Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers

16 February 2007

Hack lets intruders sneak into home routersZDNet - February 15, 2007, 3:33 PM PT
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, let this recent threat serve as a reminder.
Attackers could change the configuration of home routers using JavaScript code, security researchers at Indiana University and Symantec have discovered. The researchers first published their work in December, but Symantec publicized the findings on Thursday.


Web attack could hit home routersInfoWorld, CA - - February 15, 2007
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now. That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your home router using malicious JavaScript code.

MySpace adopts system to block pirated videoComputerworld, MA - Feb 13, 2007
The rabidly popular MySpace social network on Monday launched a pilot program to prevent its users from uploading unauthorized copyrighted video material to the site.
The MySpace video-filtering system, based on fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic Corp., screens video clips posted to the site by its members and blocks those uploaded without permission from the copyright owner.


MySpace Cracks Down on Video PiracyCIO Today, CA - 21 hours
In an attempt to thwart digital piracy on social networks, MySpace is experimenting with a new pilot program to block videos that contain unauthorized copyrighted content.
The Fox Interactive Media property is licensing digital-fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic and will use it to screen videos that social networkers upload to the site. The filter will block any video that matches a digital fingerprint in the MySpace database.


Scientists dubious of quantum computer claimsCNN – Feb 15, 2007

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) -- Quantum computing is such an elusive goal that even the company claiming to have the "world's first commercial quantum computer" acknowledged it isn't entirely sure the machine is performing true quantum calculations.

And independent quantum computing researchers said they are dubious of some of the claims made by D-Wave Systems Inc. because the privately held Canadian company has not yet submitted its findings for peer review, a standard step for gaining acceptance in scientific circles
Scientists dubious of quantum claimsBusinessWeek - Feb 14, 2007

Quantum computing is such an elusive goal that even the company claiming to have the "world's first commercial quantum computer" acknowledged it isn't entirely sure the machine is performing true quantum calculations.

Aguse.net Arms Internet Users to Combat Questionable URLs and Spam ...Thursday February 15, 8:20 pm ET
TOKYO, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Vmall Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, launches an English beta version of aguse.net, a Japan based website designed to aid Internet users with the power of information gained from simply inputting either an URL of a website or Internet headers from Spam/virus email. Aguse.net is a free service that allows Internet users to arm themselves with information from sources that may be a nuisance.

USA.NET, Inc. Named 'Top Player' in Rapidly Growing Hosted Email ...Earthtimes.org - 9 hours

DENVER, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- USA.NET, Inc., the recognized leader in outsourced electronic messaging (eMessaging) services, was cited as the Top Player in the "Hosted E-mail Market 2006 Market Quadrant" report by The Radicati Group, Inc.
USA.NET was recognized as the industry leader by The Radicati Group for its global presence, professional services for implementation and training, and full suite of services including Hosted Microsoft(R) Exchange, its proprietary hosted email, wireless services, encryption, and more.

IBM Eyes Denser Memory As Way To Boost Microprocessor Performance

Feb 15, 2007

IBM Eyes Denser Memory As Way To Boost Microprocessor Performance
InformationWeek, NY – Feb 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — IBM Corp. will detail a method for tripling the amount of memory on a microprocessor, potentially doubling its performance. By combining techniques in process and circuit design, IBM believes it can put as much as 48 Mbytes of fast DRAM on a reasonably sized CPU when its 45nm technology becomes available in 2008.


IBM to double performance of its chipsInfoWorld, CA - Feb 14, 2007

In an upgrade that could improve chip performance for gamers and multimedia users, IBM plans to double the performance of its microprocessors in 2008 by using smaller, more efficient memory, according to a paper presented at the ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference) trade show in San Francisco Wednesday.

Belgian Court Deals Google a BombshellBusinessWeek - 14 hours ago

It has all the makings of an epic David vs. Goliath battle: A band of scrappy Belgian publishers, citing copyright infringement, have taken on Google and emerged victorious. On Feb. 13, a Belgian court said the search giant could not reproduce certain copyrighted titles and summaries on its Belgian Google news or Google.be Web site. What's more, the Mountain View (Calif.) company must pay €25,000 a day ($32,500) until it removes all related content. Google says it will appeal.

Google suffers blow in Belgian copyright caseZDNet UK, UK - Feb 14, 2007

A ruling against Google in a copyright case in Belgium may influence courts in other European countries, but not the US where laws are more permissible, copyright lawyers said on Tuesday.

