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Vista opens on Microsoft Windows !

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has said the next version of its much-delayed operating system will be known as Windows Vista.
The software, until now known by its code name Longhorn, is due for release towards the end of 2006, half a decade after the launch of Windows XP.

To hit the deadline Microsoft has already taken out a number of features it had promised for the system.

A test version will be released by 3 August, the Seattle-based firm said.

Once Vista hits the market it will be the longest gap between releases of Windows systems.

On Thursday Microsoft announced fourth-quarter net profits of $3.7bn (£2.11bn) for the three months up to 30 June 2005.

Chief financial officer Chris Liddell said Microsoft would benefit greatly in the next financial year from new products.

Improved security

Microsoft's flagship software already runs on about 90% of personal computers worldwide.

The firm has promised that Vista will take what for Microsoft is a completely new approach to computing, with security not an add-on but an integral part of the operating system.

But to meet the autumn 2006 deadline, Vista will be launched with some key components missing. Once they have been released - probably in the form of so-called service packs - the operating system will have a much-improved filing system, a new way to render graphics and much higher internet connectivity.

One of its most important features could be the promised seamless integration with a vast range of computing devices - from media centres to wireless music players.

'Clarity, connectivity'

According to Brad Goldberg, general manager of Windows product development at Microsoft, the renaming is in the interests of "communicating the idea of clarity".

"That lets users focus on the things they need to focus on," he added.

A video of the launch showed the Vista brand name alongside the slogan "Clear, Confident, Connected; Bringing clarity to your world".

Microsoft has previously said that Vista will make malicious software that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge "a thing of the past".

Executives at the firm have said Vista, which is likely to run on high-specification computers only, has been designed with security as "part of the design, not a bolt-on".



MICROSOFT *

HQ: Redmond, Washington
Sales: $36bn (2004)
Profits: $8.2bn (2004)
Staff: 57,000
Founded: 1975
Chairman: Bill Gates
Chief executive: Steven Ballmer

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High-Speed Internet Subscribers Revved in 2005

High-speed Internet connections reached 37.9 million subscribers in the U.S. last year, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Ninety-nine percent of the U.S. population is now able to subscribe to broadband, according the study.

Twice a year, the FCC collects data on the number of high-speed connections from broadband providers with at least 250 high-speed lines in a state. Broadband is divided into two classifications. High-speed lines deliver services at speeds exceeding 200 Kbps (define) in at least one direction. Advanced services lines deliver services at speeds exceeding 200 Kbps for both download and upload streams.

The 2005 calendar year saw a 34 percent increase in broadband subscribers for residential, small and larger business accounts. The second half of the year experienced a slightly higher conversion rate of 17 percent. The first half of 2004 generated 15 percent overall growth.

"It is certainly growing, and growing strongly," Jupiter Research analyst Joseph Laszlo told ClickZ Stats. "Growth is strong, but we don't see a trend in growth over time. It's going to be harder to sustain high percentage growth rates over time."


High-speed increases broken down by delivery method from the first to the second-half of 2004 break down to a 21 percent increase in ADSL subscribers, a 15 percent rise in coaxial cable subscribers, a nine percent increase in fiber or powerline delivery, 30 percent in satellite or wireless, and a four percent increase in other wireline means.

Advanced service lines also experienced growth from the first half of the year to the next. ADSL delivery increased by 51 percent, coaxial cable grew by 15 percent, fiber and powerline increased nine percent, satellite and wireless went up by 30 percent, and other wireline by four percent.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The man who packaged the Internet to the masses is trying his hand at television, but for a more discriminating audience.

In April, America Online co-founder Steve Case rose from the ashes of his company's ill-fated merger with Time Warner by declaring his intent to build a new empire based in the health care industry.

His private holding company, Revolution, has been on a buying binge funded in part by $500 million of his own fortune. Among the companies acquired was Wisdom Media Group, a small, family-run cable venture based in Bluefield, W.Va., not too far from AOL's Dulles, Va., headquarters.

At this past weekend's Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing convention in Philadelphia, Revolution announced plans to rebrand and relaunch the Wisdom cable channel as the keystone of a multiplatform media play including radio, Internet, wireless and DVD.

In line with Case's ambitions in the health care business, his media strategy is aimed at a loosely defined market segment interested in healthy, eco-friendly goods and services ranging from Whole Foods groceries to Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles. Known to market researchers by the acronym LOHAS, or lifestyles of health and sustainability, the group has a spending power pegged at more than $230 billion.

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TOKYO-- A couple of weeks ago I was in South Korea to attend the SEK electronics show, where SK Telecom, the leading cellular carrier, talked about a digital music service it's calling "Melon." More interesting than the specifics of the service itself was the fact that a cellular carrier is trying to get into the digital music market.

People have been talking for some time about the battle between cell phones, which increasingly have music player functions, and digital music players, which increasingly have all manner of other functions. What I learned from talking to SK Telecom is that this competition could work out to be bad news for consumers.


SK Telecom is using its own digital rights management system to protect downloaded music. Music loaded onto its phones won't play anywhere else--not in handsets from other carriers or in stand-alone digital music players. SK Telecom's handsets also won't play songs protected with other DRM systems, so you can forget about using Apple ITunes Music Store or any other portal to acquire music for your handset. Of course, the same incompatibility exists in the music player world between, say, Apple's IPod and Napster's subscription music service. The situation isn't new, but the entrance of cellular carriers could make it more confusing.


That aside, SEK was also the venue for the launch of IRiver's cool little U10, which supports Microsoft's DRM. And back in Japan, Olympus added to its M:robe music player line with two new models, and Kenwood entered the music player market with a hard-drive device.

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Windows Vista--the next version of Windows, formerly code-named Longhorn--hits a major milestone today with the release of Beta 1 code, Microsoft announced. Microsoft also released the first beta of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (as well as the version bundled with Windows Vista).


The preproduction code being released today--several days before the August 3 deadline Microsoft gave itself when it announced the name of the OS last week--will be made available immediately as a download to 10,000 technical beta testers, most of them from the enterprise information technology and developer community.


Another half-million or so members of the Microsoft Developer Network and Microsoft TechNet (a support group for IT professionals who use Microsoft products) will soon have access to Beta 1, but without the support available to the official testers.


Beta 1 will not be available to the general public, at least in part because it lacks many of the user-oriented features Windows Vista will have when it ships in the second half of 2006, Microsoft officials say. a??The whole canvas is not complete," says Greg Sullivan, group product manager in the Windows client division. "We've painted less than half the picture here."

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Microsoft Warms Up to Linux

For those rabid, open-source conspiracy theorists still holding on to the popular notion that Microsoft is secretly working on its own version of the Linux operating system, Bill Hilf has some sobering news.

"The bottom line is, we're wholly, 100 percent committed to Windows and think we can do amazingly powerful things in the operating system," says Hilf, director of platform technology strategy at the Redmond, Washington-based software giant. "There's a ton of stuff we can do to innovate. We don't see that level of innovation [in Linux] that makes us say there's [anything] out there that's better than or more effective than what we can do."


Hilf, who runs Microsoft's Linux/Open Source lab, says he's heard a million varieties of the question about whether Microsoft is working on its own Linux implementation, so many that "I should write a book about them all," he joked in an interview this week.


