Archive for: March 8, 2008

It may have taken a lengthy and winding road but Sir Paul McCartney is confident that the Beatles will finally be available for download on Apple, Inc.’s online store iTunes anytime soon. No release date has been handed out by Apple Corps, the namesake Beatles label but  the deal is nearly good…

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It’s a crazy, mixed-up world we habitable in. whether we aren’t worrying about global warming or peace in the middle east, we have to be on the lookout for scorned women setting large quantities of mobile devices on fire. A undoubtful Mrs. Wang is guilty of that latter offens…

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I'm in Austin attending the South by Southwest Interactive festival, and this is the first of many posts I'll be filing for Gearlog and AppScout. It's been a great show so far... In fact there are so many interesting people to talk to that I haven't had time to write up and post what they said, but keep an eye out for more coverage through next Wednesday.

One of the first panels I've attended here was entitled "Online Extremism--And the Muslims Who Fight It." On the panel were experts from the Department of Homeland Security as well as prominent figures in the Muslim blogging community.

Security expert Mohammad Hluchan kicked off the panel by talking about the growing interactions between online jihadists and cyber criminals (especially "carders," or credit card number thieves). There are big differences in the two networks, and benefits and dangers to both parties in cooperation, but Hluchan thinks they're destined to do so anyway.

"Verisign hasn't found evidence that jihadists have gained access to the most serious and effective carding communities. But they are making a concerted effort to do so," he said in a PowerPoint slide during his presentation. "There is mounting evidence that the worlds might be merging, with jihadists turning into cyber criminals," he said.

Hluchan went on to show some of the advances that have been made recently by online jihadists, like powerful encryption and secure communication, better Web site design and usability, audio- and video-editing software for better training/indoctrination materials, and the easier dissemination of said materials. These are all very recent (and troubling) advances, and Hluchan showed several examples of sites that exemplify these trends.

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We’re certain there have been some really great Java Micro Edition apps developed by the years, we just haven’t been lucky ample to find any that aren’t a Bejeweled variant run into many of them. But that could very well change with the news that Sun is using that fancy new S…

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Firefox is a free open source web browser for Windows Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase It is small fast and easy to use and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer such as the ability to block pop up windows

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Automating Etch A Sketch units to pull off all sorts of mesmerizing tricks is certainly not new, but angelabuilds’ divinely created Etch A Sketch clock truly is a notch above the rest. Reportedly, it was built upon the Arduino platform and obviously references a few other …

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CeBIT and Powerline seem to have a thing for one another, and certain adequate, that year we’re seeing yet another firm storm onto the scene in an attempt to advance the flagging technology. London-based En-Twyn set up shop in Germany to showcase its En-Compass, which doesn’t…

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The British Broadcasting Corporation, known far and absent simply as the BBC, has recently launched its iPlayer service for use with the iPhone and iPod Touch.The iPlayer is a service from the BBC that streams on-demand video content to compatible devices with an World Wide Web connection. The “inte…

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If you happen to be one of the few people trying out the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta, be advised: your clocks apparently won't update automatically Saturday night/early Sunday morning.

According to this Microsoft TechNet post, Microsoft decided to hold off on adding time-zone updates until about the time SP3 goes live, which will be in the first half of 2008, according to Microsoft.

"Thanks for the suggestion," wrote Shashank Bansal of Microsoft on the TechNet site. "Our current plan is not to integrate the time zone package with SP3, but instead release a new updated update to windows update. the new package would be installable on SP3."

All that basically means, apparently, is that when SP3 goes live, there will also be a new version of Windows Update released. That version was also scheduled to be updated shortly thereafter; if I read this correctly, that update will be replaced with a new package that will include the DST fix.

The problem apparently arose when a Montevidean user attempted to update its system with SP3, the noted that Montevideo Standard Time had disappeared from his system. Bansal then wrote back and informed the user that Microsoft will hold off on the time-change package until after SP3 goes live.

Just in case you think that this is a uniquely Montevidean problem, a user adds:

"I have the exact same issue, but I'm trying to run the new Google Outlook Calendar Sync and it give me the error saying "You seem to have outdated timezone information. Please Run Windows Update." So I went to install the time zone patch and it says that the files are incompatible ...

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In case you missed it, it was Eurocom’s Phantom-X that managed to swipe that “fastest tested laptop” mark from the MacBook Pro final year — and totally ruin a perfectly good commercial. Now the company is back for more with the M860TU Montebello 15.4-incher. We’ll have to wait …

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El Reg reports: “Less than a day after Apple unveiled its much-discussed iPhone SDK, Sun Microsystems has told the world it will build a Java Virtual Machine for Steve Job’s handheld status symbol. ‘We’re very excited,’ Eric Klein, Sun’s vice president of Java marketing, told the The Reg. ‘We’ve spe…

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