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Technology View - January 2008

Everex launches Cloudbook - a $399 ultramobile PC

Due Credit: Techrepublic

Everex, the maker of the $199 gPC, will be launching the $399 ultramobile PC called Cloudbook.

The ultramobile PC called Everex CloudBook will use the open source Linux Operating system and will have gOS based on Ubuntu 7.1 Linux desktop. Though it is called a Google Operating System, it is not endorsed by Google.

The unit weighs 2 pounds and is 9.06 x 6.73 x 1.16 inches. It has a 7-inch TFT screen with 800 x 480 native resolution, and has a 30 GB drive and 512 MB of DDR2 533MHz SDRAM.



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January 30th 2008 @ 20:51

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One Laptop Per Child[OLPC]'s ex CTO to come out with a $75 laptop

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Mary Lou Jepsen left the OLPC project to start Pixel Qi, and she aims to bring to reality a sub-$100 laptop.

Pixel Qi, which has stated goal of leveraging a larger market for new technologies, beyond just OLPC can ensure that prices for next-generation hardware can be brought down by allowing multiple uses of the key technology advances.

Jepsen explains her low-power, low-cost, green approach to computer design here and states that one of Pixel Qi’s goals is the creation of a $75 laptop. Some of you will recall that the original goal of OLPC was to create a $100 laptop.






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January 30th 2008 @ 20:36

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Security certification for open source projects

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Under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, open-source projects are being certified for security.

San Francisco-based Coverity, working in collaboration with Stanford University and under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, is analyzing source code to certify that open-source projects written in C, C , and Java are secure.

Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools announced its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.




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January 30th 2008 @ 20:22

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Spam the printer

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Who could have imagined that there could be a way to spam the printer.Well,Aaron Weaver has just managed to do that.

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January 29th 2008 @ 19:41

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A hidden rootkit that reinstalls Trojan

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A rootkit that hides from Windows on the hard drive's boot sector is infecting PCs say researchers.

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January 29th 2008 @ 19:22

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McAfee 's open source threat

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McAfee has warned investors that the "ambiguous" nature of open source licensing could turn into a business threat.

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January 23rd 2008 @ 19:52

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Guess who the Trojan doesnt spare? -- iPhone

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Just when we thought that the iPhone was secure ,an annoying little program showed that it was possible to develop Trojans targeting the iPhone.

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January 23rd 2008 @ 19:32

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OpenVZ goes the ubuntu way

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OpenVZ, the open-source virtualization project, will be adding support for the Linux variant Ubuntu.

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January 23rd 2008 @ 19:09

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Xerox undergoes a complete makeover

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Xerox, the global document management firm and a pioneer in IT, is undergoing an overall makeover to take it beyond the image of a copier company.

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January 20th 2008 @ 10:58

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Paul Frields takes over Fedora..

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Paul Frields will be replacing Max Spevack as the leades of the Red Hat's Fedora Project.Paul Frields, who has been active in Fedora since 2003 with Fedora's documentation, packaging, marketing, news, and artwork teams. He'll be joining Red Hat as part of his assumption of the Fedora Project Lead duties.

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January 19th 2008 @ 15:56

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Hitachi Fujitsu Toshiba---Harddrives for sale.

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There are reports pouring in of a possible joint company involving Hitachi, Toshiba, and Fujitsu dedicated to hard drive and storage technologies.

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January 19th 2008 @ 15:41

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Machine Interaction -- A completely new Dimension!!

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Gone are the days of the keyboard as wireless controllers are calling the shots for motion-sensing. Interaction with machines enters a completely new dimension.

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January 19th 2008 @ 15:17

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Now enjoy Broadband internet via wireless dongle

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Folks in the United Kingdom can now access mobile broadband Internet using a USB modem available from Vodafone.

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January 17th 2008 @ 05:58

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Its time for Microsoft to release its old file formats

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Dutch charitative venture capitalist NLnet has requested IT company Microsoft to release its previous file formats into the public domain.

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January 17th 2008 @ 05:31

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Webroot to offer e-mail scanning as SaaS

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Webroot, which became known through its client-side spyware detection market, has announced it would sell an email security service for consumers and small to medium businesses.


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January 16th 2008 @ 20:25

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VMware announces acquisition of Thinstall--Is Microsoft watching?

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VMware has announced the acquisition of Thinstall, a firm specializing in application virtualization technology. The firm had also acquired the virtualization technology provider Foedus.

Thinstall decouples applications from underlying operating systems, improving isolation and portability for applications across desktop environments


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January 16th 2008 @ 20:10

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Packeteer to offer better and faster network traffic analysis

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Packeteer Networks, which supplies traffic management solutions will soon be out with faster traffic analysis products which can scale upto 20Gbits/sec.

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January 16th 2008 @ 19:56

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Apache's Wicket 1.3 rolls out

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Wicket 1.3,the Open-source component-based Web Framework will be made available under the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework.With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML


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January 16th 2008 @ 16:34

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Fujitsu goes the ultramobile way

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The Fujitsu Lifebook U810 adds a whole new dimension to the word mobility.