"The conspiracy theories are ripe," Hilf says. "I've had people come up to me and tell me, 'I know that Longhorn is built on a Linux kernel.'"

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HP to Drop iPod

Hewlett-Packard has decided to stop reselling Apple Computer's popular iPod music player, representatives from both companies confirmed Friday.


Several varieties of the MP3 player were still available on HP's Web site Friday, but the company will end its relationship with Apple's iconic iPod by the end of September, said Ross Camp, a company spokesperson. HP will continue to install Apple's iTunes software on its PCs, he said.

Small Set of Sales

HP and Apple announced a distribution partnership at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show that also included an agreement for HP to install Apple's iTunes software on its PCs. Over the course of the relationship, sales through HP only accounted for about 5 percent of all iPod sales, according to Apple.


HP rival Dell chose to develop its own MP3 player, the Dell DJ, to compete with Apple. But Apple has owned the market for handheld music players with its iPod, iPod Mini, and iPod Shuffle music players, almost from the inception of the first iPod in 2001.

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Canon is launching four camcorders for the international market in the coming months, and the lineup includes its first models that record to DVD, the company says.


The company's first two DVD camcorders are the DC 20 and the DC 10. The DC 20 has a 2.2-megapixel CCD (charge-coupled device) sensor while the DC 10 comes with a 1.3-megapixel CCD. They both have 10X optical zooms, take still pictures, and can record to a miniSD memory card, the company says. Like other DVD camcorders, the models record to 3.2-inch discs.


DVD camcorders have been in shops for years and the company recognizes that it has been late to the market, according to Richard Berger, a Tokyo-based spokesperson for Canon.


But the company hasn't been satisfied with the image quality of DVD camcorder models on the market and designers thought many of the early models a bit bulky, so Canon wanted to wait until it got the quality and size issues sorted out, he says.


The company thinks it has got things right with the DC 20 and DC 10 though. The models are 1.9 inches by 3.4 inches by 4.8 inches and weigh 1.1 pounds with battery pack installed and DVD and memory card inserted. While they won't be quite the slimmest DVD camcorders on the market, they are a good enough start, Berger says.


Both will be in shops in Europe in late October; the DC 20 for around $1,208 and the DC 10 for $1091. The company hasn't announced pricing and availability for the U.S.

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Mozilla Goes Corporate

The Mozilla Foundation, which distributes the open source Firefox Web browser, has created a corporate subsidiary to support its money-making activities and help widen the use of its products, it announced on Wednesday.

While the goals of the subsidiary, called Mozilla Corporation, include generating revenue and profit, its primary interest is not in making money, the group said. Instead, its main objective is to sustain the development of Firefox and other products, and help the foundation promote its goal of driving open standards on the Web, it said.


"The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public-benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone," Mitchell Baker, a former Netscape attorney who becomes president of Mozilla Corporation, said in a statement.


Mozilla products such as Firefox and its Thunderbird e-mail client will remain free and open source, the group said.

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Hackers Crack Microsoft's Antipiracy System

Microsoft says that hackers managed to bypass a process it had implemented several days ago to ensure that users of Microsoft's update services possessed legitimate copies of Windows before they could download updates and content from those services.

A posting on the Boing Boing blog claimed that a JavaScript command string could bypass a check that Microsoft instituted Wednesday through the Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0 program.

According to the posting, users can override the WGA by pasting the string javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all') in the address bar of their browser and pressing Enter. The code "turns off the trigger for the key check," according to the blog posting.

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Several big telecommunications operators and the world's largest software maker hope to pursuade many couch potatoes to zap their old-fashioned notions about television and tune in to its convergence with the Internet.

Internet TV, or IPTV, is arguably one of the hottest new technologies in communications. A handful of operators already offer service with largely home-grown systems, but many eyes are glued to the screen to see what Microsoft is concocting with some big-name carriers.

Using the same DSL connection that gives customers broadband Internet access over phone lines, Microsoft-aligned operators such as BT Group, Telecom Italia, SBC Communications, and India's Reliance Infocomm aim to add TV for a much-cited "triple play" of bundled voice, data, and video services. Their premise: If--in our age of the digital packet--documents, images, music, and even phone calls can be broken up into bits, thrust through networks, and reassembled by Internet protocol at the other end, why not TV?

It's a legitimate question, and one that telephone companies--painfully aware that the days of their cash-cow circuit-switched telephone business are numbered as cheap Voice over IP (VoIP) services go mass market--aim to answer, despite their failed attempts at TV service in the past.

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آنتى ويروس پاندا در گزارش هفتگى خود سه نوع کرم اينترنتی را مورد بررسی قرار داده است: Infober.A, Incef.A و Bobax.AU.
به گزارش بخش خبر شبكه فن آورى اطلاعات ايران، Infober.A که از طريق شبکه های کامپيوتری منتشر می شود با ساختن فهرستی از منابعی که در شبکه به اشتراک گذاشته شده، خود را در آنها کپی می کند. اين کرم کار خود را با ساختن چهار فايل آغاز می کند؛ دو فايل با نام های MMSOFTCPL.CPL و DEATHLOG.TXT و دو فايل ديگر که نام آنها پس از جست و جو در ميان فايل های با پسوند cpl ، exe و doc در تمام درايو های کامپيوتر انتخاب می شود. يکی از اين فايل ها پس از روشن شدن کامپيوتر کرم اينترنتی را فعال می کند و پس از آن سيستم با فايل جعلی MMSOFTCPL.CPL آغاز به کار می کند. کرم اينترنتی Infober.A پورت UDP 45075 را باز می کند و از اين طريق دسترسی از راه دور به کامپيوتر و اطلاعات آن را ممکن می سازد.
کرم دوم با نام Incef.A از طريق IRC – با استفاده از mIRC – و همچنين نرم افزار اشتراک فايل KaZaA منتشر می شود. اين کرم به شيوه های زير در کامپيوتر آلوده عمل می کند:
تنظيمات KaZaA را در جهت کمک به انتشارش دستکاری می کند. اين کرم درايو C: و يک زير فولدر در دايرکتوری Windows را را به اشتراک می گذارد. همچنين firewall ها و فيلتر های ويروس را از کار می اندازد.
فايل MIRC.INI را طوری دستکاری می کند که اسکريپت مشخصی را اجرا کند.
کرم سوم با عنوان Bobax.AU از طريق ايميل و در پيغامی با مشخصات متفاوت منتشر می شود. ايميل آلوده حاوی فايل ضميمه ای با نام دو بخشي، متشکل از کلمتی مانند BUSH ، FUNNY ، JOKE ، PICS يا SECRET و پسوند exe ، pif يا scr است. پس از اجرای اين فايل Bobax.AU فعال می شود و به دنبال آدرس های ايميل موجود در کامپيوتر آلوده می گردد تا خود را به اين آدرس ها ارسال کند. اين کرم می تواند کار های ديگری نيز انجام دهد؛ از جمله آن که فايل HOSTS را طوری دستکاری می کند که امکان دسترسی به برخی صفحات وب، به خصوص سايت های شرکت های آنتی ويروس، از بين برود.

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Internet phone carriers still seeking 911 replies

WASHINGTON - Some of the top U.S. Internet phone providers told U.S. regulators this week they are still trying to obtain acknowledgments from customers that they know the limitations of dialing 911 with their service.

