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2. Francais2.1 Akihabara3. ClubicPlus rapide, plus sûr, plus efficace ? Bien que nous ne soyons pas revenus aux temps de la campagne de lancement de Windows Vista, c'est la promesse que font les ingénieurs en charge du développement de [...] Aujourd'hui, Dell complète sa gamme d'ordinateurs Vostro en y ajoutant deux nouveaux portables et deux nouvelles tours. Selon la compagnie, ces machines répondront à un besoin croissant des petites entreprises [...] On ne change visiblement pas une formule qui marche chez Paradox Interactive. Après nous avoir proposé Europa Universalis : Rome en juillet dernier, le développeur suédois travaille effectivement sur une [...] C'est en avril dernier que Psystar a commencé à commercialiser son ordinateur baptisé « Open Computer », une machine sur laquelle la procédure d'installation du système d'exploitation de Mac OS X est [...] Annoncée en juin dernier, la version PC de Burnout Paradise a très peu fait parler d'elle durant la Games Convention de Leipzig. Si l'on en croit certains de nos confrères, Electronic Arts aurait cependant [...] Alors même que Far Cry 2 se fait attendre, les développeurs d'Ubisoft Montréal ont lâché les premières informations concernant la suite des événements. Ainsi, nos confrères de Videogaming247 ont obtenu [...] Si vous utilisez les services de Google, et plus particulièrement Google Documents ou Google Reader, alors peut-être avez-vous installé Gears. Ce petit programme permet d'accéder à ses données en mode [...] Alors que nombre de périphériques sont renouvelés tous les semestres (on pense notamment aux appareils photo numériques), d'autres – fort rares -, se signalent au contraire par une grande pérennité : c'est [...] Dire de BioWare qu'il est un studio réputé fleure bon l'euphémisme. Depuis maintenant des années, l'équipe canadienne collectionne effectivement les best sellers et la critique ne tarit pas d'éloges sur [...] Pour enrayer la distribution de copies illégales de Windows XP, Microsoft a changé son système de notification WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage).
La mise à jour sera distribuée cette semaine via Windows [...] Sherlock Holmes : La Nuit Des Sacrifiés est sorti au mois de novembre 2006. Le titre du studio Frogwares va connaitre une nouvelle jeunesse en proposant une toute autre façon de (re)vivre cette aventure [...] A partir du 25 septembre prochain, les utilisateurs du site d'enchères, Ebay, pourront observer de nouveaux changements. Au menu : une évolution des tarifs, un statut professionnel reconnu et une optimisation [...] La nouvelle collection automne 2008 de Canon comprend deux caméscopes haute définition, les HG20 et HG21. Ces deux modèles sont équipés d'un disque dur d'une capacité de respectivement 60 et 120 Go et [...] Les hypothétiques soucis d'optimisation de Windows Vista face aux supports de stockage SSD n'empêchent pas les fabricants de concevoir de nouveaux produits. Réputés plus performants et plus économes que [...] Alors que Linux se démocratise de plus en plus sur les PC et les netbooks, le voilà qui vient s'installer sur les consoles de jeux! Voici donc la Wiz, développée par GlimpsePark, une console open source.
