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Apple's Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO
(AP) January 6th, 2009
 AP - Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he has an easily treated hormone imbalance and will remain in charge of the company.
Logitech to cut salaried staff by 15 percent
(AP) January 5th, 2009
AP - Logitech International SA, a maker of mice, webcams and other computer peripherals, said Monday it is cutting its salaried work force by 15 percent in response to weak consumer demand amid what it expects to be an extended global downturn.
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- Researchers Aim to Fortify CAPTCHA Against Spammers
Security researchers say new approaches are needed to keep spammers from abusing free e-mails systems now that hey have found ways to circumvent the CAPTCHA test protocol used by many Web sites. Microsoft is involved in two research projects aimed at making it harder for spammers to crack CAPTCHA. - One of the well-reported security trends of 2008 was the defeat of CAPTCHA systems for a number of Web-based e-mail services, including Yahoo and Gmail.
With spammers increasingly finding their way around these safeguards, making the hurdles spammers have to jump just a little higher is an importa...
- Tod Nielsen: Borland`s Loss, VMware`s Gain
Tod Nielsen is Borland's loss and VMware's gain. Nielsen, formerly president and CEO of Borland Software, has been named chief operating officer at VMware. - Tod Nielsen is Borland's loss and VMware's gain. Nielsen, formerly
president and CEO of Borland Software, has been named chief operating
officer at VMware.
Nielsen, who joined Borland in 2005 and oversaw the spin-off and
later sale of its developer tools unit, was named VMware's COO on Jan.
5. ...
- IBM's Palmisano: Government Investment Could Lead to 900,000 IT Jobs
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has told members of the Barack Obama transition team that a $30 billion government investment in the IT industry could lead to the creation of more than 900,000 jobs in areas such as broadband access, health care IT and upgrading the electrical grid. - The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM
CEO Sam Palmisano has advised the Obama team
that a government investment of $30 billion could create more than 900,000 jobs
for U.S.
workers.
Palmisano addressed Barack Obama's transition team in December in response to
a request from the president-el...
- Sun Updates JRuby
Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have released JRuby 1.1.6, a new release of the JRuby Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter. - Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have updated JRuby, a Java
implementation of the Ruby interpreter, with the release of JRuby 1.1.6.
Thomas Enebo, a software developer at Sun Microsystems and one of the core
developers of JRuby, said JRuby 1.1.6 is the sixth point release of JRuby
1.1. ...
- How to Build Online Banking for Generation Y
Growing up in a world immersed in digital technologies, Generation Y holds the highest of expectations about how they think their online banking experience should be. Knowledge Center contributor Shelby Hutcherson explains how regional and community banks can develop online financial services that attract and retain members of Generation Y, their toughest new customers yet. - Born at the dawn of the digital age in the early 1980s, the oldest among Generation Y have never known a world without personal computers and video games. The youngest of these so-called Millennials are still in their early teens, using their cell phones for texting more than talking, counting their...
- Best Buy Offers Used Apple iPhones at Lower Price
Retailer Best Buy says it is selling refurbished versions of the Apple iPhone 3G at its stores that are priced about $50 less than new iPhones. The electronics chain says the used iPhones, which were returned within 30 days of purchase, are priced at $149 for the model with 8GB of storage, while the 16GB version is $249. A two-year service contract with AT T is required. -
ATLANTA (Reuters) Retailer Best Buy Co, seeking new ways to appeal to
cost-conscious shoppers, said on Tuesday it is selling refurbished versions of
Apple Inc's iPhone 3G at its stores that are priced about $50 less than new
iPhones.
The electronics chain said the used iPhones,
which were ret...
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- Researchers Aim to Fortify CAPTCHA Against Spammers
Security researchers say new approaches are needed to keep spammers from abusing free e-mails systems now that hey have found ways to circumvent the CAPTCHA test protocol used by many Web sites. Microsoft is involved in two research projects aimed at making it harder for spammers to crack CAPTCHA. - One of the well-reported security trends of 2008 was the defeat of CAPTCHA systems for a number of Web-based e-mail services, including Yahoo and Gmail.
