: Skype News Release
 News source: Ars Technica
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12/05/2006 - Ballmer: Google Wants Special Treatment in IE - Google seems to want special treatment on Internet Explorer, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
His remarks centered on the default search engine in the Web browser. Right now, when people update their version of IE to IE 7, the software won't change their default search settings. "If you pick Yahoo, it will stay on Yahoo," Ballmer said in a hallway conversation Thursday, after a speech he gave at the Churchill Club here.
Google, however, has complained about how the system works. The complaints could be taken as a disguised way to help that company grow its segment in search, Ballmer suggested. "Google wants us to prompt the users to change the defaults. They want to see a list of search providers, with the No. 1 search provider listed first," said Ballmer, who was speaking generally and not recounting a formal meeting or discussion with Google executives.
News source: C|Net News.com
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12/05/2006 - Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Search Offer - Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has revealed he recently rebuffed Microsoft's attempt to bag a stake in the company. Although the Yahoo boss didn't confirm what form the speculated overtures took, he slapped down the idea Yahoo would be willing to let Microsoft take a stake in the company.
According to a report in the Financial Times, Semel said: "Microsoft taking over Yahoo--that conversation has never come up." He added: "(We discussed) search, and Microsoft co-owning some of our search. I will not sell a piece of search--it is like selling your right arm while keeping your left; it does not make any sense."
News source: C|Net News.com
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11/05/2006 - Sony and Panasonic Announce New HD Format - No, its not Blu-Ray. Sony and Panasonic announced today that they have co-developed a new high definition DVD format created specifically for camcorders. The new format, dubbed AVCHD, captures video onto 8cm DVDs using the MPEG4 AVC/H.264 compression system. This system allows video to be recorded at 18 megabits per second. Current HD video formats are 19 megabits (HD-1) and 25 megabits (HD-2). Current non-HD camcorders record at 8.5 megabits per second. Both companies have been working on this together for over a year.
The AVCHD format compresses HD video into smaller data streams so that it can fit onto existing 8cm DVD discs. This new technology will allow users to shoot HD video using the above codec at twice the efficiency of the current MPEG 2 and MPEG4 codecs. AVCHD will be able to shoot 1080i or 720p with 4:2:0 sampling and will work in either 4:3 or 16:9 formats.
Audiophiles need not worry. AVCHD will also be able to use either AC-3 or Linear PCM for high-quality sound. Using the AC-3 codec, users will be able to record 1 to 5.1 audio channels or 1 to 7.1 audio channels using Linear PCM.
The interesting part is that both Sony and Panasonic are backing Blu-Ray. Yet, the AVCHD format does not incorporate Blu-Ray technology. One would think that Sony would use this as an advantage to get its Blu-Ray technology into more consumer homes, much like they are doing with their Playstation 3. However, there is talk of the two formats (Blu-Ray and AVCHD) coexisting together. Sony also stated that since the two technologies use the same compression methods, “you should be able to play back an AVCHD disk on a Blu-Ray disc player.”
News source: CamcorderInfo.com
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11/05/2006 - Abit to Introduce Motherboard with HDMI - Abit is set to unveil a MicroATX form factor motherboard which features onboard HDMI output - a first for the industry. The board, dubbed the IL-80MV, features the Intel 945GT chipset designed for Intel's current Yonah and upcoming Memom core Core Solo and Core Duo processors. It includes a single x1 PCI Express lane and two PCI slots which could possibly be used for an HDTV capture card or WiFi adapter, which combined with HDMI output make it an ideal platform for a low-noise, low-power home theater PC.
The preliminary pictures of DailyTech's website show the board will include the standard assortment of features including high definition audio, firewire, and USB 2.0. Additionally, Abit promises the final board will include a variant of its OTES cooling system. While board does not include an x16 PCI-E slot for a graphics card, the target market is certainly not the high-end gamer.
Pricing for the IL-80MV is not set, but it should debut at a lower price point than other Core ready desktop boards given the stripped-down nature of its feature set.
News source: DailyTech
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11/05/2006 - Vista Might be too Complex for Microsoft - This is a great article. I encourage everyone to read the full story.
It will not have escaped your attention that Microsoft is laboring to finish the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. A version aimed at the corporate market is supposed to be ready for Christmas, with the consumer edition following some time later (missing the Christmas market, which has irritated computer manufacturers and retailers more than somewhat). Last week, Gartner, a leading IT consultancy, predicted that Microsoft would miss those shipping dates.
'Microsoft's track record is clear: it consistently misses target dates for major operating system releases,' the firm wrote. 'We don't expect broad availability of Windows Vista until at least the second quarter of 2007, which is nine to 12 months after Beta 2.' Microsoft challenged this. A company spokesman told CNET News: 'We remain on track to deliver the final product to volume-license customers in November 2006 and to other businesses and consumers in January 2007.'
So there! The significant thing about Vista, however, is not the shipping date but the fact that it has been an unconscionable time in the making, subject to endless slippages (which have triggered major organizational changes within the company) and - when it eventually ships - will be just a shadow of the system envisaged when it was conceived. And while all this has been going on, Apple has released several major upgrades of its OS X operating system, and the programmers behind Open Source Linux have significant upgrades over the same period.
The difference between Microsoft and Apple can be largely explained by two factors. One is structural: Apple's OS X is based on Unix, which has a different architecture from Windows, and may be inherently easier to upgrade. The other is that Microsoft is a victim of its past monopolistic success: any new version of Windows has to be 'backwards compatible' with the thousands of programs and hardware devices built to work on earlier versions of the operating system. Apple has much less of a 'legacy' problem in this sense.
The really interesting comparison is with Linux, a product of comparable complexity developed by an independent, dispersed community of programmers who communicate mainly over the net. How come they can outperform a stupendously rich company that can afford to employ very smart people and give them all the resources they need?
Here's a possible answer: complexity. Modern operating systems are staggeringly complicated. In terms of the number of their components, and the richness of the interactions between them, they are far more complex than an Airbus or a jumbo jet.
News source: The full story
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