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03/07/2006 - Tastiera dedicata per Microsoft Windows Vista - Microsoft promette una tastiera dedicata al nuovo sistema operativo Windows Vista |
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03/07/2006 - Enermax, alimentatore Galaxy da 1000W in arrivo - Enermax presenta ufficialmente in Italia la nuova famiglia Galaxy, alimentatori da 850W e 1000W contraddistinti da ottime soluzioni tecniche, destinato al mercato degli assemblatori e dei "modders" |
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03/07/2006 - I nuovi chip video integrati di Intel in arrivo a fine mese - La prima nuova architettura chipset Intel con video GMA X3000 integrato, modello G965, è attesa al debutto in concomitanza con le cpu Conroe |
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03/07/2006 - Seagate: nuovo brevetto per lubrificare gli hard disk - Seagate deposita un nuovo brevetto relativo ad una nuova tecnologia che consentirebbe di incrementare notevolmente le capacità di immagazzinamento dei dati |
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03/07/2006 - 80 nanometri e NVIDIA: due fonderie a Taiwan - Sia TSMC che UMC sono attualmente coinvolte nel processo di sviluppo NVIDIA di GPU con tecnologia a 80 nanometri |
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03/07/2006 - Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 non più scaricabile - Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 non è più disponibile per il download |
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03/07/2006 - Driver aggiornati per i processori AMD - Il produttore americano presenta una versione aggiornata dei propri driver, che abilitano le funzionalitò di risparmio energetico delle cpu Athlon 64, Opteron e Turion 64 |
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03/07/2006 - SiS rivede la propria roadmap - SiS ha deciso di modificare la propria roadmap per quanto riguarda i chipset, dando precedenza alle soluzioni per piattaforme AMD |
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03/07/2006 - DDR3 nei notebook, dal 2007 - Pronti i primi sample di memoria DDR3 da utilizzare in sistemi notebook, per i chipset ATI |
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03/07/2006 - Aperto tavolo di lavoro per telefonia 4G - Un gruppo di operatori di rete hanno costituito un gruppo di lavoro per definire i paletti della futura generazione di network cellulari |
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03/07/2006 - Montecito al debutto il prossimo 18 Luglio - Si avvicina la data di rilascio della nuova generazione di processori Intel Itanium, dotati di architettura Dual Core |
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03/07/2006 - Skype: videoconferenza anche per Mac? - Circola sul web una versione di Skype per Mac OS X non ufficiale e instabile che provvista di funzionalità di videoconferenza |
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03/07/2006 - Dettagli sul single player di Test Drive Unlimited - Atari divulga diversi dettagli sulla modalità single player di Test Drive Unlimited, arcade di guida prevalentemente dedicato al gioco online. |
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01/07/2006 - Anche da Plextor primo masterizzatore Blu-Ray - Plextor annuncia il primo masterizzatore Blu-Ray che include anche funzionalità di masterizzazione CD e DVD. In commercio dal prossimo autunno |
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01/07/2006 - Wes Craven pensa di entrare nel mondo dei videogiochi - In un'intervista il popolare regista di film horror Wes Craven ha dichiarato che sta pensando di entrare nel mondo dei videogiochi con un progetto da lui diretto. |
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01/07/2006 - Memorie DDR2-1000 disponibili con bassa latenza - OCZ presenta il primo kit memorie DDR2 con latenza di accesso ridotta; il primo di molti annunci in questa direzione da parte dei principali produttori |
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01/07/2006 - Bug nei cookies di MSN e Amazon - Scoperto un pericolo bug nei cookies di MSN e Amazon; potenzialmente a rischio l'accesso agli account personali |
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01/07/2006 - Koch Media sui giochi Namco Bandai - Un accordo tra Namco Bandai Games America Inc. e Deep Silver darà a Koch Media l'opportunità di distribuire in Europa Warhammer: Mark of Chaos e Mage Knight: Apocalypse. |
