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20/05/2006 - Samsung, confermati per il 2007 hard disk ibridi - Samsung rende note alcune caratteristiche del disco rigido ibrido |
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20/05/2006 - John Carmack critica la distribuzione ad episodi del software - John Carmack, in una recente intervista a CNN Money, ha discusso del fenomeno della distribuzione ad episodi che si sta diffondendo nell'ultimo periodo. Parla anche del futuro dei videogiochi sui dispositivi portatili. |
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20/05/2006 - Sony Vaio AR11S: High Definition e Blu-ray - Sony ha presentato nella giornata di ieri il Vaio AR11S, un notebook progettato per supportare le esigenze dell' High Definition. E' il primo notebook con unità ottica Blu-ray |
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19/05/2006 - Google distribuisce strumenti per creare Ajax - Google fornisce strumenti per programmare applicazioni Ajax |
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19/05/2006 - Schede audio X-Fi e compatibilità: Creative fornisce informazioni - Alcuni utenti hanno evidenziato problemi di compatibilità con le schede audio Creative della famiglia X-Fi; il produttore fornisce alcune risposte ufficiali sul proprio forum |
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19/05/2006 - Intel: in arrivo anche Celeron M 410 - Intel prossima all'introduzione di un processore di fascia bassa ideale per l'impiego in sistemi embedded PC |
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19/05/2006 - Emergono nuovi dettagli su Dark Sector - Il progetto di Digital Extremes annunciato l'anno scorso è, in realtà, ancora in cantiere. Ecco le informazioni emerse negli ultimi giorni. |
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19/05/2006 - Resi noti i requisiti per Windows Vista - Microsoft rende noti in via ufficiale i requisiti di sistema per le categorie "Windows Vista Capable" e "Windows Vista Premium Ready" |
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19/05/2006 - Due strategici da Slitherine - La software house specializzata in strategici Slitherine è al lavoro su due progetti completamente nuovi. |
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19/05/2006 - Apple cita Creative per...violazione di brevetto! - Apple contrattacca e cita Creative in tribunale per violazione di brevetto. Si preannuncia una battaglia piuttosto aspra |
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19/05/2006 - Chipset nForce 570 per Abit - Il produttore taiwanese presenta una nuova piattaforma per processori AMD Socket AM2, basata su uno dei nuovi chipset NVIDIA della serie nForce 5 |
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19/05/2006 - Dell userà processori AMD Opteron - Dopo un susseguirsi di notizie e smentite, arriva l'annuncio ufficiale: prossimamente disponibili server Dell basati su processori Opteron |
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19/05/2006 - Solo la PlayStation 3 più costosa in Europa? - Secondo la rivista britannica MCV, in Europa sarà commercializzata solamente una delle due versioni di PlayStation 3 annunciate, ovvero quella più costosa. |
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19/05/2006 - PC con DisplayPort nel 2007 - Stando alle previsioni della canadese ATI, le prime soluzioni PC dotate di tecnologia DisplayPort arriveranno in commercio nei prossimi 12 mesi |
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19/05/2006 - I pirati nel prossimo aggiornamento di Oblivion - Sul sito XBox.com si parla del prossimo aggiornamento a pagamento di Oblivion. Stavolta i protagonisti sono i pirati... |
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19/05/2006 - Nuovi dettagli su Woodcrest - TDP ridotto e versioni a basso consumo nel prossimo futuro delle cpu Intel Xeon di nuova generazione |
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18/05/2006 - Ritardo per Optimus mini three keypad - Annunciato un ritardo per l'uscita sul mercato del dispositivo con tre tasti OLED programmabili |
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18/05/2006 - Apple chiude una parte di Darwin - La casa della Mela ha deciso di chiudere una piccola porzione del kernel per combattere la diffusione di copie pirata di Mac OS X su macchine PC |
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18/05/2006 - Nuovi chipset ATI per sistemi Turion 64 X2 - A seguito del debutto delle cp Turion 64 con architettura dual core, ATI presenta nuove piattaforme chipset con video integrato |
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18/05/2006 - Lavori completati su Hitman: Blood Money - Hitman: Blood Money è definitivamente entrato in fase di masterizzazione. Sul mercato entro la fine di maggio. |
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18/05/2006 - Lo SPEC prepara un benchmark per il consumo energetico - L'esigenza di uno strumento in grado di misurare il consumo energetico di un sistema in relazione alle prestazioni offerte spinge lo SPEC ad attuare un tavolo di lavoro |
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18/05/2006 - Scudetto adesso giocabile anche online - Eidos conferma la presenza di una nuova versione di Scudetto, la quale è interamente giocabile online. |
