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 | According to a posting by someone calling themselves Gabriel, published on the Full Disclosure list (warning – [URL="http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jun/0380.html"]this link[/URL] contains the so-called plot spoiler), the ending of the yet to be published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book has been revealed. Not by magic or wizardry, but by good … |
| | In a rather ironic turn of events, the US [URL="http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm"]Department for Homeland Security[/URL] has found itself having to admit to Congress that it has been subject to the odd one or two minor security problems in-house. Well, I say one or two. Actually the figure is more than 800. Well, … |
| | While there is no doubting that virtualization is not only a technology to watch, but one that will move into the mainstream real soon now, there remains a question of just how soon that will actually be. A new survey by [URL="http://www.emedia.co.uk"]emedia[/URL] suggests that the timescale for making that move, …  |
| | A member of Skype staff posting in the Linux support forum there seems to have taken a course in customer relations from <insert your least favourite company here> if his responses to criticism of the lack of real world development of the Linux version of Skype, compared to Windows development, … |
| | Who would have thought, before the Nintendo Wii came along, that the idea of controlling a video game by waving a lump of plastic around in the air like a deranged loon would gain such mass appeal so quickly? Which is why I am not writing off the latest thinking … |
 | I've been putting it under a quick bit of testing pressure as I may be reviewing it for PC Pro magazine shortly, and have to say first impressions are good. Certainly there is a decent turn of speed when it comes to page rendering compared to IE7, although the gains … |
| | [URL="http://www.privacyinternational.org"]Privacy International[/URL] has accused Google of embarking upon a smear campaign within the media to discredit both PI and a report, to be published in full later in the year, which ranks the privacy performance of the top Internet service companies. The interim results which were [URL="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553961"]published[/URL] on the 9th …  |
| | There is a more technically detailed description of this threat posted in the [URL="http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=129"]Websense blog[/URL], for anyone who wants to know a little more about it. |
| | [FONT="]Unless you happen to have been one of the people who authorized payment of around $800,000 for the design, or were on the receiving end of it, then the chances are you will agree with the momentum of public opinion that the [URL="http://www.london2012.com/index.html"]London 2012 Olympics branding[/URL] sucks. In fact, it …  |
| | Independent Austrian antivirus testing outfit [URL="http://www.av-comparatives.org/"]AV Comparatives[/URL] has a reputation for going the extra mile when putting products through their paces. Something that Microsoft discovered to its cost earlier in the year when, rather embarrassingly, its flagship OneCare antivirus product managed to finish last and fail to get a highly … |
| | To most people who do not actually play it, World of Warcraft is just a game. Anyone who has devoted any time at all within an immersive online world such as this will gladly put you straight on that. World of Warcraft is not just a game, it is a … |
| | Thursday 31st May is the first ever Google Developer Day, with more than 5000 developers at 10 locations around the world taking part. Keynotes and breakout sessions will be taking place in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Paris, Hamburg, London, and Mountain View, California. Both Google engineers and … |
| | The PlayStation 3 is, without doubt, a multi-talented piece of kit: state of the art games console, Blu-Ray player, media centre and more. Much more, in fact, because from the 1st June you will be able to add Linux Enterprise Server to the functionality list. That is the date from … |
| | The stupid users category. ;) |
| | Let me get one thing straight before I go any further. I am a caring father of four, the youngest of which is just 7 years old. If any of them were abducted, I would do everything in my power to find them. Just like any caring father. Certainly the … |
 | Good luck with the exams. The one advantage of being an old dude is that my exam days are long, long past me :) |
| | I would expect there to be one, yes :)  |
| | I couldn’t help spotting a story over the weekend relating to what was being called a groundbreaking camera that can refocus blurry images after the photo has actually been taken. The development, from the [URL="http://www.merl.com/"]Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs[/URL], uses a lens with a depth of field around ten times the … |
