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17/07/2006 - Digitale terrestre? Forse nel 2012 - Secco il ministro TLC: gli italiani sappiano che prima di sei anni non si passera' alla tv digitale. I tempi sono lunghi, la Gasparri e' da rifare. Uscire dalla propaganda e mettersi in linea con i tempi della UE. Il canone RAI? Aumentera' |
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17/07/2006 - P2P, inversione di rotta in vista? - Le scelte di due tribunali, uno americano e l'altro olandese, gettano ombre sul modo in cui i detentori del diritto d'autore tentano di incastrare gli utenti dei sistemi di file-sharing. Qualcosa e' cambiato |
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17/07/2006 - I cinesi craccano Skype - Una crew cinese apre il protocollo del celebre sistema VoIP e vuole lanciare un clone alternativo e dalle prestazioni simili. Skype minimizza ma c'e' chi teme per il suo futuro |
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17/07/2006 - MS vuole fermare lo spam nel search - I ricercatori del big di Redmond stanno realizzando un sistema integrato per ripulire i risultati di ricerca, talvolta inquinati da tonnellate di spazzatura pubblicitaria. Un'impresa titanica |
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17/07/2006 - Cura Microsoft per vecchi PC - BigM si lancia su Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC, SO basato su XP per trasformare PC obsoleti in moderni thin-client. Solo per i clienti del programma Software Assurance |
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17/07/2006 - IBM abbraccia Xen e Suse Linux 10 - Il colosso di Armonk si prepara a far girare la tecnologia di virtualizzazione Xen sui prossimi modelli di BladeCenter, sistemi capaci di supportare la nuova versione della distribuzione Linux enterprise di Novell |
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17/07/2006 - Core 2 Duo re dei benchmark - Su Web fioccano le prime recensioni dei nuovi processori Intel, attesi sul mercato a fine mese. Il verdetto sembra unanime: e' un cavallo vincente. Ora si attende il contrattacco di AMD |
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17/07/2006 - PowerPoint nel mirino dei cracker - Su Internet circolano alcuni exploit e almeno un cavallo di Troia in grado di sfruttare una vulnerabilita' di PowerPoint. Scoperti alcuni bug anche in MS Works. Gli esperti invitano alla prudenza |
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17/07/2006 - Animazione Sospesa piu` vicina? - Nuovo step per la pratica sospensiva in medicina grazie all'ultimo di un serie di interventi riusciti su un suino. L'eplorazione spaziale dovra' aspettare ancora a lungo |
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17/07/2006 - Una clinica per drogati da videogiochi - Nasce un centro di recupero ad Amsterdam: oltre a curare tossicomanie da alcool ed altre sostanze, la clinica propone un programma di recupero per i malati di videogiochi |
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17/07/2006 - Calo di popolarita`? Non e` colpa di Google - Un giudice californiano respinge le accuse di KinderStart.com, portale statunitense che aveva denunciato Google in seguito all'azzeramento del page-rank del sito |
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17/07/2006 - I testi delle canzoni? Solo con licenza - Dopo il giro di vite contro gli spartiti pubblicati sul Web, le major pretendono pagamenti generosi anche da chi mette a disposizione i testi delle canzoni. Il caso di Gracenote |
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17/07/2006 - CBS l'archivio lo vende online - Amazon e CustomFlix i partner: si possono comprare momenti salienti delle trasmissioni piu' importanti della celebre emittente americana. Sperando che qualcuno compri e masterizzi |
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17/07/2006 - Voli a rischio per le batterie dei notebook? - Le autorita' americane investigano su un incidente che avrebbe dei precedenti. Si ipotizza che certe batterie utilizzate dai portatili rappresentino un rischio sicurezza per il volo |
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17/07/2006 - Corso Linux per Open System Engineer - A Bolzano |
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16/07/2006 - Tiny Search Engines Try to Find Their Place - Steve Mansfield operates his own Internet search engine from a place he calls a "secret hideout" -- a small office surrounded by low-rent apartments on the outskirts of Lexington, Ky., a college town known for its horse farms.
Mansfield conceived Prefound.com a few years ago on the premise that humans, from pretty much anywhere, can collectively provide better intelligence than a computer program developed out of the Silicon Valley.
Other startups, too, have had similar visions for "social search." Today, even large competitors like Yahoo and Google are pursuing the concept, hoping it'll help make search results more meaningful and thus expand the companies' market share.
Traditional search results are largely based on objective criteria such as counting the number of links other sites have placed to a given Web page. Social search gives people subjective answers -- the best sushi restaurant in Chicago or the best Web site for information about French impressionism -- not necessarily the site visited the most.
"You're essentially breaking up a problem and sending it out to a huge number of people for a query, getting answers back," said Steven Jones, a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "It kind of ends up being greater than the sum of its parts. Other people are going to make associations and connections to information you probably would not have made."
At Prefound, launched earlier this year, users contribute to the knowledge pool by submitting clusters of sites they believe would appeal to like-minded people. As an incentive, the largest contributors even get a share of Prefound's advertising money.
