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Facebook Chat rolled out 2008-04-07 03:55:51 As promised some time back, social networking website Facebook
is ready to offer its members an Instant Messaging system that’s simply known ‘Chat’. Now launched and awaiting use and evolution, Chat adds a bar at the bottom of the page (visible on all Facebook pages) that offers access to the IM-related ‘things’ - chat windows, [...]
Yahoo has a three week deadline says Microsoft 2008-04-07 03:14:25 On Jan. 31, Microsoft
offered to acquire Yahoo
for US$44.6 billion, or US$31 per share, in cash and stock. Yahoo’s board rejected the offer, which has since declined in value to US$29.36 per share because of a substantial drop in Microsoft’s share price.
Microsoft, having grown tired of chasing the approval of Yahoo directors, have now [...]
Nagios - Open Source Host, Service and Network Monitoring Program 2008-04-05 23:52:32 Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external [...] Read more:Source
, Service
, Program
Intel and Epic Games Launch “$1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest” 2008-04-05 06:29:02 Epic Games
, Inc., the award-winning developer of multimillion-selling games and the world’s leading game engine, Unreal
Engine 3, today announced plans to follow up the original “$1 Million Make Something Unreal Contest
” with an all new competition to include esteemed sponsor, Intel
Corporation. Winnings exceed $1 million in value, and consist of one coveted Unreal [...] Read more:Launch
Opera 9.27 Released 2008-04-05 06:22:14 After the release of Opera Mini for mobile phones two days ago, the Opera Software team today released Opera 9.27 for desktop PCs. Version 9.27 is a recommended security and stability upgrade for all Opera users. Changes in the web browser since Opera 9.26 include fixed BitTorrent transfer stability issue, solved stability issues with the [...]
Apple fixes critical QuickTime flaws 2008-04-03 23:58:40 Apple has issued an update for the Mac and Windows versions of QuickTime
.
The update addresses 11 vulnerabilities in the multimedia player software, nine of which could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on a target system.
All the flaws affect Windows XP and Vista systems. Eight of the vulnerabilities also affect the Mac [...] Read more:Apple
, critical
McAfee volunteers eat spam for 30 days 2008-04-03 23:07:19 McAfee is conducting a global survey into spamming habits by getting volunteers to sign up to every spam offer they receive.
The global Spammed Persistently All Month experiment will take place over 30 days.
Volunteers with new laptops will respond to every spam they receive, and make purchases, sign up for competitions and buy products online.
A record [...] Read more:McAfee
Built-in Quick Launch Hotkeys in Windows Vista 2008-04-03 06:07:58 I discovered something today which I found quite useful, and I think you might as well - built in hotkeys for the first 10 items in the QuickLaunch
toolbar.
The first 10 items in toolbar are assigned a number automatically from 1 to 9 with 0 representing 10.
For example, here is my toolbar:
1. Show Desktop
2. [...] Read more:Built
, Windows
, Vista
, Windows Vista
Firefox 3 beta 5 released 2008-04-03 05:45:32 Firefox 3 Beta 5 has just been released
and includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest [...] Read more:Firefox
Add Flip 3D Window Switcher to the Context (Right-Click) Menu 2008-04-01 23:13:39 Instead of having to use the keyboard (Window
s key + Tab) to access the Flip 3D window switcher, you can actually add the option to the right-click context menu. I can imagine this being absolutely useless to most as it isn’t exactly hard to access the Flip 3D window switcher as it is.
Anyway, if you’re [...] Read more:Switcher
, Context
, Right
, Click
nLite - Windows Installation Customizer 2008-04-08 04:19:28 Have you ever wanted to remove Windows
components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger and more from your Windows installation? Have you ever wanted to include Service Packs and/or other Windows updates in your installation? How about the integration of device drivers or even the creation of an unattended installation? If [...] Read more:nLite
, Installation
Telstra’s new submarine cable lands in Sydney 2008-04-08 03:55:00 Telstra and Alcatel-Lucent today demonstrated a new 9,000 kilometre submarine cable that will dramatically increase internet capacity between Australia and the United States.
The new cable, which will be landed at Tamarama Beach this week, can be scaled up to 1.28 Terabits* per second capacity between the two countries. At full capacity of 1.28 Terabits per [...] Read more:lands
, Sydney
Telstra talks up Next G network 2008-04-08 03:48:38 Telstra is talking up its Next G network
, claiming the wide coverage and data speeds of its Next G network could open up new opportunities for businesses across Australia to monitor and control remote sites without leaving their home or office.
According to Telstra this will come in handy for rural areas when it closes its [...]
Sony BMG Busted for Piracy 2008-04-08 01:01:06 Sony BMG is no stranger to piracy. As one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts, the company has some experience hunting down and punishing consumers who don’t pay for its products. The company is getting some experience on the other side of the table, however, now that it’s being [...] Read more:Sony
, Busted
Yahoo!’s Board of Directors Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter 2008-04-08 00:55:24 The Board
of Directors
of Yahoo
! Inc. today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft
Corporation.
Dear Steve:
Our Board has reviewed your most recent letter with regard to the unsolicited proposal you made to acquire Yahoo! on January 31, 2008.
Our Board carefully considered your unsolicited proposal, unanimously concluded that it was [...] Read more:Letter
Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage nag to Office 2008-04-10 00:00:27 Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new GenuineAdvantage
anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a “nag-like” feature, akin to what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office.
