2005 April

Didn’t mommy ever tell them not to annoy the cat? Apparently not, as Apple becomes entangled in yet another trademark infringement case against the company. As people should remember, they’ve been fighting a lawsuit brought by Apple Music for years(!). In the newest case, they’ve stepped on the tail of one Tiger Direct.
Apple Computer has […]

“Secunia Advisory: SA15135
Critical: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: Netscape 7.x
A vulnerability has been reported in Netscape, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
For more information, see vulnerability #6 in: SA14992
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 7.2. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Use another product.”
[Continue reading Netscape […]

“Do you have the feeling that things are moving faster than they were a year ago, or even a few months ago? That keeping up with the latest trends in culture and technology is almost a full time job? In 1965, the co-founder of Intel, a guy named Gordon Moore, outlined a theory that said […]

“Signature Z1 is Primera’s first low-cost CD/DVD printer. Signature Z1 includes the following features:
* Prints Directly on CDs and DVDs
* Easy To Use
* USB Interface
* Print Up To 4 Areas
* Print Text & Graphics
[…]

“It’s not quite a holodeck on the Starship Enterprise, but it will let you see the most realistic three-dimensional (3D) images in the universe until, well, Zephram Cochrane makes first contact.
This futuristic, state-of-the-art laboratory, known as the Landmark Graphics Visualization Laboratory, has its home at Memorial University (MUN) in St.John’s. In recent years, the city’s […]

Tomorrow morning and afternoon Linuxfest Northwest will be streaming exclusive presentations from Google, Real Networks, and IBM among others. Broadcasts for the day include Chuck Gray of IBM at 11:30am and Chris DiBona of Google at 1pm PST.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit against Web marketer Intermix Media on Thursday, charging it with being a source of adware and spyware programs that hinder online commerce and security.
Spitzer’s office, describing the suit as the “most sweeping case to date involving programs that redirect Web addresses, add toolbars and deliver […]

We really are becoming a paperless society these days! OK, we are at least when it comes to filing our taxes here in the US, anyway. The IRS has announced that most filers are using electronic means to take care of their taxes while fewer and fewer people are going with the paper route this […]

OK sure, there are a lot of other companies out there that helped to contribute to the rise in advertising revenue for the year 2004. I think that most of us know that most of this is really coming from Google’s successful Adwords program though.

While some might argue that this is really apples and oranges. Others in the tech field seem to feel that the new Tiger (OS X) from Apple is going to take a pretty fair sized chunk of glamour from Microsoft’s Longhorn OS, still being developed.

Alright, Dave, you’ve convinced me to sign up and use Google’s Gmail Service and I now have an ever-growing pile of archived messages. I know that I can just type in a word or two to the search engine and find messages, but being Google, I’m wondering if there are more sophisticated searches I can […]

In my February 21, 2005 article “Kernel Rootkits - next bad thing?“, I reported that undetectable rootkits may be the next spyware/malware paradigm and that Microsoft researchers had developed a tool, named “Strider Ghostbuster” that can detect them.
A day later the good folks at Sysinternals released RootkitRevealer 1.4, which I now consider a vital weapon […]

I think it is a nice gesture that people are spending time trying to figure out which tech devices are going to truly benefit kids from the third world. Personally, I think they need to start with getting their parents on their feet before getting too into who receives a $100 notebook PC. Once starvation […]

Dave, now that the Sony PSP is out they’re now selling UMD movies. Most of the movies I already have in my DVD collection, however. Is there any way that I can copy my DVD movies to a memory stick duo for my Sony PSP? If so what all would I need (cables, software, etc….)?

It was inevitable, I suppose, but I’m still upset about this change in the blogosphere: One of the new announcements from Google’s AdSense program is that they’re beginning to support adding targeted advertising in RSS feeds.

“Security researchers have discovered an attack aimed at would-be visitors to Google.com, one that attempts to download malicious programs onto the computers of people who simply mistype the search giant’s Web address.
According to security specialist F-Secure, unsuspecting Web surfers may be bombarded with various types of Trojan horse threats, spyware and backdoors when they go […]

“Secunia Advisory: SA15103
Critical: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: Netscape 6.x, Netscape 7.x
A vulnerability has been reported in Netscape, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
For more information: SA14654
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 7.2 and has also been reported in version 6.2.3. Other versions may […]

To be honest, none really. This is not because I like spam or that I do not receive any. The reality is that if you are still be bothered by it in your inbox, then you need to do some Google searching and get a better mail client with Bayesian mail filtering.

I think it is certainly true that the Internet usage is up thanks in part to the number of available news sources online. But I think we need to understand that a lot of this is a reflection of young people who already used the Internet for news retrieval are just now becoming adults themselves.

In a move that will certainly boost Microsoft - French relations, today Microsoft has signed off on a deal to work with the French in efforts to plan a research center for computer security and computational science.