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0-day bug shatters Windows Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 06 November 2006

Windows 0-day VirusSecurity researchers have identified an unpatched vulnerability in Windows. The flaw - which affects all supported versions of Windows bar Windows 2003 - resides in a security bug in Microsoft XML Core Services, specifically an unspecified security bug in the XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control.

The flaw creates a means for hackers to inject malware onto the PCs of surfers running IE who visit a website hosting malicious code that attempts to harness the security bug. Security notification firm Secunia says that the vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers.

Source: The Register

 
K-Lite Codec Pack Update 11/06/06 Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 06 November 2006

K-Lite SoftwareK-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

This is a cumulative update for the latest version of the K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack.

K-Lite Codec Pack has the following other editions available: K-Lite Codec Pack Basic, K-Lite Codec Pack Standard and K-Lite Codec Pack Full.

Source BetaNews 

 
Google's New Frontier: Print Ads Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 06 November 2006

Google Google (GOOG) is rolling out its most ambitious print advertising initiative yet, an online marketplace that will let advertisers place bids on space in more than 50 major newspapers across the U.S.

The search giant will launch an alpha test of Google Print Ads this week. Since last fall, Google has tried at least three small-scale experiments with placing print ads in newspapers and magazines. Some of those earlier efforts were not well received (see BusinessWeek.com, 12/12/05, "Can Google Go Glossy?").

Source: BusinessWeek 

 
Sony will miss PS3 year-end shipment numbers Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Monday, 06 November 2006

Sony PS3GI.biz reports Electronic Arts CFO, Warren Jenson, says they don't believe Sony will hit their year-end PS3 shipment of 2 million consoles for North America and Japan. The North American shipment was to be between 1 and 1.2 million units. This 2 million target keeps being debated back and forth. A few weeks ago Sony had us spinning over a Bloomberg report (since pulled), that didn't jive with a Gamespot interview, to the point where the spin had become so bad, all we could confirm was a direct quote from Sony's Jack Tretton saying, "Sony Playstation 3 is in full production and our target quantities for North America remain unchanged ... We plan to have more than one million systems in North America by December 31, 2006"

 Source: JoyStiq

 
Internet adware firm in $3 million settlement Print E-mail
Submitted by shravan   
Sunday, 05 November 2006

Internet Adaware An Internet advertising firm called Zango Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that its pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of personal computers, federal regulators said on Friday.

 

As part of the settlement, Zango must give consumers a way to remove disruptive adware and is barred from future downloads of its adware without consumers' consent, the Federal Trade Commission said. "Consumers' computers belong to them, and they shouldn't have to accept any content they don't want," FTC consumer protection chief Lydia Parnes said in a statement.

 

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Source: Reuters

 

 

 
Microsoft removes transfer limitations from Vista Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Saturday, 04 November 2006

Windows VistaResponding to the myriad complaints over ambiguities and outright uncool (that's a technical term) licensing terms, Microsoft has revised the Windows Vista retail license to remove some of the most major causes of complaint. A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars Technica that the changes do indeed come in response to concerns from the PC enthusiast community. "We heard that users wanted more flexibility, and this change should give hardware enthusiasts in particular more latitude to upgrade their PCs or reassign their license to a new PC, while still making clear our intentions to protect our software from piracy," the spokesperson said.

A previous version of the Windows Vista retail license restricted the number of times you may transfer Vista from one device to another. The license read: "The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the 'licensed device.'"

Source: ArsTechnica 

 
Gmail launch mobile version Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Saturday, 04 November 2006
Gmail MobileGmail for Mobile, a downloadable gmail application for java-enabled phones, launches this morning at 5 AM PST. Previously, users were only able to access gmail via a mobile browser. But for java-enabled phones, using the Gmail for Mobile application will significantly speed email use.

The application requres a java-enabled phone and a data plan (other mobile devices can still access Gmail through the browser). To download the application, go to gmail.com/app and follow the instructions. You can also get a link to the download URL directly via a text message by going to mobile.google.com and entering your phone number.

Source: TechCrunch 

 
Red Hat forced to provide patent indemnification Print E-mail
Submitted by jamie   
Saturday, 04 November 2006

ImageStung by Oracle's entry into its Linux support market space and Novell's partnership with Microsoft, Red Hat has quietly sneaked in an indemnification guarantee for customers against any possible patent infringement claims.
 

Oracle and Microsoft have stung Red Hat with a double blow, both companies providing Linux users with assurances that they will be protected against intellectual property infringement lawsuits resulting from proprietary software blended with open source Linux.
Oracle, which announced last week that it would offer Red Hat customers support at half the price of Red Hat's services, also announced that it would imdemnify customers against patent infringement legal claims.

Microsoft, which on November 2 rocked the Linux world with the announcement of a partnership with Novell to promote Suse Linux, announced that it would not pursue any patent infringement claims against Suse Linux users.

 

View: Full Story (ITWire)

 
Microsoft to Promote Linux: The Details Print E-mail
Submitted by jamie   
Friday, 03 November 2006

ImageThe photograph alone is monumental: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, sharing a podium with their companies' respective logos adorning the wall behind them.

What they announced was nothing less than a redrawing of the battle lines in the operating system market. What could be a boon for enterprise system administrators may, at the same time, be a nightmare for Red Hat and IBM, the latter of which may not have felt this kind of sting since Microsoft first licensed DOS to another manufacturer.

And yet there was at least one reporter in the crowd in San Francisco this afternoon who didn't get it, and who admitted as much. Unashamedly asking the executives to please explain themselves in 45 seconds for the layperson what they had been discussing in detail for the previous 40 minutes. Ballmer rewound his tape and summarized as follows:

 

View: Full Story (BetaNews) 

 
Zune launches website Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Friday, 03 November 2006

Microsoft ZuneMicrosoft have launched the official Zune website.  Just in time for Christmas now let's see if it can break into the dominant world of the ipod.  

Zune™ is your connection to the world of media and to entertainment-loving people like yourself. Starting with 30 GB, Zune is easy to use and easy to love. Choose one of three colors−each combined with a distinctive double-shot finish. Wirelessly share select full-length audio files or pictures directly from Zune to Zune.

Zune Official Site 

 

 
Nintendo promises four million units for Wii launch Print E-mail
Submitted by actz   
Thursday, 02 November 2006

Nintendo Wii Nintendo claims that it is ready to pull off the largest worldwide videogame console launch in at least a decade, with around four million Wii systems being made available globally soon after its American launch. 

The games company will have four million units ready to ship during the six weeks between Wii's 19 November launch in the Americas and the end of 2006.

Nintendo is also hoping to keep up with demand during the busy Christmas period using a rapid replenishment programme designed to keep retailers' shelves fully stocked.

Source: Vnunet 

 
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