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30/06/2006 - Niente Conroe per i sistemi server a 1 cpu - Intel sceglie di non fornire supporto alle cpu Core 2 Duo nei propri futuri sistemi server a singolo processore; ampio spazio per i sistemi Woodcrest |
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30/06/2006 - La serie Total War si arricchisce con Eras - Un pacchetto cumulativo con tutti i giochi facenti parte della serie Total War viene lanciato sul mercato proprio in queste ore. |
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30/06/2006 - Niente fisica da ATI per i prossimi mesi - Nonostante l'hardware sia disponibile, lo sviluppo driver e la compatibilità con le applicazioni fanno slittare il debutto dell'approccio alla fisica di ATI |
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30/06/2006 - Il nuovo sistema di raffreddamento per memorie di Corsair - Già viste in occasione del Computex di Taipei, queste nuove memorie lasciano spazio ad elevati overclock almeno sulla carta |
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30/06/2006 - Red Steel supporta pienamente il controller di Wii? - Emergono nuove indiscrezioni riguardo le modalità con le quali lo sparatutto 3D di Ubisoft supporta il controller di Nintendo Wii. |
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30/06/2006 - Santa Rosa: la "confettura di Intel" - Nome in codice originale per la prossima generazione di piattaforme notebook Centrino, attese al debutto a metà 2007 |
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04/07/2006 - Carta di Identita` elettronica 2.0 - Il Governo ci riprova: in dirittura d'arrivo un provvedimento che rilancera' il progetto con molte novita'. La nuova Card incorporera' identita', sanita', codice fiscale ma anche patente, tessera elettorale e via dicendo |
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04/07/2006 - P2P e Patto di Sanremo, gli ISP non ci stanno - Braccio di ferro tra fornitori di accesso internet e discografici sull'accordo che avrebbe dovuto creare un ambiente ostile alla pirateria. I provider non vogliono trasformarsi in poliziotti della rete. Presa di posizione di Assoprovider |
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04/07/2006 - PayPerPost, dindi per blogger prezzolati - Un'agenzia statunitense paga i blogger per far loro pubblicare messaggi promozionali spacciati per opinioni, ovviamente all'insaputa dei lettori. BusinessWeek parla di inquinamento della blogosfera |
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04/07/2006 - Contrappunti/ Briciole di umilta` - di Massimo Mantellini - C'e' un gran bisogno di una nuova umilta' che sconsigli dal legiferare sulle precedenze automobilistiche agli incroci chi fino a ieri ha utilizzato unicamente il cavallo come mezzo di trasporto |
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04/07/2006 - Download/ Independence Day - Programmi indipendenti, da chiavetta USB, senza installazione. L'invasione continua, ed e' mobile |
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04/07/2006 - Western Digital e il gigabyte allungato - Il colosso degli hard disk accomoda una class action: era accusata di descrivere la capacita' dei propri hard disk in un modo non convenzionale. Un software gratuito come risarcimento |
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04/07/2006 - Ad agosto BenQ scrivera` in blu - Il gigante dell'elettronica made in Taiwan e' pronto a lanciare il suo primo masterizzatore Blu-ray, anticipando cosi' molti promotori di questo standard. L'unita' avra' un prezzo concorrenziale |
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04/07/2006 - Dismesso il primo supercomputer da 1 teraflops - Negli USA va in pensione il primo supercomputer al mondo ad aver abattuto la barriera del teraflops, 10 anni fa. Una potenza di calcolo oggi non piu' sufficiente neppure per entrare nella classifica Top500 |
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04/07/2006 - La Grande Muraglia digitale ha una falla - Ed e' molto grave: alcuni ricercatori di Cambridge hanno scoperto come sfruttare il sistema di firewall cinesi per lanciare attacchi DoS. La vulnerabilita' sfrutta le stesse dinamiche utilizzate per censurare i contenuti online |