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18/05/2006 - Viewperf 9 disponibile per il download - SPEC rilascia la versione 9 del proprio popolare benchmark per l'analisi delle workstation grafiche, in ambiente Open GL |
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18/05/2006 - Asustek: consegne notebook al di sotto del previsto - Asustek potrebbe mancare l'obiettivo di 3 milioni di notebook a proprio marchio nel 2006. Ottimismo comunque per la seconda metà dell'anno |
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22/05/2006 - USA, gli artisti per la neutralita` della Rete - Moby, Michael Stipe dei REM e Trent Reznor dei Nine Inch Nails sono solo alcuni dei musicisti unitisi a Save The Internet, la mobilitazione statunitense che si batte per il mantenimento della neutralita' della Rete |
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22/05/2006 - Guai in Vista: Symantec denuncia Microsoft - I tempi di release di Windows Vista potrebbero risentire di una denuncia presentata da Symantec contro Microsoft: il file system utilizzato da Vista sfrutterebbe illecitamente alcune tecnologie proprietarie Symantec |
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22/05/2006 - Contrappunti/ Il ministro? Un blogger - di Massimo Mantellini - Riuscira' il ministro Gentiloni, da tempo blogger che anima la blogosfera italiana, a condurre le proprie attivita' di ministro e continuare a pubblicare il suo blog? Lui dice di si' |
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22/05/2006 - Windows Vista, ecco i requisiti minimi - Microsoft ha rivelato i requisiti minimi hardware per far girare Windows Vista. I PC che soddisferanno le linee guida dettate dal big di Redmond potranno fregiarsi del bollino Vista Capable o Vista Ready |
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22/05/2006 - Dell contagiata dal virus AMD - Il costruttore, fin qui inviolata fortezza dei pocessori Intel, ha deciso di abbassare il ponte levatoio e aprire le proprie porte ad AMD. Per il momento attraversano il fossato le CPU Opteron dedicate ai server multiprocessore |
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22/05/2006 - US Army usera` MS Virtual Earth - L'alternativa Microsoft a Google Earth piace alla Difesa americana: il software sara' la scelta dell'agenzia speciale dell'esercito con funzioni di intelligence geospaziale |
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22/05/2006 - Un trojan prende di mira Word - Su Internet circola una nuova variante di un cavallo di Troia capace di sfruttare una vulnerabilita' non ancora corretta. Microsoft sta gia' testando una patch che potrebbe essere rilasciata con i prossimi update di sicurezza |
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22/05/2006 - Spiffero in Skype, privacy a rischio - Una debolezza nel celebre programma di telefonia IP potrebbe consentire ad un aggressore di rubare file dal PC di un altro utente. Il problema e' stato risolto con le ultime versioni del programma |
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22/05/2006 - Washington blocca i PC Lenovo - I PC prodotti nella Repubblica Popolare potrebbero essere i cavalli di Troia dello spionaggio cinese: gli Stati Uniti li comprano in massa e poi li bloccano. No al loro utilizzo negli uffici governativi |
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22/05/2006 - Brevetti, si riapre il caso Amazon one-click - Un attore neozelandese ha spinto l'ufficio brevetti degli Stati Uniti a riesaminare la validita' del celeberrimo brevetto one-click buy di Amazon, fulcro della tecnologia e-commerce utilizzata dal negozio online |
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22/05/2006 - Google Suggest favorisce la pirateria? - Su BigG piomba una nuova denuncia: il suo servizio in beta faciliterebbe il download della versione crackata di un celebre tool di monitoraggio delle reti informatiche. Google risponde: non cambieremo nulla |
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22/05/2006 - Ricerca, il Manifesto di Chicago - Resoconto su una importante conferenza tenuta nei giorni scorsi all'Universita' dell'Illinois. Un'occasione per fare il punto sulle pubblicazioni scientifiche e sul flusso di informazioni a livello globale |
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22/05/2006 - Goldvish, il cellulare e` per sempre - Costosi quanto e piu' di gioielli, i cellulari Goldvish sono cosi' preziosi che utilizzarli per telefonare sarebbe un delitto |
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22/05/2006 - ADSL in ritardo, problemi da risolvere - Un lettore si scontra con un forte ritardo nell'attivazione dell'ADSL. La risposta dell'azienda al problema, nel frattempo risolto, contempla anche una compensazione |
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22/05/2006 - PA e open source, eppur si muove - Sebbene rimanga molto lavoro da fare perche' venga compreso appieno l'apporto che l'open source puo' fornire in ambito pubblico e' bene specificare che si stanno gia' muovendo i primi passi in questa direzione |
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22/05/2006 - Zigbee, sensori e Rfid ovunque - Convegno |
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21/05/2006 - Samsung Prepping Hybrid Hard Drives - Samsung plans to demonstrate prototype flash-and-hard-disk hybrids next week at WinHEC, aiming to improve start/resume times and extend laptop battery life.