Some customers of Internet phone service, known as Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), have had trouble getting help when dialing the emergency number 911, which prompted the Federal Communications Commission to order changes.

Unlike traditional phone service, not all Internet phones provide 911 dispatchers with the location of callers, and some calls have been routed to administrative lines that are not always monitored.

The FCC in May ordered companies to fix those issues by late November and, in the interim, to get acknowledgments from all customers that they understand those service limitations. Analysts estimate there are more than 2 million VOIP customers.

Vonage Holdings Corp., the biggest U.S. Internet phone provider, said it has received acknowledgments from more than 90 percent of its customers but was unable to predict whether it would achieve the 100 percent goal by an August 29 deadline.

"Vonage is continuing its campaign to contact and obtain affirmative acknowledgment from all of its customers," the company told the FCC. Dozens of carriers reported that they were contacting customers via letters, calls and e-mails.

"Vonage expects to send out at least one e-mail per week and to continue to restrict account access of subscribers who have not yet submitted an affirmative acknowledgment," it said in an August 10 filing.

AT&T Corp. said that it had received affirmative replies from 77 percent of its customers as of August 9, but about 10 percent of its Internet phone customers may not provide acknowledgments by the deadline.

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Pirated Version of Mac OS for PCs Available

Instructions on how to install Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system on any PC with a chip from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices were posted to the Internet this week, and they could be found on several Web sites today.

Apple announced in June that Mac OS X will run on Intel's x86 architecture chips starting in 2006. The Cupertino, California, company has been working on a version of Mac OS X for Intel's chips since 2000, even though Macs currently use PowerPC chips from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs told developers that a switch was necessary to take advantage of the low-power chips Intel is expected to release in the future.


At the time, Apple executives insisted that Mac OS X would only run on x86 chips used in Apple-developed hardware. Intel PCs distributed to Apple developers with the x86 version of Mac OS X used a security chip to prevent developers from copying Mac OS to other Intel PCs, according to several reports this week from Mac enthusiast sites.

Hacker Bypass

However, several enterprising hackers have figured out ways to bypass the security chip and run the developer's version of MacOS for x86 on any x86-based PC, according to a posting on the Web page of The OSx86 Project. Posters on that site, as well as other sites within the Mac community, claim to have used the instructions to run Mac OS X on their Intel or AMD PCs, with some posting pictures and videos of x86 PCs booting Mac OS X.


The process requires a copy of Mac OS X version 4 (Tiger), VMware's virtualization software, the PearPC emulator that can run operating systems written for PowerPC on any architecture, Apple's Darwin 8.0.1 software, an x86 processor that supports SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2), and two files created by an independent developer that can be downloaded using the BitTorrent file-sharing system.

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Microsoft urges update for flaws

Microsoft is urging Windows users to update their systems with the latest security patches it has released to fix three critical flaws in its software.



The flaws mostly affect Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer. Users with updated Windows Server 2003 and XP systems are not as much at risk.

If left plugged in, they could allow hackers and virus writers to take control of personal computers remotely.

Microsoft releases security bulletins regularly to alert people to updates.

The most serious of the flaws are awarded a "critical" status.

Open to attack

The first of the three flaws applies to Internet Explorer users. The loophole could leave a computer open to a virus or worm attack, which could then let an attacker take complete control of an affected computer.

A vulnerability was also found in the Print Spooler service and the Plug and Play (PnP) hardware detection feature in Windows, both of which could leave systems open to attack and vulnerable to remote control.

What are the threats on the net?
Users are being urged to download the patches to fix the flaws. Most security updates happen automatically if the auto update function is activated in Windows software.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at net security firm Sophos, said that Windows users should "sit up, listen and take action."

"Although we have seen no malicious code in the wild yet which exploits these critical security holes in Microsoft's code, we have seen malicious worms and hackers follow these announcements very soon after the vulnerability's disclosure."

He added: "Fortunately with Windows XP SP2 it is easier to keep your computer up-to-date with security patches than ever before."

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mashalla red ..

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محققان هشدار داده*‏اند، افزايش چشمگير فروش IPOD ها و ديگر دستگاه*‏هاي قابل حمل پخش موسيقي، مي*‏تواند به معني افزايش تعداد مبتلايان به مشگلات شنيداري مي*‏شود.

به گفته محققان استراليايي از لابراتور ملي شنوايي در سيدني، گوش دادن به موسيقي از طريق هدفون با ولوم خيلي زياد باعث بروز مشگلات شنوايي دائمي در افراد مي*‏شود، با اين حال طبق آمارهاي در دست، در حدود يگ چهارم از افراد اين گار را انجام مي*‏دهند. IPOD اگنون معروف*‏ترين دستگاه قابل حمل پخش موسيقي در دنيا است؛ شرگت اپل سال گذشته 20 ميليون IPOD فروخت.
تحقيقي جديدي گه توسط موسسه RNID صورت گرفته است، نشان مي*‏دهد؛ در حدود 39 درصد از جوانان 18 تا 24 ساله روزانه حداقل يگ ساعت با هدفون موسيقي گوش مي*‏دهند و از اين ميان 40 درصد مي*‏گويند؛ موسيقي را با ولوم بسيار بالا گوش مي*‏دهند.

به گفته محققان، اصوات بلندتر از 80 دسيبل براي گوش مضر هستند، با اين حال دستگاه*‏هاي MP3 پلير مي*‏توا ند اصواتي به بلندي 105 دسيبل توليد گند. خطر آسيب ديدن گوش به بلندي صداي پخش شده از طريق هدفون و مدت استفاده از آن بستگي دارد، با اين ايده، ممگن است ماه*‏ها طول بگشد تا بروز آسيب مشخص شود. اولين نشانه از بروز صدمات، شنيدن صداي زنگ و يا وزوز در گوش است.

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Web of Crime: Internet Gangs Go Global

When you think of a computer hacker, who comes to mind? It could be this: a teenage boy, sitting in his parents' basement, turning his attention away from his video game long enough to break into his school's computer network so he can alter his grades before they're officially released.


That image might have been accurate a few years ago, but today the game is changing. In the past, hackers and writers of malicious software (aka malware) were seeking attention and notoriety. Creators of viruses and worms were looking for bragging rights. Now they're after money--and they're finding it.


The transformation in motivation has changed the types of attacks, and it has also altered the profile of the attackers. Teens seeking notoriety may still be involved, but these days the likelier culprit is a hardened criminal in search of financial gain.


And that criminal isn't working alone. Loosely organized groups--which Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at security company IDefense, and other security experts call "Web gangs"--conduct much of the illegal activity online. The structure of Web gangs may be patterned on that of traditional organized crime, in which the members of the group may never come into contact with one another and may never be aware of who they are working for.


Many intelligent, tech-savvy criminals now "work as mercenaries for the highest bidder," says Tom Kellerman, until recently a specialist in data risk management for the World Bank. He calls organized Web crime "the cocaine of the new millennium," likening its mystique of lawlessness and easy money to that surrounding drug trafficking in the United States during the 1980s.


And online attacks are certainly on the rise: Investigators uncovered more than 422 new Internet security vulnerabilities during the second quarter of 2005, according to a security report for that time period that the SANS Institute released in July. This figure represents an increase of nearly 20 percent over the corresponding number for the second quarter of 2004.


