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18/07/2006 - I virus writer ricorrono all'open source - Questo l'allarme di McAfee: sempre piu' trojan sono realizzati in modo collaborativo, con la condivisione del codice. Le critiche: e' un attacco al full disclosure. Intanto il trojan Zidane continua a diffondersi |
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18/07/2006 - Chip da innestare nei pedofili criminali - Chi ha commesso atti di violenza sessuale sui minori potrebbe essere localizzato, una volta uscito dal carcere, con un chip non estraibile. Lo propone un celebre poliziotto britannico |
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18/07/2006 - Pirateria, la Russia risolvera` il problema - Putin vuole accedere al WTO e per farlo ha gia' chiarito che non ci saranno sconti per chi viola la proprieta' intellettuale. Bush per ora blocca l'ingresso della Russia. Intanto il G8 rilascia una dichiarazione contro i pirati |
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18/07/2006 - Download/ Polli, Wok e mattoni 3D - Videogiochi per l'estate, destreggiandosi tra wok, galline in fuga ed un interessante gioco 3D di strategia frenetica |
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18/07/2006 - Vista, fuori una nuova build - Microsoft ha consegnato a tester e sviluppatori una nuova versione preliminare del sistema operativo che, oltre a correggere i bug, migliora prestazioni e funzionalita' di sicurezza |
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18/07/2006 - Ufficiale, Microsoft ritira My Private Folder - Dietro le critiche di molti amministratori di sistemi, MS cancella dal proprio sito ogni riferimento alla sua utility per la protezione di file e cartelle personali |
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18/07/2006 - Il proprio nome inserito nel codice di Firefox - Da oggi e' possibile, in occasione del terzo compleanno di Mozilla Foundation, scolpire il proprio nome sulla piastrina di bit che sara' al collo dell'imminente Firefox 2 |
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18/07/2006 - Il cracking di Galileo? Una mezza bufala - Lo confermano le autorita' europee che si occupano del progettone satellitare: i codici aperti dai ricercatori della Cornell University americana non sono quelli che verranno usati per Galileo |
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18/07/2006 - P2P, attacco ad alzo zero contro gli ISP - Gli industriali della musica chiedono che i provider paghino le violazioni commesse dai propri abbonati. Sono imprese - dicono - che lucrano sulla condivisione. Presto la bozza di legge |
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18/07/2006 - Professionisti IT e arroganza - Cosa succede quando un esperto informatico se la deve vedere con un'azienda che preferisce mettere in linea PC infettati da trojan che sparano malware a mezzo mondo piuttosto che dotarsi di strumenti di sicurezza? |
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18/07/2006 - MS espande la mediateca digitale - Oltre alla scansione dei testi partira' a breve anche la ricezione digitale degli stessi. Rispetto al Book Search di Google, pero', Microsoft antepone a tutto l'autorizzazione dei detentori del diritto d'autore |
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18/07/2006 - Il cellulare da un milione di euro - Non contento di aver realizzato un telefonino da un milione di dollari, Peter Aloisson firma il design di un gioiello ancor piu' esclusivo. Sfrutta un sistema di cifratura contro le intercettazioni |
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18/07/2006 - I prezzi delle DRAM sono stati manipolati per anni - Oltre una trentina di stati americani hanno trascinato in tribunale otto tra i maggiori produttori al mondo di memorie DRAM. Sono accusati di aver costituito un cartello per controllare i prezzi delle memorie |
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18/07/2006 - Hardware, le brevi della settimana - Sapphire Radeon X1600 Ultimate - Mouse da presentazioni senza fili - Memorie DDR2 Kingston a 800 MHz - Memory Stick PRO Duo da 4 GB - Nuovi masterizzatori esterni da Hamlet - QuickCam Ultra Vision Logitech |
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18/07/2006 - YouTube, grandi successi e grandi rischi - Numeri enormi per il portalone dei video che sbaraglia la concorrenza. Ma si avvicina il momento della resa dei conti con i detentori del diritto d'autore. Intanto l'azienda si gode il primato |
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18/07/2006 - Si paga il canone RAI per il PC - Chi non possiede un televisore ma dispone di un computer puo' essere indotto a ritenere di non dover pagare il canone radiotelevisivo. Ma l'interpretazione della normativa attuale racconta un'altra storia |
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18/07/2006 - Pedofilia online, indagini in Italia - Conferme |
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18/07/2006 - PowerUser.TV e50: EU Fines Microsoft, Zune, Wi-Fi & More! - This week the team burns through some tech news, including (but not limited to) the EU slaps Microsoft with a ton of fines, the house votes to crack down on internet gambling and it turns out a majority of podcast listeners are Star Trek fans (is that true gang?). Also Microsoft makes an "iPod killer" called the Zune to which the team (or at least Kristin) responds with a resounding "meh".