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A Vampyre Story (Autumn Moon)Deuxième vidéo de présentation (WMV - 1024x768 - 1 min 40) pour A Vampyre Story, un jeu d'aventure point & click à venir sur [...] L'outil de suggestion de mot clé en temps réel de Google s'est officiellement installé dans le moteur de recherche. Le géant de l'internet a effectivement annoncé par le biais d'un billet sur son blog [...] Tout juste annoncé par nVidia, en marge du salon Nvision 2008, le GeForce 9400 GT, dernière référence de la firme, est d'ores et déjà adopté par quelques fabricants dont MSI, Point of View ou Galaxy, [...] Adaptée au cinéma par Enki Bilal lui-même, la trilogie Nikopol lorgne aujourd'hui avec insistance du côté du jeu vidéo avec une adaptation du premier volet, La Foire aux Immortels, confiée aux Français [...] Dans le même temps que sept nouveaux multifonctions jet d'encre, Canon dévoilait hier deux nouvelles imprimantes PIXMA : les iP3600 et iP4600. Toutes deux sont des imprimantes photo de type A4 qui mettent [...] Tout en essayant de déterminer quelle sera la nature du navigateur de demain, la Fondation Mozilla s'essaie déjà à de nouvelles technologies. Après un plugin permettant de transformer le navigateur en [...] Déjà en son temps, le D80 disposait d'une fiche technique intéressante pour un appareil de catégorie amateur grâce à ses nombreux emprunts aux modèles de gamme supérieure (viseur large et lumineux, processeur [...] A Vampyre Story nous a donné de ses nouvelles lors de la Games Convention de Leipzig qui s'est terminée il y a peu. Nous avons eu droit à de nouvelles images ainsi qu'à une vidéo. Ce jeu d'aventure point [...] Fraîchement revenue de la Games Convention 2008, la Rédaction vous propose un aperçu vidéo du plus grand salon de jeux vidéo du monde. Entre les stands des éditeurs/constructeurs qui rivalisaient d'opulence, [...] En marge de l'EOS 50D présenté hier, Canon a également lancé dans le cadre de sa collection automne 2008 quatre nouveaux compacts numériques. Les PowerShot A1000 IS, A2000 IS et SX110 IS remplacent respectivement [...] L'agent du FBI Nicole Bonnet vient tout juste d'en terminer avec sa première traque au tueur en série qu'elle doit déjà remettre le couvert dans Art Of Murder : Hunt For The Puppeteer , un jeu d'aventure [...] Si les allées de la Games Convention auront été l'occasion d'admirer un Duke Nukem plus vrai que nature, 3D Realms est resté à l'écart du salon de Leipzig et durant ces quelques jours, il n'a donc pas [...] Avec ses 203 000 visiteurs en cinq jours, la Games Convention édition 2008 est devenu le premier salon dédié au jeux vidéo du monde. Une nouvelle qui a évidemment donné du baume au cœur des organisateurs [...] Difficile de faire l'impasse sur l'un des phénomènes marquants de ce nVision 08, à savoir la prolifération de démonstrations technologiques autour de la 3D stéréoscopique. Jen-Hsun Huang a d'ailleurs donné [...] Le nVision 08 permet au géant des logiciels, Microsoft, de présenter dans les grandes lignes les nouveautés de la future version de son API graphique, DirectX. Succédant logiquement à DirectX 10 et 10.1, [...] Après nous être entretenu avec Jen-Hsun Huang et Chris Malachowsky, les co-fondateurs historiques de NVIDIA, nous avons pu discuter avec Jeff Fisher, vice-président de l'unité GPU et MCP de la firme de [...] A quelques jours de l'ouverture du nVision, le premier salon organisé par NVIDIA, les rumeurs allaient bon train sur la possibilité de voir ce dernier annoncer un processeur x86. La rumeur n'est du reste [...] Alors que tout allait bien ces dernières années pour la firme au caméléon, la situation s'est subitement dégradée, et ce en l'espace de quelques semaines, avec d'une part le retour sur le devant de la [...] A l'occasion du nVision 08, le salon des technologies de l'informatique visuelle, NVIDIA présentait sur son stand quelques logiciels grands publics en cours de développement et tirant parti de CUDA. Rappelons [...] La concentration est en marche. Iliad, maison mère de Free, a annoncé mardi soir dans un communiqué avoir finalisé l'acquisition de la branche française de Telecom Italia, Liberty Surf Group SAS, plus [...] En marge du nVision 08, NVIDIA annonce le lancement d'une nouvelle référence dans sa gamme de cartes graphiques entrée de gamme avec la sortie du GeForce 9400 GT. Au format PCI-Express 16x, la carte supporte [...] A en croire Dave Morin, directeur de plateforme chez Facebook, le réseau social aurait atteint les 100 millions d'utilisateurs actifs. L'annonce reste très officieuse car celle-ci a été publiée sur son [...] Depuis SimCity 4, il y a déjà cinq ans de cela, on ne peut pas dire que les amateurs de city builder en aient vraiment eu pour leur argent. Nous avons bien eu droit à quelques sympathiques tentatives de [...] Dans une note publiée le 22 août dernier, Red Hat, éditeur et distributeur de solutions basées sur Linux, a annoncé que certains de ses serveurs avaient été piratés. La compagnie souligne que son système [...] Un opérateur a-t-il l'obligation contractuelle d'assurer à ses abonnés les débits maximum théoriques correspondant aux normes techniques dont il se réclame dans sa communication ? La question pourrait [...] Une fois n'est pas coutume, Electronic Arts et Maxis ne prennent pas aujourd'hui la parole pour faire la promotion de la phase « créatures » de leur prochaine création, Spore. Très ambitieux, ce titre [...] Autrefois, nos ordinateurs bien-aimés se contentaient d'occuper nos bureaux. Aujourd'hui, de nombreuses personnes ont déjà franchi le cap du mediacenter. De quoi s'agit-il ? Pour ceux et celles qui ne [...] S'inscrivant dans une nouvelle stratégie visant à étendre sa gamme, Canon dévoile aujourd'hui l'EOS 50D, un nouveau reflex numérique expert qui vient en complément et non en remplacement de son ainé l'EOS [...] Lexmark présente aujourd'hui trois nouvelles imprimantes multifonctions jet d'encre destinés aux étudiants et aux familles. Les modèles se déclinent ainsi :
