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22/05/2006 - Bug batterie con piattaforme Intel: bug corretto - Microsoft rilascia un fix che risolve il problema di consumo eccessivo delle batterie, a seguito dell'utilizzo di una periferica USB con un notebook |
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22/05/2006 - La lista dei giochi disponibili al lancio di Nintendo Wii - Secondo alcuni siti del settore sarebbe già nota la lista "ufficiale" dei giochi per Nintendo Wii che saranno disponibili nel momento del lancio della console. |
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22/05/2006 - FlexGo: la ricaricabile di Microsoft - Microsoft ha presentato le tecnologie FlexGo che prevedono la possibilità di accedere a un servizio attraverso un sistema di carte prepagate. |
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22/05/2006 - Un demo per Prey - Annunciata la data di pubblicazione del demo dello sparatutto 3D in fase di lavorazione presso Human Head Studios. |
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22/05/2006 - Apple contro Creative, alcuni aggiornamenti - La casa della Mela precisa quali sono i brevetti che Creative avrebbe violato nella realizzazione dei propri player MP3 |
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22/05/2006 - AGP 8x anche per una soluzione XFX - XFX presenta l'ennesima evoluzione del progetto GeForce 6800, proponendo una scheda video AGP 8x sotto i 200€ di costo |
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22/05/2006 - Software antifurto per sistemi Macintosh - Orbicule presenta una serie di software per limitare i danni nel caso di furto di un sistema Macintosh, desktop o portatile che sia |
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22/05/2006 - Online il trailer E3 di Unreal Tournament 2007 - E' finalmente disponibile un trailer di Unreal Tournament 2007, così come è stato presentato allo scorso E3. |
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22/05/2006 - BioShock anche su PlayStation 3 - Sebbene non ci sia ancora un annuncio ufficiale, il promettente sparatutto 3D di Irrational Games è in arrivo anche su PlayStation 3. |
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22/05/2006 - Un'altra Radeon X1900 raffreddata a liquido - E' la volta di Club 3D, che presenta la propria implementazione Radeon X1900 dotata di waterblock di raffreddamento a liquido |
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22/05/2006 - Processore Conroe a 4 GHz di clock - Superata la barriera di 4 GHz di clock con un processore Intel Conroe, atteso al debutto nel corso del prossimo mese |
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22/05/2006 - Il mercato delle schede video nel primo trimestre 2006 - Intel sempre al primo posto e ATI in aumento nella quota complessiva; bene NVIDIA nelle soluzioni non integrate |
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22/05/2006 - Disponibile il trailer E3 di Assassin's Creed - Ubisoft ha pubblicato il trailer mostrato all'E3 dell'interessantissimo Assassin's Creed. |
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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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23/05/2006 - Ecco come procedono al sequestro del PC - Arrivano all'alba con un mandato di sequestro che non ammette repliche e se ne vanno portando con se' tutto cio' che e' ritenuto utile. Ma con quali procedure? E quali garanzie? L'intervista di PI |
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23/05/2006 - Assegnati i Big Brothers Awards - Al Convegno ePrivacy sono stati consegnati gli award italiani che indicano uomini e tecnologie ritenuti pericolosi per la privacy. Trusted Computing al centro. Ecco com'e' andata |
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23/05/2006 - Download/ God save the Screen (2) - Seconda parte di una raccolta di salvaschermi per tutti i gusti. Slime, biomorfi, lemmings e battaglie spaziali. A caso |
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23/05/2006 - Italia, gli RFID ora si impiantano nei denti - La tecnologia RFID si e' aperta la strada anche dove prima era difficile immaginarne l'uso. C'e' chi li infila nelle protesi odontoiatriche. Ecco perche' |
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23/05/2006 - L'alba dei PC ricaricabili - Sono quelli lanciati da Microsoft assieme ad alcuni dei maggiori produttori. Sono pensati per i paesi in via di sviluppo: gli utenti potranno avere un PC completo a prezzi vantaggiosi ma dovranno pagarne l'uso |
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23/05/2006 - Regno Unito, cacciatori di bug alla sbarra? - Gli esperti lanciano l'allarme: i legislatori britannici stanno per introdurre norme estremamente controverse per combattere il crimine informatico. Diffondere informazioni su falle e bug potrebbe presto costituire reato |
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23/05/2006 - Dentro il worm... un browser web - Sul network di instant messaging di Yahoo! sta circolando un worm che installa nel PC un proprio browser web mascherandolo da Internet Explorer |
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23/05/2006 - Universita` dell'Ohio? Paradiso dei cracker - Episodio senza precedenti: per piu' di un anno una backdoor sui server accademici ha consentito l'accesso ad anonimi cracker di tutto il mondo. Compromessi i dati personali di 137mila persone |
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23/05/2006 - Nintendo accusa Sony: ci copiate sempre - Il controller dell'ultima console targata Sony usera' la stessa tecnologia motion sensing di Nintendo Wii. L'affondo del creatore di Mario: non e' una novita', ci hanno sempre copiato in tutto |
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23/05/2006 - W3C: il Web mobile sia universale - Un solo web per tutti i terminali mobili. Cosi' il W3C promuove DIAL, nuovo linguaggio pensato per la creazione di pagine web adatte alla visualizzazione su qualsiasi dispositivo, inclusi i telefoni cellulari |
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23/05/2006 - UE: si indaghi sui costi di ricarica - L'interesse manifestato a livello europeo in tema di costi di ricarica riceve l'applauso dei consumatori. Bruxelles spinge le Authority italiane ad occuparsi di un problema che sembrano aver trascurato |
