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December 31, 2004
LG Electronics Taiwan has announced plans to introduce about 20 new handset models in Taiwan next year. The new models will include between two to four third-generation (3G) WCDMA mobile phones. The launch of the new WCDMA mobile phones is expected to help LG. Electronics increase its market share in Taiwan to 6% in 2005, from the 3% it has now. To get the ball rolling LG. introduced the F2100, a GSM 900/1800, GPRS handset. Other features of the F2100 include a 1.86-inch 262,144 color TFT main display (128x160), 65,536-color sub-display (96x96) , 5MB built in memory, 3.5 hours talk time, 200 hours standby and built in VGA camera.
The F2100 measures 90x47x23mm and weighs 89g.
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Taipei 101 (world's tallest office building) has hired Ericsson to provide the indoor network which will incorporate different network technologies on different frequency bands, including GSM900, GSM1800, CDMA800, CDMA2000 and WCDMA in a common antenna system. State-of-the-art technology is deployed to ensure seamless coverage in the world's fastest elevators, traveling at a speed up to 1,000 meters per minute. The 508-meter (1,667-feet) skyscraper will hold its grand opening ceremony on December 31.
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Seven sites have been defaced by a worm which appears to combat the Santy worm according to the Security company F-Secure. The anti-Santy worm uses Google to find sites that use the PHP Bulletin Board software exploited by the earlier worm, anti- santy infects the sites and attempts to make the sites more secure by installing a patch. Sites that have been attacked by the anti-Santy worm are defaced with the words: "viewtopic.php secured by Anti-Santy-Worm V4. Your site is a bit safer, but upgrade to >= 2.0.11." According to Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure even though anti -santy appears to do good it is likely to cause problems administrators who will have to handle the increase in traffic.
via CNET
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ebay's recent announcement to no longer offer Microsoft's Passport services appears to have sent Microsoft over the edge. Microsoft has announced it will no longer push the Passport service to third party companies. The Passport system aimed to create one central system with credit card information which users could use on any site using the passport service, erasing the need for multiple user names and passcodes. Privacy groups and antitrust regulators did not like the idea of one central login, and in 2003 security experts unearthed a flaw that could have allowed scam artists to hijack older Passport accounts. Passport will continue to be the sign-on service for various Microsoft properties, including the Hotmail e-mail service and MSN.com.
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has started an investigation into seven incidents in which laser beams were directed into plane cockpits since Christmas. While pilots from time to time encounter laser beams that stray into the cockpit on approach to an airport, the volume and span of latest occurrences have some officials worried about an organized effort to take down planes. The FBI is probing two incidents in Colorado, and one each in Ohio, Washington, Texas, New Jersey and Oregon. Laser beams can temporarily blind or disorient pilots endangering a plane. There was no evidence of a terrorist plot to use laser beams as weapons so far, but pilots were troubled by the incidents, according to reports. Earlier this month, the FBI issued a warning that there was a possibility terrorists might use laser devices as weapons. Scientists discount the possibility that pilots are merely the victims of a laser pointer from an electronics store since the distance the Laser reached required a fairly sophisticated system.
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Sytem Technology ByuckHae Korea has developed a portable smart battery pack that extends talk-time, or battery life, of mobile handsets by 800 percent. The MPB 4000 lithium-ion cell portable battery pack has power capacity of 4,600-mAh about fourfold the 1,000-1,300-mAh capacity of regular rechargeable battery of cell phones. The portable cellular phone battery charger Mobile Saver MPB 4000 is touted as the world's first smart cellular phone-use portable smart battery pack.
Equipped with an in-house developed integrated circuit (IC) microchip, MPB 4000 identifies its chemistry and tells the charger which charge algorithm to apply while protecting the battery from overcharging, under-discharging and short-circuiting. Will be on display at Consumer Electronics Show 2005 Jan. 6 in Las Vegas.
The smart battery pack is planned for release next year, with an estimated lifecycle of 5 years, will sell at $60 per pack, the company said.
via Popgadget
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 BBC UK reports on possible long-term health damage to Workers in factories that make flat screen televisions. This news comes from Scientist after a 30 year old man developed a serious lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis) after being exposed to an aerosol containing indium-tin oxide (ITO) used in liquid crystal displays or plasma display panels for TVs, computers and video monitors. Doctors at Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo found tiny deposits of the metal in the man's lungs who worked on flat screen TVs for four years, during which time he was repeatedly exposed. According to a spokeswoman for the Information, Technology, Telecommunications and Electronics Association by the time the units reach the UK, they are totally sealed. "There is no health risk whatsoever to UK buyers."
Doctors who made the discovery called for more research on the possible toxic effects of ITO in order to protect industry workers against future health damage.
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PhoneArena reports on approval from the FCC for the Asus P505 PocketPC Phone Edition. The ASUS P505 features include a 2.8" 65k Transflective TFT display with 320 x 240 (QVGA) resolution , 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera with video capture and built-in flash , Bluetooth and IRDA , SD / MMC memory expansion slot with SDIO support , GPRS class 10 , Intel PXA270 416 MHz processor (version with 520 MHz CPU should able to available) , 64MB Flash ROM and 64MB SDRAM , MP3 and Video playback support and Microsoft ActiveSync application
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The Internet security company Netcraft has released a Internet Explorer plug-in toolbar that could help you escape the wrath of online fraud. Netcraft's plug-in toolbar displays information about the popularity of a site, the country in which the site is hosted and the Internet address of the site. It also indicates whether other toolbar users have flagged the site as a possible phishing scam which uses fake websites that look like they belong to a trusted provider to obtain credit card information, passwords etc.
Netcraft director Mike Prettejohn said the effectiveness of the toolbar will largely depend on how widely the software is adopted.
Download from Netcraft for Internet Explorer. A version for Firefox browser under development.
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A group of 26 wireless carriers and telecoms equipment makers, including Britain's Vodafone Group Plc, Cingular Wireless LLC, Germany's Siemens AG, France's Alcatel and Japan's NEC Corp. and DoCoMo have agreed to develop an advanced mobile phone standard capable of sending large files quickly, this move is in hopes of increasing demand for cellphones with a large displays for playing games and watching movies, and to help handset makers cut costs through mass production. Services based technology will offer transmission speeds more than 10 times as fast as the current third-generation (3G) service which offers about 2Mbps transmission peak. Specifications will be ready by 2007. no date has been set for a commercial launch.
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