In its report, SANS asserted that people who don't address these critical new Internet security vulnerabilities face a heightened threat that remote, unauthorized hackers "will take control of their PCs and use them for identity theft, for industrial espionage, or for distributing spam or pornography."

Who Are Today's Cybercriminals?

Just ask Barrett Lyon, founder of Prolexic Technologies, a company dedicated to protecting businesses from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last year, Lyon spent several months posing as an online crook to infiltrate a Russian crime syndicate that had used DDoS attacks to bring down several legal online gambling and retail sites after at least some of those sites refused to pay extortion money.


Lyon's work helped detectives at the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit secure the July 2004 arrest of Ivan Maksakov--a 21-year-old Russian mechanical engineering student at the time--and several others. According to sources at the U.S. State Department, Maksakov has confessed in full to his role in the scheme and is participating in the investigation.


Lyon says that at least ten other individuals seem to have been involved in Maksakov's group. "From what I understood, he and a bunch of his friends hung out in chat rooms, and he was being hired to attack companies," Lyon says.


Barrett Lyon, left, worked undercover with Dayton Turner to expose an international Web gang.Lyon's undercover work--done with the assistance of Dayton Turner, a Prolexic senior engineer--gives him insight into just who is behind financially motivated attacks. "The guys who used to be after bragging rights are now after money," he says.

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IBM Software Continually Backs Up Laptop Files

PARIS-- IBM will release new software next month for automatically backing up files on laptop computers. The product will be aimed primarily at mobile workers and is intended to protect data in the event that files are accidentally deleted or become corrupted, or if a laptop is stolen, IBM says.

Called Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, the software creates a local backup copy of files each time changes are made, according to Steve Cliff, a United Kingdom regional sales manager for IBM's Tivoli storage software. When the laptop is connected to a network--via a Wi-Fi connection, for example--the software also backs up the data to a remote server.

The product will join an emerging field of so-called continuous data protection (CDP) products. Other vendors include Storactive of Marina del Rey, California, and startup Lasso Logic, in San Francisco. In addition, Veritas is currently beta-testing a CDP product called Backup Exec "Panther".

Still, IBM claims its product is a novel one. Some other systems require a dedicated server to monitor and store file changes, the company notes, while others back up files only periodically--every hour or so--rather than continually.

IBM is aiming its product at both large and small businesses. While the company is marketing it primarily for laptops, the software also works on desktop PCs and enterprise file servers. It will be available via Internet download starting September 16 and on CD the following month, priced at $35 per laptop or desktop and $995 per server processor, IBM says.

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Previews of new Windows Vista graphics and a dramatic interface overhaul for Microsoft Office are on the agenda for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' keynote today at a developer conference in Los Angeles.

Vista highlights include new ways to manage open windows, and enhancements to the interface for file directories and more. The first public peek at Office 12, meanwhile, may generate even more excitement since it is so different in appearance from previous versions. (PC World Editor in Chief Harry McCracken takes an in-depth first look at Office 12 in his Techlog blog.)


Thousands who make their living creating Windows applications and Office add-ons are expected to attend Gates' speech kicking off the three-day Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The event is to independent software vendors (Microsoft executive refer to them as ISVs) what WinHEC last spring was to hardware engineers--a chance to familiarize themselves with both the coming generation of core Microsoft products that their own products will depend on, and the software development tools they'll use to create them.

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In Windows Vista is an Spyware installed. Magazines already started several actions against Microsoft. I don´t know the name. But this Program looks on wich sites you go, everything you downloading, wich programs are installed on your computer. You know, that´s how a customer from glass, they look on your hands.
That´s more than one step, they did with Windows XP.

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really thats interesting... hmmm they trying to spy on us!!!

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That´s a Thread about PC´s, thus i put it here

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In Windows Vista is an Spyware installed. Magazines already started several actions against Microsoft. I don´t know the name. But this Program looks on wich sites you go, everything you downloading, wich programs are installed on your computer. You know, that´s how a customer from glass, they look on your hands.
That´s more than one step, they did with Windows XP.

Yes my friend.i know it but nothin is sure & 100% for now.thx for your opinion ;) .

[RedWine]

The mobile phones for sale during the 2006-2007 holiday season should be a lot more secure than this year's crop, thanks to a new mobile security specification that likely to be released in the first half of 2006.


The specification is being developed by the Trusted Computing Group, an industry association backed by mobile vendors such as Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung.

The TCG has already created standards for PCs, servers, and networks designed to make computing more secure; and at this week's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Wireless IT and Entertainment conference in San Francisco, the group took a step toward finalizing its mobile standard.

Today, the TCG released a number of "use cases" defining the areas that it expects its mobile standards to cover. These documents discuss things such as locking down phones to make them harder to use when they are lost or stolen, managing software updates and patches, and supporting secure payments via mobile devices.

The Road Ahead

Still, the hard work of defining the mobile specification remains to be done, according to Roger Kay, an analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates who serves on the TCG's advisory council.

"They're basically saying that they're working on it," Kay said of the TCG. "They've defined the scope of their mission and a timetable for completing it, but they haven't defined the specifications."

In a statement released today, the TCG said that it expects to have a publicly available mobile phone specification ready in the first half of 2006. If this happens, devices supporting the specification should begin to emerge by the end of next year, Kay said.

The first mobile phones built with the TCG's mobile security technology should be harder to use without proper authorization. As more infrastructure is built to support the TCG standards, phones will become more resistant to mobile viruses and other forms of abuse, Kay said.

Farther along, when mobile phones become even more secure, they could evolve into a kind of electronic wallet that could be used to authenticate buyers and sellers in online transactions, he said.

[RedWine]

know your name. I know where you live, and everywhere you've ever lived. I know when and where you were born. I know how many credit cards you have--and how good you are about paying them off. And I know all about your insurance claims, your work history, and whether you have a criminal record.

At least, I could uncover all of that, and a broad range of other sensitive personal information about you. All I'd have to do is pay between $10 and $50 to any of a vast number of online information brokers--companies such as Intelius and ZabaSearch, and larger firms like Acxiom and ChoicePoint--and in 15 minutes I'd have as much information about you as I could possibly want.


With a name, an address, and a Social Security number, a person can take out loans, open credit card accounts, lease an apartment, and commit crimes, all in your name. When their actions get confused with yours, you may get stuck with the bills or, in extreme cases, be arrested. That your data is readily available via the Internet only increases your vulnerability.


Information brokers gather incredible amounts of personal data--not just credit details--from many different sources, including private companies and government agencies; then they sell it to businesses, to law enforcement, or to anyone who can demonstrate a need that the brokers consider legitimate. The laws limiting what information can be sold and who can receive it are weak and narrowly focused, so for the most part each broker is free to formulate its own standards.


And not all of them safeguard your data as well as they could, as shown by a number of highly publicized fraudulent purchases from, and hacks into, some of the largest sellers of personal info--firms like Acxiom, ChoicePoint, and LexisNexis. In early 2005, ChoicePoint revealed that it had sold information on 145,000 consumers nationwide. Reportedly, the buyers posed as legitimate business customers but were members of a Nigerian organized-crime group. ChoicePoint says that criminal attempts were made to use the identities of approximately 750 consumers. LexisNexis reported that it had uncovered 59 incidents over a two-year period in which unauthorized persons had gained access to personal data on 310,000 people in the United States.