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04/07/2006 - IE, due bug all'ActiveX - Il browser di Windows si risveglia con due falle relative alla tecnologia ActiveX, entrambe sfruttabili per mandare in crash il browser e, in un caso, tentare di eseguire del codice da remoto |
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04/07/2006 - Il problema di alcuni MacBook? Stingono - Cosi' dicono alcuni acquirenti dell'ultimo laptop di Apple. Hanno creato un sito e chiedono spiegazioni all'azienda: dopo tre settimane, dicono, i MacBook perdono colore sulle plastiche poggiapolso |
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04/07/2006 - Un metal detector nel cellulare - Stando ad una testata scientifica britannica, Nokia avrebbe brevettato un metal detector integrabile in un telefonino |
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04/07/2006 - La Golf ora non ha bisogno di guidatori - Volkswagen da' alla luce l'erede di Herbie: non e' un maggiolino tutto matto ma un dispositivo altamente tecnologico con cui la casa tedesca vuole dimostrare di non essere seconda a cinesi e giapponesi |
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04/07/2006 - Riaperto il grande occhio di Hubble - Risolto uno dei problemi agli impianti di ripresa del telescopio orbitante che garantira' la prosecuzione dell'attuale missione. Del futuro, pero', non v'e' certezza: dal 2007 Hubble a rischio |
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04/07/2006 - La Francia vara il DRM interoperabile - Parigi da' il via libera definitivo all'obbligo dei sistemi DRM per i contenuti digitali. Che potranno non essere interoperabili. A deciderlo non saranno pero' i jukebox, saranno gli autori |
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04/07/2006 - Gratis le chiamate tra utenti Jajah - Il programma Free Global Calling prevede chiamate free fra gli utenti del servizio. Ma e' necessario che tutti rispettino certi limiti |
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04/07/2006 - Google ora e` un verbo - Il nome del motore e' una delle nuove voci dell'ultima edizione dell'Oxford English Dictionary, il piu' autorevole tra i dizionari d'Inglese. To Google e' transitivo ed intransitivo |
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04/07/2006 - Cassandra Crossing/ Caro senatore Cossiga - di Marco Calamari - Il potere esecutivo chiede il controllo piu' ampio possibile sulla comunicazione. Non si dimentichi pero' che conservare i dati delle comunicazioni significa intercettare |
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04/07/2006 - Redomino Plone Tour 2006 a Torino - Il 4 nel capoluogo piemontese |
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03/07/2006 - Orange may acquire AOL UK - A REPORT in the Sunday Telegraph claims that Orange/Wanadoo - operated by France Telecom, should win the auction to buy AOL's UK internet business. The paper believes that the bid from Orange is motivated by fear of the prospect of arch rival, BSkyB, getting hold of it. However, the INQ believes that Orange would be well aware of the chaos that is surrounding the Carphone Warehouse's offer of free broadband for those on its Talk Talk fixed line service.
Mobile magazine reports that waiting times at the Carphone's dedicated Talk Talk call centres have typically reached 45 minutes. It also claims that new customers trying to get the free internet service may have to wait up to two months for the connexion to go live.
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03/07/2006 - Netsky blown away in June virus charts - Netsky.q has been pushed off the top of the virus charts for the first time since 2004, according to monthly statistics released by Kaspersky Lab. Netsky.q has been the most widespread email worm since 2004 and its variant Netsky.t has risen rapidly since the beginning of 2006. However, both worms fell away sharply in June, with Netsky.q falling to 15th place and Netsky.t to 20th.
Kaspersky Lab said that it was possible that both worms will disappear entirely from the company's next top 20 list in July. The other surprise in June was that Nyxem.e returned to the charts, becoming the second most encountered virus.
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03/07/2006 - Intel's multiple Meroms pin-incompatible - report - The 'Merom' Core 2 Duo mobile microprocessor Intel will ship with 'Santa Rosa', next year's Centrino upgrade, will not be quite the same Merom that it's due to launch in August. The two versions of the CPU will not be pin-compatible, it has been claimed.