In gaming news the team discusses a Sony "anti-used game" patent, inform you that Oblivion has come out with a new expansion pack and laugh at Uwe Boll. No wait, they laugh with him. Yet another console is getting ready to hit the streets and Microsoft's Zune will hook into the 360 but won't play games. Huh?
This is episode 50 folks. A big shout-out to our IRC peeps and all those who post on the forums and give us love. If it wasn't for you we'd...be talking to ourselves. Thank you!
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17/07/2006 - Major memory makers accused of price fixing - A group of 34 US states has filed a lawsuit against seven makers of DRam memory chips for alleged price fixing. Infineon Technologies, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Mosel Vitelic, Nanya Technology, Elpida Memory and NEC Electronics are accused of banding together to artificially inflate prices.
The companies are alleged to have met on a regular basis between 1998 and 2002 to set prices for memory chips. Samsung, the world's largest memory maker, is not among the accused.
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17/07/2006 - Dell, Acer tout 802.11n wireless laptops - Dell and Acer both announced today notebook-oriented add-in cards equipped with a pre-standard version of the 802.11n next-generation Wi-Fi specification. The company's cards provide data transfer rates of up to 270Mbps and 300Mbps, the two firms claimed respectively.
Dell's Wireless 1500 is available now for all XPS and Inspiron notebooks, the PC giant said. The optional extra costs ๋. It's based on Draft 1.0 of 802.11n, which has yet to be finalised and formally ratified as a standard. To get the maximum throughput, you need ideal conditions and a compatible base-station - which means one based on Broadcom's Intensi-Fi chipset. With the Wi-Fi Alliance refusing to conduct interoperability tests until 802.11n becomes a true standard, vendor-specific branding is the only way to guarantee compatitibility.
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News source: The Reg
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17/07/2006 - Malware Now a Group Effort - Hackers are taking a page from the open-source playbook, using the same techniques that made Linux and Apache successes to improve their malicious software, according to McAfee.
Nowhere is this more apparent than within the growing families of "bot" software, which allow hackers to remotely control infected computers. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs. "Over the last year and a half, we've noticed how bot development in particular has latched on to open-source tools and the open-source development model," he said.
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17/07/2006 - Microsoft: Gunning to Launch Vista and Office 2007 Together - In spite of the vague public wording around its Windows Vista and Office 2007 release plans, Microsoft is continuing to tell its hardware and software partners that its goal is to release the two products simultaneously in January. In March, Microsoft announced publicly that it would not meet internal deadlines that would allow it to launch Vista and Office 2007 before the end of 2006, as the company had been planning. Then, in late June, Microsoft officials acknowledged that the company's internal Office 2007 release dates had slipped and instead of delivering the product to businesses in October, it would commit to doing so by the end of calendar 2006.
At the time Microsoft announced the new Office delay, it also changed its public tune on when it planned its Office 2007 retail launch. Instead of promising a January 2007 launch date, Microsoft officials said they would commit to an "early 2007" launch for Office 2007. That change in wording led many to speculate that Office 2007 would launch some time after Vista.
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17/07/2006 - Chip Price War On The Verge - It's starting to feel like old times again for Intel. With the impending release of the Core 2 Duo processor, formerly code-named Conroe, on the heels of the successful Xeon launch, the chip maker's products are generating a new kind of buzz. It's the same kind of anticipation that was a given several years ago, before rival Advanced Micro Devices hit the scene with technology impressive enough to turn heads of corporate buyers and enthusiasts.