Mickey Martinez, a Yale University law student who is a plaintiff in a ChoicePoint class-action suit, says that he received a letter the broker sent out to warn people who were exposed to identity theft as a result of its breach. "I was just outraged. No matter how zealously careful you are, carelessness [by] one of these outfits potentially can put you at risk."


He adds that he's been careful to shred personal documents, tell credit agencies not to send him preapproved credit offers, and refrain from conducting financial transactions over his wireless network, and yet he was still exposed. ChoicePoint offered to pay for a year's worth of credit monitoring, which he thinks is insufficient. "At the very least, they should offer a lengthier period of monitoring, and [issue] some sort of statement of responsibility: If something goes wrong, they will take upon themselves the financial burden and the hassle of fixing it," he says.


Information brokers aren't alone. At this writing the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse lists some 80 breaches of data for over 50 million people since February. Among the most serious incidents: CardSystems, a credit card processor, unwittingly coughed up information on 40 million people to a hacker; and a CitiGroup subsidiary lost data on 3.9 million people when unencrypted backup tapes it had shipped via United Parcel Service went missing.

[RedWine]

Games on mobile phones have come a long way since Snake or endless knock-offs of arcade classics such as Asteroids and Space Invaders.

Now many of the big name titles first created for consoles and PCs are turning up in shrunken versions for handsets that an increasingly large section of the population own.

But, says Thor Gunnarson of British mobile game maker Ideaworks3D, the whole industry is just getting started.

Handsets, he says, are getting powerful enough to cope with what he dubs "console class" gaming, which means they are able to cope with 3D graphics that scroll past at a rate of at least 20 frames a second.

Speed kings

Before now many of the mobile gaming conventions we are used to, such as competing against "ghost" opponents rather than real people, have come about because of the limitations of phone networks.

Data transfer rates on second generation networks are too slow to play real people in real time.

But, said Mr Gunnarson, such limitations disappear with 3G networks simply because they can ship more data back and forth more quickly.


Console class games are coming to phones
Once latency or delay drops below 3.5 milliseconds it becomes invisible to users, said Mr Gunnarson, and 3G networks will definitely ship data between handsets fast enough for that.

"That's good enough for multi-player gaming and real time racing," he said.

But what will also make a big difference is the way that people pay for the data they consume via their phone.

Currently most operators charge users for the megabytes they use. A pricing mechanism, said Mr Gunnarson, that does not encourage people to spend lots of time browsing the web or downloading extra levels for games.

[topboy89]

no1s gonna read all that

[Cop]

if u r interested u read! ;) if not u dont :p

[RedWine]

Two hackers have been jailed for helping to create a virus that infected thousands of computers worldwide.
Andrew Harvey, 24, of Sherburn Village, Co Durham, was jailed for six months, and Jordan Bradley, 22, of Darlington, was jailed for three months, on Friday.

The men admitted a conspiracy charge in May this year for their part in creating what was called the T-K Worm.

It used internet chat channels to infect other computers which then gave the hackers control of them.

They were arrested in 2003 after a joint investigation by hi-tech crime officers in Britain and the US.

The men, who did not benefit financially from their actions, were part of a group called the Threat Krew".

Newcastle Crown Court heard how one police computer became infected with the worm and spread it to 19,000 other computers in two weeks.

Harvey, of Meldon Avenue, Sherburn Village, and Bradley, of Bates Avenue, Darlington, admitted conspiracy to cause unauthorised modification of computers with intent between 31 December 2001 and 7 February 2003.

The arrests were witnessed by officers from the US Computer and Technology Crime Hi-tech team which flew in from southern California.



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[RedWine]

آنتي ويروس پاندا در گزارش هفتگي خود سه بدافزار اينترنتي يعني؛ تروجان*هاي BankerAXW، FormatA و كرم اينترنتي SoberY را مورد بررسي قرار داده كه از طريق ايميل منتشر مي*شود.

Format.A تروجاني است كه خود را از طريق ابزاري كه براي اجراي كدهاي ثبت نشده در كنسول پلي استيشن (PSP) طراحي شده، منتشر مي*كند. پس از اجرا، اين تروجان فايل*هاي كليدي براي عملكرد درست كنسول را پاك مي*كند و در نتيجه پلي استيشن نمي*تواند شروع به كار كند. Format.A براي انتشار، خود را به عنوان برنامه*اي كه BIOS كنسول PSP را به منظور استفاده غيرقانوني از بازي*ها به نسخه*هاي قبلي برمي*گرداند، معرفي مي*كند.


Banker.AXW تروجاني است كه پنجره*هاي باز با عنوان صفحه*هاي مشخص ? غالبا داراي كلماتي مربوط به بانك ? را ردگيري مي*كند. سپس ضربات وارد شده به صفحه كليد، هنگام كار كردن با اين پنجره*ها را به منظور دستيابي به اطلاعات بانكي محرمانه كاربر ضبط مي*كند. اين تروجان براي ارسال اطلاعات جمع*آوري شده از چندين اسكريپت PHP بهره مي*برد؛ همچون بيشتر تروجان*ها، Banker.AXW نيز نمي*تواند خود به خود منتشر شود و معمولا از طريق ايميل با فايل*هاي ضميمه، داونلود*هاي اينترنتي، سي دي و فلاپي پخش مي*شود و بالاخره Sober.Y نسخه جديدي از دسته كرم*هاي sober است كه مانند قبلي*ها مي*تواند به سرعت از طريق ايميل منتشر شود. تنها چند ساعت پس از اولين نشانه*ها آزمايشگاه*هاي شركت پاندا شروع به شناسايي آن در سراسر جهان كردند. براي پيشگيري از ابتلا به اين كرم ـ به خصوص براي كامپيوتر*هايي كه آنتي ويروس مناسبي ندارند ـ شركت پاندا برنامه PQRemove را به صورت رايگان در اختيار تمام كاربران گذاشته تا نسبت به شناسايي و حذف اين ويروس در كامپيوتر خود اقدام كنند.

Sober.Y از دو نوع ايميل براي انتشار خود استفاده مي*كند؛ اولي ايميلي است انگليسي با عنوان «Your new password» كه وانمود مي*كند حاوي اطلاعاتي درباره تغيير رمز عبور است و از كاربر مي*خواهد براي دستيابي به اين اطلاعات، فايلي با نام pword_change.zip را دريافت كند.

دومي ايميلي است به زبان آلماني كه ادعا مي*كند حاوي عكسي است از دوستان قديمي در فايلي به نام KlassenFoto.zip. هر دوي اين فايل*هاي زيپ شده حاوي يك كپي از كرم Sober.Y به صورت يك فايل اجرايي هستند. پس از اجراي فايل، اين كرم اينترنتي شروع به جمع*آوري آدرس*هاي ايميل از روي كامپيوتر آلوده مي*كند و خود را براي تمام اين آدرس*ها مي*فرستد. براي آدرس*هاي ايميل با پسوند de (مخصوص آلمان)، ch (سوئيس)، at (اتريش) يا li (ليختن اشتاين) نسخه آلماني ارسال مي*شود.

[RedWine]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) said on Monday it will begin featuring the work of self-published Web bloggers side-by-side with the work of professional journalists, leveling distinctions between the two.

Yahoo News, the world's most popular Internet media destination, is set to begin testing on Tuesday an expanded news search system that includes not only news stories and blogs but also user-contributed photos and related Web links.

