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12/05/2007 - iPod e pacemaker: una questione di ritmo - L'uso di iPod può interferire con il corretto funzionamento di un dispositivo come il pacemaker. Ma nel mirino ci sono anche telefoni cellulari e palmari |
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12/05/2007 - Motorola e il 'Media Monster': bisogna attendere fino a martedì - Martedì sono annunciate grandi novità per la gamma Motorola, tra cui un cellulare dedicato alla visione di video |
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12/05/2007 - Un secondo progetto basato su CryEngine 2 da Crytek - Crysis non è l'unico progetto basato sul CryEngine 2 ad essere in corso di sviluppo presso la software house tedesca. |
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12/05/2007 - Red Hat collabora con Intel per la virtualizzazione - Red Hat collaborano per la realizzazione di un'appliance virtuale capace di interagire con l'architettura vPro |
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12/05/2007 - Edizione limitata 'Simpson' di XBox 360 - Microsoft metterà in palio 100 console con i colori del film sui Simpson che verrà proiettato in Italia a partire dal prossimo novembre. |
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12/05/2007 - Helio Ocean arriva sul mercato - Al momento è disponibile sul mercato americano l'atteso smartphone Helio Ocean |
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11/05/2007 - Quarta espansione per EverQuest II - Viene annunciata la quarta espansione, Rise of Kunark, per il MMORPG prodotto da Sony Online Entertainment. |
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11/05/2007 - VMware Workstation 6 disponibile in versione finale - E' stata rilasciata la release finale di VMware Workstation 6 che offre pieno supporto a Windows Vista |
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11/05/2007 - Red Hat Global Desktop per pc Intel Classmate - Red Hat guarda con interesse ai desktop dei paesi emergenti e lo fa con Intel Classmate |
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11/05/2007 - Un seguito per Saints Row - THQ conferma ufficialmente il seguito di Saints Row e cancella la versione PlayStation 3 del titolo originale. |
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11/05/2007 - Lenovo acquista software Microsoft per 1,3 miliardi di dollari - Lenovo obbligata da una direttiva del governo cinese a fornire software preinstallato sui pc commercializzati |
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11/05/2007 - Apple: interfaccia touch sul retro dei dispositivi? - Il colosso di Cupertino deposita un nuovo brevetto di interfaccia touch, che prevede l'installazione di una superficie sensibile al tocco sul retro di dispositivi quali cellulari e lettori multimediali |
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11/05/2007 - Sun sogna un Solaris più simile a Linux - Nei progetti di Sun vi sarebbe un progetto che prevede di rendere Solaris più simile a Linux. Unici grossi ostacoli le licenze |
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11/05/2007 - Funcom rivela il dopo Age of Conan - Si chiama The Secret World il nuovo progetto della software house autrice di The Longest Journey, Anarchy Online, Dreamfall e Age of Conan. Siamo ancora nel campo dei MMOG. |
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11/05/2007 - Quanta Computer: buone le consegne di Aprile - Il produttore taiwanese arriva a 2,2 milioni di notebook consegnati, di pochissimo sotto al record del mese di Marzo |
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11/05/2007 - N81 e N82: novità in arrivo per Nokia? - Indiscrezioni su due nuovi terminali Nokia: 8Gb di memoria sul primo e fotocamera da 5 megapixel sul secondo |
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11/05/2007 - Condemned 2 e il 2008 di SEGA - La software house nipponica svela cinque nuovi titoli, tra cui il seguito di Condemned e il nuovo progetto di Chris Taylor. |
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11/05/2007 - Internet a 150 megabit? In USA, con la TV via cavo - Un'azienda statunitense da dimostrazione di una tecnologia che consente di raggiungere notevoli velocità di collegamento alla rete |
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11/05/2007 - Arriva in Italia il MOTO Q 9h - Arriva in Italia, in esclusiva per Vodafone, il nuovo smartphone Motorola |
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11/05/2007 - HGST, nuovi dischi 2,5 pollici Travelstar 7K200, 200 GB e 7200 rpm - In arrivo per l'estate una nuova generazione di dischi per portatili da 200 GB e ben 7200 giri di rotazione, con tanto di disk encryption |