"It's been a long time since people have been talking about Intel the way they have been talking about them for the past few months," said one system builder, who requested anonymity. "For so many years, Intel had been king of the mountain and nobody wanted to talk about AMD, but for the past three years that has flipped." For example, Todd Swank, director of marketing at Nor-tech, a system builder in Burnsville, Minn., said Nor-Tech is particularly enthusiastic about Intel's Core 2 duo's price/performance story.
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17/07/2006 - Microsoft releases new build of Vista - On Monday, Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista, the successor to the aging Windows XP, to technical beta testers, TAP customers, and MSDN subscribers. The interim build, build 5472, is intended to give testers a more recent build, and encourage application and device driver developers to accelerate deployment on Vista.
Quality and performance enhancements are the primary changes in 5472, along with further tweaks to User Account Control. The new build is the second to follow Beta 2, and will not be released to Customer Preview Program participants. Microsoft expects to deliver the next public release of Windows Vista, Release Candidate 1, later this quarter.
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17/07/2006 - AMD fires another antitrust salvo at Intel - Advanced Micro Devices is stepping up the pressure on Intel over alleged anticompetitive practices by filing another complaint, this time with German authorities.
The latest complaint was filed last week with Germany's Federal Cartel Office, or Bundeskartellamt. In it, AMD claims that Intel made deals with German retailers that violate the country's competition laws.
The complaint was prompted by a report in the German edition of the Financial Times claiming that the Media Markt retail electronics chain had agreed to only sell computers that used Intel's processors in return for a payment from the chipmaker.
"AMD had already received similar information, so we decided to file a formal complaint with the Federal Cartel Office," AMD spokeswoman Hollis Krym explained. A representative for the German Federal Cartel Office confirmed that a complaint had been received from "a competitor of Intel." It is now liaising with the European Commission, which is conducting its own investigation into Intel. "We're checking with colleagues in Brussels to see whether they will take this complaint on as well," the Federal Cartel Office representative explained.
In June 2005, AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel, claiming that it had forced major customers to accept exclusive deals, and had withheld rebates and marketing subsidies from customers who bought more AMD processors than Intel had allowed.
The next month, European Commission officials raided Intel's offices in Swindon, England, as well as the offices of several PC retailers, including Dell.
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17/07/2006 - Will New Mac Pro Sport Blu-Ray Drive - Apple's new Pro Macs, predicted to launch at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next month, may feature a Blu-ray DVD drive. Apple Insider is claiming to have learned that the Mac Pro case will include a second optical disc drive slot.
Could this new optical drive burn Blu-ray DVDs? Apple Insider suggests that it will ship empty, and that Mac users will be given the opportunity to fill it with a Blu-ray or HD DVD burner should they wish. Apple is a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association board of directors.
According to the report, it is unlikely that there will be a radical redesign to the casing for the high-end Mac. Apple Insider claims that no change to the design was required because the current Power Mac casing is suited to the size of the logic board that accompanies the new Intel-based processor.
News source: Macworld UK
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17/07/2006 - Steve Jobs Steals 2nd Place for Media Mogul - Apple CEO (and board member of Disney) Steve Jobs has overtaken Rupert Murdoch in a league table of media moguls. Jobs is ranked number two in the MediaGuardian 100 power list. In first place is taken by BBC director general Mark Thompson. Head of News Corp Murdoch had been in second place, but Jobs has relegated him to bronze.
Apple's CEO is credited with: "Having transformed the way we consume music." The panel of judges also considered that: "Jobs is now doing the same for television with the launch of the video iPod, capable of showing films and TV programmes downloaded from the net."
The Podcasting phenomenon is also noted for giving: "A voice to millions of would-be broadcasters around the globe. It turned newspapers into radio stations, and radio stations into audio and video-on-demand services."
One panelist concluded: "There is not a media boardroom in the world that Jobs could not walk into. Everyone is trying to second guess what he does next. He is influencing everyone's thinking."
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