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 Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 02:40 AM CEST - Sep,16 2003
  • Sobig.F likely began on porn newsgroup - The FBI subpoenaed an Arizona Internet service provider to trace the culprit behind a fast-spreading e-mail virus that security experts said may have first been posted to an adult pictures Internet site.  One expert said the Sobig.F e-mail virus was disguised so that anyone who clicked on a link purporting to show a sexually graphic picture became infected with the self-replicating worm, which then spread itself to other e-mail addresses. "Sobig.F was first posted to a porn Usenet group," said Jimmy Kuo, research fellow at antivirus software maker Network Associates. Usenet is a popular forum on the Internet where computer users with similar interests post and read messages.
  • Insiders blamed for most online movie piracy - Most pirate copies of popular movies circulated online are the result of leaks by industry insiders rather than home or cinema copying, according to US research. A team from AT&T Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania created software to track movies in the US box office top 50 uploaded to file-sharing networks between January 2002 and June 2003. Seventy-seven percent of films uploaded during this period were apparently created during production or distribution. Some simply appeared online before their cinema release - meaning they must have been leaked.
  • PGP makes email encryption easier - PGP Corporation today introduced simpler email encryption in which the burden of securing email messages is shifted from the client to the network. PGP Universal software suite, launched today, represents a new architecture for the company. The complexity of email encryption systems has long been a factor holding back deployment. Some vendors have responded to by repackaging encrypted email as a Web-based service.
  • Microsoft offers $179.99 Xbox bundle for holidays - Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its holiday promotion for the Xbox video game console, offering the unit, two games, and a two-month trial of its online service for $179.99, which previously was the price just for the console. Microsoft said the bundle would include the LucasArts game "Star Wars: Clone Wars" and the THQ Inc. (nasdaq: THQI - news - people) game "Tetris Worlds Live." The "Clone Wars" game usually retails for $49.99, while the "Tetris" game sells for $19.99.
  • PC makers to unwrap holiday desktops - HP's low-price Compaq Presario desktop will include a 2.5GHz Intel Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a CD burner. The desktop, which will hit stores later this month, will cost $459. HP's Presario models S5100NX, S5200NX and S5300NX will offer 2.6GHz Celerons, 2.7GHz Celerons and 2.5GHz Pentium 4 processors, respectively. The desktops will come with between 256MB and 512MB of RAM, 80GB or 120GB hard drives, a CD burner and DVD-ROM drives. Prices on the desktops, which will arrive in stores in early October, will be $559, $659 and $779, respectively, HP said.
  • Canon Breaks Digital SLR Price Barriers - The impressive Canon EOS Digital Rebel SLR carves out a new niche in the ever-harder-to-define prosumer digital camera market. With a street price of $900 ($1,000 with an 18- to 55-mm lens), the 6.3-megapixel Digital Rebel costs about the same as the Olympus E-20N, the Minolta DiMage 7Hi, and other prosumer cameras.
  • AT&T Offers Windows-Based Smartphone - Motorola and Microsoft launched a clam-shell format cell phone Monday, based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone software. Mobile network operator Orange SA will distribute the phone for use on its UK network from October, and AT&T will offer it in the U.S. in the fourth quarter, the companies said Monday. The MPx200, measuring 1.9 by 3.5 by 1.1 inches, allows users to surf the Internet, access their e-mails, and synchronize the phone with their PC. It includes an SD slot with a 16MB memory card (a 2GB card is available) and an external speaker for listening to MP3 and Windows Media files; it can also play videos using Windows Media Player. A detachable camera is available separately. In the UK, the MPx200 will cost $383 with an Orange contract.
  • AMD K9 to Come in 2005? - X-bit lab's sources claim that actual details of the K9 architecture will be announced in a year, sometime in Fall 2004, whereas, in case everything goes well, the AMD K9 microprocessors will emerge in 2005 or 2006. Nevertheless, we may discuss some compulsory and very probable facts about the K9 processors even now.
  • Borland builds out C++ wares - Borland on Monday bolstered its C++ toolbox with the introduction of a new IDE and an application lifecycle management suite. Borland C++BuilderX is a multiplatform IDE for Windows, Linux, and Solaris that provides a brand-new visual development environment. It is compiler agnostic and supports compilers from Intel, Microsoft, Sun Forte, and Metrowerks. The tool enables platform portability via a new Borland C++ compiler and a C++ framework.
  • Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Ultra Review  - The 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Ultra is the showcase product in Creative's 3D Blaster family as it leverages the maximum potential of NVIDIA's GeForce FX platform. Based on the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, the 0.13-micron GPU operates at a frequency of 450MHz and is matched with 256MB of DDR memory running at effective speed of 850MHz that communicates over a 256-bit memory bus. The 3D Blaster 5 FX 5900 Ultra utilizes the AGP 8X interface and features NVIDIA's CineFX 2.0 engine.
  • Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro Graphics Card Review  - Gigabyte has simply followed the ATI reference design for the G9600 Pro with only one modification, that being a slightly smaller PCB. Without a doubt, the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro based video cards are aimed at the more cost effective mainstream market, coming to the market without making a dent in your wallet while still maintaining decent performance.
  • Memorex Dual-X DVD recorder review  - The Memorex Dual-X left us with a pretty positive feeling. As a plain DVD-Writer it's superb as it wrote every brand of DVD-R and DV+R media that we put in it without problems at the certified speed of the media. This includes unknown Hong Kong media identifed as AN31 as well as more known brands like Princo and Verbatim. As a CD-Writer it's also good, but it's bad that Memorex do not provide CD-R discs that works with their own writers! And it's lagging behind the competition with a write speed of only 16X compared to 24X for many competitors.
  • FPS: The Quest for more - Ever wondered why it is exactly everyone keeps striving for more frames per seconds from games? Is it simply for braggin rights or is there more to it? After all we watch TV at 30fps and that's plenty.
  • Windows Longhorn M5 (Build 4029) Leaked  - Last night, build 4029 of Microsoft's next big thing, Windows code-named "Longhorn", was leaked to the web by the gang over at #betas on irc.ufnet.org. Despite for the fact that it was compiled back in June, this is still the latest milestone-build of Longhorn that ever surfaced outside Microsoft's campus. The most noticeable changes compared to the previously leaked build 4015 are an somewhat enhanced sidebar as well as minor improvements that have been made throughout the infamous Plex-skin. (thanks ieXbeta)
  • HB++ 1.02 Compiler - HB++ 1.02 the true basic compiler for PalmOS with RAD environement is now available with new cool features.
  • AquaMark Benchmark 3.0 - AquaMark3 allows PC users to easily measure and compare the performance of their current and next-generation PC systems. It provides a reliable benchmark which helps users to configure their systems for the best gaming performance. The AquaMark3 executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game. The utilized game engine, the krasst Engine, has been used in Aquanox and AquaNox 2: Revelation as well as in the upcoming RTS Spellforce by Phenomic Game Development. It is accepted industrywide and well-known to deliver high-performance graphic effects with superior quality.  Technically, AquaMark3 utilizes recent hardware features of the new DirectX 9 API, such as PixelShader 2.0, while staying fully backward compatible to DirectX 8 and 7 graphics hardware. The graphics and game engine features activated can be configured in fine detail to allow the performance measurement to be adjusted appropriately for the target system. Some nice benches can be found at MadShripms
  • Game Editor v1.1 - Game Editor is an interactive multimedia tool for game development, with a simple and intuitive interface and a rich set of features which allow anyone, even with little or no programming knowledge at all, to develop 2D games for personal computers and mobile devices.
  • VisualBoy Advance 1.7 Beta - Visual Boy Advance (download) is a GBA/GBC emulator that runs with Windows systems.
  • Fresh Download 6.15 - Fresh Download (download) is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware/shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners in the software (which steal your bandwidth) , no spyware.
  • AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 518  - With AVG 6.0 Free Edition and you will be able to use it without any limitations for life of the product. However you must agree to the AVG Free Edition license agreement and fill in the simple questionaire form.
  • WinZip 9.0 Beta 2 build 5611 - Improvements in WinZip 9.0 (what's new ~ download) concentrate on its core functionality: compression, capacity, and a new, advanced data encryption capability. Using WinZip 9.0, you can compress more data, compress it better, and protect your sensitive documents with far greater security.
  • Hmonitor 4.1.3.3 - Hardware Sensors Monitor has been updated to version 4.1.3.3. Hmonitor has much more functions than MotherBoard Monitor, for example, including thermocontrol features and COM/PerfMon API support (quoted from the author).
  • Plextore Firmwares - Plextore Europe has released a new firmwares for PX-708A and PlexWriter Premium(-U) V1.04. More information can be found on the Plextor website.
  • nVidia 51.75 Detonator Driver *BETA* - 3dChipset has posted the Detonator 51.75 for your download pleasure. Files are dated: Aug 28, 2003. Checl also this article at TechConnect called "nVidia Answers the Detonator 51.75 leak"
  • GamersDepot on Detonator 50 Drivers - NVIDIA's Det50's don't quite grab the high-needed performance boost we had hoped for - granted they still have some time to improve upon them. However, we can now conclude as to why NVIDIA wanted Valve to use these in the recent testing we did in Half-Life 2 - they make the image quality look like crap as a way to boost performance.  The choice for which graphics card to buy is quite clear to us. Do you want to buy a video card that uses DX9 "Smoke and mirrors" to emulate performance, or one that provides best-of-class performance and image quality in one package. You'd truly have to be a NVIDIA fan-boy to buy one of their cards given the current state of affairs.

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