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 Early Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 11:07 PM CEST - Apr,29 2002
  • Microsoft planned to buy out Nintendo - Microsoft was planning to buy Nintendo for more than $25bn, according to a new book. In Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution, Dean Takahashi claims that Nintendo's US president Minoru Arakawa admitted to him that a deal with Microsoft was being talked about in 1999.
  • Apple unveils the eMac - Apple isn't ready to cede its education market to Microsoft. The white eMac is based on the iMac but is built around a 17-inch flat-panel monitor and is only for educators and students. Plus, there are new PowerBooks for all.
  • Theater Far, Far Away ... - When he began shooting Star Wars Episode II in an all-digital format, George Lucas imagined that Attack of the Clones could screen in 2,000 digital-projection theaters nationwide. Oh, well. As of the May 16 opening, only 19 screens had the equipment required to do so. Here's where to find them.
  • Too much Counter-Strike? - You probably heard about this massacre already. According to Der Spiegel news magazine, Steinhauser spent much of his time playing violent computer video games. His favourite was called "Counterstrike" in which anti-terror units wearing masks battle each other to death.
  • Work continues to ready solar sail for launch - Preparations and testing in advance of the Planetary Society's orbital solar sail mission called Cosmos 1 are making progress in Russia, officials report. The first-ever solar sail is scheduled for launch no earlier than September aboard a Russian submarine-launched Volna rocket.
  • ARM claws at 1GHz barrier for devices - ARM says its new 'Jaguar' processor microarchitecture will ultimately produce handhelds, smartphones and multimedia devices with chip speeds above and beyond 1GHz.
  • Military hackers hit US Defense office - 'Deceptive Duo' continue US rampage to reveal inadequate securit. A pair of hackers that recently claimed responsibility for a spree of defacements on US government military web servers, hit the US Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) on Friday night and posted data stolen from the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Screenshots of two DLA databases were posted on a subdomain of the Secretary of Defense site at OSD.Mil. In the defacement the hackers also claimed to have full system-wide access to the OSD databases and the screenshots show names, logon details and encrypted passwords for DLA employees.
  • AOL Instant Messanger Hacked-- Users Presented with Porn - AIM users were caught off guard Saturday morning when upon launching AIM Today, they were presented with pornographic images. The following attack is the latest in security holes to be discovered in AIM.
  • Microsoft patches gaps in Outlook security - According to information posted with its software patch, Microsoft explained that the potential problem lay with the option in Outlook 2000 and 2002 to use Microsoft Word as the email editor when creating and editing email. The vulnerability results from a difference in the security settings applied when displaying an email as opposed to editing one.
  • Microsoft Excels @ insecurity - Microsoft has only partly fixed a flaw involving malicious script execution involving Office, according to veteran bug hunter Georgi Guninski. The patch above fixes a bit trouble with Outlook 2000 or 2002  vs MS Word. Outlook blocks scripts when an HTML email is viewed; but when Word is the editor, replying or forwarding calls it in an unprotected mode, and it then allows the script to run. The consequences of exploitation are running arbitrary code (potentially malware) on a local machine with the user's level of privilege.
  • Pixter -  hand-held for kids - What's Pixter? It's a hand-held, electronic toy that puts the power of digital creativity in the palms of kids' hands! Cool drawing tools, awesome activities, and a touch-sensitive LCD screen activated by a drawing stylus encourage endless creativity and imagination.
  • MSI to launch own-brand LCD monitors and optical storage drives - According to sources, MSI began shipping LCD monitors to the China market in March. MSI has outsourced orders to monitor manufacturer Top Victory Electronics (TPV), the producer behind the AOC brand.In addition, MSI plans initial production of CD-ROM and CD-RW drives to start in May at its Baoan, Shenzhen (Guangdong Province, China) factory.
  • Sexy LCD 17" Monitors, Part I - In the first part of this review, guys at Tom's Hardware have examined six monitors in close detail. They tested products from ADI, Compaq, CTX, NEOVO, Philips and Solarism. They are based on a variety of technologies, including TN + Film, IPS, and MVA. They especially spent a lot of time studying the ergonomics of the various models, real-time response, and the color spectrum-not forgetting the technical improvements that are expected by the end of the year.
  • Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP - This article describes how to troubleshoot configuration errors in Microsoft Windows XP by using the System Configuration utility (Msconfig.exe). When you use this tool to modify the system configuration, you can select check boxes to eliminate issues that do not pertain to your configuration.
  • Hardware Reviews Roundup - GeForce4 Ti Roundup / GeForce4 Ti 4200 / ATI Radeon 8500 64MB DDR / GeForce 4 MX 440 Round-up / ASUS V8440/TD GeForce4 Ti 4400 / GF4 Ti 4600 Review / NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4200 / PNY GeForce4 Ti4400 / SOYO KT333 Dragon Ultra / Epox 8K3A, Mouse Bungee & Mouse Bungee Pro / Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Player / Thermaltake Crystalorb cooler / Variable Speed Fans / Coolermaster ATC210 Aluminium Case / Glowing Mouse Pad / Samsung 210T 21" flat panel display / Samsung 753DF 17 Inch Flat CRT, /Belkin USB Dual Media Reader/Writer / Logitech Cordless / USB 2.0 Round-Up / Storage Blaster Portable Disk
  • Macromedia Beta Trials - if you are very impatient to see these new versions, Macromedia have Preview Versions of the MX suite available for download.
  • FlashFXP 1.4.4 Beta Build 849 Alpha 2 - FlashFXP is the most powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP on the market today.  This new alpha version fixed: "I discovered a problem where if a file failed to load the user wasn't informed. A file will fail to load if decryption fails (invalid password/corruption)."
  • ZipGenius - It's not only a FREE zip and unzip but also scanner, email, web, ftp, safety, data protection, backup, mp3, multimedia. If you already know ZipGenius you know that this is the most versatile program for file compression.
  • XP-Spider - This utility has all the Windows XP preformance tweaks you'll ever need... from Prefetcher modes, large system cache, to all the supported Windows XP services, com+ management, user, drive, preformance managements and much more.
  • WinRAR v3.0 Beta 7 - A new beta version of WinRAR v3.0 has been released.

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