With spammers increasingly finding their way around these safeguards, making the hurdles spammers have to jump just a little higher is an importa...
- Google Named No. 3 Spam Provider
New forms of spam and similar abuse find a welcome home at Google, and the company doesn't yet seem up to the security task of fighting them. Perhaps it's a responsiveness issue. - Much has been made of the recent
revelation that Google had reached No. 4 on Spamhaus' list of quot;The 10
Worst Spam Service ISPs. quot; In fact, as I check now, Google is No. 3.
It's no secret why Gmail is such a big spamming source now: Spammers have
had success cracking the CAPTCHA tests an...
- President-Elect Barack Obama Falls Victim to Twitter Hack
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is one of 33 people who had their Twitter accounts hacked, according to Twitter. The hacks are a separate issue from the wave of phishing attacks circulating in recent days. Security company Sophos suggests caution. - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama was among 33 Twitter users who had their
accounts hacked.
According to social messaging company Twitter, the hack which also claimed the account of CNN anchor
Rick Sanchez is separate from the phishing
attacks that have been circulating on Twitter since the wee...
- CA to Acquire Orchestria for Data Loss Prevention Technology
CA is making a play into the data loss prevention market with the purchase of Orchestria. CA plans to integrate DLP with its identity and access management portfolio to help business design better policies to protect data. - CA officials announced today the company is making its
third security acquisition in as many months with the purchase of
the Orchestria Corporation.
The deal combines CAs identity and access management portfolio with
Orchestrias DLP (data loss prevention) technology with the goal of
helping o...
- Twitter Phishing Scam Takes New Turn with Promises of iPhone
A phishing campaign targeting Twitter has morphed, according to researchers at Sophos. Phishers are now using accounts compromised in the initial campaign launched over the weekend to snare Twitter users lured by the promise of an iPhone. - Phishers are hooking more and more Twitter users in campaigns to steal their
account data, according to security researchers.
The initial
phishing attack reported over the weekend has expanded, with spammers now
using compromised accounts to initiate
a new campaign that capitalizes on the popul...
- SSL Crack Shows You Must Advance Your Security
The successful creation of a rogue certificate authority by security researchers using a colliding certificates attack demonstrates that if you're not moving forward with your security-related standards then you're moving backward. Everything gets cracked over time, so you have to keep improving your defenses. - It's just one embarrassment after another for the digital certificate
business lately. First, lax
procedures at a Comodo affiliate resulted in the sale of a
quot;mozilla.com quot; certificate to someone unaffiliated with that group.
Now a more serious technical problem has developed with the wa...
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- Federal Trade Commission To Scrutinize DRM
Ars Technica reports that the FTC is getting ready to take a hard look at gaming DRM, setting up a town hall meeting to be held on March 25th. They're currently recruiting panelists, and they say the meeting will, in part, "address the need to improve disclosures to consumers about DRM limitations." The controversy over DRM came to a head in 2008 with the release of Spore and the multiple subsequent class-action lawsuits focusing on the SecuROM software that came with the game. Ars Technica says the town hall meeting will also look at "legal issues surrounding DRM" and "the potential need for government involvement to protect consumers."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- CES 2009 Shrinks With Dwindling Economy
nandemoari writes "Not long after we first heard murmurs Microsoft may be ready to lay off as much as 17 per cent of its workforce, the popular Consumer Electronics Show, held every year in Las Vegas, is rumored to be shrinking alongside the global economy. The Consumer Electronics Association, host of the CES, estimates that the numbers of both exhibitors and visitors will be down in 2009. The CEA expects about 130,000 people will attend this year, down 11,000 from last year. And about 2,700 exhibitors are expected to attend, down from 3,000 in 2008."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library?
