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03/06/2006 - Due nuovi notebook Acer della serie Ferrari - Processori AMD Turion 64 X2 per due nuove versioni di notebook Acer della serie Ferrari: modelli 1000 e 5000 |
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03/06/2006 - Nuovi sistemi XPS da Dell - Dell presenta nuovi sistemi della serie XPS, tra cui il sistema trasportabile da 20 pollici presentato in anteprima al CES di Las Vegas |
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03/06/2006 - Andy Serkis su PlayStation 3 - L'attore hollywoodiano, celebre per aver prestato le sue movenze per la realizzazione di personaggi come Gollum e King Kong, fa parte del picchiaduro Heavenly Sword. |
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03/06/2006 - Windows Genuine Advantage Notification - Viene aggiornato il WGA di Microsoft: adesso avvisi espliciti e più invadenti |
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03/06/2006 - Mehrunes' Razor espande nuovamente Oblivion - Bethesda Softworks ha svelato i dettagli del prossimo aggiornamento del suo popolare gioco di ruolo ad ambientazione medievale. |
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02/06/2006 - Disponibile il demo di Sensible Soccer 2006 - Codemasters ha reso disponibile il demo ufficiale dell'attesissima nuova versione di Sensible Soccer. |
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02/06/2006 - Un programma di upgrade da PNY - Una scheda video Quadro in cambio di una basata su chip 3D-Labs: è questo lo scambio che PNY propone |
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02/06/2006 - Lieve posticipo per WarPath - Tramite la product section di WarPath, Digital Extremes fa sapere che ricorrerà ad un lieve posticipo del suo ultimo sparatutto 3D. |
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02/06/2006 - Torrenza Technology: coprocessori e acceleratori per sistemi server - A dispetto del nome, si tratta di una tecnologia particolarmente interessante: più acceleratori, ad esempio coprocessori, collegati direttamente alla cpu via HyperTransport |
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02/06/2006 - Notebook ASUS con display ausiliario - Asustek introdurrà sul mercato notebook con secondo display ausiliario in occasione del rilascio di Windows Vista che offirà supporto alla tecnologia SideShow |
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02/06/2006 - RF Online gratuito per dieci giorni - Codemasters avvia un'interessante iniziativa, volta a rendere il suo MMORPG RF Online gratuito per dieci giorni. |
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01/06/2006 - 4x4: la nuova piattaforma anti Conroe di AMD - Due processori Athlon 64 FX abbinati su una scheda madre con due Socket: questa la soluzione di fascia alta per contrastare le piattaforme Conroe |
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01/06/2006 - Notebook Thinkpad con processori Turion - E' possibile che Lenovo possa scegliere di utilizzare processori AMD Turion 64 X2 nelle prossime serie di notebook della gamma Thinkpad |
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01/06/2006 - Windows Vista: confermato per gennaio 2007 - Microsoft ha confermato la disponibilità retail di Windows Vista per il prossimo mese di gennaio. Anticipazione per i clienti aziendali ma sarà disponibile un programma di upgrade per chi acquista un pc con Windows XP da ottobre in poi |
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01/06/2006 - Best of E3 2006: trionfa Nintendo Wii - Sono stati divulgati i risultati dei Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2006. Il vero mattatore è stato Nintendo Wii, sia sul piano dell'hardware che in quello del software. |
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01/06/2006 - Microsoft rilascia ufficialmente OneCare - A fine Maggio, come da programma, il nuovo servizio di gestione centralizzata della sicurezza per pc di Microsoft è stato rilasciato |
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01/06/2006 - Una vittima eccellente nelle espansioni di Half-Life 2 - Gabe Newell svela alcuni dettagli riguardo le espansioni di Half-Life 2, tra i quali il fatto che uno dei protagonisti morirà. |
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01/06/2006 - Dopo Intel VIIV ecco AMD LIVE! - AMD presenta LIVE!, ovvero una piattaforma per l'intrattenimento digitale domestico in grado di garantire diversi servizi, in risposta al concorrente Intel VIIV |
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01/06/2006 - Una fusione tra ATI e AMD? - Alcuni analisti finanziari giudicano possibile l'acquisizione di ATI da parte di AMD. Evento interessante, ma con fondamenta abbastanza labili |
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01/06/2006 - Xbox Live Vision da settembre per PC e XBox 360 - Microsoft ha svelato che nel mese di settembre sarà disponibile una telecamera con funzioni avanzate sia per XBox 360 che per PC. |
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01/06/2006 - Google non sta sviluppando un proprio browser web - Il Ceo di Google afferma che l'azienda non sta sviluppando un proprio browser web; sono già disponibili valide alternative ad Internet Explorer |
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01/06/2006 - Conroe Extreme Edition: due versioni - Se al debutto è confermata la disponibilità di una cpu Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition da 2,93 GHz di clock, una seconda giungerà in commercio entro la fine dell'anno |
