Seagate is shipping its 750-gigabyte Barracuda 7200.10 drive. This drive represents an increase in capacity of 50 percent over the previous industry maximum of 500GB and is the first 3.5-inch internal drive in the industry to achieve 750GB using perpendicular magnetic recording technology
Microsoft is entering the social networking market currently led by MySpace.com and Friendster with its own entry, Wallop
India reaped new fortunes in its recent rise as an outsourcing powerhouse. But now India hears footsteps: China, Hungary, and several other countries are luring offshore outsourcing jobs
DARPA is funding a startup the supposedly has a unique approach to detect rootkits. The startup, Komoku, is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits
. They have a PCI card that doesn’t necessarily determine that a rootkit is installed, only that the OS has changed dramatically enough to warrant investigation. Microsoft, however, demonstrated a rootkit running in a virtual machine outside of the user’s OS workspace that made detection impossible — via Slashdot
The BBC has posted an online interface into a catalogue of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years — searchable by category, cast and crew
A Cape Breton man who killed two sex offenders in Maine visited the homes of another four sex offenders but no one answered the door. Maine state police say Stephen Marshall had a global satellite positioning programme on his laptop computer, which allowed investigators to trace his movements — via digg
A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush’s jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn’t immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted. It was not so much a hoax, as a ridiculously expensive attempt at viral marketing by Marc Ecko Enterprises
Optus’ bid to wean itself off Telstra ADSL resale and bring more margin back to its broadband business has hit a snag, as technical glitches play havoc with the company’s $150 million Bigfoot project to deploy its own ADSL infrastructure
The latest low-tech billboards along the highways of the Netherlands are startling enough to prompt motorists to indulge in U-turns. Or make that ewe-turns. These ads are walking, woolly flocks of bleating sheep
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed copyright law would expand the DMCA’s restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers. The new law would send you to prison for attempting to infringe copyright. It would make it even more illegal to own tools that could be used to remove copy-restrictions, like DVD-ripping software — it could even bust Symantec for making software that removed the Sony rootkit malicious software that the company distributed with its CDs last year
International carrier Southern Cross Cables said it had fixed a problem with its Internet link between Australia and the United States on Saturday that several local ISPs had warned could cause slow international speeds
It’s not a Can’t beat ’em? Join ’em
scenario but it’s pretty close. In a move that will most likely anger DVD buyers in western markets, Warner Home Video is trying to compete with film pirates in China as they launch a trial program. A new release movie, sans all the normal packaging, is available for the equivalent of US$1.50
South Carolina’s Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys. The South Carolina bill, proposed by Republican Rep. Ralph Davenport, would make it a felony to sell devices used primarily for sexual stimulation and allow law enforcement to seize sex toys from raided businesses — via Boing Boing
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a material that gives a whole new complexion to the term fridge magnet
. When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers think that their material — a blend of cobalt, manganese, silicon and germanium — could help to usher in a new type of refrigerator that is up to 40 percent more energy-efficient than conventional models
Bob Cringely offers an intriguing reason behind Apple’s recent strategy of Boot Camp. I believe that Apple will offer Windows Vista as an option for those big customers who demand it, but I also believe that Apple will offer in OSX 10.5 the ability to run native Windows XP applications with no copy of XP installed on the machine at all. This will be accomplished not by using compatibility middleware like Wine, but rather by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OSX 10.5
A group of telecoms companies — Optus, Macquarie Telecom, PowerTel, Primus, Internode, Soul and TransACT — has joined together to form a plan for upgrading broadband around the nation. Telstra’s nose has been put out of joint by the move and responded with a childish rant that the plan is a scam
LiveJournal recently introduced ads on some pages for free users. More interestingly, they also added a new restriction to their TOS (XVI 17 b.) banning users from using or providing ad-blocking software. The new TOS also permits them to immediately terminate the account of anyone they catch doing this
Holographic data storage pioneer InPhase Technologies, has announced that it has demonstrated the highest data density of any commercial technology by recording 515 gigabits of data per square inch. The first generation drive will have a capacity of 300 gigabytes on a single disk with a 20 megabyte per second transfer rate — via digg
Higher education, technology companies, and a consumer group are the latest to band together in an attempt to fight the growing problem of viruses and spyware plaguing the Internet
iiNet’s broadband customers have for several weeks been experiencing slow speeds to some international Internet sites as the telco wrangles with a congested connection in the United States
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