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May 29, 2005
HP, Dell and Lenovo are among the PC makers launching business desktops using Intel Corp.'s new dual-core Pentium D processor and accompanying chip set. Intel's new technology was announced Thursday in San Francisco. The desktop processor is the second dual-core desktop chip from the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker, and it comes less than a week before rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. launches its Athlon 64 X2 dual-core PC chip. The new platforms are designed to provide consumers the ability to do more with their digital content simultaneously, and better allow businesses to enhance PC security, system management and collaboration capabilities reports Intel.
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Tuesday in Multnomah County, Cecilia Barnes, 48, sued Yahoo Inc for $3 million , alleging the Internet site failed to fulfill a promise to remove nude pictures of her from the Web. Barnes claims an ex-boyfriend began posting unauthorized personal profiles of her containing the photos in December. The profiles included her e-mail address and work phone number reports Business Week.
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David Massy, a senior Microsoft program manager, said in his blog that users who install Netscape 8.0 and use IE to visit an XML file or XML file with an XSLT transformation applied, will get a blank page instead of the content they were after.
Massy gave two options for correcting the problem. One was uninstalling Netscape 8.0 and the other deleting the XML node from a Registry file called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerPluginsExtension.
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May 25, 2005
Members of the London Action Plan (LAP), the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and government agencies in 18 other countries, have launched Operation Spam Zombies - a campaign to help fight spam.
In a written appeal to the ISPs on Tuesday, the FTC has urged service providers to monitor the amount of e-mail sent from a computer and quarantine them if needed reports News Rating.
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May 24, 2005
Philips Electronics has announced a highly integrated, low-power solution that will make it easy for manufacturers to build hard disk drive (HDD) based portable audio players with optimal battery life. The PNX0106 is the latest addition to Philips' Nexperia Personal family of ICs for portable audio and multimedia players, and brings the superb audio quality of Philips' IC solutions for flash MP3 players to the HDD market.
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May 17, 2005
According to antivirus firm MessageLabs, thousands of Sober-infected machines under the control of the virus writer were instructed to download a new version of the program, called Sober-Q, that turned infected computers into spam machines over the weekend. The infected computers were told to send out hundreds of messages, mostly in German, linking to Web pages containing information on conservative German political issues. Many of the e-mails actually linked to real news stories, at Web sites like Der Spiegel Online.
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May 16, 2005
Sunday, Microsoft Corp., released the finalized version of its desktop search tool. The MSN Search Toolbar, which was introduced on a trial basis five months ago, provides a way to search for e-mail, documents and other data stored on hard drives much more quickly and efficiently than the "Find" function found in Windows reports Reuters. Users can search more than 200 different file types, including Excel, PowerPoint, MP3, GIF and JPG files. Google Inc. recently launched the finalized version of their desktop search tool, Yahoo's is still in beta.
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May 14, 2005
Thursday, Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, announced 'Windows OneCare' a new computer subscription service that would include Anti-virus and security updates for personal computers reports CNN. In addition to providing Anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall protection, Windows OneCare will include tools to keep PCs maintained. Employees at the Redmond, Wash.-based software company will test run 'Windows OneCare' to start, Microsoft plans to offer a trial, or beta, service for PCs running Windows later this year. Users would pay a yearly subscription fee. The price was not disclosed at the time of publishing.
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May 13, 2005
After a three-year war to have their new technology standards adopted by the industry and gain pole position in the multi-billion-dollar markets for DVD players, PC drives and optical discs, Japan's Sony and Toshiba, heading rival groups, look to unify next-generation DVD formats.
Sony's Blu-ray technology is backed by a group including Dell Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Philips Electronics NV and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., maker of Panasonic products.
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Under a nonexclusive deal, Philips will support the Windows Media digital content format as well as Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology (allows users to download songs and play them on various devices while protecting copyright holders from piracy and theft) in its portable music and video players. Philips said it will build support for Windows Media and DRM into its multimedia semiconductors, which are used in various devices, including digital music players, TV set-top boxes and video-enable mobile phones.
"I think we'll see big growth in this market," said Frans van Houten, President and Chief Executive of Philips Semiconductors, "Our collaboration is timely."
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