| | IT security professional Didier Stevens has been conducting an experiment into computer user stupidity by running a Google Adwords campaign which offers to infect your PC for free. The advert actually read: [B]Drive-By Download Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here![/B] Which should be enough to stop all but …  |
| | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the open source movement needs to “play by the same rules” as the rest of the business and claims “what’s fair is fair.” Which is pretty rich given the high profile cases involving dodgy business practice and Microsoft during the last few years. … |
| | For the average user spam has always been an annoyance. For the average spammer it has always been about making money. For the criminal gangs that have muscled in on this lucrative industry during the last few years it is now about territory and control. Control, that is, of the …  |
| | [URL="http://www.hitachi.com"]Hitachi Global Storage Technologies[/URL] has announced the world’s highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive and it will feature in Dell and Alienware systems. The 2.5”, 200Gb, 7200rpm, Travelstar 7K200 brings twice the capacity of its predecessor as well as a 22 percent performance hike. Using Hitachi’s third-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology, … |
| | Both Second Life and Skype have come in for some bad publicity following media reports exposing pedophile activity on the hugely popular services. Second Life got a kicking from a German TV program called Report Mainz which claimed to have been approached by pedophiles inviting the reporter to attend ‘child …  |
| | Yeah, yeah, yeah – how can an operating system be environmentally unfriendly I hear you ask? User friendly, security friendly, productivity friendly even, but environmentally unfriendly? Well that is exactly the claim that I am prepared to make considering reports from the likes of [URL="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6181366.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn"]ZDNet[/URL] regarding the sorry state of …  |
| | I wonder who came up with the Walk-in Intellectual Property Poaching (WIPP) tag? Looks like it has the touch of the marketing department to me. :) |
| | As DaniWeb [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1319.html"]reported[/URL] back in February, the trouble with asking what your customers want is that they have a habit of letting you know in no uncertain terms. When Dell did that at their IdeaStorm site, the masses yelled ‘what we want is Linux pre-installed’ and the Michael Dell yelled … |
| | [URL="http://www.ipswitch.com"]Ipswitch Inc[/URL] has published the seventh Spamometer survey results, revealing that spam is now at its highest rate since recording began. How high would that be? Well for the same spring period last year the measure was some 62% of all received email, that has risen to an incredible 93% … |
| | That depends, to be honest, on which Internet you are talking about. For most of us mere mortals the answer will vary, depending upon how fat the pipe connecting us to the Internet is and how many people are downloading video streams over it at any given moment in time. … |
| | Microsoft has released the first public Beta version of Windows Server ‘Longhorn’ Beta 3 which can be downloaded from [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/getbeta3"]here[/URL]. This is part of what Microsoft is referring to as the ‘Second Wave of Innovation’ to be delivered during the next 12 months. It started with Vista and Office 2007, … |
| | GPS satellite navigation devices have become an indispensable part of everyday life for millions of drivers the world over. Without these little technological route planning miracles, many of us would literally crash and burn as we struggled to regain control over that map while driving too fast and drinking a …  |
| | I've deleted the links in that first comment as they all pointed to a single blog, which starts to make it look suspiciously like blog spam. By all means, Jack Ripoff, make your points but make them here please within this comment thread.  |
| | According to a Wall Street Journal [URL="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117702021464476071-MPcTZeAQZixLGpv21JWFFypwWuw_20070520.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top"]report[/URL] the huge crash that left thousands of American Blackberry users without web or email connectivity for ten hours, or ‘a lifetime’ as most of them described it, was caused by a simple, non-critical software upgrade that just had not been tested properly before … |
| | A newly published study by web audience measurement outfit [URL="http://www.hitwise.com/"]Hitwise[/URL] has revealed that despite the media frenzy surrounding Web 2.0 sites and services, when it comes to the actual public only a minuscule number actually participate in the social networking and information sharing revolution when they visit. For example, how … |
| | My friends over at security specialists [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL] have warned me to be on the lookout for Sandra and her stiletto shoes when using [URL="http://www.skype.com"]Skype[/URL]. Usually it would be my mother offering this advice, but then she would not understand the implications of getting infected by the Pykse-A worm that exploits … |