The move will further stoke the debate between media traditionalists who want to maintain strict walls between news and commentary and those who argue such boundaries are elitist and undervalue the work of "citizen journalists."

Blogs, short for Web logs, are easy-to-publish Web sites where millions of individuals post commentary from political analysis to personal musings, creating a grassroots publishing medium that challenges established media's authority.

Yahoo said its move to combine professionally edited news alongside the work of grassroots commentators promises to enrichen the sources of information on breaking news events.

"Traditional media doesn't have the time and resources to cover all the stories," Joff Redfern, product director for Yahoo Search said. "It really does add substantially to what you are looking at when you are looking for news."

Yahoo has, in effect, created a three-tier system for finding news that starts with the links to top ten stories and related photographs produced by mainstream news organizations on the main Yahoo News site.

Readers searching for further details will be taken to a second-level news site, which splits the page between news from 6,500 professional sources and links to the hundreds of thousands of blogs available from its syndication service.

[me_89]

omg its too much but i still read it its cool ur samrt i thought i was the samrtest

[RedWine]

First it was Microsoft, now it's Google and Comcast: It seems everyone wants a piece of America Online.

Fresh rumors surfaced today of negotiations regarding Google and Comcast's purchase of a portion of AOL. These discussions, reported by news organizations including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, follow on the heels of previous reports that Microsoft has been working on buying AOL, or a portion of the company, from Time Warner, AOL's current owner.


Spokespeople from AOL, Google, and Microsoft all declined to comment.


Each of the tie-ups makes sense, and analysts agree that the loser wouldn't be left completely out in the cold.

Content, Not Access

The rumors have all the companies interested mainly in AOL's portal and its valuable content, not its Internet-access business.


"AOL has some great content that is broadly appealing to consumers," says Joe Wilcox, senior analyst with Jupiter Research. "One thing that Microsoft lacks for MSN is a lot of good content." For Microsoft, owning all or some of AOL would mean that it could earn more revenue from ad sales and extend the reach of its search application. Currently, AOL uses Google for searches.


Part of Microsoft's interest in AOL may also stem from concern over Google's market momentum. "Microsoft is concerned about Google and the things they might do," Wilcox says.


There may be more of an upside for Google than Microsoft, says Patrick Mahoney, an analyst with the Yankee Group. "They've been dabbling in a portal or home-page strategy, yet they don't really have any content assets," he says. If Google wants into the content market, AOL offers a solid entry.


AOL's content could also be good for Comcast, which could benefit from additional content as it moves away from serving solely as a pipe to the Internet. Some reports describe a deal in which Google and Comcast together make a bid for AOL.

[RedWine]

بازی کامپیوتری - فوتبالی فیفا ۲۰۰۶ پس از گذشت سه هفته از عرضه اش به بازار هنوز در رده اول جدول بازیهای پرفروش بریتانیا قرار داره.

شرکت EA طراح بازی فیفا با توسعه دادن دایمی بازی برای چندین سال متوالی موفق شده که سلطه بازار کامپیوتری فوتبال را در دست داشته باشه.

امکان طراحی تاکتیک بازی یکی از امکاناتی هست که به نسخه جدید این بازی اضافه شده که بازیکن علاوه بر بازی کردن در نقش یک بازیکن فوتبال، میتونه به عنوان مربی هم عمل بکنه و در مورد موقعیت بازیکنان در زمین، تاکتیک حمله و دفاع، وحتی تله آفساید گیری تصمیم گیری بکنه. با اضافه شدم امکان مربی گری، این بازی بیشتر به یک بازی واقعی فوتبال نزدیکتر شده.

از نظر تکنیک فردی، این نسخه جدید بازی تعداد زیادی حقه های مهارتی جدیدی را در اختیار بازیکن قرار می ده.

یکی دیگه از امکانات جدید امکان مسابقه دادن دونفر در مقابل دونفر بر روی اینترنت هست. در نسخه های قبلی این این امکان فقط به صورت یک نفره وجود داشت.

از تغییرات منفی این نسخه بازی میشه به کاهش احتمال به ثمر رسوندن ضربه های آزاد اشاره کرد. در نسخه جدید امکان هدف گیری یک نقطه خاص از دروازه برای ضربه های آزاد حذف شده و مانند بازی واقعی فوتبال بازیکن باید مقداری به شانس خودش هم اتکا بکنه و حدس بزنه.

[RedWine]

As internet search engine Google reports record quarterly profits, we investigates what the secretive internet giant's strategy could be.


After two share offerings the firm has $7.6bn (£4.2bn) cash in the bank, and a stock market value of more than $54bn.

During the first nine months of the year, Google earned a cool $1.5bn (£845m) before taxes.

Not bad for a company that celebrated its seventh birthday just a few days ago.

Google's technology may be based on rocket science algorithms, but the secret of its success is simple: Provide the best search engine in the digital world, and surround the results with cleverly selected ads that meet the needs of the user.

The Google cash register

Not long ago, online advertising was considered a turn-off and in decline.

GOOGLE IN NUMBERS
HQ: Mountain View, California
Staff: 4,989 (Sept '05)
Pre-tax profit: $1.5bn (Jan-Sept '05)
Cash in bank: $7.6bn
Top search engine in Europe
80% of all European search page views
41% of all US search page views
Europe: 120m users each month
UK: 16.6m unique users

[RedWine]

Apple sells a million videos in new service

Apple Computer on Monday said its iTunes online service has sold a million videos in under 20 days, sending shares up almost 5 percent.

iTunes, the most popular online music store, began selling about 2,000 music videos and episodes of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" for $1.99 on October 12.

The debut coincided with the launch of a new generation of Apple's iPod digital music player that can play video on its 2.5-inch color screen.


Topping the list of big sellers were music videos by Michael Jackson, Fatboy Slim and Kanye West, as well as episodes of ABC shows

[RedWine]

كاربران سرويس پرداخت آنلاين PAYPAL هدف حمله فيشينگ جديدي قرار گرفته*‏اند كه در آن هكر درصدد است از طريق هدايت كاربر هدف به يك وب سايتي تقلبي جزييات گذر وازه آنها را به سرقت ببرد

شركت امنيتي وب سنس ، با گزارش اين خطر امنيتي اعلام كرد: در اين حمله كاربران پيام ايميلي را دريافت مي*‏كنند كه از آنها مي*‏خواهد ابزار امنيتي PAYPAL را دانلود كنند. اين فايل كه تحت عنوان PAYPAL-2.5.200-MS,WIN32-X86-2005,EXE ظاهر مي*‏شود ، يك اسب تراوا است كه سرور DNS ورك استيشن محل را تغيير مي*‏دهد و سپس اين ويروس به طور خودكار حذف مي*‏شود

اين تغيير باعث مي*‏شود دفعه بعد كه كاربر قصد ورود به وب*‏سايت PAYPAL را دارد به طور خودكار به وب*‏سايت فيشينگ هدايت شود ؛ اگر چه آدرس نشان داده شده در نوار افزار مرورگر به ظاهر درست است. هنگامي كه كاربر وارد وب سايت فيشينگ مي*‏شود ،*‏ از او خواسته مي*‏شود كه اكانت خود را به روز كند. در صورتي كه كاربر اطلاعات اكانت خود را مجددا وارد كند هكر آنها را سرقت خواهد كرد

[RedWine]

Gawker blogs land Yahoo distribution deal

NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. , the world's largest Internet media company, on Wednesday said it plans to unveil a deal to distribute media, gadgets, and political gossip Web logs from Gawker Media.