Intel to Stay with Wi-Fi in New CentrinoPC World – Feb 15, 2007

Just weeks before launching its new Centrino notebook platform, Intel said today it had cancelled plans to provide wireless access with an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) module built by Nokia.

Instead, the next-generation Centrino Duo platform, code-named "Santa Rosa," will rely solely on Wi-Fi technology to give mobile PC users wireless Internet access. Intel plans to launch the platform in the second quarter of 2007.

Intel to launch new Centrino platform without HSDPAInfoWorld, CA - 14 hours ago

Just weeks before launching its new Centrino notebook platform, Intel said Wednesday it had cancelled plans to provide wireless access with an HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) module built by Nokia.
Instead, the next-generation Centrino Duo platform, code-named "Santa Rosa," will rely solely on Wi-Fi technology to give mobile PC users wireless Internet access. Intel plans to launch the platform in the second quarter of 2007.

Intel's 80-core musclechip (and TRUE/FALSE/MAYBE)

14 February 2007

Intel's 80-core musclechip (and TRUE/FALSE/MAYBE)Computerworld, MA - Feb 12, 2007
Faster than a speeding IT Blogwatch: in which Intel crows about its new 80-core CPU prototype. Not to mention a new Boolean constant...

Ben Ames reports:
Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel Corp. researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a trillion floating-point operations per second (TFLOPS) while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip ... 80 cores [on] a 275-square-millimeter, fingernail-size chip ... Intel ... [is] using the chip to explore new forms of tera-scale computing, in which future users could process terabytes of data on their desktops to perform real-time speech recognition, conduct multimedia data mining, play photorealistic games and interact with artificial intelligence.

Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of ProcessingNew York Times, NY - Feb 12, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 — Intel will demonstrate on Monday an experimental computer chip with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives say provides a model for commercial chips that will be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years.


AMD licenses graphics technology for mobile devicesInfoWorld, CA - 20 hours ago

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday made its graphics technology available for licensing by handheld device makers, and announced plans to step up its development of graphics technology for mobile applications.

AMD Launches Three Chips For Mobile DevicesInformationWeek, NY - Feb 12, 2007

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday unveiled three microprocessors for mobile devices focused on video, audio, and high-resolution photos.
The AMD Imageon 2298, 2294, and 2192 media processors can support camera functions up to 12 megapixels, and DVD-quality video playback and recording, the Sunnyvale, Calif., chipmaker said. The chips also support TV output, video telephony, and other functions.

Microsoft, Novell Detail Their Linux-Windows RoadmapInformationWeek, NY - 13 February 2007

Three months after they first announced their intention to jointly develop enterprise solutions that combine Windows and Linux, Microsoft and Novell released details about specific projects they plan to tackle.

The companies said they will focus their joint efforts on building more efficient, cost-effective products for facilitating server virtualization, Web services implementations, directory and identity interoperability, and document format compatibility
Microsoft/Novell to allow reciprocal virtualizationInfoWorld, CA - 13 February 2007

The latest from the MS/Novell deal is that Windows Server will allow SUSE Linux to run virtualized. More importantly, Microsoft will allow SUSE to host Windows as a paravirtualized guest on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, using the Xen virtualization technology embedded in the Linux operating system.

One interesting fact is that Microsoft licensing terms forbid Vista to be run in virtual instances. I wonder if they will allow it run under SUSE now that this deal has been struck?

Google, Vodafone to develop mapsBusinessWeek - Feb 12, 2007.

Vodafone Group PLC, the world's largest mobile phone network operator, said Monday it agreed with Google to develop maps for mobile telephones.

The company said it will, in conjunction with Google Maps, provide easy-to-use maps and local listings, as well as local search and navigation capabilities.


Google, Vodafone Agree to Develop MapsForbes, NY - Feb 12, 2007
Vodafone Group PLC, the world's largest mobile phone network operator, said Monday it agreed with Internet search leader Google Inc. to develop maps for mobile telephones.

Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) said it will, in conjunction with Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Maps, provide easy-to-use maps, local listings and search and navigation capabilities.

Nokia hopes to push mobile e-mail in enterprise

Tuesday, 13 February 2007

Nokia hopes to push mobile e-mail in enterpriseInfoWorld, CA – Feb 12, 2007

Nokia is aiming to boost the use of mobile e-mail in the enterprise with a new release of its Intellisync software and several new handsets aimed at business users.
The new products, announced during the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, may help Nokia better compete with Microsoft, which introduced the latest version of its mobile phone software, Windows Mobile 6.0, at the conference. Windows Mobile 6.0 and Intellisync both enable mobile access to corporate e-mail.