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01/06/2006 - Harrison interviene sulla questione dei controller di PS3 e Wii - Il vice presidente esecutivo di Sony Computer Entertainment Europe interviene sulla questione delle ravvicinate caratteristiche che il controller di PlayStation 3 ha in confronto a quello di Nintendo Wii. |
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01/06/2006 - Memorie DDR2-900 con EPP da OCZ - Il produttore americano OCZ presenta il primo kit di memorie DDR2 certificato per supportare la tecnologia Enhanced Performance Profiles |
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05/06/2006 - Pirati e P2P, Svezia in fiamme - Il sito sequestrato si sposta all'estero e torna online. La polizia subisce un attacco DDoS mentre l'opinione pubblica si scaglia contro l'operazione: soldi pubblici buttati al vento. Manifestazioni e proteste |
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05/06/2006 - Contrappunti/ Internet guida contromano - di Massimo Mantellini - Un tempo si lavorava per portare in rete i contenuti prodotti all'esterno di Internet. Ma ora le cose stanno cambiando e avviene sempre piu' spesso l'esatto contrario. Questione di direzione del traffico |
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05/06/2006 - AMD: ecco come vi divertirete - Il chipmaker lancia la preannunciata piattaforma dedicata ai PC da salotto, basata su AMD64 e su una collezione di applicazioni e servizi studiati per integrarsi con WinXP Media Center. Sfida aperta a Intel Viiv |
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05/06/2006 - DVD online? Movielink e` in vendita - Il negozio online creato dalle major cinematografiche per la vendita di audiovisivi digitali su Internet e' ora in vendita. C'e' chi parla di flop causato dal DRM |
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05/06/2006 - DRM, nelle strade l'assalto di FSF - La campagna Defective By Design punta a contrastare i sistemi di protezione anti-copia sempre piu' diffusi. Gli attivisti del movimento girano per le strade in tute anticontaminazione giallo fosforescente |
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05/06/2006 - USA, raffiche di webcam contro i clandestini - Il Texas appronta migliaia di webcam puntate sul confine messicano, accessibili via Internet. I cittadini potranno partecipare via web alla caccia all'immigrato |
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05/06/2006 - Microsoft ed Adobe, scontro sui PDF - Nessun supporto PDF su Office 2007: sara' disponibile solo come add-on gratuito. I legali del big di Redmond ritengono che Adobe sia gia' pronta ad intentare una causa antitrust |
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05/06/2006 - Laptop da 100 dollari? No, 140 - One Laptop Per Child annuncia un innalzamento del prezzo finale nel computer destinato ai paesi poveri. Un ritocco dovuto ad uno schermo LCD ora piu' efficiente |
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05/06/2006 - Patch per Firefox e Thunderbird - Negli scorsi giorni sono state distribuite da Mozilla Foundation le nuova minor release 1.5.0.4 di Firefox e Thunderbird, un aggiornamento che corregge alcuni problemi di sicurezza e stabilita'. Aggiornato anche SeaMonkey |
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05/06/2006 - Questione DoS per Windows XP e 2003 - Un problema nelle piu' recenti versioni di Windows potrebbe consentire di mandare in crash il browser Microsoft ed altre applicazioni. I rischi, per il momento, appaiono tuttavia molto contenuti |
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05/06/2006 - Costi di ricarica, qualcosa si muove - Mentre la petizione D'Ambra supera abbondantemente le 300mila firme, dopo l'interessamento di Bruxelles le autorita' di controllo italiane decidono di aprire un'inchiesta |
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05/06/2006 - Un marchio contro i furti di telefonini - BlackBerry e iPod sono spesso nel mirino dei malviventi della Grande Mela. La Polizia propone un servizio di marcatura. Servira'? |
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05/06/2006 - Roaming, dimezzate le tariffe - Sei gestori europei, tra cui gli italiani Telecom e Wind, sottoscrivono un accordo per limare le tariffe delle chiamate internazionali. Per evitare l'intervento di Bruxelles |
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05/06/2006 - L'addio a Kotok, pioniere dei videogiochi - Era tra i progettisti di quello che viene considerato il capostipite d'ogni videogioco. Ha lavorato con gli hacker del MIT, divenuti alcuni dei piu' importanti personaggi nella storia dell'informatica |
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05/06/2006 - Sul notebook rubato milioni di dati personali - Un dipendente di Ernst e Young lascia il portatile nella sua automobile. Che viene rubata. Con lei i dati personali e finanziari di 243mila persone |
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05/06/2006 - Privacy, il caos nelle imprese - Ne parla un esperto del settore alle prese con fenomeni di ogni genere dentro le imprese e nella loro comunicazione istituzionale. Dallo spam alle password il caos e' d'obbligo |
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05/06/2006 - UserGroup di sviluppatori Windows - Annuncio |
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04/06/2006 - The Pirate Bay Threatens Compensation Claim - Sweden's self confessed daddy of BitTorrent has revealed that if the findings of an ongoing legal fiasco deem The Pirate Bay legal, the site's owners can claim compensation from the Swedish state.