Financial terms of the deal with the privately held New York company were not disclosed.

Yahoo will post "dozens" of stories per day from blogs including New York-media gossip blog Gawker, U.S. political gossip-focused Wonkette, Hollywood insider's guide Defamer and popular technology blog Gizmodo.

The deal comes on the heels of Yahoo's decision in October to begin displaying commentary from online journals or blogs alongside traditional news stories.

Yahoo's decision to test the new news service search system had stoked debate between journalism traditionalists who want to maintain a strict wall between commentary and news and those who argue that these barriers are elitist.

Also in October, Time Warner Inc.'s AOL online division purchased blog network Weblogs Inc. for an estimated $25 million in the biggest price tag paid for unfiltered online commentary.

Yahoo said in a statement that the relationship with Gawker could expand to include other Gawker properties in the future.

[RedWine]

Bachehayeh aziz movazeb bashid.bekhoonin in ro !

NEW YORK - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.


Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.

"This is a grossly fraudulent practice that Match.com is engaged in," said H. Scott Leviant, a lawyer at Los Angeles law firm Arias, Ozzello & Gignac LLP, which brought the suit.

Match "promotes the policies of integrity to protect members, and yet they themselves, we allege, are misleading their entire customer base," he said.

The company said it does not comment on pending litigation. But Match spokeswoman Kristin Kelly said the company "absolutely does not" employ people to go on dates with subscribers or to send members misleading e-mails professing romantic interest. The company has about 15 million members worldwide and 250 employees, she said.

In a separate suit, Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)'s personals service is accused of posting profiles of fictitious potential dating partners on its Web site to make it look as though many more singles subscribe to the service than actually do.

Yahoo spokeswoman Rochelle Adams said the company had no comment on the lawsuit.

The suits, which both seek class-action status, came as growth in the online dating industry has slowed, although Web matchmaking still remains a big business.

U.S. consumers spent $245.2 million on online personals and dating services in the first half of 2005, up 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the Online Publishers Association. That's a slower growth rate compared with several years ago.

At the same time, competition among online dating services is fierce, with some sites offering newfangled features such as extensive compatibility surveys to match up people with similar temperaments and outlooks.

[Cop]

hehehe U.S. consumers spent $245.2 million on online personals and dating services in the first half of 2005, up 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the Online Publishers Association. That's a slower growth rate compared with several years ago.

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[Rostam]

Hi Cop/redwine,

I hope this is the right place to bring my computer related question.

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Copy and paste do't work.

Do we download directly to reply box or elsewhere.

please advice.

Khili mamnoon.

[Cop]

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[Rostam]

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Thank you.

I got it.

[RedWine]

Thank you.

I got it.

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[RedWine]

An Australian court has given file-sharing network Kazaa until December 5 to either filter copyrighted music from its system or shut down, music industry officials said on Thursday.

The imposition of the deadline follows a ruling in September by the judge in Sydney that Kazaa users were breaching copyright and that the network's owners had to modify the software.

Other global peer-to-peer (P2P) services, which distribute data between users instead of relying on a central server, also have come under fire from courts in recent months.

Kazaa's operators, Sharman Networks, had appealed the judgment. But according to music industry trade group IFPI, the Australian court said that to avoid complete shutdown Kazaa must, as a first step, put in place a keyword filter system within 10 days.

Sharman Networks had said it could not control the actions of an estimated 100 million users.

"It's time for services like Kazaa to move on -- to filter, go legal or make way for others who are trying to build a digital music business the correct and legal way," IFPI Chairman John Kennedy said in a statement.

A growing number of legal online music services such as Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes, Napster and RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody have grown in popularity over the past year as a new generation of P2P services like Mashboxx hope to offer the advantages of file-sharing without infringing on copyright.

[green_president2004]

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[Rostam]

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America Online has struck a deal with a fledgling online video distribution system developer, Brightcove, that will bring Brightcove's video self-publishing system to AOL.com sometime next year.

AOL is one of a number of media companies aligning with Brightcove and contributing to the company's $16.2 million second round of financing, also announced along with the partnership news on Tuesday. Others contributing include IAC/InterActiveCorp., Hearst, and Allen & Co., along with several venture capital firms. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brightcove launched in March with $5.5 million in venture backing. Its founder is Jeremy Allaire, an entrepreneur who previously served as Macromedia's chief technology officer.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc.'s sleek iPod nano music player was among the top-selling electronic items on Amazon.com on Friday and some models sold out on a top retailer's Web site as consumers stocked up on holiday gifts on one of the year's busiest shopping days.

The stock of Cupertino, California-based Apple was the fifth-best performer on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index on Friday, climbing 3.3 percent to close at $69.34 and helping the index hit a 4-1/2-year closing high.

Apple's black iPod nano with 2 gigabytes of storage, or enough to hold 500 songs, was the sixth best-selling electronic gadget on Amazon.com's list of most popular items, which is updated hourly. A white version was No. 10 on the list. Amazon was selling the nanos for $199.88.

Retailer Best Buy Co.'s Web site was sold out of both the white and black versions of the 4-gigabyte nano priced at $249.99. A spokeswoman for the retailers said Best Buy limited the number of connections to its site due to heavy volume related to the launch of Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 video game console this week.

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شركت ضد ويروسي سوفوس اعلام كرد كه آخرين نسخه*ي كرم sober در راس ويروس*هاي اينترنتي سال جاري قرار مي*گيرد

اين شركت اعلام كرد كه از هر 14 پست الكترونيكي كه در اينترنت در گردش هستند يك مورد حامل اين كرم است. آمار اخير هم چنين نشان مي*دهد كه در حدود 85 درصد از تمام ويروس*هاي شبكه*اي كه به سوفوس گزارش مي*شوند از نسخه*اي هستند كه اين شركت آن را sober-z ناميده است و اين در حالي است كه در هفته*ي گذشته اين رقم برابر 60 درصد بوده است. در حال حاضر بعد از ويروس Netslcy-p در جايگاه اول و zafi-D در جايگاه دوم كرم sober-z سومين ويروس شبكه*اي سال به حساب مي*آيد. كارشناسان اين شركت اعلام كردند كه سرعت انتشار اين كرم نه تنها كاهش نيافته بلكه شديدتر نيز شده است

به گفته*ي اين كارشناسان تصور مي*شود كه مشكل اينجا است كه عده*اي از مردم از رايانه*هاي خود محافظت نمي*كنند و به اين ترتيب ديگران را نيز در دردسر مي*اندازند. شركت سوفوس در پايان اعلام كرد كه اين كرم كه تصور مي*شود منشا آن از كشور آلمان باشد از درايوهاي سخت اسكن*هايي تهيه كرده و به آدرس*هاي پست*هاي الكترونيكي مي*فرستد و همچنين سعي مي*كند كه نرم*افزارهاي امنيتي نصب شده بر روي رايانه را از كار بياندازد

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شرکت آمریکایی Google علامت تجاری خود را در اداره مالکیت صنعتی ثبت کرده است
در آگهی ثبتی که در روزنامه رسمی کشور برای ثبت علامت تجاری Google به چاپ رسیده است نوع کالا، انواع نرم*افزار کامپیوتر برای جستجو، جمع*آوری و گرد*آوری، استخراج، دسته*بندی، فهرست*بندی و سازمان*دهی اطلاعات در ترمینال*ها و کامپیوتر*های شخصی ذکر شده است.