According to a presentation allegedly given by Intel to Taiwanese notebook contract manufacturers and cited by Chinese-language site HKEPC, the Santa Rosa Merom will have a slightly different pin-out than the version for 'Napa', the current incarnation of Centrino. The two interconnects are dubbed Socket P and Socket M, respectively.
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03/07/2006 - Palm's Direction into the Future May Open New Windows - This week Palm mentioned two future devices, one which is expected in August or September and the other by the end of this year. Sadly though Palm has stumbled onto some blocks.
First, the Treo 650 will stop shipping in Europe because of new hazardous waste
regulations that are taking effect that the phone does not comply
with. Palm is feverously working to ready its next devices currently
codenamed ‘Lennon' and ‘Nitro' to Europe and US markets as soon as it possibly can,
but the company didn't have any release dates available during the call. Not a
lot of information is available about the new devices planned by Palm, but we
do know that Nitro will be based off on the PalmOS and Lennon will run Windows
Mobile 2005. It also looks like non-phone Palm products probably won't last much longer as LifeDrive
wasn't the product Palm was hoping it would be and hasn't sold as well as
projected. This is further supported by comments made by Palm CEO Ed Colligan,
indicating that the company continues to refocus on its smartphone products.
Palm's non-smartphone handhelds and other device sales numbers have also steadily
declined over the last four years from 100% of sales in 2003 to only 25% of
sales today.
There were also some other comments made during the call that lead us
to
believe that PalmOS may be on the way out. According to Palm,
developing for two separate operating systems is too expensive, and
more devices coming to market continue to ship with Windows Mobile.
Although the change isn't
reflected in Palm's current device roadmap, the company mentioned that
it would make sense. RIM devices run on RIM OS and although it faces
heavy competition from Microsoft, RIM devices have a good deal of
enterprise level penetration. From the sounds of things, Palm is in the
same ballpark as other mobile smartphone
makers. Try as it might, Palm doesn't seem like it's gaining much
headway against RIM and the Blackberry in the enterprise and business
markets. With this in mind, we could be witnessing an entire new line
of products from Palm shipping with Windows Mobile.
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01/07/2006 - Security Researcher Goes Public with MSN and Amazon Flaws - Frustrated with what he calls a lack of response from Microsoft and Amazon.com, a security researcher has gone public with details of flaws on the two companies' Web sites.
The flaws could be used by attackers to steal "cookie" data files that would allow them to access Amazon.com and MSN accounts, or to display a fake login page that could be used in phishing attacks, according to Yash Kadakia, the independent security researcher who discovered the flaws.
Although the cross-site scripting flaws he discovered are generally considered to be low-risk problems, Kadakia's attack involves a technique called CRLF (Carriage Return Line Feed) injection, which can be used in a more serious and widespread attack, he said.
Kadakia said he first notified Microsoft of the problem about a year ago. But he said he was not taken seriously until late last week, when he posted screen shots of the flaw being exploited on his Web site.
The Amazon.com flaw was discovered in December, but after some initial discussions with the Web retailer, the vulnerability remained unpatched, Kadakia said. "The conversations got dropped off somewhere," he said.
A spokesman for Microsoft's public relations agency said the flaws were now being investigated. Amazon.com executives were unable to comment for this story.
Though Microsoft has made much of its focus on security, the company appears to be slower at dealing with security issues relating to its Web properties than with its software products, said Stefano Zanero, the co-founder and chief technology officer at security consultancy Secure Network SRL.
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01/07/2006 - D-Link Leaves Critical Hole Open for 5 Months, And Counting -
Security vulnerability discoveries were reported last February to D-Link and surprisingly they still have not been fixed yet! The vulnerability allows remote code to be executed through the routersfirmware potentially leaving affected customers vulnerable to attack.The vulnerability can give an attacker complete control over any andall network traffic.
