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Posted by PC-Guru on November 10, 2009 at 04:27 PM | Filed under General
Mobile phone maker Nokia has recalled 14 million potentially dangerous chargers.
Posted by ryanrich on November 10, 2009 at 03:52 AM | Filed under Microsoft
Today at the Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference in Germany, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop announced that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide.
During an opening Keynote, Elop also announced the release of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. Forefront provides better anti-spam and multi server management tools.
Posted by ryanrich on November 10, 2009 at 03:47 AM | Filed under Apple
Some Jailbroken iPhone users in Australia have been the first to be infected by the very first iPhone worm. The origins of the worm appear to be from Australia, as they're the first to report problems, getting rickrolled, a famous Internet meme, except this changes the wallpaper to Rick Astley.
Any Jailbroken iPhone that have not changed their default password from ‘alpine' once installing SSH, are vulnerable to the worm. The worm is so far harmless, but after one user held an iPhone ransom for €5, the possibilities for a full wide spread attack against SSH Jailbroken iPhone's could be at serious risk.
Posted by ryanrich on November 10, 2009 at 03:43 AM | Filed under Google
Google has announced that they have signed an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display advertising company based in San Mateo, CA.
Posted by ryanrich on November 10, 2009 at 01:47 AM | Filed under Microsoft
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being "faster." We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. 
We've done a good number of these tests now, and the methodology remains much the same here—testing how long it takes for browsers to start up and load pages, and how much memory is eaten up, from a user's perspective. We don't use a fancy multi-protocol benchmarking suite, mostly because each suite is subjective to a developers' preferences and recording errors.
Posted by ryanrich on November 10, 2009 at 01:19 AM | Filed under Intel
The Intel P55 Express chipset snafu that caused iPhones to lose their syncing minds has now been remedied -- at least by one motherboard maker. Gigabyte has issued a BIOS update making things all hunky-dory between the phone and 
the mobo, putting your troubles to an end. The P55 is Intel's latest midrange chipset and orchestrates things for newer Core i5 / i7 machines. The other two P55 purveyors, ASUS and MSI, were also caught by the bug, and there are anecdotal reports of success with an ASUS BIOS update, but not official fixes as of yet. Given the competitive nature of this market, though, we'd be surprised if those two companies didn't quickly follow suit. All's well that ends well, right?
Read - Gigabyte Beta BIOS download page
Read - Update fixes iPhone sync problem
Posted by ryanrich on November 10, 2009 at 12:57 AM | Filed under Apple
It's been awhile, but we've got ourselves a brand spanking new OS X update in the mix, 10.6.2 for Snow Leopard. So far the biggest change here seems to be fixing that nagging guest account deletion bug -- and thank goodness for that. As for whether or not it supports Intel Atom processors, last we heard this morning it wasn't going to be there, but we're gonna have wait and see now that it's officially hit the nets. Leopard users who haven't made the upgrade also get a gift today, in the form of a security update. 10.6.2 release notes after the break.
Update: We just installed it -- it took forever and a day on one of our machines, and sped by reasonably quick on another. Everything seems okay otherwise, how about you?
Update 2: We've gotten enough reports to call it -- Atom support is out. Sorry, hackintosh community.
Posted by someone64 on November 9, 2009 at 07:05 PM | Filed under Security
November 09, 2009
Microsoft Digital Forensics Tool Leaks Online
Paul Thurrott
WinInfo
A secretive Microsoft utility called Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has leaked online. An automated digital forensics tool for law-enforcement agencies, COFEE isn't available legally to individuals.
"COFEE brings together a number of common digital forensics capabilities into a fast, easy-to-use, automated tool for first responders. And COFEE is being provided—at no charge—to law enforcement around the world," a description of the tool reads.
"With COFEE, law-enforcement agencies without on-the-scene computer-forensics capabilities can now more easily, reliably, and cost-effectively collect volatile live evidence," the description continues. "An officer with even minimal computer experience can be tutored—in less than 10 minutes—to use a preconfigured COFEE device. This enables the officer to take advantage of the same common digital-forensics tools used by experts to gather important volatile evidence, while doing little more than simply inserting a USB device into the computer."
Posted by PC-Guru on November 4, 2009 at 06:13 PM | Filed under General
The New York Attorney General’s office today accused chip maker Intel of engaging in “a worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct,” including paying kickbacks and threatening computer makers, and filed federal antitrust charges against it. (PDF of Complaint)
Posted by PC-Guru on November 4, 2009 at 06:00 PM | Filed under Microsoft
Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule fix for problems introduced by its last patch for Internet Explorer.
Posted by PC-Guru on November 3, 2009 at 08:55 AM | Filed under Linux
Dubbed Clockwork, the third maintenance version of the amazing KDE 4.3 desktop environment was released a few minutes ago by the KDE community. Bringing only translation updates and bug fixes to applications such Dolphin, Konqueror, KWin, KGeography, KLettres, KStars, KPat, Okular, KAlarm, KGpg, Okteta or JuK, KDE 4.3.3 is the next-generation KDE desktop environment for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. With every release, KDE 4 is here to deliver the most modern, beautiful and attractive desktop environmen...
Posted by someone64 on November 3, 2009 at 03:04 AM | Filed under Microsoft
Following a bumpy upgrade for the Windows client last week, the Windows Live Sync team had been hard at work on their Mac client to add support for Snow Leopard. Today the team is proud to announce that it is now available for download:
We’re happy to announce that Windows Live Sync for Mac now supports Snow Leopard! Thanks so much for your continued interest in Sync, and for your patience while we worked out some stubborn compatibility issues we had with Snow Leopard.
If you’re a Snow Leopard user, you can get the new Sync software for Snow Leopard here. Mac users currently not using Snow Leopard do not require this update.
Source: Windows Live Sync for Snow Leopard is here! - LiveSide