Office already currently includes an Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation mechanism (for Office XP and Office 2007), but Microsoft doesn’t do a whole [...] Read more:Microsoft
Seagate Delivers World’s First 1TB Drive with SAS Interface 2008-04-09 18:34:26 Seagate today announced it has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Barracuda® ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Applications addressing rich media content and collaborative applications like email can benefit from the average 135% performance boost over SATA-interface drives along with robust enterprise features and native compatibility.
“The explosion [...] Read more:Seagate
, World
, First
, Interface
Stolen Military Gear For Sale on eBay 2008-04-11 03:19:50 Stolen and sensitive U.S. military equipment, including fighter jet parts wanted by Iran and nuclear biological protective gear, has been available to the highest bidder on popular internet sales sites, according to congressional investigators.
Using undercover identities, investigators purchased a dozen defense-related items on the auction site eBay and the online network Craigslist from January 2007 [...] Read more:Military
Vista SP1 Pushed Out to Users 2008-04-11 03:14:09 Microsoft will begin pushing out Vista
SP1 to users via its Automatic Update service this week, following comments made by Bill Gates that suggested the next major Windows version might appear as early as next year.
Vista SP1 is already available for download via Microsoft’s Windows Update service, but the company has confirmed that the service [...] Read more:Pushed
Find All Active/Used IP Addresses on Your Network 2008-04-10 23:46:31 There is a really neat way that you can quite easily find all active/used IP Addresses on your network without the need for any third party applications or worse, pinging each IP Address individually.
Open the Command Prompt and type in the following:
FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 192.168.10.%i | FIND /i “Reply”>>c:\ipaddresses.txt
Change [...] Read more:Active
Advanced IP Scanner 2008-04-10 23:43:16 Advanced IP Scanner
is a fast, robust and easy-to-use LAN scanner for Windows. It easily lets you have various types of information about local network computers in a few seconds! It gives you one-click access to many useful functions - remote shutdown and wake up, Radmin integration and more! Powered with [...]
GPU-Z - Provides Information About Your Video Card and GPU 2008-04-10 08:39:08 GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed and developed by techPowerUp! to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
Main Features
Support NVIDIA and ATI cards
Displays adapter, GPU and display information
Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available)
Validation of results
No installation required
Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (both 32 and 64 bit [...] Read more:Video Card
Gillard defends email intercept 2008-04-14 01:26:30 Proposed laws to allow companies to snoop on their workers’ emails are needed to protect vital electronic infrastructure from terrorist attacks, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
The federal government is developing new counter-terrorism measures which include changes to the Telecommunications Act that would allow companies providing services critical to the economy to read workers’ emails.
The [...]
IBM Proposes the Death of Flash Memory and Hard Drives 2008-04-14 00:30:45 IBM’s Almaden Laboratory has been outlining a new form of memory that it says will replace both flash memory storage and platter-based hard drives.
The new memory is called racetrack memory and uses the boundaries in the magnetic fields of microscopic wires manufacture using nanotechnology. Electron spin is used to write code into the memory and [...] Read more:IBM
, Flash
, Memory
, Flash Memory
Apple to Fix Flickering MacBook Video Flaw 2008-04-15 03:24:29 Apple has acknowledged it has problems with the video software used in the latest shipment of MacBook
s and MacBook Pros.
Early customers of the Penryn refresh of the Apple notebooks had complained of flickering images during a QuickTime video playback on MacBooks and MacBook Pros shipping with the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard, according [...] Read more:Apple
High-Speed Cable Stretches 9000km to US 2008-04-14 22:45:29 The Telstra and Alcatel-Lucent 9000km submarine cable between Australia and the US that landed here last week will have to survive shark attacks and deliver 160,000 concurrent high-definition television channels to local homes.
Alcatel-Lucent’s ship, the Ile de Sein, began laying the cable between Sydney and Hawaii early this year. It’s expected to be operational at [...] Read more:Speed
, Cable
$9bn Broadband War to be Fought in Secret 2008-04-14 22:32:34 After a week of dithering, the federal Government has finally issued the documents for its single telecommunications policy: a new $9 billion plus fibre-to-the-node network.
The phoney war is over but the real one must be fought in record time. Most disturbingly, a large part the negotiations to spend $4.7 billion of taxpayer money may be [...]
Google Tackles Microsoft with Office 2008-04-14 22:30:14 By taking its most emphatic step so far towards a future in which web services supplant most of today’s software, Google
last week sent its clearest signal yet to Silicon Valley and Wall Street about where it is heading.
The test version of Google App Engine allows third parties to develop and deploy web applications that [...] Read more:Microsoft
Google Docs Goes Offline 2008-04-14 22:15:42 Google has moved one step deeper into Microsoft territory by enabling users of its Google Docs
online service to edit documents offline. It’s also dipping its corporate toes in Telstra BigPond waters.
Google Docs is a word processing tool that you access online, via a web browser.
It’s part of Google’s free online suite of office [...] Read more:Google
, Offline
Australians Steer Clear of Mobile Web 2008-04-14 22:10:55 Most Australians are reluctant to surf the web on their mobile phone, a new survey has found.
The survey, released by Sony Ericsson and 3 mobile, revealed that 91 per cent of respondents don’t use their phone for accessing the internet, believing it costs too much or offers a poor user experience.
It also found that 80 [...] Read more:Steer
, Clear
, Mobile
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