Samsung Electronics has found another use for all that flash memory it's manufacturing: packing it into hard drives. At next week's WinHEC 2006 conference, Samsung plans to demonstrate new Hybrid Hard Disk (HHD) storage devices, which combine a conventional magnetic platter storage with NAND flash memory.
The basic idea is that each hard disk has a cache of 128 or 256 MB of flash memory, with the idea of improving startup and resume times for notebook computers and other portable electronic devices which require hard disk storage, while simultaneously extending battery life by reducing the amount of time hard disks spin up to access data. When the flash-base drive cache is filled, the system spins up its hard disk to flush data to magnetic storage: the result is a disk which spins up for a few seconds every 10 or 20 minutes, rather than a disk which spins more-or-less continually during active use. Furthermore, the speed of flash memory means users should not see delays or lags when material is written to cache or flushed to disk.
 News source: Digital Trends
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21/05/2006 - Experts Warn of Critical Word Vulnerability - Security experts are warning of a critical vulnerability affecting users of Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003. To quote the SANS Internet Storm Center report:
Quote - Emails were sent to specific individuals within the organization that contained a Microsoft Word attachment. This attachment, when opened, exploited a previously-unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Word (verified against a fully-patched system). The exploit functioned as a dropper, extracting a trojan byte-for-byte from the host file when executed. After extracting and launching the trojan, the exploit then overwrote the original Word document with a clean (not infected) copy from payload in the original infected document. As a result of the exploit, Word crashes, informs the user of a problem, and offers to attempt to re-open the file. If the user agrees, the new clean file is opened without incident. They are working with Microsoft on this.
We are still analyzing the trojan dropped by the exploit. What we do know is that it communicates back to localhosts[dot]3322[dot]org via HTTP. It is proxy-aware, and pings this server using HTTP POSTs of 0 bytes (no data actually POSTed) with a periodicity of approximately one minute. It has rootkit-like functionality, hiding binary files associated with the exploit (all files on the system named winguis.dll will not be shown in Explorer, etc.), and invokes itself automatically by including the trojan binary in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows. Note that, as of this morning, no anti-virus signatures detected this file as problematic according to virustotal.com.
We have traced nearly this attack to the far east; specifically, China and Taiwan. IP's seen are registered there, domains seen are registered there, and the emails received originated from a server in that region. The attackers appear to be aware that they have been outed, and have been routinely changing the IP address associated with the URL above.
Due to the aggravating circumstances (0-day, no AV detection), we wanted to make sure the community is aware that this problem exists as soon as possible.
Users should be aware that as of now this vulnerability is only being exploited as a very concentrated and targeted attack. That said, Microsoft is working diligently with anti-virus vendors to update their products in an effort to detect and combat a more widespread use of this exploit. Microsoft also states that they have a patch for this security issue ready and it is currently in testing and scheduled to be released as part of the June security updates on June 13, 2006, or sooner if necessary.
 View: SANS Internet Storm Center
News source: Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
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20/05/2006 - Civil War-era fort up for sale on eBay - Fort Montgomery, a Civil War-era fort built in 1844, is up for sale on eBay. This is the first time the fort, which was manned during the war but never saw any action, has been formally up for sale according Victor Podd of Boca Raton, Fla., whose family has owned the fort for 23 years.
The limestone fort sits on a Lake Champlain island in northern New York and is connected to the mainland by a 700-foot causeway. The full package offered on the auction website includes 6,900 feet of Lake Frontage and 279 acres on the adjacent mainland.
As of Saturday morning, the top bid for the property was $1,000,300.00.
Podd's late father, Victor, purchased the fort and surrounding property in 1983 to build the headquarters of his company, Powertex. A few years ago, the state declined the Podds' offer to donate the fort and 68 acres of land for use as a state park.
Podd, who now owns the fort with his brother, Stephen, said its reserve price was below $9.9 million, but declined to specify an exact figure. The online auction ends June 5.
 View: eBay Auction
 News source: Associated Press
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20/05/2006 - Symantec Seeking Beta Testers - Security software vendor Symantec is seeking beta testers for its 2007 line of products, including Norton AntiVirus, Internet Security and Norton Save & Restore. The company also has a number of new products in the pipeline, which will be provided to the Symantec Beta Testing Team.
Interested users can complete the brief registration process on Symantec's Web site. The company has also added an electronic non-disclosure agreement to ease the process. "Participants are expected to remain active throughout a project lifecycle and communicate issues to Symantec team members," the company says.
