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Internet rumour mongering outlawed in China 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Those crazy totalitarian communist dictators in China
have decreed by law that people posted “defamatory comments” on the internet can be fined for doing so. This is the latest in an ongoing struggle in China to regulate the internet, which by it’s very nature should be a free platform to air views and share ideas. [...] Read more:Internet
, rumour
, outlawed
Apple posts Record Breaking Mac 4Q Sales 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Apple this week reported 4th quarter earnings of $546 million in net profit on $4.84 billion in revenue, along with stellar sales of 1.61 million Macs and 8.729 million iPods. The sales of Apple’s Macintosh computers represented a 30% increase over the same period last year, and pushed Apple to an estimated 6.1% market [...] Read more:Apple
, posts
, Record
, Breaking
, Sales
MP wants to rid YouTube of violent videos 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A couple of British politicians are up in arms about online videos
of random acts of violence, and want “legal controls” to curb their spread. Yesterday, Commons leader Jack Straw argued for such measures to be added to the Violent Crimes Bill up for discussion next week.
He was responding to Labour representative Iain Wright, who [...] Read more:wants
, YouTube
, violent
BT signs prime deals for TV on demand 0000-00-00 00:00:00 BT has signed three new partners for its forthcoming BT Vision TV on demand
service.
New deals with MTV, Paramount Comedy and Nickelodeon will allow users to view programmes such as Punk’d, Pimp My Ride, SpongeBob Squarepants, Rugrats, Drake and Josh, Jongleurs Unleashed, The World Stands Up and South Park.
“This deal with BT Vision reinforces our commitment [...] Read more:signs
, prime
Firefox 2 to be released on Tuesday 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The new version of the increasingly popular rival to Internet Explorer, Firefox
, is to be released on Tuesday
next week. The new version, version 2, will feature built-in phishing protection, inline spell checking and many updates and tweaks to existing features.
This news comes exactly as previously expected after the release of Internet Explorer 7 last [...]
YouTube begins cleansing as 30,000 videos are removed 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Ever-popular video sharing site YouTube
has begun ridding itself of copywritten content by removing 30,000 videos
at the request of Japanese rights holders.
This is the first blow to YouTube since the recent £1billion acquisition of the site by Google. To top it off, Ars Technica is reporting that the same Japanese rights holders are also [...] Read more:cleansing
, removed
Google sees third-quarter profits double to £390m 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Internet search leader Google
has announced that its third
-quarterprofits
have double
d since last year. The figure for this time last year was standing at a cool £200million, but is dwarfed by this years figure of £390million.
This huge growth is all thanks to the continuing success of Google’s main source of income, advertising. Google’s total [...]
PlayStation 3 controller battery is not replaceable 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A report over at GWN announced that the built-in rechargable batteries that ship inside Sony’s new controller
for the PS3, is irreplaceable. The battery
will last for around 30 hours of gameplay before needing a recharge.
While this doesn’t pose an immediate amount of disatisfaction, when the controller needs the battery changing due to natural wear [...] Read more:PlayStation
Is your XP pirated? Then you can't have IE7… yet. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7 is downloadable from Microsoft’s website, as of this morning. This long, long awaited update - or dare I say “overhaul” - is a critical update to anyone who currently runs Internet Explorer 6. But if you’re running a pirated
copy of Windows XP, or if you’re one of the unlucky [...]
No Windows XP Service Pack 3 Until… 2008! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Microsoft previously announced that the next service pack for its Windows
XP operating system would be coming out in mid-2007. The date has now slipped back more than a year, and is now due in the first quarter of 2008.
No report or announcement has been given as to why this date is now so much [...] Read more:Service
, Until
, Service Pack
First IE7 vulnerability found already. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Insecurity firm Secunia, has already found an insecurity in newly unleashed IE7
The vulnerability
can be exploited to disclose potentially sensitive information the firm says, though it gives it just two out of five on its criticality meter.
An exasperated Thomas Kristensen, CTO of Secunnia says, “It is the half-year old information disclosure vulnerability which allows malicious [...] Read more:First
The Queen wants Palace-wide WiFi and a new website 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Queen
of England is advertising for an IT professional in her palace. For the offered £80,000 a year salary, the applicant must be capable of setting up a Palace
-wide wireless WiFi
network for 900 computers, and managing all IT goings-on within Buckingham Palace.
A concurrent advertisement offers £30,000 a year for a professional web-designer who [...] Read more:wants
, website
Major credit card firms ban payments to Allofmp3.com 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The top two worldwide credit
card firms
, Visa International and Mastercard Inc., are putting a stop to all payments going to Allofmp3.com. Visa is asking banks not to process any payments for purchases of music from the site. A Mastercard spokesperson said, “MasterCard does not tolerate the use of its network for illegal activity,”.
The illegal [...] Read more:Major
Internet Explorer 7.0 Final released. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Publisher’s Description:
InternetExplorer
7 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic security protection, and more.