Nokia Unveils 3 New Phones at ConferenceForbes, NY - Feb 12, 2007

Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. unveiled three new phones Monday, promising that its latest arrivals would let users take advantage of the Internet to accomplish more in their daily lives.

Intel's Teraflops Chip: An Architecture That's 'Outside The Box'InformationWeek, NY - - Feb 12, 2007

The design is likened to a mainframe on a chip, or the equivalent of 80 blade processors plugged into a high-speed backplane.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Research into competing architectures for the multicore processors of the future will take center stage this week when Intel Corp. demonstrates its Teraflop Research Chip—code-named Polaris—at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.

Intel unveils its 80-core processorZDNet UK, - Feb 12, 2007

Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect to take advantage of it just yet.

Chief technical officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.

Yahoo Mail gains IM integrationInfoWorld, CA - Feb 13, 2007

Yahoo Inc. will soon start to fulfill a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new Web mail service with its instant messaging application.
Starting Monday and continuing over the coming months, Yahoo will activate this feature for users of the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is in beta, or test, phase but available to all users of the service.

Yahoo Mail gains IM integrationComputerworld New Zealand, New Zealand –Feb 13, 2007
Yahoo will soon start to fulfill a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new web mail service with its instant messaging application.
Starting yesterday (Monday) and continuing over the coming months, Yahoo will activate this feature for users of the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is in beta, or test, phase but available to all users of the service

HP unveils smart phone at 3GSMCNET News.com, Feb 12, 2007
Hewlett-Packard will offer its own smart phone with voice command and remote-access features this spring, the company announced Monday.
The iPaq 500 smart phone--unveiled by HP at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona--will run on the new Windows Mobile 6.0 platform and come with voice over Internet Protocol compatibility, push e-mail, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Mobile.

HP Intros iPAQ Smartphone With VOIP CapabilitiesPC Magazine - 9 hours ago
Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced a new VOIP-enabled smartphone, the iPAQ 500, with support for Windows Mobile 6.
The 51X (numbered 510 in the US, 512 in Asia and 514 in Europe) is part of HP's strategy to dominate the enterprise space. HP wants to sell complete corporate solutions, including desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices.

Intel shows off 80-core processor

12 February 2007

Intel shows off 80-core processorZDNet – Feb 12, 2007
Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet.

Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.

Intel Squeezes Second Round Of Publicity Out Of 80-Core Processor ...InformationWeek, NY - Feb 11, 2007

The chip giant will disclose technical details on its 80-core Teraflops research processor at a chip conference in San Francisco this week.

In a unusual bout of Sunday newsmaking, Intel today issued a press release announcing that its researchers have developed what the chip giant is billing as the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from 80-core chip

YouTube coming soon to Vodafone in UKZDNet - Feb 9, 2007.

YouTube will soon be available to Vodafone Group mobile phone users in the U.K.

YouTube Mobile users will be able to view a selection of videos that is updated daily, forward their favorite links to friends, and upload their own videos directly from their phones.

Vodafone launches YouTube mobileInfoWorld, CA - Feb 9, 2007

In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube.
The announcement follows others this week from Vodafone with MySpace.com and eBay. The deals point to a growing interest from online content providers to offer their services to mobile customers as well as continued efforts by operators to drive usage of their wireless data networks.

IBM aims to lower cost of using Linux, Apple PCsReuters – Feb 12, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Sunday it will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that puts the cost of managing Apple or Linux computers on a more equal footing with Microsoft's Windows software, improving the economics of Windows alternatives.

IBM Open Client bridges Windows, Linux gapSearch Enterprise Linux – Feb 12, 2007
IBM today announced a suite of productivity tools that runs on all the major desktop operating systems -- Microsoft Windows, Apple, and Red Hat and Novell Linux distributions.
Yahoo to unveil mobile marketing platformBusinessWeek - 1 hour ago

Yahoo Inc. will sell branded advertising aimed at mobile phone customers outside the United States as part of the Internet powerhouse's efforts to build other revenue sources beyond the Web.

Yahoo to Unveil Mobile Marketing PlatformForbes, NY - 1 hour ago

Yahoo Inc. will sell branded advertising aimed at mobile phone customers outside the United States as part of the Internet powerhouse's efforts to build other revenue sources beyond the Web.