txmadman writes "Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card 'wallets' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Oprah Sued For Infringing "Touch and Feel" Patent
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Oprah Winfrey, or to be more precise, Oprah's Book Club, is being sued by the inventor/patent attorney Scott C. Harris for infringing upon his patent for 'Enhancing Touch and Feel on the Internet.' So Oprah's Book Club is now one of many people and entities being sued over this patent because they allow people to view part, but not all, of a book online before purchasing it. Mr. Harris also sued Google Books for infringing upon this patent. He actually was fired from his position as partner at Fish & Richardson for that, because Google is a client of that law firm and they had conflict of interest rules to uphold." It would be entertaining to see Oprah give very wide and mainstream publicity to the abuses enabled by our current patent system.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post
The Recording Industry of America's favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet's Declan McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA's lucrative business for his DC law firm: "An article on his law firm's Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo," not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds, "Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal's being appointed Copyright Czar."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job
rohitm918 writes "A study by Microsoft Research concludes that phishers make very little (PDF): '...low-skill jobs pay like low-skill jobs, whether the activity is legal or not.' They also find that the Gartner numbers that everyone quotes ($3.2B/year etc) are rubbish, off by a factor of 50. 'Even though it harvests "free money," phishing generates total revenue equal to the total costs incurred by the actors. Each participant earns, on average, only as much as he would have made in the opportunities he gave up elsewhere. As the total phishing effort increases the total phishing revenue declines: the harder individual phishers try the worse their collective situation gets. As a consequence, increasing effort is a sign of failure rather than of success.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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- Frescobaldi 0.7.2 (Default branch) Wed, Jan 07, 2009
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor for
KDE4. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and
easy to use.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
New actions were added to open the current folder,
view or print PDF documents, play MIDI files, and
email documents. A new "Run LilyPond" icon has
been added, based on the LilyPond lily icon.
Shift-up and shift-down selection in the editor
while a PDF is visible was fixed. A message saying
that LilyPond crashes is no longer displayed if
the user terminates the process. The startup
notification is ended if a running instance is
found.
- pam_mount module 1.8 (Default branch) Wed, Jan 07, 2009
pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session upon login, using the same passwords as for login. It supports any filesystem your kernel is capable of, including FUSE, SMB/CIFS, various crypto types, and more.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Segfaults in the program suite when used with cron
were fixed.
- WebGUI 7.5.38 (Default branch) Wed, Jan 07, 2009
WebGUI is a content management framework built to
allow average business users to build and maintain
complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and
platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online,
rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions,
forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs,
SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A number of internationalization issues, some
minor Gallery issues, and several other minor
issues were fixed.
- ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.9 (Default branch) Wed, Jan 07, 2009
The ThinkUI SQL Client is a graphical program that
allows Java developers to browse a database
structure, edit data in the tables, issue SQL
queries, and generate code (e.g. Java Bean, DAO,
SQL queries, JSP files, etc.) based on
customizable Velocity templates.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
This release adds support for generating Ant
scripts for executing SQL CREATE TABLE and SQL
INSERT statements. Improved keyboard shortcuts
have been added, as well as UNDO/REDO support in
all text editors. A custom test data generation
feature has been added by integrating with the
ThinkUI Data Generator. In addition, this release
also includes various GUI related enhancements and
several bugfixes.
- Lightweight IMage-browser for PHP 3.0 (Default branch) Wed, Jan 07, 2009
LIMP is a Lightweight Image browser for PHP. It
requires no database or complex setup; simply
upload and go. It supports "albums" in
subdirectories and generates thumbnails automatically.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Near-complete rewrite. New design and
implementation.
- Mahara 1.0.8 (Stable branch) Wed, Jan 07, 2009
Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio,
weblog, resume builder, and social networking
system for connecting users and creating online
communities.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release fixes a bug that prevented email from
being sent in 1.0.7, and makes it much easier to
install new language packs.
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