le X4950, un 3-en-1 avec Wi-Fi ;
le X6650, [...] Telle une licence sportive, Need For Speed revient chaque année pour nous proposer, encore et toujours, d'avaler du bitume. Monde ouvert dans Most Wanted, tuning dans Underground, course simple dans d'autres [...] Asus a officialisé ses nouveaux netbooks, les Eee PC 901 et 1000H. Les deux modèles embarquent désormais un processeur Intel Atom. Ils affichent une meilleure autonomie ainsi qu'une plus grosse capacité [...] Depuis le début de l'été, les bonnes nouvelles n'en finissent pour Warhammer Online : Age Of Reckoning qui a d'abord été l'objet de nombreuses présentations avant que la bêta fermée ne prenne le relais. [...] Avec ces multifonctions entrée de gamme, on perd logiquement en fonctionnalités par rapport aux modèles milieu et haut de gamme, ce qui s'explique par la recherche du meilleur rapport qualité / prix. [...] En choisissant Adriana Karembeu comme nouvelle égérie de la marque, Virgin Mobile, filiale de Omer Telecom, a annoncé ses nouveaux forfaits pour la rentrée 2008.
Selon une étude de l'opérateur alternatif, [...] Alors que la bêta 2 d'Internet Explorer 8, la prochaine version du navigateur Internet de Microsoft, est attendue pour les jours à venir, les responsables du projet lèvent le voile sur l'une des fonctionnalités [...] [+ desc][+ titles]
4. News letter online.netSuivez la rédaction de la newsletter pendant la semaine... L'iPhone 3G semble connaitre un grand succès dans le monde entier, mais c'est surtout la pénurie mondiale de ces appareils qui le laissent supposer (le seul chiffre de vente officiel provient de T-Mobile, avec 120.000 unités vendues en un mois et demi, dont 75.000 en Allemagne alors qu'il s'en été écoulé 75.000 en sept mois) ...
Hasbro a lancé une action en justice pour violation de la propriété intellectuelle contre les développeurs de Scrabulous, un clone du jeu Scrabble (dont Hasbro détient les droits) qui est dédié aux utilisateurs de Facebook ... Terry Childs, 43 ans, le responsable du réseau FiberWAN de la ville de San Francisco (réseau qui contient en particulier les détails des fiches de paye des employés de la ville et des documents de police confidentiels), avait eu la bonne idée de mettre en place un système d'alerte sur sa fiche personnelle en cas de modification ... Coup de tonnerre sur la Commission Copie Privée. Le Conseil d'Etat, saisi par le Simavelec, vient de donner raison à l'association des fabricants, en estimant que la méthode de calcul de la redevance était illégale, car contraire à l'article L. 311-1 du code de la propriété intellectuelle, qui indique que « la redevance pour copie privée ne peut légalement compenser que la perte de revenus liée à l'usage licite de la copie privée » ... Mauvaise nouvelle pour Numéricable. Un amendement au projet de loi sur la Loi de Modernisation de l'Economie supprimerait un précédent amendement soutenu par le gouvernement, qui autoriserait les câblo-opérateurs à installer de la fibre optique dans les immeubles ... Le filtrage du web fait son chemin, y compris aux USA. Trois des plus importants FAI américains (Verizon, Sprint et Time Warner Cable) ont annoncé qu'ils bloqueront l'accès à des sites et des groupes de discussions proposant du contenu pédophile. Soit. Mais plus inquiétant, la position de départ tangue dangereusement vers un filtrage massif ... La loi Chatel est entrée en vigueur le 1er juin, et facilite les rapports entre les opérateurs, les FAI et les consommateurs. Elle met fin aux hot-lines surtaxées (le temps d'attente est en outre gratuit), le coût de la mise en relation doit être indiqué, les préavis de résiliation ne peuvent excéder 10 jours (tout comme la restitution des dépôts de garantie ... Retour de la newsletter après 3 semaines d'absence suite à des petits problèmes de disponibilité... C'est d'ailleurs l'occasion de vous annoncer que NewsLetterOnline.net vient de fêter ses 10 ans ! C'est en effet fin mai 1998 que la première newsletter a été envoyée. Le site n'est apparu qu'en mars 2000, afin d'y archiver l'ensemble des newsletters. Quoi qu'il en soit, merci à tous, chers lecteurs de NewsLetterOnline.net, pour votre fidélité ! ... L'éditeur d'adwares et de spywares Zango a décidé d'attaquer en justice l'éditeur d'antivirus Kaspersky. La raison ? Zango estime que l'antivirus en question doit être classé comme un malware, car il efface ses spywares sans prévenir les utilisateurs ! Zango est même soutenu par la National Business Coalition on e-commerce and Privacy ... De l'intérêt de faire des sauvegardes… Dans le cadre d'une recherche d'informations sur la guerre en Irak, la Maison Blanche a annoncé à des enquêteurs être dans l'incapacité de mettre la main sur pas moins de 5 millions d'e.mails, suite à la migration du serveur de mail de Lotus Notes à Microsoft Exchange ... [+ desc][+ titles]