Internet Explorer
7 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search [...] Read more:Final
Wikipedia co-founder plans Wikipedia rival, Citizendium 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Larry Sanger, one of the co-founder
s of Wikipedia
, is planning on launching a rival
to the popular user-contributed encyclopaedia, called Citizendium
. Sanger left Wikipedia on March 1st, 2002, and complains that the inaccuracies contained in its articles bring down the credibility and usefulness of the site. The former paid-Wikipedia employee will start up a newer, [...] Read more:plans
Linux comes to PS3 sooner than you think. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Terra Soft’s Yellow Dog Linux
v5.0 will be released for PlayStation 3 in mid-November, the company announced this week.
Yes, this means you’ll be able to use your PlayStation 3 as a computer as well as all the things Sony’s already offering - and it’s all done with the platform holder’s backing too.
What’s more, if you [...] Read more:comes
, sooner
, think
A few Ipods breaking some Windows. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A small number of recently released Video Ipods
have been found to carry a Windows
only virus.
Taken from the official Apple site:
We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known [...]
Canis Canem Edit, bullied out of PC World. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Major electronics retailers PC World
, Currys and Dixons have refused to stock controversial Rockstar title Bully, renamed Canis Canem Edit in Europe.
All owned by DSG International, the group has confirmed the title will not be on sale in High Street stores PC World and Currys Digital, as well as online outlet Dixons.co.uk.
“We have no plans [...]
AllOfMp3.com's CEOs get sued, days numbered 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The International Music Industry Body has launched legal action against two of the site’s directors, Vadim Mamotin and Denis Kvasov (see picture), to halt operations. Run by the Moscow company MediaServices, Allofmp3 does not pay any royalties and is illegal.
It is estimated that the company rakes in £20million a year, of which it gives none [...]
Orange broadband hit by outages 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The broadband
service run by mobile firm Orange
is experiencing a “major” national outage. The problem occurred on Monday afternoon, affecting 100,000 broadband subscribers at its peak.
A spokesperson for the company said the fault on the service, formerly known as Wanadoo, was caused by a “network equipment failure”.
Orange said they [...]
Valve Release Source Engine for Xbox 360 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Valve, the makers of the Half Life games have released a version of thier Source
game engine for the Xbox
360. Source is the engine behind best selling PC game Half Life 2 and offers advanced graphics as well as very advanced physics. Valve have said that the Xbox 360 version is fully optimised around [...] Read more:Valve
, Release
, Engine
Lenovo Offers Biometric Hard Drives 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo
, who last year took over the manufacturing and design of IBM PCs after IBM decided to pull out of the market that they created, are to offer hard drives that have thier entire content is biometrically protected. This is an extension of the biometric protection already offered on T series IBM [...] Read more:Offers
, Biometric
MySpace confronts YouTube 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Changes made to the MySpace
site over the weekend are perhaps the first sign that Rupert Murdoch intends to make good his claim to ‘crush YouTube
in 60 -70 days’.The MySpace home page has now acquired four new links in the prime top left hand corner displaying links to popular MySpace videos.
In addition, according to [...]
Music industry renews legal war against file-sharers 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The music industry
has recommenced its legal
assault on p2p file sharing with the announcement of more than 8,000 cases against
alleged sharers in 17 countries.Internet users in three countries, Brazil, Mexico and Poland, are being targeted for the first time. The IFPI, the major record companies international umbrella group, estimates that in Brazil alone, [...] Read more:Music
, Music industry
Games already filling 25GB Blu-Ray discs - Harrison 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Launch titles for the PlayStation 3 are already “getting up close” to the 25GB limit on current Blu-Ray discs, according to Sony’s worldwide studios boss Phil Harrison
, who was responding to criticism of the PS3’s adoption of Blu-Ray.
“Already, at our launch titles, we’re getting up close to the 25GB limit that we have on our [...] Read more:Games
, filling
Truphone brings VoIP to Nokia N80 0000-00-00 00:00:00 New mobile operator Truphone’s application that provides free calls to Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones is now available on Nokia
’s N80.
The service, which launched in beta last month, was previously available only on Nokia’s E-Series handsets.
“Support for Nokia’s N80 brings true mobile VoIP to the mass market and gives Truphone genuine consumer appeal,” said James Tagg, chief [...]
Firefox 2 Release Candidate 3 available 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Mozilla has made the final test version of Firefoxavailable
for public beta testing. New features include:
Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
Faster browser navigation.
Drag and drop for browser tabs.
Improvements to popup blocking.
Clear Private Data feature.
Answers.com added to search engine list.
Descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, and RSS discovery.
Better accessibility support.
Report a broken Web site wizard.
Better [...] Read more:Release
, Candidate
Toshiba wants damages for Sony battery shame 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The repercussions of the Sonybattery
recall programme rumble on. Toshiba
may now be seeking compensation from Sony, over and above the cost of returning goods, reports Reuters.While Sony has already said it would pay for the recall costs, Toshiba is looking for wider compensation, according to the news agency. A company spokesman has stated [...] Read more:wants
, damages
, shame
Apple to release two iPhone models, one with WiFi 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Apple Computer plans to introduce two iPod-based cell phone models
in the first quarter of 2007 that it will initially manufacture in limited quantities, says one analyst.
In a research note released to clients on Monday, Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora said his checks indicate that one model will be a smart phone, including integrated [...] Read more:Apple
, WiFi
, iPhone
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