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Early Evening Tech Reading - tech
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| (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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