IT News Digest

Archive: 09-2007

• Google getting into virtual world space?

  Rumors are rife that the Web search giant Google may be planning to roll out its own version of an online virtual world. News of a virtual world technology under test at the Arizona State...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | September 25, 2007, 5:44 AM PDT

• PS3 drives medical research forward

  InformationWeek has a piece in which it noted the role that the PS3 (PlayStation 3) have made to Stanford’s Folding@home program, which studies proteins to understand their role in...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 25, 2007, 3:56 AM PDT

• Apple firmware updates could brick unlocked iPhones

  An upcoming firmware update to the iPhone could result in SIM-unlocked iPhones bring rendered inoperable - or ‘bricked’. In an issued statement this afternoon: Apple has discovered...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 24, 2007, 11:58 PM PDT

• Hackers compromise Homeland Security computers

  In what must surely be a gigantic black eye, congressional investigators said on Monday that dozens of computers belonging to the Department of Homeland Security have been compromised by hackers....

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 24, 2007, 10:42 PM PDT

• EMC acquires online backup company Mozy

  Just came across the breaking news from TechCrunch that online storage company Mozy has been acquired by juggernaut EMC Corporation for a whooping $76 million.

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 24, 2007, 12:03 PM PDT

• Public can now purchase an XO Laptop, with a catch

  You must have read about the OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child project. An ambitious project to bring computers into the world of developing nation’s children, the resulting machine is slated...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 24, 2007, 11:18 AM PDT

• Windows Server 2008 RC1 due this week

  Microsoft plans to issue the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008 this coming week. And yes, for virtualization fans, the release candidate will include a test version of...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 23, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT

• New BlackBerry does Wi-Fi calls

  According to PC World, T-Mobile has announced the BlackBerry Curve 8320 today. Essentially a BlackBerry Curve, it adds 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi as well as the much coveted ability to make VoIP calls via...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 23, 2007, 11:58 PM PDT

• First lawsuit on GPL violation filed

  Network World has news of what may well be the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States. Excerpt from the article: The SFLC filed the suit on Wednesday in the United States District Court...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 23, 2007, 11:26 AM PDT

• Critical zero-day PDF bug found

  Security researcher Petko D. Petkov has discovered a new zero-day PDF vulnerability that can lead to the complete compromise of a Windows machine. The flaw can be triggered by simply opening an...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 23, 2007, 9:46 AM PDT

• Serious vulnerabilities found in VMware

  According to Network World, a set of flaws have been discovered in VMware’s virtual machine software by researchers at IBM. VMware has since updated its products to fix the vulnerabilities,...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 23, 2007, 8:59 AM PDT

• Think.MTV.com: Social network taps youth activism

  The Viacom-owned MTV, broadcaster of pop culture, youth culture, and reality TV shows, has taken the veil off its latest venture, which aims at using social networking as a rallying point for...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | September 23, 2007, 4:50 AM PDT

• Intel announces upcoming WiMAX chipsets by mid-2008

  According to InformationWeek, Intel has announced a hybrid chipset supporting both Wi-Fi and WiMax by mid-2008. Codenamed Montevina, it would support the 25-watt Intel Penryn mobile processors as...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 22, 2007, 11:57 PM PDT

• German police raids home of Tor operator

  Alexander Janssen have just returned from a night of drinking when someone knocked “very hard” on his door - in the dead of the night.

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 22, 2007, 9:51 PM PDT

• Microsoft relents on XP downgrade

  CNET News.com reports that Microsoft has softened its stance and have been quietly allowing PC makers to furnish a “downgrade” to Windows XP for customers who request for it.

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 21, 2007, 11:58 PM PDT

• New version of Microsoft Office in 2009

  Did you think that you were finally done deciding whether to install Office 2003 SP3 or upgrading to Office 2007? Well, the latest news is that the next version of Microsoft Office is slated for...

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 21, 2007, 8:57 PM PDT

• IT News Digest Week in Review, September 21, 2007

  The stories that are covered this week include Microsoft’s stealth updates, municipal wireless, a new solar-powered computer, discrepancies in pay for women and men in IT, how quantum...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | September 21, 2007, 6:51 AM PDT

• New zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP

  Secunia has listed a new zero-day vulnerability involving Windows XP. This flaw could potentially allow a system to be remotely compromised.

  Posted by Paul Mah | September 20, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT

• Eclipse gets PHP Development Tools

  There’s some good news for all Web developers. The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of Eclipse Development Tools (PDT) 1.0 Project for the Eclipse platform. The Eclipse...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | September 20, 2007, 3:46 AM PDT

• :-) is 25 and going strong

  It’s about putting emotions on text. Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use keystrokes to put the “smiley face” in an...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | September 20, 2007, 3:00 AM PDT