Microsoft said it will acquire Kidaro, an Israel-based firm that has developed desktop virtualisation software to help enterprises more easily use and manage their virtual PCs
Google launched a free hosted service on Thursday that helps web site publishers sell advertising faster and fill unsold slots on their sites. Ad Manager, which Google said has already been tested by a few businesses, is designed to streamline how ads are placed on web sites and generate performance reports detailing how successful those ads are in reaching consumers, including click through-rates and revenue paid by the advertisers for those clicks
Mozilla has posted the fourth beta download of its next-generation Web browser. It includes improvements in performance and memory use, stability fixes, and user-interface improvements
Once the darling of Wall Street but more recently known as the burying ground for Netscape, Time Warner’s AOL is entering the social-networking arena with an $850 million acquisition of Bebo
Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 web pages in recent days. The web attack, which appears to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China, was first noticed by McAfee researchers on Wednesday morning. Within hours, the security company had tracked more than 10,000 Web pages infected on hundreds of web sites
Intel confirms that it is close to unveiling a new line of solid-state drives for laptop and notebook PCs that will feature a storage capacity up to 160GB. An Intel spokesman said that the chip maker will introduce 1.8″ and 2.5″ solid-state drives offering between 80GB and 160GB diskless storage during the second quarter of 2008. The spokesman declined to provide further details about the ship date or disclose the storage density of the drives
Wikileaks has 208 scanned pages (in one PDF) relating to the Church of Scientology and its former Office of Special Affairs
employee (and subsequent apostate) Frank Oliver. The documents are dated between 1986 and 1992 inclusive, when, according to the file, Frank Oliver was declared a suppressive person
and excommunicated. Frank Oliver should be able to verify the material and has appeared in the media before on subjects relating to the church. Starting on page 107, the document shows that at the time of writing the Church of Scientology was still actively engaged in black propaganda (especially concerning psychiatry), fair game
and infiltration
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops. RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he’d been shut down for suspicious activity
. When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. How can it be overloaded when it only had 8,000 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?
Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books
No sooner has the battle for the next-generation high-definition DVD format ended, with Blu-ray triumphing over HD DVD, than a new contender has emerged. A new system that is incompatible with Blu-ray, called HD VMD, for versatile multilayer disc, is trying to find a niche. New Medium Enterprises, the London company behind HD VMD, says its system’s quality is equal to Blu-ray’s, but it costs less
Kevin Rudd’s ambitious plan to help fund an $8 billion national broadband network has been hit by a delay of at least four months because of a longer than expected timeframe for confirming an expert panel and pressure from telecoms companies to extend the process
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal. The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site. Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted
The Coding Horror today wrote up a disturbing story sent in to them by a reader, who discovered that a (paid) Gmail archive tool, G-Archiver, was harvesting people’s Gmail user names and passwords and emailing them to (presumably) the creator of the software. Deeply unethical, and possibly malicious — via lifehacker
On 22 June 2007, Defence Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that the Pentagon’s network had been successfully attacked the previous Wednesday, and that this attack was responsible for a disruption in email service to some 1,500 Pentagon employees. At the time, Gates downplayed the attack, saying that it affected only the Office of the Secretary of Defence’s non-classified e-mail service and that there was no anticipated adverse impact on ongoing operations
. It seems that the adverse impact of the June attack may have been much greater than Gates’ early guidance implied. According to a top DoD technology official quoted at GovernmentExecutive.com, the thieves behind that attack seized an amazing amount
of data
The BBC appears to have inadvertently removed the controversial DRM from its iPlayer video-on-demand service. Now, all BBC programmes are broadcast across the country in digital form without DRM, literally diffused at the speed of light in all directions without any restrictions, but the Beeb somehow believes that there’s a new risk of piracy created by letting those same digital files out on the net
Because using too many calendars can confuse rather than organise, Google has announced that its Google Calendar will play nice with Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar. Earlier this week, Google announced Google Calendar Sync, a downloadable application that lets users synchronise events with Outlook Calendar. A user can determine information flow, as well as the frequency of the syncing
According to a new study just released in the UK, one of the biggest causes of copyright infringement is a lack of choice. The study further shows that one third of the Brits have downloaded copyright infringing content, or plans to do so in the future
Channel Seven’s planned TiVo digital video recorder service could be scrapped within weeks if free-to-air broadcasters proceed with their biggest assault yet on pay television. The free-to-air industry is likely to launch its own FreeView-branded recorder early next year that will offer access to as many as 15 free digital TV channels and an electronic program guide
Microsoft has unveiled a test version of Internet Explorer 8, the next edition of its web browser. At Microsoft’s MIX08 online technology conference, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, provided a first glimpse at the successor to IE7, which was released in October 2006
IBM researchers have achieved a new record in data transfer rates, 300Gbps, using their new Optochip
fibre optic chip. IBM also claims its new chips operate at one-tenth of the power used by current commercial optical chips
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