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(hx) 12:41 AM CET - Nov,12 2003
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- Nokia N-Gage Cracked - According
to Spong.com,
the security on the N-Gage has been cracked and the games can be played on
other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1. For some details you can
check this
forum.
- Pirates face the music - and it might be jail - Yesterday at
Downing Centre Local Court, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
asked that University of NSW science student
Charles Ng, 20, be jailed for his creation and operation of a website,
MP3WMAland. Ng ran the Napster-style website from his bedroom at his
family's home in Blacktown, and while none of the students made any money out
of the site, the music industry alleges the pirated music cost it at least $60
million.
- Eudora users warned over "reply to all" trick -
A
buffer overflow vulnerability in Eudora, the popular email client, creates
a mechanism for crackers to compromise targeted PCs. The problem stems from a
failure to properly verify the "From:" and "Reply-To:" when users of
vulnerable versions of Eudora select "Reply-To-All". This shortcoming creates
a means for hackers to spam users with a maliciously constructed email
designed to trigger this buffer overflow condition. In practice it might
be hard to trick users into selecting "Reply-To-All" in response to suspicious
emails. But if they do then crackers would be able to run arbitrary code on
vulnerable systems, so the problem is not to be sniffed at.
- Serious Sam DoS -
The bug is a remote crash or freeze of the server caused by a malformed
parameter in the data sent by the client. The following is an example of the
original data: "x1fx00x00x00"
"x40xE1xDEx03xFBxCAx2AxBCx83x01x00x00x07x47x41x54"
"x56x10x27x00x00x05x00x00x00x00x00x01x00x00x00x01"
"x00x00x00xA0x0Fx00x00x64x00x00x00"
- Your PC is Under Attack - If you're not running software to protect
your PC, you should be!
PCMag tested 12 products that will guard your system.
- Sony unveils "video iPod" - Sony has launched
a
portable personal digital video player under its Vaio brand in Japan . The
GigaPocket PCVA-HVP20 features a 20GB hard drive, enough to hold up to 31
hours of programming - if you're pretty frugal with image quality, natch. The
GigaPocket is a compact 12 x 8.4 x 2.8cm (4.8 x 3.4 x 1.1in) and sports a
3.5in backlit TFT LCD screen. The unit supports the MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 video
compression standards, and it's the former, running at a 1.41Mbps compression
rate) that yields those 31 hours of programme storage.
- First auto-focus camera phone from NTT DoCoMo - NTT DoCoMo today
announced the release of
the
mova P505iS handset, which according to an investigation by Panasonic, the
manufacturer of the handset, is the world's first camera phone equipped with
auto focus. The P505iS is the second handset model released in the new 505iS
series, a series of five PDC (2G) i-mode-capable mobile phones featuring
mega-pixel cameras. The model's 1.28 mega-pixel CCD camera is equipped with
auto-focus to improve the sharpness and clarity of photos.
- Nokia unveils first IPv4/IPv6 handset - Nokia has demonstrated what
it claims is the
world's first dual stack IPv4/IPv6 handset. Experts believe that IPv4
internet addresses will run out within two years, and will need to be replaced
by the "nearly infinite" permutations of IPv6 addresses.
- Fujitsu Device Weds PDA, Smart Display -
4-inch LCD that takes up most of the front of the .U Pocket (pronounced
dot-U-pocket) makes the device look like a PDA, but there are several features
that differentiate it. The first is the display, said Hideyuki Motoyama of
Fujitsu Labs' IT Media Research Institute. It's capable of a resolution of 800
pixels by 600 pixels (SVGA), which is considerably higher than most current
PDAs.
- SiS to offer handheld chip solutions next year - Silicon
Integrated Systems (SiS), in a bid to further attack the consumer IC market,
will launch several chip solutions for handheld communications devices next
year. Michael Chen, CEO and president of SiS, said these chips include LCD
controller chips, accelerators and MPEG-4 decoders. He hopes that these new
product launches would help the company to establish a foothold in the
handheld chip sector in the next nine to 15 months. The Taiwan-based chipset
designer also expects to launch 802.11b and 802.11g chips this quarter or in
the first quarter of next year, according to Chen. It will also unveil its
second USB 2.0 controller IC for flash disks and Xbox-use media input/output
(I/O) chips next year.