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11/05/2007 - La tariffa di Hellgate: London - Flagship Studios rivela la tariffa relativa alla modalità multiplayer di Hellgate: London. |
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10/05/2007 - Electronic Arts rivela un gioco sui Simpson - Electronic Arts ha annunciato ufficialmente di essere al lavoro su un videogioco su I Simpson, destinato sostanzialmente a tutte le piattaforme. |
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10/05/2007 - Zenum Operis diventa Opus, arriverà davvero? - Sembrano esserci prove definitive dell'arrivo sul mercato dello smartphone Zenum |
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10/05/2007 - Ecco come verranno assegnate le frequenze WiMax - Sono state pubblicate le norme relative all'assegnazione delle frequenze WiMax: 3 licenze per lotto geografico e vantaggi per i nuovi operatori |
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13/05/2007 - iTunes? Un sistema obsoleto - Aumentano gli artisti che rilasciano musica sotto licenza CC, e aumentano le attivita' web collegate. Punto Informatico intervista i responsabili di Creative Commons e i dirigenti di Jamendo e Magnatune. Ecco cosa sta succedendo |
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13/05/2007 - Amiga sta per risorgere? - La societa' che detiene i diritti sul celebre marchio ha svelato la configurazione hardware di due sistemi, che potrebbero rappresentare una nuova eredita' del celebre home computer Commodore. Che sia la volta buona? |
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13/05/2007 - Licenze WiMax blindate: e` subito polemica - Perplessita' in rete sulle norme varate dall'autorita'. Secondo qualcuno e' a rischio il futuro di questa tecnologia, con conseguenze rilevanti sul digital divide italiano |
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13/05/2007 - Il WiFi provoca N.A.S.? - di Michele Favara Pedarsi - C'e' allarmismo sull'elettrosmog? Chi vede nel WiFi o nel WiMax un nuovo rischio ambientale? Quali gli interessi che smuovono montagne e impiantano antenne? La Salute nell'era del Wireless |
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13/05/2007 - Download/ Drive, driver e traduzioni - Monitoraggio dei dischi e memoria, backup di driver, traduzioni sul desktop e su IE, un editor estremo per i testi e i codici, e altri programmini |
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13/05/2007 - Apple D-User - Software/ Speciale Donelleschi - di Carlo Filippo Follis - Un poker di Utility si rivela strumento di primo piano per il D-User. Viaggio alla scoperta di Sticky Windows, DockFun!, Filegazer, Cunning Fox e RAM Disk Creator |
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13/05/2007 - IlRasoio/ PPU non t'amo piu` - di Alessio Di Domizio - L'epopea della fisica nel mondo del gaming su PC, ovvero un'occasione nuova per parlare di problemi vecchi. C'e' l'inferno in quei computer |
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13/05/2007 - Sun lavora a Solinux - La mamma di Java sta portando avanti un progetto con cui intende rendere il proprio sistema operativo Solaris piu' simile a Linux, e dunque piu' facile da utilizzare per i molti utenti del Pinguino. Ecco come e perche' |
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13/05/2007 - Red Hat e Intel forgiano un nuovo Linux Desktop - Partorito un nuovo sistema operativo desktop che, pur essendo al momento dedicato ai mercati emergenti, ambisce a diventare una piattaforma desktop universale integrata con Web e servizi online |
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13/05/2007 - VMware 6 virtualizza Windows Vista - La sesta versione del celebre software di virtualizzazione VMware Workstation porta con se' la piena compatibilita' con Windows Vista e il supporto sperimentale ai sistemi operativi paravirtualizzati |
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13/05/2007 - Intel punta ad un chip con VoIP integrato - Confermata la partnership tra il chipmaker e Jajah, un accordo ambizioso che potrebbe portare a nuove tecnologie per il computing fisso e mobile |
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13/05/2007 - PC vecchiotti, no a Vista - Lo decide l'Agenzia aeronautica americana che in una nota trapelata alla stampa spiega perche' e' meglio pensare di migrare a Linux piuttosto che adottare il nuovo sistema operativo Microsoft |
