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Mobile porn to hit $3.5bn by 2010
2007-11-28 08:53:00 Revenues from mobile 'adult services' are set to approach $3.5bn by 2010, according to a new report. Juniper Research said that growth will be fuelled by increasing adoption of streamed video and... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Mobile
Zune 80 official battery test results
2007-11-28 08:50:00 Microsoft rated the Zune 80 for 30 hours of audio playback with the Wi-Fi feature turned off. Lab testing revealed that the Zune 80 is realistically capable of 22 hours of audio playback with the... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Battery , Results , Test , Official
Windows Home Server Update
2007-11-28 08:48:00 Today, the Windows Home Server team will release a new update for Windows Home Server software. This is a scheduled update - part of the ongoing process of continually enhancing the customer... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Update
Google hosted storage coming in a few months
2007-11-28 08:43:00 Google's much-rumored online storage service should be available in a few months, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal late on Monday that cites unnamed sources. The service would allow... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Google , Storage , Months , Hosted , Mont
Windows Is 22 Years Old
2007-11-26 22:39:00 Pop the Champaign, its time to celebrate! The Windows operating system has turned 22. That's right, considering the fact that Windows 1.0 was made available on November 20, 1985, the platform is 22... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Years
Apple QuickTime exploit published
2007-11-26 22:38:00 Security researchers are warning that exploit code has been published that can take advantage of an extremely critical security flaw in a protocol supported by Apple QuickTime. Apple QuickTime... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Exploit , Published , Quicktime
Microsoft: Windows Genuine Advantage works!
2007-11-26 22:36:00 IT may have cost Microsoft millions of sales, but Redmond claims that Windows Genuine Advantage has forced punters to buy legitimate copies of its software. According to the Sydney Morning Herald,... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Microsoft Windows , Works
IBM patent could pause your DVD movie for Ads
2007-11-26 22:35:00 Imagine this scenario. You've just received the latest Hollywood blockbuster in the mail from the DVD rental service of your choice. You've popped the popcorn, poured a tall glass of your favorite... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Movie , Patent , Pause
Laptops suffer battery, keyboard issues with Leopard
2007-11-26 12:41:00 Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard appears to have brought with it battery drain and intermittent keyboard freezing issues, which are plaguing some MacBook and MacBook Pro owners. Numerous... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Laptops , Battery , Issues , Keyboard
Linux Kernel Random Number Generator Local Denial of Service and Privilege
2007-11-25 11:49:00 The Linux kernel is prone to a local vulnerability that may result in a denial of service or privilege escalation. This issue stems from a stack-based overflow in kernel memory. Successfully... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Random , Service , Generator , Local
Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1
2007-11-25 11:43:00 After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1 (see previous post), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Performance , Windows Xp , Perform
Microsoft to clamp down on spam over IM
2007-11-25 11:39:00 Microsoft's next version of its instant messenger application will have a new security feature to report users who send unsolicited messages, known as SPIM (spam over IM). That's one of several new... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Microsoft , Spam , Clam
Havok Causes Havoc in GPU Physics
2007-11-25 11:35:00 PC gamers have been looking for more than just pretty graphics when it comes to their game titles over the last few years. Not only do gamers want realistic graphics, but they want realistic physics... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Physics , Havok , Havoc
Google can crack passwords
2007-11-23 23:11:00 A clever bloke into security research at the University of Cambridge computer lab wrote in his bog last Friday that he's discovered Google works as a password MD5 hash cracker. Someone had hacked... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Crack , Passwords
Windows Server 2008 Runs 45 Times Faster Than '03
2007-11-23 23:08:00 It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty. But word is filtering out of the... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Windows , Server , Windows Server 2008 , Times , Runs
Skype encryption stumps German police