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Do you have any SEO tips for bloggers?  Wow, it seems like even the beloved Google has become a type of security threat. Phishing has just become as easy as a Google search. And so, it appear that the Live.com has taken its permanent place among the icons of the Internet. In short, MSN Search is no more. Bet Google never saw this one coming! It seems that Google is in a fight for the right to use Gmail. And yet some how, I am willing to bet that they’ll find way to win. So why in the world would Acer and Yahoo possibly have a desire to team up on a project. Oh, the answer to this might just surprise you. »
[+] Next Wave: DabbleIf someone wants to start-up a new company that would really excite me, how about one that helps to me to recall a particular song based on my voice in a mic singing the melody. Until then, Dabble offers us something else to consider… OK, why would anyone want to participate? No seriously, not just the reasons Google is offering, I mean in the real world. According to MarketWatch, Google has seen better summers. In reality, it feels more like the search giant leveled off rather than slumped, but maybe it’s just me? Google is invading Japan! Well, with their video, anyway. Hipcast has been in this market for sometime, wonder what took Google so long? What makes Google UK different from that of the Google here in the US? Apparently, its indexing… Speaking as an AdWords kind of guy, this is a great thing indeed! Ajax can bring so much to an endeavor, so adding it to AdWords is not all that surprising. This is a great deal for the folks over at Microsoft. Seriously, I mean is there any real question that allowing this ad deal to go through would be great for both companies? AOL has a craptastic record in general, so the fact that researchers are less than excited about wanting to use their search logs should come as no surprise. So does Yahoo’s latest actions (among that of others) mean that they are crossing the line in their efforts to generate revenue. Or instead, would it be better to allow them to discover what works best for them as they companies like this remain unchecked? Apparently Google is trying to position their video service into the mainstream spotlight as they toss the much more valued Froogle into the back seat. Google is getting into the coupon business, even if many of us are growing a little leery of this move. From search engine to everything engine, Google is now running as a WiFi service, too! Serving as a search engine for MySpace is not small deal, let me tell you. AOL does it again with leaked search engine queries. No rest of the unfortunate I suppose… Blogger has been unchained in China recently. Still, there are still a number of problems that remain in question. Tired of business travel? Conduct meetings online with GoToMeeting instead. We've been using it for quite some time for both personal and professional projects - it's worked like a charm! If you're an independent consultant, you owe it to your clients to start using collaboration software for Web-based interaction.
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From the No Squiggy dept.: The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installer images, we are now prepared to release live images within the regular Lenny release process. This is the first official release of Debian Live and the whole team has been working hard during the past 2.5 years to make Debian's own live systems become a reality.
From the "Illegally Accessed" dept.: Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed. The intrusion into the servers was quickly discovered, and the servers were taken offline. Security specialists and administrators have been working since then to analyze the intrusion and the extent of the compromise as well as reinstall Fedora systems. We are using the requisite outages as an opportunity to do other upgrades for the sake of functionality as well as security. Work is ongoing, so please be patient. Anyone with pertinent information relating to this event is asked to contact fedora-legal redhat com [fedora-announce-list]
From the SAMBA dept.: Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. are announcing an incremental investment in their relationship to meet accelerating customer demand for their business model solution, which is designed to build a bridge between open source and proprietary software to deliver interoperability and intellectual property (IP) peace of mind for organizations operating mixed-source IT environments. The investment focuses on enhanced programs from Novell to provide tools, support, training and resources for customers seeking an enterprise-class Linux* platform and specifically, the optimal interoperability solution between Microsoft Windows Server and SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server from Novell(R). It also includes Microsoft's commitment to purchase up to $100 million in certificates that those customers can redeem for expanded support from Novell that includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support and support for moving toward an enterprise-class Linux platform. The investments will take effect Nov. 1, 2008, and between now and then Microsoft and Novell will solicit customer input and identify aspects of the support programs that will be most useful to organizations running mixed-source environments.
