Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Former Playboy Playmate models Microsoft's new videophone.
From GAMERS, "Microsoft had former Playboy Playmate, Jenny McCarthy show off the new voice capabilities with a new videophone. The new videophone not only allows gamers to talk, but also allows them to see each other while they communicate. Microsoft promises that the videophone will not only be part of the Xbox Live experience, but also revolutionize social entertainment."
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Saturday, May 08, 2004
As reported earlier, the teenager arrested under suspicion for creating the 'Sasser' worm confesses his involvement.
From Yahoo! News, "HANOVER, Germany - A German high-school student has confessed to creating the 'Sasser' worm that generated chaos across the globe by infecting hundreds of thousands of computers, authorities said Saturday.
The teenager, whose name was not released, was arrested Friday in the northern village of Waffensen, where he lives with his family. In a search of the suspect's home, German investigators confiscated his customized computer, which contained the worm's source code.
'As a result of the student's detailed testimony about the viruses he spread, he has been identified clearly as the author,' the state criminal office in Hanover said in a statement. Spokesman Detlef Ehrike said he is being investigated on suspicion of computer sabotage, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison."
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From WIRED, "WASHINGTON -- As iTunes, Rhapsody and other song-download sites take off with consumers, it's easy to think that the record industry finally 'gets it' when it comes to selling music in the digital age.
Not so fast, says Rob Glaser, chairman and chief executive of Real Networks, owner of the Rhapsody service.
At the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., Glaser recounted his general frustration in getting the record labels to offer creative pricing beyond the 99-cents-per-download model. In fact, some labels -- emboldened by consumers' apparent willingness to pay a buck a song -- are talking about raising per-song fees rather than lowering them to increase volume."
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From WIRED, "A computer science professor and graduate student have been awarded a patent for a method of thwarting illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer networks by flooding the network with bogus files that look like pirated music.
The software creates bogus files with attributes -- such as file names and description tags -- that make them look like the real thing, but they are in fact white noise, low-quality recordings or advertisements to buy the song. What's more, the software sends out thousands of decoys to frustrate P2P users with fruitless downloads."
"'It's built off the basic idea of injecting alternative content or decoy media into peer-to-peer networks as a way of hiding pirated media that's being shared illegally,' Hale said. 'It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.'
Artists who want to share their music on P2P networks wouldn't be affected, he said. The content owners could designate only particular files for spoofing."
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From SPACE, "Finally, the inner-geek in all of us can go out and buy something astronauts actually use in space. And it's an off-the-shelf product no less!
On Thursday, May 6, HP announced that their handy, dandy iPAQ Pocket PC was being used by the Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station Soyuz 8 space craft.
For anyone who has ever dreamed of owning a Star Trek -like Tricorder, this is very cool. The handheld computers run a truncated version of Microsoft Windows, and will be used by astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka as mobile productivity tools to record daily crew procedures, write personal memos and check e-mail and calendars."
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