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 Monday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:46 AM CEST - Jul,20 2004
  • 1st pocket PC worm asks if you want to infect - Duts is a 1520 bytes long program, hand written in assembly for the ARM processor. When an infected file is executed the virus asks for permission to infect: "WinCE4.Dust by Ratter/29A Dear User, am I allowed to spread?". When granted the permission, Duts attempts to infect all EXE files in the current directory. Duts only infects files that are bigger than 4096 bytes and have not been infected yet. As an infection marker the virus writes the string 'atar' to the Windows Version field of the EXE header.
  • Exposing click fraud - Internet marketers facing higher advertising fees on search networks are becoming increasingly concerned about a form of online fraud that was thought to have been contained years ago. In one recent example of the problem, law enforcement officials say a California man created a software program that he claimed could let spammers bilk Google out of millions of dollars in fraudulent clicks. Authorities said he was arrested while trying to blackmail Google for $150,000 to hand over the program. He was indicted by a California jury in June.
  • "Deceptive Duo" Hacker Charged -  A 20-year-old Northern California man suspected as being one half of the high-profile "Deceptive Duo" hacking team is scheduled to appear in court on Monday to face charges of breaking into government computers and defacing government Web sites. Robert Lyttle, who allegedly teamed up with 22-year-old Benjamin Stark and hacked into computer systems run by the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years if he is found guilty, authorities announced.
  • Government spy HQ seeks IT experts - UK spy chiefs are looking to recruit skilled IT professionals in the ongoing battle against terrorism and other threats.Applicants with IT and networking skills can expect a move to the spy base General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to be worth as much as L43,000.
  • Microsoft pays Lindows.com $20M to end trademark fight - Lindows.com said Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle a trademark dispute between the companies, according to a Monday regulatory filing. Under the settlement, Microsoft will buy the rights to the Lindows.com domain name along with other related sites.
  • MACROMEDIA Announces FlashPaper 2 - Macromedia has announced the release of Macromedia FlashPaper 2, a simple way to convert printable files into universally sharable electronic documents. FlashPaper 2 enables any application to create documents that can be instantly viewed within any web browser.
  • Macromedia looking to compete with Sun in the mobile phone game market - Macromedia began marketing its embedded Flash product in phones last month when it launched Flash Lite 1.1 in at the end of June. According to company senior director of mobile and devices, Anup Murarka, Flash is more suitable than Java for a variety of display sizes and resolutions, for companies with smaller memory requirements, shorter development schedules, the need for lower costs and cross-platform compatibility.
  • Sneak preview of next-gen Korean 2 megapixel Windows CE smartphone - WindowsForDevices has received exclusive advance information on a new dual mode Smartphone (image) to be introduced initially in the Korean market this fall. The prototype device, codenamed "Flint," features dual network CDMA/WiFi support with a built-in 802.11b module, and full-motion video from its integrated 2 megapixel camera. Flint runs Windows CE 4.2 on a 500MHz Samsung S3C2440 processor with 256MB of Flash and 64MB of SDRAM. The 2.5 inch transflective LCD boasts 256K colors with QVGA resolution.
  • Apple Rolls Out Cheaper iPods - Apple introduced today lower-priced versions of its iPod digital music player with longer battery life, positioning itself against rivals trying to use lower prices to undercut iPod sales. Apple said the new model iPod has up to 12 hours of battery life, compared with eight hours in previous models. Poor battery performance in some iPods has drawn criticism. The 20-gigabyte model, which can hold about 5,000 songs, has a list price of $299, lower than the previous price of $399 for a 20-gigabyte iPod. The 40-gigabyte model costs $399.
  • AMD pops out two notebook chips - AMD released two notebook chips Sunday, building on a recent surge of sales of processors for portables.  The Athlon 64 3400+ is largely aimed at performance users. It runs at 2.2GHz and comes with 1MB of cache. Gamer-PC maker Alienware will insert the chip in a notebook later in the month.
  • ATI Preps to Offset NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 GT - A report over China-based web-site GZeasy.com claims that the new graphics chip from ATI will be called RADEON X800 GT and will be a down-clocked RADEON X800 XT graphics processor with 16 rendering pipelines. The so-called RADEON X800 GT visual processing unit will function at 425MHz and will carry 256MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz onboard. Initially the new RADEON X800 product will be offered for systems with AGP 8x port.
  • Frontier Labs L1 20GB MP3 Player / Jukebox  - While the L1 may not be an iPod-killer in the eyes of many, it is definitely worthy of your consideration. The 20GB L1 is in the same price range (~$300) as the 15GB iPod and $100 cheaper than the 20GB iPod. 
  • Looking ahead to Intel's 925XE chipset and FSB1066 - While Corsair, Crucial and Samsung are already starting to deliver DDR2-667, Intel is also getting ready to ship the 925XE this quarter, which offers 266 MHz FSB and will be the basis for the Pentium 4 720 with 3.73 GHz. TGH already took a look at what benefits the FSB clock increase will bring. Also, TGH benchmarked with 280 MHz FSB and DDR2-730.
  • ForceWare 62.01 Performance Comparison - Dark-Tweaker has posted some benchies for Nvidia's latest Leaked ForceWare 62.01 Drivers plus a performance comparison against ForceWare 56.72 , 61.32 , 61.40 , 61.72 and ForceWare 61.80.
  • DOOM 3 Theme Song - Tweaker's blog/music site has the full version of the DOOM 3 Theme song.for your listening pleasure.
  • AnyDVD 3.9.2.1 - AnyDVD is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well.
  • FFDShow 2004-07-18 - FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter based on the original DirectShow filter from XviD for decompressing movies with a rich set of video postprocessing filters. For video decompression it uses the libavcodec from the ffmpeg project and to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies it uses the postprocessing code from mplayer. FFDShow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders.
  • dgVoodoo v1.23 - dgVoodoo is a Glide Wrapper that uses Direct3D 7 to implement the Glide2.4 API. dgVoodoo provides support to run Windows-based and DOS-based applications that use Glide. DOS applications can be wrapped without VESA emulation under Windows XP too.
  • ATI Radeon BIOS Tuner v1.3 -  Eugeny Azarov has released his ATI Radeon BIOS Tuner (RaBiT) which allows to control Memory Timings (RAS-to-CAS, tRP, RAS#, CAS#, tRbs), and more.
  • [!] Official nForce WHQL Drivers v4.27 - Version 4.27 of NVIDIA's nForce drivers (WinXP ~ Win2K ~ Win98/ME) have been officially released (thanks BloodUK)
  • BIOS Updates -  A lot of new motherboard BIOS updates from last week can be found at PCTuning.CZ (Czech website with many download links).

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BLOODUK(11:45 AM CEST - Jul,20 2004 )
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