The popular tracker claims to have not been breaking any of Sweden's laws before it was subject to raids on Thursday by the Swedish police force. Hackers retaliated by attacking the Swedish police website with a denial of service (DoS) attack a day later.
The hackers also unleashed their anger on Sony BMG and Warner Music's regional sites, allies to anti-filesharing devotees such as the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Despite Sweden's anti-filesharing group Antipiratbyran being accused of misleading the police, a Swedish legal expert has deemed the site's threat of compensation as being "silly".
Regardless, it seems it's back to business as usual at The Pirate Bay.
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04/06/2006 - Lenovo To Shun Linux - Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week.
The Raleigh, N.C.-based company is clearly positioning itself as an exclusive partner of Microsoft, several weeks after the companies announced they were "reaffirming" global market development and cooperation agreements.
"We will not have models available for Linux, and we do not have custom order, either," said Frank Kardonski, Lenovo's worldwide product manager for Lenovo 3000 offerings. "What you see is what you get. And at this point, it's Windows."
While Lenovo and Microsoft have had a long OEM relationship that pre-dates Lenovo's takeover last year of the former IBM PC Co., IBM had been supportive of Linux throughout its product line — including preloading it on Thinkpads — before the sale to Lenovo.
Lenovo's two biggest rivals, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, Calif., began offering Linux-based notebooks as early as 2004, and Dell offers Linux configurations on some of its PC clients.
 News source: CRN
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04/06/2006 - Taiwan says all new PCs must be Linux-friendly - The Central Trust of China (Taiwan) has mandated for the first time that all desktop computers purchased from now on must be Linux-compatible, demonstrating the government's desire to widen the nation's usage of open source software. Central Trust is in charge of purchasing computers and other equipment for government agencies and schools.
About 120,000 desktops will be procured by the Central Trust under this new guideline.
"In the past, some of the procured computers did not support Linux, therefore this new mandate signifies the government's push to reduce reliance on the Windows operating system," Mike Lin, a consultant at the Taipei Computer Association said.
Thirty-three desktop models from hardware vendors including Acer, Asustek, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard Taiwan, were certified Linux-compatible, while four models each from Gigabyte Technology and Synnex Technology International were still under evaluation, according to the newspaper report.
In the legislative session held late last year, legislators reached an additional consensus that there should be a 25 percent cut of procurement budget on Microsoft's products across all government agencies. In response, Microsoft Taiwan Corp yesterday said that it respected the government's decision for the Linux inclusion into desktops, as long as the market is competing on a fair ground.
 View: Taipei Times
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04/06/2006 - Yahoo drops CEO salary to $1 - On Friday, Yahoo's board of directors have brought Chairman and CEO Terry Semel's annual salary to one dollar! This is done while boosting overall future compensation through stock options and grants. In a filing
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Yahoo said
its board had approved two days before a long-term executive retention
plan where Semel will receive $1 for each of the next three years
through 2008.
His salary in each of the past three years was $600,000.
Yahoo is not unique among Silicon Valley companies in
deemphasizing salary and linking compensation to company performance in
the form of share bonuses. Since 2004, Google Inc., Yahoo's
biggest rival, has paid $1 in salary to its top executives --
co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt --
compensating the three billionaires instead through stock options and
grants.
The world's largest Internet media company said Semel
stands to benefit from a discretionary bonus in the form of a fully
vested stock option of up to 1 million shares a year, priced at Yahoo's
closing trading price the day of the grant. The actual amount of the bonus will be based annually on the performance of the company and be approved by the board.
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a retention incentive, the board granted Semel a stock option to buy 6
million shares of Yahoo's common stock at an exercise price of $31.59
per share, the closing price of the company's common stock on May 31,
the date of the grant.
 News source: Reuters
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03/06/2006 - Exclusive: Acer Ferrari 5000 Pictures - Today Acer announced the Ferrari 5000 and 1000 notebooks.
The Ferrari 1000 is a 12.1" screen notebook featuring the Turion X2 dual-core 64-bit processor while the Ferrari 5000 is a 15.4-inch desktop replacement style notebook with the Turion X2. The new Ferrari notebooks will sport a carbon fiber case asusual and will support the HD-DVD optical drive.
