Topic: COMPUTER - on April 20, 2007 at 11:47:00 AM CEST
No Leopard, No problem
Now that all those sweet Leopard features Apple had us so pumped about are out of the picture for the next six months we find ourselves so unsatisfied. How ever will we get buy…
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 20, 2007 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Hitachi Maxell 1TB SVOD optical disc cart
Good morning, kids. Are you ready for the optical disc format of the day? It's Hitachi Maxell's 1TB stacked volumetric optical disc (SVOD) array, comprised of rather thin DVD-size discswith DVD-size capacities: 9.4GB total storage each on two 92µm thick data layers. Yeah, we know, we promised a terabyte; well, watch and learn.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 3:15:00 PM CEST
'Hacker Boot Camp' teaches security tactics
Trevian Mathis taps his computer keyboard just a few times to hack into Juggy Bank's customer accounts. Within minutes, he has checking, savings and credit-card numbers.
His maneuvers may look sneaky, but Mathis is on the side of justice.
He is learning to be an ethical hacker in a course offered by a Northeast Philadelphia company, Training Camp, which employs about 40 people and offers a variety of classes for computer professionals. Juggy Bank and its customers are fictional.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 3:02:00 PM CEST
Samsung thinks outside the box with new concept PCs
Samsung recently showed off three completely crazy concept PC designs, computers that have about a zero percent chance of ever hitting store shelves but show off the fact that Samsung has some creative designers on their payroll.
But tell me somethig, don’t you think that the first model actually looks like the Hogwarts’s Sorting Hat (From Harry Potter)?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 2:56:00 PM CEST
Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006
The Internet Crime Complaint Center filed its annual report last month, but didn't get the attention it deserved. A look inside offers some revealing statistics on the darker side of the Web.
This is the sixth annual report by the U.S.-based center, which is run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. The complaint center, dubbed IC3, compiles its figures by drawing on the flood of complaints pouring into U.S. law enforcement and regulatory agencies. The list of crimes runs the gamut, led by various financial scams (auction fraud, failure to deliver goods or money, credit card fraud), followed by other acts that have become a daily feature of online life (computer intrusions, spam, child pornography).
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 2:01:00 PM CEST
Adobe Feeds Apollo Ecosystem With New Internet Video Player
Today Adobe announced the launch of the Adobe Media Player, a desktop app that enables consumers to view high quality video whether they are online or offline. It is also designed for content owners to distribute, track and monetize their video. Built on their Apollo framework, the Adobe Media Player is cross-platform and based on open standards.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 17, 2007 at 2:00:00 PM CEST
Skype IM malware smut surfaces
Skype's Instant messaging client has once again been misused as a vector to spread malware.
The Pykse-A worm is spreading via Skype instant messages, posing as a chat message linking to a website featuring racy picture of a young, scantily-clad woman. Clicking on these messages does display pics of a model wearing black lingerie, but only after an attempt has been made to infect PCs using a Trojan downloader that installs other items of malware. Infected PCs spread the infection by sending a variety of short messages promoting soft-core smut to an infected user's online friends using the Skype API.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 28, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
University website peddles Adobe warez
Get it while you can, folks: everything you need to install a pirated version of Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional on your Windows-based PC.
The package, complete with a serial number, comes - wait for it - courtesy of the home page of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California's Irvine campus.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 25, 2007 at 11:06:00 AM CEST
Apple TV Already Being Hacked
Only a couple of days after being shipped, the Apple TV is already being modified in a variety of ways.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 23, 2007 at 6:44:00 PM CET
Shutdown Day 2007
It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?
Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!
Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 22, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM CET
Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fund
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 21, 2007 at 4:41:00 PM CET
All-in-one PC keyboard
It adapted most of PC devices including Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 2GB memory, 500GB hard drive, main board, DVD player and 3D sound built-in speaker in one keyboard. Suggested price is US$500 to 600.
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