The effected products are:
- DI-524 (Wireless)
- DI-604*
- DI-624 (Wireless)
- DI-784* (Wireless)
- EBR-2310*
- WBR-1310 (Wireless)
- WBR-2310 (Wireless)
*(Denotes firmware update available)
D-Linkhas hardly said a word publicly about the issue and has only patched asmall portion of the devices affected. In fact the only word directlyfrom D-Link is from a supposed support staff member in a post on the
DSLReports.com forums.According to that person the issue has to do with UPnP, a LAN sideprotocol thus reasoning that the problem isn't susceptible to WAN orinternet side attacks.
Unfortunately because some of theeffected routers are wireless it isn't unlikely that an attacker mightcompromise the router by gaining access to the wireless portion of therouter and injecting malicious code. Even secured wireless routersaren't foolproof and given enough time and resources these too can becompromised. The only advice that can be given at this point fromsecurity researchers is to discontinue using the affected routers untila fix is published by D-Link as there is nothing the consumer can to domitigate the issue themselves.
D-Link was also recently in the news when its engineers began using a FreeBSD NTP top level server as the primary time server for its devices. The issue was solved eventually, and new routers stopped using the NTP server.
News source: DailyTech
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01/07/2006 - Apple Seals Deal with Maine Education System - Maine educators have agreed a $41 million contract with Apple to continue its existing notebooks-for-kids deal. Under the scheme, seventh- and eighth-graders in the area are provided with portable Macs, as are their teachers. The deal means Apple will provide 32,000 students and 4,000 teachers with portable Macs.
The deal includes warranty and service cover and other perks. It works out to cost approximately $289 per notebook per year - which is less than the scheme's first iteration as agreed in 2002.
Maine educators say the scheme is the biggest of its kind in the world.
News source: Macworld UK
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01/07/2006 - Dell's Exploding Laptops Under Investigation - Dell is investigating reports that one of its laptops exploded during a conference in Osaka recently. A series of photographs of the portable pyromaniac's delight appeared online within hours of the incident, a Reuters report says.
You can see these images in a report detailing the incident that's available on the Inquirer website. "It's only a matter of time until an incident like this breaks out on a plane," the report warns. In December 2005 the company recalled some of its laptop batteries in response to overheating problems.
Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden said it was too early to draw conclusions, but stressed that it appeared unconnected to a battery overheating problem.
News source: Macworld UK
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01/07/2006 - Apple Stock Option Problems - Apple has found problems with some of its stock option grants made between 1997 and 2001, one of which was to CEO Steve Jobs, the company disclosed on Thursday. The irregularities were uncovered in an internal investigation, Apple said. The company has now hired outside attorneys to perform an investigation and has informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The option grant to Jobs subsequently was cancelled, and Jobs didn't financially benefit from it, according to Apple.
In the past few months, problems with stock options have been uncovered at numerous high-tech companies. Some grants of options were backdated, or timed to a low point in the company's stock, so the recipient could buy stock cheaply and reap a bigger windfall by selling it. In a May 16 report, the Center for Financial Research & Analysis named 17 companies as being at risk for having backdated options.
Other companies flagged by CFRA include RSA Security, Juniper Networks and Broadcom.
News source: Macworld UK
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01/07/2006 - Apple Acknowledges MacBook Stain Issue - Apple has responded to widespread reports that claim some MacBooks become discoloured after a few short weeks of use. A vocal minority of customers have claimed that the new Macs become discoloured, mainly around the areas on which users rest their hands on the keyboard.
Some reports have claimed Apple to have admitted that the problem exists, but this isn't yet the case. The company is requesting that users who claim to have been affected should contact Apple support, as the MacBooks remain under warranty and the company needs to explore the claimed problem to establish its cause.
In a statement, Apple said: "Apple is aware of this input and is looking into it. If a customer has any technical issues, they should contact AppleCare."
News source: Macworld UK
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