IT News Digest

Archive: 11-2007

• Google will bid for 700 Mhz spectrum

  It’s official. Google will be filing an application to participate in the 700 Mhz auction come Monday, the company said in a news release. Google’s application will not include any...

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 30, 2007, 11:57 PM PST

• New Zealand police moves in on botmaster of one million bots

  As part of the FBI’s Operation Bot Roast II, New Zealand police cracked down on a suspected botnet ringleader in New Zealand, whom the FBI says controls over one million computers illegally.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 30, 2007, 11:47 PM PST

• The cell phone that killed -- not

  You might be glad to know the South Korean man who was initially thought to have been killed by his exploding cell phone actually died of other causes.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 30, 2007, 11:34 PM PST

• Firefox 2.0.0.11 released

  Firefox version 2.0.0.11 was released by Mozilla on Friday, the third in the month of November. It fixes a stability problem in the previous version, and all Firefox users are “strongly...

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 30, 2007, 11:01 PM PST

• IT News Digest Week in Review, November 30, 2007

  The stories that are covered this week include Wi-Fi stealing, P2P traffic and bandwidth throttling, Google’s energy endeavors, OLPCs copyright infringement, and the TechRepublic...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | November 30, 2007, 6:17 AM PST

• Publishers want more control over content indexed by search engines

  The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) proposal has been designed by a consortium of publishers to have greater control over the indexing of their content by search engines.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 30, 2007, 2:38 AM PST

• Technology to print chips

  Kovio, a technology start-up from Sunnyvale, California, has developed technology that uses inkjet printers to print transistors for memory and logic chips.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 11:50 PM PST

• Linksys inadvertently promotes phone sex hotline

  It appears that a misprint on the box of a Linksys router pointed the way to a phone sex hotline.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 29, 2007, 11:37 PM PST

• iPhone to go 3G in 2008

  AT&T CEO Randell Stephenson has spilled the beans and confirmed that the 3G iPhone will be available next year.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 29, 2007, 11:20 PM PST

• Hotmail users unable to send e-mail?

  Forums are abuzz with Hotmail users unable to send e-mails from their accounts. What miffs users more is that they are unable to find a direct contact at Microsoft to report the problem.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 10:51 PM PST

• South Korean man may have been killed by exploding cell phone battery

  Investigations are ongoing in the case of a South Korean man who could quite possibly be the first person in the world to be a victim of death by erm, cell phone.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 29, 2007, 9:54 PM PST

• ASUS resolves Eee PC GPL violation

  ASUS has made additional source code archives for the Eee PC available for download as obliged under the GPL license.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 29, 2007, 9:39 PM PST

• Say good-bye to spam for good with Boxbe

  Boxbe is a service that allows you to manage your e-mail messages, minus the junk mail. Listen to this podcast with Thede Loder, the founder and President of Boxbe, to learn about the service and...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | November 29, 2007, 11:01 AM PST

• Adobe and Yahoo partner to bring ads to PDFs

  Adobe and Yahoo announced a partnership to be the first to bring ads into PDF documents.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 8:45 AM PST

• Fujitsu's power efficient mobile hard drive and Micron's plans for SSD

  Fujitsu announced that its power efficient 2.5-inch SATA mobile HDD with 320 GB capacity will be available by February next year. Also, Micron technologies will be introducing its line of Solid...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 6:35 AM PST

• T-rays detect more materials more safely than X-rays

  Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists in Turkey and Japan, have developed a portable scanning device based on...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 6:22 AM PST

• Graphics chips, not just about games and eye-candy

  From supercomputing applications to financial modeling, graphics chips are being deployed for a number of research and development activities.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 5:53 AM PST

• Software to detect if your ISP is tampering with your Internet connection

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released software that will help users determine whether their Net connection is being tampered with by their service provider.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 5:31 AM PST

• Hackers target search terms on top search engines

  Hackers have started on an organized attack on major search engines with innumerable keywords resulting in search results that point to malicious Web sites.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | November 29, 2007, 4:56 AM PST

• Vista SP1 release candidate coming next week

  Sources close to Microsoft say that Microsoft is looking to release the first Release Candidate (RC) of Vista SP1 in the first week of December.

  Posted by Paul Mah | November 28, 2007, 11:58 PM PST