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13/05/2007 - Falle negli antivirus di CA, McAfee e Symantec - I tre noti vendor di software hanno recentemente corretto alcune serie vulnerabilita' che affliggono diversi loro prodotti per la sicurezza. Raccomandato l'aggiornamento |
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13/05/2007 - La pubblicita` che sa se la guardi - Un nuovo dispositivo consente di realizzare nuove forme di pubblicita', capaci di monitorare il movimento degli occhi di piu' persone contemporaneamente, per sapere dove si rivolge la loro attenzione |
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13/05/2007 - Tokyo, chip invisibili nella citta` delle strade senza nome - La megalopoli del Sol Levante protagonista di un esperimento di computing distribuito senza precedenti. Obiettivo: trasformare la metropoli in un organismo senziente utile agli umani |
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13/05/2007 - Scanner e algoritmi per ricostruire la storia - Accade in Germania, dove nuove e vecchie tecnologie si fonderanno per riportare in vita milioni di documenti fatti frettolosamente a pezzi dalla polizia segreta della DDR all'epoca del crollo del Muro di Berlino |
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13/05/2007 - Diritto al'obli`o. Di default - Questa la proposta di un professore di Harvard: tornare a dimenticare attraverso il codice, per ripristinare il senso storico, perche' l'uomo torni a selezionare cio' che merita di essere ricordato e, possibilmente, solo quello |
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13/05/2007 - Indagati per pedoporno a causa di carte clonate - Cresce nel Regno Unito la polemica attorno ad una inchiesta del 2002 sul pedoporno online. Ma sotto accusa finisce anche il metamondo in cui calano contenuti proibiti, facendolo assomigliare ancor piu' al mondo reale |
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13/05/2007 - Vendevano pedoporno via telefonino - Gli smartphone multimediali venivano utilizzati da una rete di italiani che li usavano per commerciare contenuti illegali. Tre gli arresti, 21 gli indagati |
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13/05/2007 - Motorola: preparatevi al cinemaphone - La prossima settimana sara' presentato il primo terminale mobile capace di riprodurre full-motion video a 30 fotogrammi al secondo. Le memory card saranno il nuovo medium per la distribuzione di massa di film? |
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13/05/2007 - Quanti consumi inutili per ricaricare il cellulare - Nokia pensa ad una soluzione per fermare uno spreco quotidiano su scala mondiale, quello di chi lascia il telefonino in ricarica anche quando la batteria e' gia' carica |
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13/05/2007 - Vende moltissimo la sigaretta elettronica - I suoi produttori, cinesi, fanno sapere di aver raddoppiato il fatturato e assicurano: elimina i danni provocati dalle sigarette tradizionali. E - assicurano - puo' persino aiutare a smettere |
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13/05/2007 - Truffe online, 60 denunce in Italia - Operazione PolPost |
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12/05/2007 - MySpace aims to stop video reposting - In addition to other copyright protection features already implemented, MySpace has launched Take Down Stay Down, which prevents users from reposting videos that have been removed at the request of the copyright owner. The social networking Web site, owned by media conglomerate News Corporation, already offers an audio filtering application which screens audio files to prevent people from uploading bootlegged music; a video filtering application, which screens video files to prevent illegal video uploads; and a Content Take Down tool, which allows copyright owners to request unauthorized content be taken down. MySpace has previously declared it can take on YouTube with its recently launched video uploading service.
 News source: MSNBC
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12/05/2007 - Facebook offers classified ads - Popular social networking website Facebook has began offering free listings of classified advertising via a service called Marketplace, allowing users to search for or offer jobs, sell items or request services. The service will be integrated into the interface of the site, appearing on the left side along menu items that allow users to search for photos, groups or events. The announcement about the new service came the same day that another social networking site, Friendster, launched a classified listing service.