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January 16th 2008 @ 16:14

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Flaws in airline network security raises concerns

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As Network connectivity catches on in airlines, its imperative that the critical navigational and communication functionality be separated from the general network.

An alert issued by the FAA last week revealed that the computer network in the Boeing’s 787 Dreamline’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight Internet access, is connected to the plane’s control, navigation, and communication systems


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January 16th 2008 @ 15:45

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Sony's 560 Mbps wireless adventure-Transferjet

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Sony has created a wireless data transfer technology based on ultra wideband called TransferJet.

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January 16th 2008 @ 15:27

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Social net means more information with less effort

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Social networks have today made the job of social engineering all that more easier. Social engineering is the process by which individuals gather information on other individuals so as to use the data to try to crack into personal and private accounts.
It is common knowledge that information pertaining to DOB, school etc gets into people's passwords ( how are you expected to remember it otherwise). This information is also available on people's public profiles and now there are all too many of them spread across various networks and also searchable via the web.
Hence, from the security perspective it makes sense to refrain from publishing information that may perhaps be food for thought in terms of social engineering
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January 15th 2008 @ 07:48

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YouTube and Picasa on your television

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Google and Matsushita are working in collaboration to bring the popular services on the web to television. Soon you will be having access to videos from YouTube and images from Picasa accessible on you TV.
Convergence of media from the web with popular devices has been long predicted. But the importance here is for quality. The videos on YouTube are generally of poor quality and beaming them on high definition TVs does not really improve matters a lot.
But the fact is that poor videos are due to bandwidth issues and that is scaling up so in course of time these issues will sort out and lets not forget that the TV audience is another big pool of viewers to sell ads to


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January 15th 2008 @ 07:30

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A hotline from the web page to you

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A company called Ribbit specializes in weaving telephony services with Web technologies, enabling setting up of telephony service from just a web page.
The concept is great and has great utility for e-commerce and virtually any online business. The technology includes a software switch and corresponding APIs developed by the firm that make integrating telephony services a breeze.
Great technology if you consider the convergence that it gets in to web space


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January 15th 2008 @ 07:23

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Simple SEO Tips

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
Optimization of online content to make it more indexable is in the best of every netizen who posts content online.
With this in mind, I have started making short posts on SEO tips and lessons that I come across on the Web.
One important starting point is to know how the search engine works. In the article i have mentioned the link to a presentation on Google's working


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January 15th 2008 @ 04:11

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Mahalo gets more social

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Mahalo, the human powered search engine will be adding more features that will be boosting its social credentials.
Changes include a tips and suggestions toolbar with on-click access to make entries to several social bookmarking site.
Mahalo has been tailored from the ground up to provide human edited results on thousands of keywords. Debate surrounds around the concept of human intervention in the processing of search results since the scale of the web is massive


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January 15th 2008 @ 04:05

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Microsoft acquires FAST Search and Trasfer

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For an amount of $1.2 billion, the Redmond giant will be acquiring the enterprise search major FAST Search and Transfer. The move is a big shake-up in the enterprise search industry that has been the forte of niche players so far.
Expectations are on the line that IBM, Google or one of the big players will also be looking to make some acquisitions in this front.

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January 15th 2008 @ 03:55

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Targeting user activity online

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In a recent post for the SearchEngine-Weblog, I got the chance to research on the various strategies that firms use to target use activity online.
The Web has been a haven for advertisers. And why not? For there is no other place where virtually every move of the buyer can be tracked.
Every page you view, every click you make, every item you spend time doting on... virtually everything on the web makes it to some server log and can contribute to invaluable statistics


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:49

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Google and the iPhone

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Google is seeking to make the waves on the mobility front with its attention to the iPhone and in what appears to be its ficus on getting it right on the hottest area of innovation on making the mobile web accessible.
iPhone is one device that makes browsing on the web a breeze and Google is giving it all its attention perhaps to get it all right by the time Android comes out in second half of this year.
Google's innovations tailored to the iPhone include the redesigned home page for browsing the web, the introduction of the iGoogle page and many more


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:41

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Porting data across the web

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With a number of social networking and web applications sprucing up online, the issue of data portability is definitely a very relevant issue. The contention centers around how much ownership right does the user have to his/her data on a network.
Recently there was the spat between Facebook and Plaxo over the porting of contact information from one site to the other.
The establishment of the Data Portabilty Workgroup to sort out the issues around data portability on the Web is a welcome move for all online users


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:34

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Wi-Fi networks face big security risks

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Research at Indiana University brought into focus the fast pace and ease with which virus attacks could spread across Wi-Fi routers.

The researchers state most of the simulated attacks show tens of thousands of routers infected in as little time as two weeks, with the majority of the infections occurring in the first 24 to 48 hours


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January 13th 2008 @ 02:15

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