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23/05/2006 - I nanocosi possono infettare il cervello - Brutte notizie per l'industria: un articolo pubblicato sull'autorevole Technology Review del MIT mette in guardia sulla tossicita' dei nanocomponenti. Individuati moltissimi composti ad alta tossicita' |
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23/05/2006 - Videogiochi e violenza? Binomio inesatto - Lo dicono i risultati di uno studio scientifico commissionato dal governo britannico sul nesso tra videogiochi e comportamento violento: l'intrattenimento digitale non avrebbe effetti negativi sulla psiche dei giovani |
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23/05/2006 - Sardegna, al via l'Universita` telematica - Saranno tre i corsi di laurea 2006-2007 che verranno avviati in questa prima fase e che per i primi due anni costeranno alla Regione qualcosa come 9 milioni di euro. Molte le aziende coinvolte |
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23/05/2006 - Quando l'open source viene fagocitato - Ne parla un giurista dopo la decisione di Apple di chiudere la strada agli smanettamenti su Darwin. Chi garantisce gli sviluppatori a codice aperto? |
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23/05/2006 - Ed ora la riforma del DTT - La propone Adiconsum che parla di decoder unico per DTT, Sat e IPTV, di neutralita', di convergenza e di sussidi molto mirati. Per trasformare, dice, il progetto DTT da sistema imposto a obiettivo condiviso |
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23/05/2006 - Assoprovider, assemblea generale e nomine - Annuncio |
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22/05/2006 - Microsoft Tries Pay-As-You-Go Approach For Windows PCs - While Microsoft's Windows operating system and software is popular worldwide, its relatively high price puts it out of the financial reach of many in the developing world. As a result, pirated copies of Windows and Office are endemic in some parts of the world, with the percentage of PCs running pirated software approaching 90 percent in some countries.
Microsoft is trying a novel approach to deal with the problem of affordability: a pay-as-you-go model. Dubbed FlexGo, the plan operates much like a prepaid cellular phone. Consumers buy a FlexGo computer running Windows XP Home at a reduced price from a retailer, along with some prepaid access cards.
Under the FlexGo model, usage is timed. As PC usage reaches a predefined limit, the computer goes into a limited-access state until more time is added. Users can add more time by purchasing scratch-off prepaid cards and entering the numeric code contained on the card onto the PC. The process repeats until the PC's owner has purchased a predefined amount of time on the PC. Once that occurs, all usage restrictions are lifted as the user now owns the PC outright.
 News source: arstechnica
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22/05/2006 - Wired Leaks NSA/AT&T Spying Documents - Wired news has published documents detailing AT&TÂ’s cooperation with the National Security Agency in spying on American citizens.
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program. In a public statement Klein issued last month, he described the NSA's visit to an AT&T office. In an older, less-public statement recently acquired by Wired News, Klein goes into additional details of his discovery of an alleged surveillance operation in an AT&T building in San Francisco. Klein supports his claim by attaching excerpts of three internal company documents: a Dec. 10, 2002, manual titled "Study Group 3, LGX/Splitter Wiring, San Francisco," a Jan. 13, 2003, document titled "SIMS, Splitter Cut-In and Test Procedure" and a second "Cut-In and Test Procedure" dated Jan. 24, 2003.
 View: PDF of leaked documents
News source: Wired News
News source: Wired News
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22/05/2006 - US Government Sued Over .xxx Domain Rejection - The recent rejection of a dedicated .xxx domain for porn sites has prompted the company behind the plan, ICM Registry, to launch a legal attack against the US Department of Commerce. ICM claims that the Department of Commerce intervened in IcannÂ’s consideration of the .xxx domain proposal and exerted political influence to have the plan rejected. The lawsuit has been filed under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to gain access to information being withheld by the Commerce Department.
ICM claims that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has provided no explanation of the statutory basis and reasons for redacting and withholding documents relating to the consideration of the proposal. Furthermore, the company asserts that records show that, while the DoC lacked any official role in approving new domain names, it nevertheless decided to intervene in the Icann process.
View: ICM Registry Press Releases
News source: VNUNet
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22/05/2006 - Vista's Make or Break moment - Microsoft-Watch's Mary Jo Foley has the goods on what experts are concluding about Windows Vista. The good news -- Windows Vista has the goods to be a real marvel. The bad news, unless Beta 2 is a major improvement in stability, performance, and compatibility, Microsoft is going to have a hard time sticking to their release schedule.
Microsoft is expected to release Windows Vista BETA 2 this week at WinHec.
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22/05/2006 - Canada Leads the Way in Firefox Usage - Canada is leading the way in Firefox internet usage, with 16% of internet users using the popular open source programme. The figures, provided by OneStat show the gradual market increase that Firefox is gaining, with IE accounting for 77.41% in Canada. While FirefoxÂ’s popularity grows in Canada and the US it is struggling elsewhere, which brings the global market share of the browser down to just 11.79%, where in the US the share is 12.81%.
While usage of Firefox is not as widely used as it is in Canada and the US, its share is continuing to grow, while IE usage falls slowly. Between January and May the browser share fell 0.65%, to 85.17% worldwide. AppleÂ’s Safari browser has also grown in its market share as AppleÂ’s Mac hardware continues to grow in popularity.
View: OneStat.com
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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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