Unlike rival sites, Facebook allows a measure of privacy by only allowing those people the user has identified as "friends" to be able to see their full profiles. The same principle will apply to the classified ads, with users being able to offer their items or services to either their designated group of friends or, through a news feed, to the community at large. "There are no anonymous listings, and we give you a very clear path to see how you can trust the other person you are conducting business with," said founder Mark Zuckerberg.
News source: CBC News
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12/05/2007 - MRT: Apple, Microsoft, Real, Adobe do not use enough DRM - According to Media Rights Technologies (MRT), Vista, Flash, RealPlayer, and iTunes are infringing products under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and MRT has just sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real, and Apple. "Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the media players in the marketplace. We will hold the responsible parties accountable. The time of suing John Doe is over," said MRT CEO Hank Risan in a statement.
Microsoft, Adobe, Real, and Apple make media player software which can tune into digital music streams, many of which are transmitted without any sort of DRM attached. These streams can potentially be acquired using streamripper software. MRT claims that all four companies should have used one particular form of DRM, MRT's "X1 SeCure [sic] Recording Control." The company is threatening the four with lawsuits that could lead to "statutory damages of at least $200 to $2500 for each product distributed or sold". The legal argument at work here is that, under the DMCA, "mere avoidance of an effective copyright protection solution is a violation of the act."
Hank Risan claimed that "Stream Rippers [sic] are growing at the rate of well over 15 million units per month, with over 250 million user downloads in the last few years, costing the entertainment industry $20 billion to $50 billion annually. The problem has now eclipsed P2P file sharing as the #1 form of digital piracy." He also claims that Vista includes a built-in ripper (Sound Recorder) which can "deaggregate performance-based streams of unlimited duration and convert them into unprotected WMA downloads, easily uploaded onto Zune players." MRT seems to suggest that even using DRM is not enough, as it can be removed via a stream ripper. It implies that every media player on the market would have to use MRT's technology, or else, lawsuit.
News source: Ars Technica
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12/05/2007 - AMD to Cut More Than 400 Jobs - AMD has recently announced that it will cut 430 jobs worldwide (2.6% of its workforce) which breaks down to around 40 jobs in AMD's Sunnyvale and Santa Clara, CA offices; 80 jobs in Austin, TX; around 12 in Boston, MA; and 50 in Markham, Ontario. The remainder of the job cuts will be spread throughout AMD offices and manufacturing locations around the world. Most of the jobs will be from marketing, sales and administration, but several engineering jobs will also be cut.
The announcement comes after AMD Chief Executive Hector Ruiz described AMD's recent performance as "unacceptable." Ruiz said that as many as 800 jobs, the equivalent of 5% of AMD's workforce, would face possible elimination. American Technology Research analyst Doug Freedman believes the job cuts could "save the company about $40 million per annum in operating expenses and add 8 cents to the bottom-line." While Intel released the Core 2 Duo chip last year, AMD believes its Barcelona technology will offer better performance since it has four cores on a single die.
News source: DailyTech
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11/05/2007 - ANI Trojan Sticks It to Popular Geek Hardware Site Visitors - More than a month after Microsoft patched the .ANI vulnerability, Tom's Hardware has found the W32.ani Trojan lurking in one of its banner ads. ScanSafe, a managed Web security services company, found that Tomshardware.com was unknowingly hosting the banner ad, which was redirecting users to a site hosted in Argentina from where the driveby malware was automatically downloaded. The banner ad was up, infecting victims with unpatched systems, for 24 hours. When ScanSafe contacted Tom's Hardware, they were told that the site had already learned of the Trojan from its victims.
According to a media kit on Tom's Hardware, the site gets more than 5 million unique page views from more than 1.9 million unique visitors monthly. The incident illustrates the current status of malware worming its way into places that many people wouldn't expect them to be. Thanks to irresponsible administration of advertisement systems, people can no longer rely on the URL as a sign of whether any external links or links from ads on it are potentially dangerous.