A visitor looking for information on, say, New Jersey beaches, can get the user-recommended sites, grouped by users. One user's cluster gives you restaurants, Internet cafes and other information on the coastal town of Ventnor City, N.J. Results are better when more people contribute sites.
Jones said it's too early to know whether social search will dramatically change the way people look for information on the Internet, but it's already changing the way traditional search companies do business.
 News source: Tech News world
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16/07/2006 - Winamp TV channel forced to close doors - Popular streaming internet service, ESS.tv (EveryShowSucks.tv) has today emailed all of its subscribers, explaining that due to mouting legal pressures the 50+ channels it provided will no longer be available.
ESS.tv streamed popular and niche shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park via Winamp's TV protocol. Membership was a mere $5 per month for unlimited access to all channels.
The aforementioned email was suspiciously vague: "Unfortunately, due to increasing pressure from various organizations, ESS will have to shut down operations this weekend."
"We do not have the financial backing to attempt to contest the claims made against us," it said.
The somewhat cult following that ESS.tv had built up over the years was reflected in the programming and many of their customers will feel that there's now a large hole in the world of internet TV.
It no longer seems filesharing is the internet's dirty word, as the authorities and lawyers turn up the heat for streaming providers as well.
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15/07/2006 - Microsoft Withdraws Private Folder App - Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders.
The feature was introduced as a free download last week. Almost immediately, people raised questions over how businesses would grapple with the ability of individual workers to encrypt their data.
"Private Folder 1.0 was designed as a benefit for customers running genuine Windows," Microsoft said in a statement to CNET News.com on Friday. "However, we received feedback about concerns around manageability, data recovery and encryption, and based on that feedback, we are removing the application today. This change will take effect shortly."
At the time of this writing, you can still download Private Folder 1.0 from Microsoft's website here.
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15/07/2006 - Xen leads Novell's turnaround effort in Linux - On Monday, Novell will release major updates to its Linux product lineup by adding Xen virtualization software to its enterprise server product and new eye candy to the desktop counterpart.
The biggest change will arrive with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, which will be the first major Linux distribution to incorporate the Xen virtualization technology. Xen is designed to boost a computer's efficiency by allowing the user to run multiple operating systems simultaneously. SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 will gain a new fancy graphics interface called Xgl. Novell hopes Xgl will help showcase its innovations.
"SLED is going to be the sizzle, and SLES is going to be the steak," Justin Steinman, Novell's director of product marketing for Linux, said.
But it will take more than just good technology make inroads against Linux market leader Red Hat, said Ideas International analyst Tony Iams. "Products have never been a problem for Novell. It's been on marketing and execution," he said.
SLES 10 should turn the Waltham, Mass.-based company's Linux results around, Novell's Steinman believes. "We are first to market with a next-generation platform. We are the only one to deliver a broad platform from the desktop to the data center. We will have much more aggressive marketing and be much easier to do business with," he said.
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15/07/2006 - 'Image Spam' and VoIP Scam Attacks on Rise - So-called "image spam" is on the rise once again -- as clever hackers try to sneak by spam screening software that tests messages for spam based on keywords. After declining steadily throughout 2005 -- from about 12 percent ofall spam at the beginning of the year, down to about 5 percent inNovember -- the use of image spam jumped dramatically in December 2005,to 25 percent of all spam. It has remained at that level fairlyconsistently for the last six months, according to Postini, a messagingmanagement company based in San Carlos, Calif. To be sure, up-to-date spam filters, like the patented PTIN technology,can detect and block image spam based on other attributes of thesending computer, message envelope and headers.There are other, emerging threats too -- like VoIP spam scams.Scammers pretending to be banks e-mail people and ask them to dial atelephone number, then enter the personal information needed to gainaccess to their finances. These fake VoIP services are reducing thecosts associated with conducting such attacks, providing theperpetrators with a lower risk of discovery. "Postini attributes this increase to spammerstesting the deliverability of image spam in early 2005 and realizingthat many older spam filters are helpless when messages contain text toanalyze, so the use of images helps get their spam delivered," saidPostini spokesperson Catherine Leahy. "Upon seeing the positiveresults, they converted much of their spam to image spam." These attacks are "highly sophisticated,targeted, transient and dynamic, thereby making it far more difficultto uncover and capture the perpetrators," according to Dr. JoseNazario, a senior security engineer and member of the Arbor SecurityEngineering & Response Team (ASERT) at Arbor Networks, a networksecurity leader for global business networks.
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15/07/2006 - The Pirate Bay making over 20,000 a day - The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are set to be making over $25328 a day, with single day advertisements costing 20,000.
The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of 60,000 per month, according to sales manager Luar Busó. The police raid on 31 May resulted in even more visitors to the site and prices for ads went up accordingly.
'The biggest ads today cost 20,000 and so far we've sold four', says Luar Busó.
Eastpoint sell ads for The Pirate Bay in the Scandinavian market. File sharing is most widespread in Sweden where many people have broadband. But The Pirate Bay runs in twenty five different languages and gets visitors from all corners of the planet.
