Looks like there might another major announcement at MacWorld. BGR it’s confirmed” that Apple is launching a record label with Jay-Z, who’s set to step down from Def Jam.
Category: Technology news
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Spicebird a Mozilla-based collaboration Outlook killer
Spicebird is built on Thunderbird and Lightning, the powerful extension that adds calendaring functions to Thunderbird. Additionally it seems to integrate SamePlace, a Firefox extension that provides instant messaging capabilities based on the Jabber protoco
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Vodafone launches mobile banking
Vodafone has agreed a deal with mobile banking service Monilink to allow customers with an internet-capable handset to access their bank accounts from their mobile phones.
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A million Australians sign up to broadband
A MILLION Australians signed up to broadband internet in the past year, new statistics show.New connections were up 50 per cent over the previous year, an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey found.
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Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!?
All 32 bit Unix and Linux systems will come to a halt on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07. This is due to the fact that *nix systems keep track of time in a four byte integer corresponding to the number of seconds after January 1, 1970 12:00:00. The maximum value of a four byte integer is 2,146,483,547 which is equivalent of January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07
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Ubuntu vs Vista Vulnerability Counts: Ubuntu Wins Handsomely
In order to expose the Microsoft FUD that Linux is more insecure than Vista, I did a study that compared just the OSes of Vista and Ubuntu Dapper for 2007, leaving out the applications. In doing so, I found that Ubuntu had much lesser highly critical remotely exploitable vulnerabilities (3 vulnerabilities to Vista’s 10), thus exposing Microsoft FUD
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iPhone to be target of hackers in 2008
According to Arbor’s Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT) the attacks will likely to be in the form of drive by attacks — malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the iPhone’s Web browser.
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FireWire to climb to 3.2Gbps in 2008
A future version of FireWire will quadruple the speed of today’s fastest version, the IEEE 1394 Trade Association has revealed. Officially known as S3200, the format will build on the same connectors and technology used for today’s FireWire 800 but operate at a peak of 3.2 gigabits per second, or 400 megabytes per second.
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The Most Beautiful Supercomputer in the World
“I was blown away when I saw the photos below of MareNostrum, currently the 9th largest supercomputer in the world and the largest in Europe, which is installed in a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Wow.”
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Seven takes the reins at Unwired
Kerry Stokes’ Seven Network has succeeded in its $127 million takeover of wireless broadband player Unwired.