News source: BetaNews
 Link: Sign Up
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19/05/2006 - Symantec Sues Microsoft - It was bound to happen sooner or later but security firm Symantec is taking legal action against Microsoft accusing it of misusing its technology the BBC reports.
Symantec is angry and alleges that Microsoft improperly used Symantec's data storage techniques in its own software. Symantec wants compensation, saying the alleged infringement amounts to misappropriation of its trade secrets.
The disagreement is based on Symantec's Volume Manager software, which allows operating systems to store and handle large amounts of data.
Symantec believes Microsoft has "deliberately and surreptitiously misappropriated" the technology "and thereby convinced the US government to issue patents to Microsoft based on technologies invented by Symantec".
Symantec is mostly known for its corporate and home anti-virus software that is used widely across the world.
Microsoft describes the accusation as unfounded and says it has tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue.
View: Symantec
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18/05/2006 - Windows Vista: Betas show potential and problems - Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how Microsoft's next generation operating system is coming along.
With WinHec next week (which Neowin will be attending), now seems to be a good time to take an inventory of where things stand with Windows Vista.
As the article below makes clear, Windows Vista is very impressive but it also has some serious problems that Microsoft needs to address prior to release. How serious are the problems, read the whole thing and decide for yourself.
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18/05/2006 - Dell to use AMD by end of the year - On Thursday, Dell released its second-quarter earnings that showed the companyÂ’s profits fell 18 percent from a year ago, and sales grew six percent, a moderate rate compared with previous quarters.
Dell also announced in its second-quarter earnings press release that the company will offer AMD Opteron processors in multiprocessor servers by the end of this year.
Speculation has mounted for years as to whether the company would adopt the chips, despite DellÂ’s exclusive relationship with Intel to this point. AMD has enjoyed a performance lead in server benchmarks over IntelÂ’s Xeon processors.
At this time, Intel is stillthe sole supplier of processors for DellÂ’s desktop and mobile computers, excluding those manufactured by its recently acquired Alienware division.
View: AMD
View: Dell Press Release
News source: CNET News.com
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18/05/2006 - RIAA Sues XM Radio Over Portable Device - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The recording industry on Tuesday sued XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., alleging its Inno device that can store music infringes on copyrights and transforms a passive radio experience into the equivalent of a digital download service like iTunes.
A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, comprising major labels such as Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG, said the suit was filed on Tuesday in New York federal court.
The suit accuses XM Satellite of "massive wholesale infringement," and seeks $150,000 in damages for every song copied by XM customers using the devices, which went on sale earlier this month. XM, with more than 6.5 million subscribers, said it plays 160,000 different songs every month.
"...Because XM makes available vast catalogues of music in every genre, XM subscribers will have little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of plaintiffs' sound recordings," the lawsuit says referring to the hand held "Inno" device.
News source: Yahoo News
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18/05/2006 - Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta - Thanks to Radish™ for the heads up on the forum.
It looks like Microsoft wants to make sure you know if your computer is ready for Windows Vista. Currently, the beta only works on Windows XP systems. Chances are, if you are running something older than Windows XP, your computer wonÂ’t run Windows Vista anyways. ItÂ’s nice to see a downloadable tool in advance. So that you do not have to buy Windows Vista and then find out your computer won't run it.
In the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) portion of the site, Microsoft also mentions the minimum system requirements for Windows Vista are the following:
• An 800 MHz processor.
• 512 MB of RAM.
• A 20 GB hard drive with 15 GB of free space.
The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is a small beta application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it's ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista. When you run the Upgrade Advisor, it will scan your computer and generate an easy-to-understand report of any known system and device compatibility issues, along with recommendations on how you can get your PC ready for Windows Vista. Microsoft plans to add functionality to Upgrade Advisor, such as checking how your software applications will run with Windows Vista. Download the beta version today and check this site in a few months for a new version.
 Download: Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor (3.97MB)
View: Neowin Discussion
View: Upgrade Advisor Website | FAQ
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18/05/2006 - Seagate, Maxtor Merger Approved by Shareholders - After a deal was reported to be in the works months ago, shareholders for both Seagate and Maxtor have approved a merger of the hard drive giants. Under the deal, Seagate will acquire Maxtor, whose profits had seen a sharp decline over the recent market periods. The changes are expected to take two to three business days to take effect. Maxtor will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange when the markets open this coming Monday, the 22nd.
"Seagate has approached this transaction much differently than traditional mergers and acquisitions. This combination will deliver greater scale by leveraging Seagate's successful business model and is not intended to be a traditional integration of product lines or operations," said Bill Watkins, Seagate's President and CEO.
The company will hold a conference call this Monday which will be distributed for replay on its website.
News source: ITworld.com
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