From the The New Battleground dept.: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard. The ISO and IEC technical boards approved the publication of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the official name for the OOXML specification, the ISO said Friday. The spec is expected to be published within the next few weeks after the standards bodies complete the final processing of the document, provided there are no further appeals against the decision.
From the Smells Like a Breach dept.: The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance. We're still assessing the end-user impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems. We'll share updates as we develop more information.
From the With Teeth dept.: There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. This is a highly significant opinion that will greatly bolster the efforts of the open source community to control the use of open source software according to the terms set out in open source licenses.
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[+] PHP 4.4.9, EOL PHP4
From the Good Night Sweet Prince dept.: The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.9. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last PHP 4.4 release.
From the Standards dept.: Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he'll tell you that it's having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and ... you get the idea. The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make ISVs and other programmers start to love developing for Linux. AppChecker, now in beta 3, is a downloadable open source Linux program. Once installed, the program shows you a Web page, the LSB Database Navigator. Here, you click on the Application Check link. This presents you with a Web form interface to fill out. In this form, you'll enter a name for your report and Name field, and in the Components field you'll enter the file path for your application. Next, enter the application's individual files, directories, installed RPM packages (prepended with pkg:),; RPM and .deb package files, and tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. To make this manageable, click on the Select Application Components button so you can enter each item in a separate field. Next, select the LSB Version and LSB Profile you want to test against.
From the On Message dept.: Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks and web discussions. 'Snowl' enables users to prioritise messages by importance and have a search-based interface for message retrieval, according to Mozilla developer Myk Melez.
From the I'm Old & Hate It. dept.: Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora. The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future.
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5.3 The Register HeadlinesBT insists orders will be deliveredOnline retailer Dabs.com has told customers to hang fire for a few days while orders due to be delivered by Amtrak are reassigned to another courier.? To Guam and beyondIt looks like Google is prepping another underwater comms cable.? Rent due again?Suing communication providers over alleged patent infringements has worked pretty well for Judah Klausner.? The semantics of force feedbackMicrosoft and the force-feedback technology firm, Immersion, appear to have come to final terms after six years of suing each other.? It's easy. Those tubes are bustedMore evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.? Chinese Democracy, American ExtremismThe FBI has arrested a 27-year-old American blogger for leaking some unreleased Guns N' Roses tunes to the internet.? SQL tools plug gapsWhat was seen as a major hole in Google's MapReduce database technology has been plugged, not once but twice. In the same week.? German spies Phenom X2Quite contrary to rumors AMD scrapped its plans to bring dual-core K10 parts to the market, the chip maker may have already begun selling the line to its partners on the sly.? A road map for regulators of the futureGetting a head start on the world's antitrust regulators, an astute Finn is offering a bastardized version of Google's search engine that ignores sites served up by Google itself.? Parlez-vous GoogleTalk? Er, noAndroid developers have admitted that Google's mobile phone platform won't support GoogleTalk in its first version, and that Bluetooth support will be severely limited.? Peterborough AttacksA small British company developing a unique form of hovering aircraft says it will soon demonstrate a new and much more serious version of its technology.? More false positives ahoy?Microsoft wants to rein in more Windows XP pirates over the coming weeks, by pushing out a new version of its ?nagware? which detects when a machine is running a fake copy of the OS.? Gore-Tex killer?UK company Plasma Product Innovations (P2i) today demonstrated a chemical process it claims can render any material 100 per cent waterproof.? 