- Verizon launches Samsung SPH-i600 -
The
SPH-i600 is an all-digital handset, offering 800 MHz CDMA and 1900 MHz PCS
modes of operation, as well as support for high-speed data connectivity
courtesy of 1xRTT. A clamshell design, the smartphone comes with the usual
selection of software bundled with the Smartphone 2002, including Pocket
Outlook, Pocket Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger and
more. Through the end of this year, the SPH-i600 Smartphone will retail for
$399.99 after a $100 instant rebate, with a two-year agreement on a calling
plan of $39.99 USD or greater and Verizon Wireless' PDA/Smartphone unlimited
NationalAccess plan.
- Intel to take P4, P4EE to 3.4GHz next quarter - Intel will take
the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - along with the regular version - to 3.4GHz
during the first quarter of 2004, presumably in a buffer for the initial
absence of high clock frequency versions of the next generation of the Pentium
4, the 90nm "Prescott".
- Golden Sample Ultra/1800 XP GeForce FX 5950 Ultra review -
This new Golden Sample Ultra/1800 XP is based off of the 5950-Ultra GPU
and equipped with 256 Megabytes of DDR memory, but what really sets this card
apart from others in its class is the Video In/Out capabilities as well as the
fact it only takes up a single slot - key for those looking to use it in a
small form factor PC.
- 321 Studios Offers $20 DVD Burner - Customers who buy a copy
of the upcoming DVD X Copy Xpress software from 321 Studios Inc. will receive
a
Lite-On DVD burner for an additional $20, the company announced today. The
bundle is a means of stirring up interest for the new DVD copying software,
which will be released for a list price of $149.99 on Nov. 25. The DVD+R/RW
DVD/CD internal rewritable drive from Lite-On is also normally priced at
$149.99, according to 321 Studios.
- Building A Budget Storage Server - With these needs in mind,
we chose the Maxtor Maxline II Plus 250GB 7200rpm 8MB buffer hard drives.
These drives are rated at 1,200,000 hours MTBF as compared to 600,000 hours
for standard consumer drives. This does not mean that you can run your hard
drive for 137 years, but does imply that it is more reliable than a standard
desktop drive.
- PC Optimization Secrets - Do you want to upgrade your silicon
friend? Nice! Are you sure which of multiple PC components needs to be
replaced? It's useless to replace a CPU if the bottleneck is memory. Otherwise
you can foolishly throw out money without hitting the target. Meanwhile,
Windows OS and Pentium processor systems support performance counters that can
quickly determine which components need to be replaced.
Check this article for more info.
- [!] November Cumulative Patch for Internet
Explorer -
This is a cumulative update (MSIE6.0
SP1 |
MSIE6.0 for WinXP |
MSIE 5.01 SP4 for Win2k SP3/SP4 |
MSIE Win2003) that includes the functionality of all the
previously-released updates for Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 5.5,
and Internet Explorer 6.0. Additionally, it eliminates the following five
newly-discovered vulnerabilities.
- Microsoft Tweakomatic -
The
Tweakomatic (download)
is a nifty new utility that writes scripts that allow you to retrieve and/or
configure Windows and Internet Explorer settings. So what, you might ask.
Well, think about it. Because these are WMI scripts, they can be used to
configure settings on remote computers. Need to change something on a remote
machine? Then haul out the Tweakomatic. And think about this: because the
Tweakomatic writes scripts, you could do something like run these scripts as
logon or logoff scripts.
- 3DMark03 Patch - Futuremark Corporation announced today the
immediate availability of
a patch to the 3DMark03 benchmark suite 3DMark03 is the worldwide standard
tool for easily and objectively measuring and comparing PCs' 3D performance.
Available immediately,
this free patch provides the only valid version (340) of 3DMark03. Only
scores obtained through the version 340 and with approved drivers will be used
in official statistics, comparisons and services provided by Futuremark.
- HyperSnap-DX 5.40.00 (SHW) -
HyperSnap-DX 5 (download)
is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens
from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D,
3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. HyperSnap-DX 5 can capture frames from many
software DVD players and other video playing software.
- BSPlayer 0.100.800 RC1 -
BSplayer (download)
is a Windows player that plays back all kinds of media files ( avi / mpg / asf
/ wmv / wav / mp3...) and specialises in video and divx playback.
- Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (7.0.1) Update -
An update for the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 has been issued. There are many
fixes which many crashes and the patch contains other performance and
usability updates
- Quadro Drivers v52.14 - NVIDIA have
certified version 52.14 for Quadro line of cards available for download.
This certified version is for ALIAS (MAYA) only.
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