| | The Infosecurity folk do the swap your password for some chocolate thing every year around Easter to drive up publicity for the InfoSecurity expo/conference which takes place in London next week. Always interesting, although I don't have the result of last years survey to hand I suspect the percentages are … |
| | Suggestions for a suitable epitaph are welcome, although I suspect ‘good riddance to insecure rubbish’ will stand the test of time as well as any other when it comes to the death of Windows XP. Yes, despite the fact that Vista has hardly set the world on fire if recent … |
| | China has officially declared war on Internet porn, and set a target of purging the web of sexually-explicit images, stories and AV clips within a six month timescale. According to the [URL="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english"]China View[/URL] official online news agency the Vice Minister of MPS, Zhang Xinfeng, is quoted as stating “the boom … |
 | I can't see it doing much for the 'do no evil' image that Google wants us to foster, given the not exactly shining reputation DoubleClick has always 'enjoyed' with regard to privacy issues.  |
| | I was thinking that it meant most people would not be at risk from the exploit. I cannot say that I would want Paris Hilton, naked or otherwise, anywhere near my computer ;)  |
| | Even if you do happen to live in Utah, the chances are you will not have noticed a little law by the name of SB 236 which was passed without so much as a whisper of complaint or fuss last month. If you happen to run a web based business … |
| | Considering the kind of broadband networking infrastructure already in place in this region, I am thinking places like South Korea and Singapore which have been pioneers in super-fast broadband roll out, I am intrigued as to what Next Generation Networking will actually consist of. To be honest I would be … |
| | I have been a supporter of RAID for the longest time; after all it would be crazy not to like something that brings efficiency and protection to the data storage process. RAID has certainly provided both, but that was then and this is now, and it is time for RAID … |
| | Ever since I interviewed Bradley Horowitz, Head of Technology at Yahoo!, 18 months or so ago I have been keeping a keen eye on pretty much everything the company does in the search realm. Not least because Bradley is a man with a real vision for the future of social … |
| | Leading security vendor [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com"]Kaspersky Lab[/URL] has uncovered the first ever proof of concept virus designed with the sole intention of infecting the iPod media player. Like all proof of concept viruses though, Podloso poses no real world threat to users. For a start it requires a Linux installation, not on … |
| | The latest [URL="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/guide-to-greener-electronics"]Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics[/URL] has been published, and makes fascinating reading for anyone geek who really cares about the effect that technology has upon the environment. Greenpeace ranks the leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice with regards to eliminating harmful chemicals as … |
| | So the Sony PlayStation 3 has been available for a little over a week in Europe, and in that time it has officially become the second fastest selling games console ever in the UK. [URL="http://www.charttrack.co.uk/"]ChartTrack[/URL], an organisation that monitors such things, reports that the first two days of release saw …  |
| | Proposals for a virtual red light Internet district have been overturned for the third time during a contentious meeting of the [URL="http://www.icann.org"]Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers[/URL] (ICANN) in Portugal. Concluding business at the meeting, a resolution rejecting a proposal from the [URL="http://www.icmregistry.com/"]ICM Registry[/URL] to create an .xxx top … |
| | IT security specialist [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL] is warning anyone with a website about recently uncovered evidence that spammers are hacking into legitimate sites in order to sell drugs. Online pharmacy spam, be it under the Viagra or just general prescription drug banner, has become one of the most annoying and persistent forms … |
| | Wireless networking has, in my rather sadly predictable geeky opinion, made computing not only a whole lot more accessible but sexy as well. In fact, I might even go so far as to say that the social Internet service explosion would not have happened, or certainly not happened as quickly, … |
| | Web security company [URL="http://www.scansafe.com"]ScanSafe[/URL] has published its latest monthly Global Threat Report that looks at corporate usage of the web. The results should not be shocking as we all know that if you give someone free access to the Internet at work then they will abuse that access if at … |
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