Dave Bailey, IT Week, Thursday 31 January 2008 at 00:00:00
Government agencies could release a large amount of their spectrum holdings
UK comms regulator Ofcom has released plans for government agencies and public organisations to share, trade or release radio spectrum they currently use solely, a development which could boost the...
read moreMicrosoft faces financial and legal hurdles in its unsolicited bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com walks you through the potential steps. read more
A Croatian college student has created a utility that installs a seriously stripped-down Windows Vista, saying the heft of Microsoft's biggest desktop OS was just too big to believe. "Who can justify a 15GB operating system?" asked Dino Nuhagic, a fifth-year student from Split, a Croatian city on the Adriatic. Not Nuhagic, or the uncounted users wh... read more
Microsoft offers to buy struggling Yahoo for $44.6 billion to better compete against Google. Also: Vista's one-year anniversary. read more
Lenovo, Fujitsu to use Intel's MacBook Air chip
Lenovo and Fujitsu are in the process of putting together systems based on the special Core 2 Duo ch...
Charlotte Baxter, IT Week, Friday 1 February 2008 at 00:00:00
Icann has rejected the top shelf top level domain for the third time
A proposal has been rejected to give adult websites their own top-level domain. This is the third time that Icann, the agency which regulates web addresses, has said no to...
read moreWASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Friday said it is interested in reviewing antitrust issues associated with Microsoft Corp.'s nearly $45 billion buyout bid for Yahoo Inc. and analysts...
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Mozilla Corp. bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to "high" Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now slated for release on Feb. 5. The company's head of security, Window Snyder, confirmed that the browser, when running any of more than 600 add-ons, can be exploited to steal "session information, including session cookies and session history."
Snyder's acknowledgment followed an update by Gerry Eisenhaur, the researcher who first reported the Firefox problem. "There seems to be some confusion about what exactly the severity of this vulnerability is," Eisenhaur said on his hiredhacker.com blog. "This is not a chrome privilege escalation, but it [is] worse than just leaking some variables. I created another demo to read the sessionstore.js file. This will display information regarding your current session, [including] windows, tabs, cookies, etc."
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Desktop Notebook Found Under A Rock
Desktop notebook found under a Rock Februray 1, 2007 TAKING ADVANTAGE of the green team’s recently announced 8800 SLI graphics card for notebooks, Rock has been beavering away to create a notebook that not only has dual-chip graphics, but a quad-core processor. Yes, the chassis is an absolutely behemoth and ugly as sin, saved only by its [...]
Desktop notebook found under a Rock
Februray 1, 2007
TAKING ADVANTAGE of the green team’s recently announced 8800 SLI graphics card for notebooks, Rock has been beavering away to create a notebook that not only has dual-chip graphics, but a quad-core processor. Yes, the chassis is an absolutely behemoth and ugly as sin, saved only by its glossy black stylings. There’s no Penryn - this is old-school 65nm quad core, no less.
In fact, its an X6800 desktop chip, which harks back to the old Pentium 4 laptops of old. Buyers can also have the system outfitted with a pair of 500GB drives for a total of 1TB of storage. Optical duties are handled by an HD-DVD drive. The Rock Xtreme SL8, as it will be called, will be available in late February for between £2500 and £3000. If you’ve got the backbone to match your wallet size, then we wish you the utmost enjoyment. And we mean actual physical backbone - you’re going to need it to haul this thing anywhere.
Zap to do three-wheeled car in 2009
Three-wheeled cars may make a comeback with the craze over electric cars coming to a boil.
Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Wednesday 30 January 2008 at 00:00:00
New report recommends Indian providers focus on domestic market
UK firms could find it more difficult to obtain offshored IT services as the Indian national software body this week advised local firms to shift their focus to the domestic...
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Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 30 January 2008 at 00:00:00
Siemens is offering firms a route to 802.11n that does not involve a costly PoE upgrade
Comms vendor Siemens announced plans earlier this month to release 802.11n equipment that is designed to make deployment of the high-speed wireless networks easier and more affordable....