130 redundancies at A Novo UKA Novo UK, which services mobile phones, monitors and set-top boxes, is laying off at least 130 staff and closing its Manchester repair centre.? Unnecessary for fraud clampdownUK election scrutineers are pushing for polling stations to require tougher proof of identity to reduce the risk of ballot-rigging, but do not want voters to be forced to bring photo ID.? Handset sales continue to soarGlobal mobile phone sales will exceed 1.2bn handsets this year, although tough economic conditions are already biting into phone sales, market watcher Gartner has warned.? But UK punters still protectedThe Mobile Marketing Association has published its guidelines for advertising pushed over Bluetooth connections, and considers anyone who hasn't opted out to be fair game for spammers.? Modest GPS-enabled mobile from NokiaReview The upgraded successor to last year?s 6110 Navigator, the 6210 is a tidy slider-design handset, bearing more than a passing resemblance in looks and specs to the recently-launched 6220 Classic.? 'Off the record' browsing is goMicrosoft has outlined the new privacy tools available in its forthcoming browser Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).? Rum, sodomy and the lashAvast there and unfurl the Twat-O-Tron ye scurvy landlubbers of Middle England, lest Portsmouth Historic Dockyard make barrel boys of ye all, damn their eyes:? Push two keys to bypass passwordiPhones protected by a password aren't actually protected at all, as just by pressing a few keys a miscreant can access all the phone's functions without needing the password at all.? Playing with the big boys nowSerco is to acquire SI International, an IT reseller specialising in the US federal market, for $423m cash - a 40 per cent premium on SI's closing price on NASDAQ yesterday. Serco is also asssuming net debt of $87.3m, so the enterprise value of the deal is $510m - a multiple of 12.3 on forecast EBITDA for 2008.? Show us the money, says NASAPresidential contender John McCain and two other bigshot Republican senators have written to George Bush urging that NASA keep the Space Shuttle fleet alive beyond 2010. The politicians are concerned about US reliance on Russia for manned space transport in the early years of the next decade.? 32GB unit offers speed boostSamsung has begun punting a compact 32GB solid-state drive card at makers of Small, Cheap Computers.? Local gov hates marketeersMost local authority electoral officers support the information commissioner's recommendation to scrap the edited electoral roll, according to a new survey.? Vostro revampedDell still hasn't formally announced its Eee PC rival but it did at least unveil some cheap Linux machines today based on Intel's Atom processor - the forecast revamp to its Vostro budget business box line-up.? Jesusphone fails ASA testThe Advertising Standards Authority has told Apple UK not to show an advert which suggested the iPhone contained "all parts of the internet" any more.? Problems solved?The iPhone Dev Team has posted PwnageTool 2.0.3.1, a revised version of the iPhone hacking utility released yesterday then quickly removed.? 'A niche market'An army of online deal seekers has called for a boycott of Boffer.co.uk, after the "daily deal" site fooled them into coveting a non-existent bovine sex device.? Have you seen my identity?The number of personal information leaks reported in the US this year have already exceeded the total amount in all of 2007, San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center said today.? Stolen keys unlock back doorAttacks in the wild are under way against Linux systems with compromised SSH keys, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is warning.? »
[+] Houston, we have a virusWorm infects International Space Station laptopsA computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected.? Calls for death of Mac EULAPsystar, the company that sells open systems capable of running Mac OS X, plans to fight back against the copyright infringement lawsuit Apple has filed against it.? Microsoft not the only fruitEmbarcadero Technologies has updated its recently acquired CodeGear Rapid Application Development (RAD) suite and languages for Windows.? Modular Linux goodies returnHardware hackers can soon start building their own Linux gadgets with a fresh batch of Lego-like building blocks from Bug Labs.? 'You want savings? Pay us an extra hundred'US telco giant AT&T has announced two new international data plans for the Jesus Phone, saying they'll save Americans "hundreds of dollars" on journeys abroad. But we all know this is just another way for the company to hold your wallet hostage.? Entry-level replaces Fibre Channel with SAS
Music store returns - minus 'Songs for Tibet'The People's Republic has pardoned iTunes after access to the online music store was apparently blocked in reaction to selling a new Tibet-themed album during the Olympic games.? Stream ciphers easily split (maybe)Senior cryptologist Adi Shamir is developing a new attack for rooting out potential weaknesses in encryption ciphers, dubbed the Cube Attack.? A new lowWith a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.? Murders MurderdromeMurderdrome is a comic published exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which makes its removal from iTunes something of a problem for publishers Infurious and bodes badly for their comic-rendering application.? First they came for the mice; and I said nothingPentagon boffinry chiefs are on the verge of inking a deal which could see US forces equipped with "neuromorphic" imitation brain modules, each potentially as intelligent as a cat.? Bad weather, Olympics,
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Just 12 months after introducing the Celerra NS20, EMC has increased its capacity by 50 percent, and replaced its entry level role with a cheaper NX4 model.?