2007-11-23 23:06:00 German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Encryption , German , Police , Crypt
Google's search share jumps
2007-11-23 23:03:00 Google Inc enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Search , Share
Blu-ray dominates Japanese HD recorder sales
2007-11-23 23:00:00 High definition media like HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc has increase to account for just under 20 per cent of Japanese consumers' retail recorder purchases, numbers from market watcher GfK show. And of... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Sales , Recorder , Mina , Corder
Acer forms low-price PC team; but no budget yet
2007-11-23 22:57:00 Acer has begun to change its attitude toward the low-price PC market and the company recently formed a team to begin working on projects for the sector, according to Scott Lin, president of Acer... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Team , Price , Acer , Budget , Forms
McAfee warns of typo-squatting epidemic
2007-11-23 22:54:00 Security firm McAfee has released a new report warning of the ever-present threat of typo-squatting. The report highlights the number of website squatters registering domains using common... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Typo , Mcafee , Epidemic , Squat , Quat
Orange iPhone Contract 49 Euros Per Month
2007-11-23 22:50:00 Orange has accidentally leaked the fact that it will provide iPhone contracts in France for 49 euros per month, Reuters reports.The two-year contract will cost a total of 1,176 euros ($US1,754) when... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Iphone , Orange , Contract , Month , Euros
Microsoft confirms that XP has random number generator bug
2007-11-22 23:17:00 Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.'s most popular operating system, sports the same encryption flaws that Israeli researchers recently disclosed in Windows 2000, Microsoft officials confirmed late... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Random , Generator , Number
Microsoft clears up Zune 80 availability issues
2007-11-22 23:14:00 Those of you searching in vain for a Zune 80 may not have longer to wait -- Cesar over at Zune Insider has just posted a note about the situation, saying that all the Zunes are ready and shipping,... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Microsoft , Issues , Availability , Issue
Office Live Documents - Hotmail Founder Challenges Microsoft
2007-11-22 23:13:00 Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft in 1997 for around $400 million. After selling Hotmail, Sabeer tried new ventures but none of them were very successful. Now Sabeer has decided to challenge... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Office , Founder , Live
T-Mobile will sell unlocked iPhone in Germany
2007-11-22 23:11:00 T-Mobile said Wednesday that it will sell the iPhone in Germany without a contract, complying with a court injunction against it. In addition, it will unlock any phone bought since November 19 -- the... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Iphone , T-Mobile , Sell
Microsoft Pledge: No More WGA Funny Business
2007-11-22 23:07:00 Microsoft has been painstakingly reviewing the operations and procedures behind its Windows Genuine Advantage license validation tool, with a view to ironing out glitches that have cause problems for... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Business , Funny , Microsoft , Pledge , Sine
YouTube could kill internet by 2010
2007-11-22 23:05:00 Web could run out of capacity in three yearsA study from Nemertes Research Group suggests the increasing use of video services such as YouTube could see the internet reach breaking point in just... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Youtube , Internet , Kill
COD4 PS3 Issues Solved
2007-11-21 23:57:00 Infinity Ward says that a problem preventing people getting online with Call of Duty 4 on PS3 has now been fixed. It all started going wrong for PS3-owning fans of the game round about the time... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Issues , CoD4 , Issue
Ubisoft Reveals Rainbow Six Vegas 2
2007-11-21 23:53:00 Ubisoft has revealed a sequel to last year's Rainbow Six outing in Sin City, Rainbow Six Vegas 2. The sequel (yes, it's still set in Las Vegas) will be hitting PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in March 2008,... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Ubisoft , Rainbow Six Vegas
First Halo 3 Map Pack Arrives December 11
More articles from this author:2007-11-21 23:50:00 Beginning December 11, three new multiplayer maps will be available for players of Bungie's Halo 3 (X360). Titled the Heroic Map Pack , its three maps--Foundry, Rat's Nest, and Standoff--will be... View my site for full content and more... (Click on subject title of paste this into your browser address bar: http://knowhitech.blogspot.com/ ) More About: Halo 3 , December 11 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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