News source: eWeek
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11/05/2007 - Vonage may have alternative to disputed patents - Vonage said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones.
"We will begin rolling these workarounds out shortly, hopefully in the next few weeks, and we believe they will work," Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Citron said on a conference call today as the Holmdel, New Jersey-based company reported a narrower first-quarter loss.
Vonage shares have plunged 80 percent since the company went public a year ago. Citron's remarks pushed the stock up 11 percent today on optimism that Vonage can stay in business if the new technology eliminates future patent fights with Verizon Communications.
Vonage's new technology can be installed through software downloads and shouldn't be costly to deploy, Citron said. The company will continue to appeal the court decision that requires it to pay Verizon damages for infringing patents on technology that translates Internet-based calls to standard lines.
News source: Bloomberg
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11/05/2007 - Fujitsu plans to boost HDD capacity by 500% in two years - Fujitsu is always talking up this or that hard drive technology that's totally going to revolutionize the industry and so on, but at least this time around they've got some "solid" numbers.
Based on "areal density" technology, with Fujitsu claiming that a new vertical magnetic recording tech based on crystalline magnesium oxide allows them to sense even smaller magnetic pits, thereby allowing them to squeeze more data into each square inch. Fujitsu was promising 1TB per square inch a few months back, but it seems now they'll settle for 500-800GB per square inch -- which translates to a roughly 500 percent capacity increase -- and should be shipping samples out in a couple years.
Start planning now how to best fill a 5TB drive.
News source: engadget
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11/05/2007 - HBO Exec: Don't call it DRM - People don't like DRM, perhaps that's just because it's such a smelly word. HBO's chief technology officer Bob Zitter thinks so, he wants to ditch the term DRM in favor of "DCE," or, "Digital Consumer Enablement." Speaking at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show in Las Vegas, HBO's top techie said the new term would better describe all the ways that copyright holders and providers could dictate how consumers access content.
"Digital Consumer Enablement, would more accurately describe technology that allows consumers to use content in ways they haven't before, such as enjoying TV shows and movies on portable video players like iPods. I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter, who added that content-protection technology could enable various new applications for cable operators.
Zitter notes that HBO has HD on Demand movies ready to go, but can't serve them up due to piracy fears until it has better DRM in place. Excuse me, I should have said DCE in place. HBO's big concern is the analog hole--in essence the gap in DRM that lets consumers capture the unencrypted analog signal from an HD signal. He, apparently, would like to plug the hole, but can't due to FCC regulations.
"Theoretically," says Zitter, "those analog outputs could be disabled, forcing consumers to use a secure digital connection to watch HD content. But current FCC rules don't give HBO or cable operators that power, in order to protect consumers who bought early HDTV sets that don't support digital copy protection. They say we can't turn off the analog output," Zitter notes.
News source: Wired
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11/05/2007 - iPods can make pacemakers malfunction - iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday.
The study tested the effect of the portable music devices on 100 patients, whose mean age was 77, outfitted with pacemakers. Electrical interference was detected half of the time when the iPod was held just 2 inches from the patient's chest for 5 to 10 seconds.
In some cases, the iPods caused interference when held 18 inches from the chest. Interfering with the telemetry equipment caused the device to misread the heart's pacing and in one case caused the pacemaker to stop functioning altogether.
The study was held at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute at Michigan State University. The results were presented at the Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting in Denver.
The study did not examine any portable music devices other than iPods.
News source: Reuters
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11/05/2007 - Google: 1 in 10 webpages contain malware - One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called "drive-by downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user's knowledge. A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user's computer, the team report.
As well as characterising the scale of the problem on the net, the Google study analysed the main methods by which criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages. It found that the code was often contained in those parts of the website not designed or controlled by the website owner, such as banner adverts and widgets.
In a test, the researchers' computer was infected with 50 different pieces of malware by visiting a web page hosted on a hijacked server.
News source: BBC
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