Archive for September 21st, 2007
Sep
21
“20-inch” and “notebook” are two words that should probably be never used together in a single sentence. This computer gives new meaning to “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, but on the bright side, the camel can enjoy a feast of entertainment choices on this somewhat portable powerhouse.
A HP PR representative sent me an email
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Sep
21
BlueHat is back in Redmond, as BlueHat v6: The Vuln Behind The Curtain opens September 27th and 28th. Once again we have two days of great security content that covers the spectrum of issues in security. The BlueHat speakers, both leading external security researchers and internal Microsoft engineers, will pierce the security veil of virtualization and
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Sep
21
Loren had a guest spot on SEO 101, the Webmaster Radio show hosted by David Brown of Neo1Seo, Brian Mark of Toolbarn.com and Carolyn Shelby. Here’s the Podcast of the show:
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Sep
21
A 3D user interface called Miramar, developed by Intel researchers during the late 1990s, will be used in an upcoming release of Qwaq's Qwaq Forums collaboration tool.Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO and director of its Corporate Technology Group, plans to highlight the Qwaq deal on Thursday during a planned keynote speech at the Intel Developer
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Sep
21
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday unveiled the world’s first phone that can provide voice calls both over conventional GSM networks as well as via wireless local area networks (WLANs). While the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology deserves applauds, its wide adoption is under question as it does not has obvious benefits
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Sep
21
Apple this week confirmed reports that some of its new iPod touch players left its manufacturing facilities with defective screens and said the company is actively working to remedy the issue.
Several iPod touch customers have reported that their 16GB players exhibit an issue where playback of dark video scenes is almost unwatchable, and have further
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Sep
21
Google and Yahoo backlink tracking services provided by Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer both experienced problems over the last couple of days and now both seem to be working again.
Yahoo Site Explorer and its backlink search command “link:http://www.yoursite.com” did not completely function Wednesday and Thursday as users were experiencing time-outs
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Sep
21
The hacker who discovered a recently patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox browser says he has found an equally serious flaw in Adobe Systems Inc.'s PDF file format.
"Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!!," wrote Petko Petkov, in a breathless Thursday blog posting. "All it takes
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Sep
21
Server hosting vendor Layered Technologies Inc. admitted this week that hackers broke into its support database and made off with as many as 6,000 client records, including log-in information that could give criminals access to clients' servers.The Plano, Texas, company, which operates a pair of data centers that hold the physical servers it manages
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Sep
21
A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware's virtual machine software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with the practice of running virtual computers on a single system.
VMware has updated its products to fix the security bugs, disclosed Wednesday, but users who have not updated their software could face serious
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Sep
21
Following the Todd Hollenshead interview posted by golem.de where he stated John Carmack was not as interested in linux, id Software's Technical Director has posted on Slashdot that, while a linux SKU of Rage is not in the cards, there will likely be a linux binary release once the game ships.
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Sep
21
With the release Firefox 3.0 alpha 8, the Mozilla Corporation has finally unveiled several security features it's talked up for months. The malware blocker will block Web sites thought to contain malicious downloads. The feature will use information provided by Google Incorporated to flag potentially-dangerous sites, warn anyone trying to reach those URLs with Firefox
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Sep
21
Here’s part 2 of last week’s “AdWords explained ROI “why it matters and how to track it” series article. This post’ll cover how to start collecting ROI data in your own AdWords account. Since ROI depends on how often you convert clicks into customers and how much
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Sep
21
If you thought that $200 is a reasonable price for Microsoft's first-generation Zune then please check out Woot and find that a white, not brown Zune, can cost just $130. For $130 plus $5 shipping cost, any American can get the soon to be replaced 30GB Zune - a bargain giving the fact that Microsoft hasn't shown any intention in lowering the Zune's price (from the official $200) any further.
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Sep
21
Grahame Lynch of CommsDay reports (my emphasis):
Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned.The Unity cable has been under development for several months, with a group of carriers and Google meeting
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