انواع نرم*افزار کامپیوتر برای ایجاد و تهیه فهرست و نمایه (index ) اطلاعات، فهرست و نمایه وب سایت و فهرست و نمایه دیگر منابع اطلاعاتی، انواع ماوس*پد و انواع کالا*های مشابه از دیگر انواع کالا*های ثبت شده با علامت تجاری Google است. مدت اعتبار این علامت تجاری در ایران 10 سال ذکر شده است.

در شرایطی علامت تجاری Google در ایران به ثبت رسیده است که ایران و آمریکا هیچ رابطه تجاری با یکدیگر ندارند.
مسئول ثبت اختراعات در اداره مالکیت صنعتی گفت: هیچ محدودیتی برای ثبت علائم تجاری از سوی هیچ کشوری وجود ندارد. او اضافه کرد: تمامی کشور*ها می*توانند علایم تجاری خود را در ایران به ثبت برسانند و Google نیز از این قاعده مستثنی نیست. مهم نیست که این علامت از سوی چه کشوری پشتیبانی می*شود مهم این است که این علامت در ایران به ثبت رسیده است. ایران عضو کنوانسیون پاریس است از همین رو هر علامتی که در ایران به ثبت برسد طبق آن کنوانسیون با آن برخورد خواهیم کرد. طبق آن هیچکس به جزء ثبت*کننده علامت تجاری حق بهره*برداری از آن علامت را ندارد.

او در جواب این که Google یک شرکت آمریکایی است، گفت: علامت تجاری در ایران به ثبت رسیده است از همین رو هیچ تضاد و مشکلی ایجاد نمی*شود. به نظر می*رسد گسترش فعالیت*های گوگل در ایران محدود به اخبار فوق نمی*شود و در آینده از گوگل مرموز در ایران بیشتر خواهیم شنید.

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LONDON-- Mobile TV isn't all hype. Some people are already watching it in Europe, and judging by the numbers, they like what they see.

"We had more than 1 million downloaded video streams in the first ten days of service," Neil Martin, corporate development director at British Sky Broadcasting Group (BskyB), said Wednesday at the Mobile Video & Television Summit here. "We're now averaging more than 140,000 streams a day."

That business is flowing from a deal with Vodafone Group, Europe's largest mobile phone company. BskyB is offering a range of content, including news, sports and entertainment, to Vodafone subscribers in the U.K.

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به گزارش سایت ICT Center، گوگل و یاهو تا 6 ماه دیگر سرویس های خود را در ایران قطع خواهند کرد
دو شرکت عظیم بین المللی گوگل و یاهو که نیمی از اینترنت را تحت سلطه دارند، تا 6 ماه دیگر ارائه سرویس های خود را در ایران قطع خواهند کرد.

خسرو مترجمی مدیرعامل شبکه تلویزیونی ITC آمریکا در گفت و گو با نشریه عصر ارتباط گفت: “در مصاحبه ای که با یاهو و گوگل داشتم، مطلع شدم که این دو شرکت تهدید شده اند تا ارتباطات خود را تا شش ماه آینده در ایران قطع کنند.”

وی همچنین در بخش دیگری از مصاحبه اش افزود: “به هر حال موضوع بحث اجلاس WSIS نیز همین راهبری مطلق است که در دست آمریکایی ها است.”

آنها می گویند: “اینترنت حق نیست، بلکه امتیازی است که ما به بقیه می دهیم”.

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شركت مايكروسافت در كنفرانسي اعلام كرد كه قصد دارد نسخه*ي beta2 از سيستم عامل ويندوز ويستاي خود را در سال آينده در بازار عرضه كند

اگر چه اين شركت زمان دقيق فروش نرم*افزار را اعلام نكرده است، اما بسياري از كارشناسان زمان آن را دسامبر امسال و يا اوايل سال 2006مي*دانند. همچنين گفته مي*شود كه مسوولان مايكروسافت در نظر دارند ويستا را در نيمه*ي دوم سال 2006 عرضه كند. گفتني است؛ مايكروسافت اولين بتا از ويستا را در جولاي گذشته وارد بازار كرد

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NEW YORK Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising -- and rates -- by targeting ads to users based on their surfing behavior on its site, the company's advertising sales chief said on Thursday.

"The new, new thing at Yahoo, even though we've had variations of this, is getting much more into behavioral targeting," Yahoo Executive Vice President Greg Coleman told the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit in New York.

Search functions on Yahoo and rival Google Inc base ad placement on words searched, but the Yahoo behavioral targeting would use other factors.

The Web portal company does not give personal information to advertising clients but tracks a few types of behavior by its users, including search queries, movement through Yahoo sites and the specific ads clicked. That lets it decide on the fly what ads are most appropriate for a user.

For instance, a person who searches for information on cars is likely to be sent an auto ad, Coleman said.

Traditionally, Yahoo's advertising targeting have focused on customer demographics or geographic location instead of behavior.

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WASHINGTON- The group that oversees Internet domain sites has again postponed a decision on a controversial ."xxx" domain for sex sites, the head of the organization said on Monday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, had been expected at its quarterly meeting in Vancouver to approve or kill the domain, which would give pornographic Web sites their own online neighborhood.

But ICANN decided to delay a vote because some participants had not had enough time to review application materials, ICANN president Paul Twomey said on a conference call with reporters.

"It was impossible to get sufficient time for consideration by the Government Advisory Committee members and therefore the board, the chairman decided to postpone the consideration," Twomey said.

"Within the first quarter of next year is my expectation when it will come back up," he said.

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The virus-scanning feature Google added to its Gmail Web mail service this week has generated concern, bewilderment, and disappointment among some users.

Three main complaints are being aired in Gmail discussion groups. Some users don't like the fact that the new virus-scanning feature can't be turned off. Some note that Gmail's longstanding virus protection--blocking all executable file attachments--remains in place. Finally, Google isn't saying which vendor is providing the antivirus technology.

Option Sought

A Google spokesperson said that, while Google gives thoughtful consideration to user feedback, for now it has no plans to make the antivirus feature optional, nor does it plan to stop blocking executables. She also declined to identify the source of the antivirus technology Google is using.

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اتحاديه بين*المللي ارتباطات طي گزارشي اعلام كرد: ايران رتبه آخر كشور استفاده از شبكه اينترنت را در خاورميانه و شمال آفريقا دارد
اتحاديه بين*المللي ارتباطات وضعيت استفاده از اينترنت در ايران را بسيار نامطلوب ارزيابي كرد و اعلام كرد: ايران چه از نظر كمي و چه از نظر كيفي يكي از عقب مانده*ترين كشورهاي خاروميانه و شمال آفريقا در استفاده از شبكه اينترنت مي*باشد.

اتحاديه بين*المللي ارتباطات وضعيت شبكه اينترنت ايران از نظر كمي را نيز اسف بار ارزيابي كرده است و جمهوري اسلامي ايران را از نظر استفاده از اين شبكه در ميان 19 كشور خاورميانه و شمال