News source: Rixstep
 Link: The Pirate Bay
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15/07/2006 - UK regulator warms to legalisation of FM transmitters - Ofcom - the UK's regulating body for the media and telecommunications - is holding a public consultation over the legalisation of FM transmitters designed for use with MP3 players.
Europe has strict guidelines over the use of low-power FM transmitters, due to their potential to interfere with legal radio stations. Devices like the iPod's iTrip are mostly used in cars, as an alternative way of delivering music to an in-built radio tuner.
Currently the devices do not adhere to the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1949 which prohibits the use of radio transmitters without a permit. That is not to say everyone follows the rules, as many sellers on sites such as eBay provide the transmitters which are in hot demand due to their taboo status.
It is expected that the devices will be legalised by 2007.
View: Ofcom's Public Consultationn
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15/07/2006 - Intel Set to Go Another Round With AMD - The summer is heating up for Intel as it prepares to propel three new products into the market in upcoming weeks. Intel's latest offerings include the Core 2 Duo chip for desktopPCs, Montecito chip for high-end servers and Merom chip for mobilenotebooks. Shipment of the processors has already begun, and Intel ispreparing to release several other chips, Bill Kircos, communicationsmanager for Intel, told TechNewsWorld. "There's a lot of excitement about how stunning the performance ison these chips. It's about us putting out a revolutionary type ofprocessor. It's a winner," Kircos said, noting several positive techreviews. "This is a really big launch because a whole new crop of PCsand laptops will be hitting the stores with these processors in timefor back to school and before the holidays."
The menu is one that analysts say will keep Advanced Micro Devices alert on the battlefield. Intel has sustained an innovative advantage in the mobile market,though AMD has flexed its muscles in the desktop and server chip areas,according to Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat. Now, Intel ismaking a push there, he told TechNewsWorld. "Desktop servers and the PCmarket is the new battleground. It's going to be a very competitivelandscape for at least the next year." For Intel, the multiple product launches seem like a significantshift from desktops to mobile technology. "Eventually, AMD is going tohave to come up with a new architecture to go from the ground up,"McGregor said, noting that the company told analysts at a recentconference that a new mobile architecture would be in production in2007 but would not provide further details. AMD is developing a new platform for the "PC enthusiast" market,according to Mike Field, desktop division market manager for AMD. "It'sa decidedly multicore processor, multithreaded application technologyfor the PC industry, and AMD believes it will have the best solutionsfor the market in 2006," he told TechNewsWorld. The company also is "planning an aggressive desktop price movement," Field noted. News source: TechNewsWorld
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15/07/2006 - Newspapers, Yahoo looking at partnership - In a world where the Internet provides news and advertising on demand, newspapers are struggling to attract readers and revenues. In particular, the rise of classified advertising sites like Craigslist has led to a corresponding slide in ad revenues for the tabloids and broadsheets.
Yahoo, the most-trafficked nonpornographic website in the world, and a number of newspapers are in discussions about working together on news, classified ads, and "content packages" focused on certain topics. Local newspapers would "feed" their news to Yahoo, which would then aggregate it for readers based on their location or other factors.
The low-hanging fruit is classified ads, especially jobs. "Help-wanted is the quick cash," according to a source close to the negotiations. By partnering with Yahoo to host help-wanted and other classified ads, the newspapers would be able to make their classified offerings more attractive as they would be hosted in an easily searchable and high-profile location and could be readily targeted to readers all over the country.
Online help-wanted ads are nothing new. Craigslist has a "help wanted" section, and other jobs sites already exist, including CareerBuilder, a joint venture of the Tribune, Gannet, and Knight Ridder newspaper companies.
Newspapers have been struggling to figure out a way to embrace the Internet while continuing to remain profitable. Paid subscriptions for online content have failed for all but truly high-profile publications like the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. For the rest, paying for content online has proven to be a turn-off for readers, and some newspapers are even doing away with registrations, choosing instead to offer up their content unencumbered.
The Internet has irrevocably changed the game for newspapers, and at this point, it's a matter of their figuring out a way to keep readers interested both offline and on. A tie-in to a major portal like Yahoo! may boost the fortunes of some local papers, but it won't replace 50¢ dropped in the newspaper box on the corner.
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14/07/2006 - $300 Linux Computers - AMD64-based desktop systems will be offered for $300 to consumers. How? It is because of a partnership between Britt Systems and Technalign. To keep the price so low, BrittSystems will ship the computers with a version of the Linux operating system. The machines will features an AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor,256MB of memory, 80GB SATA hard drive, CD-RW drive. 400W power supply and afloppy drive. The machine will run on TaFusion MEPISLinux which is also known as Frontier. Also included is OpenOffice.org which is a rather competent competitor to Microsoft Office alongwith the Thunderbird email client.
"This new offering will allowindividuals and companies to get a powerful entry level system at the lowestpossible investment. Most companies offering an entry level system under $300usually provide much less processing power, smaller hard drives, a standardCD-ROM, and no floppy drive," said the CEO of Technalign. The lack of a Microsoft-based operating system is crucial tothe low-price of the desktops, but some other compromises had to be made. The systems only come with a 90-day factory warranty although the separate components still retain their respective warranties which range from one tothree years. First shipments will go out on July 31.
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