Current specifications for the Acer 5000:
- Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2
- 15.4" screen
- 1.3 Megapixel web camera built-in
- Acer InviLik 802.11 a/b/g wireless
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Up to 160GB HD
- Choice between slot loading DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive or HD-DVD drive
- 5-in-1 media card reader built-in
- Carbon Fiber casing
- Acer VoIP Bluetooth phone bundled
Whilst speaking to Chris Aarons from AMD at the Vista Beta 2 lab here in Amsterdam we were able to get some exclusive pictures of the 5000.
OSNN also have some more pictures and video footage of the notebook in action.
 Photo: Acer Ferrari 5000 | Back | Front | Front (2) | Ferrari Logo
 View: Acer Press Release
View: AMD
View: Acer
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03/06/2006 - Net2Phone Sues Skype for Patent Infringement - IDT owned Net2Phone filed a lawsuit late Thursday against eBay owned Skype, claiming the p2p VOIP software infringes on one of it's patents. Net2Phone is seeking an injunction and collection of damages according to the suit filed at a federal court in Newark, New Jersey.
The specific patent in question is patent number 6,108,704 which, in basic terms, describes the method in which "a point-to-point Internet protocol exchanges Internet Protocol (IP) addresses between processing units to establish a point-to-point communication link between the processing units through the Internet."
Neither company could be reached for comments.
View: Net2Phone Patent
News source: Reuters
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03/06/2006 - The Pirate Bay Comes Back Online - For the last couple of days there were stories of The Pirate Bay, the worlds largest bittorrent tracker, being taken offline by swedish athorities while they were being investigated for copyright infringement. Even the MPAA released a statement praising the police raids on TPB's hosting provider as proof that internet pirates can't hide anywhere. Well, maybe they jumped the gun just a little. It seem like today the website of The Pirate Bay is being put back online. Things are a little slow, but the site is there, available once again for people world-wide to enjoy. Does this mean that sites like The Pirate Bay are here to stay? It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few days, when TPB fills in the missing details about what happened, and the **AA's have their say.
News source: The Pirate Bay
 Link: MPAA Statement about the takedown of TPB
Link: Story on Wired.com
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03/06/2006 - IE 7 Beta 3 Release Set for August - Thanks Electronic Punk of OSNN for this news.
Microsoft is preparing a third beta, to be released some time in August. The extended beta period seems to have been prompted by compatibility issues that users have found with the first two IE 7 betas. One such issue, described in great detail on Microsoft's IEBlog, involved a problem where the browser would sometimes reload CAPTCHA images (character recognition tests used to fool spambots) when a network connection was idle:
Eric Lawrence of Microsoft stated that "for compatibility reasons, we're going to revert to IE6 behavior for IE7 Beta 3 to prevent this exact issue."
The Beta 3 release is expected to fix problems with some of the new features, such as the integrated RSS reader. Beta 3 will add an ability to control whether or not an article is marked as read. However, don't expect any major interface changes. According to an interview with IE 7 developers, there will be no new abilities to customize the interface, for example to put buttons and menus in customizable locations.
"Unfortunately, extensibility in IE7 is not where we want it to be," said Microsoft's Max Stevens, lead program manager in charge of IE 7's user interface. "We don't expect there to be many changes between now and ship, though this is definitely an area we're investigating for our next release."
The final release of IE 7 is expected to be some time this winter, and Microsoft has promised continual updates each year thereafter, starting with IE8, which will contain new networking and rendering features
News source: ArsTechnica
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03/06/2006 - Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office 2007 - Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista.
The changes follow a breakdown of talks between the two technology giants after Microsoft announced last year it would include native PDF publishing with the release of Office 2007. The feature has long been a top request from customers, the company said at the time, and other office suites have the capability.
But Adobe was unhappy with the move and a dispute has been brewing for four months, Microsoft's lead counsel Brad Smith said Friday. Although PDF claims to be an open format and is integrated into OpenOffice and Apple's Mac OS X operating system, Adobe apparently sees Office 2007 as a real threat to its business.
News source: BetaNews
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03/06/2006 - ATi To Announce RD600 Chipset with 3 PCIe Slots - Thanks to NI3NOR for posting this in BPN
ATi is expected to announce their most powerful Crossfire chipset, the RD600, in coming days. Temporarily dubbed the ATi Xpress 3200 Intel Edition, the chipset will provide support for Intel's new Conroe processor.
This is no "Joe consumer" chipset, however. Sporting a 1333MHz FSB, Dual Channel DDR2-1066, and independent memory clocking, this is one for the hardcore enthusiasts with some cash to spare. It gets better. The RD600 also has 3 PCIe slots; two for Crossfire ready graphics cards and one for a physics acceleration card. Throw two X1800 or X1900 cards in there and the system will automatically increase the FSB of the PCIe slots from the stock 100MHz to between 125MHz and 150MHz.
The RD600 is expected to be released later this summer.
News source: HKEPC
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