Archive for December, 2006
Both Sony and Nintendo to release fixes for their consoles
Its been a month almost since the release of the latest two game consoles in the market, and now the two companies, Sony and Nintendo, are already updating their consoles. Nintendo Wii have been report to have weak straps that blowout eventually, as it seems the company underestimated its new controller appeal to the fans. [...]
Google Finance Update
Since it’s launch, I have been very impressed with the unique way Google Finance have been designed. Specially the dynamic expanding/shrinking graph, associated with the news items so that you can tell what happened to the stock price at the time of the news. I remember also that there was no feedback link in that [...]
Firefox 3 Alpha out
Firefox, the famous open source web browser that caught the attention of millions, is already out with Firefox 3 Alpha for developers to test and modify. The project, called cairo, is aimed tentatively for launch in May 07, and will be solely based on Gecko 1.9. RegDeveloper have reported earlier on this project with a [...]
Another day, another Zero-Day flaw in Microsoft
Just one day after the zero day flaw in Word was announced, another zero day flaw has been discovered in Windows Media Player. The flaw resides in the WMVCORE.DLL library that handles .ASX files. Microsoft have not yet released a fix for the problem, and did not even report it. Click here for the source [...]
Google Book Search rival from Microsoft
BBC News that Microsoft have launched the Beta release of their Book Search service, currently including book collections from the British Library, the University of California, and the University of Toronto. 3 other institutions are coming in 2007 as well. All scanned books currently are non-copyrighted, but later on copyrighted material will be added, Microsoft [...]
IBM on board with XMPP Standards
IBM have announced their new IBM Lotus SameTime 7.5 release with the support of XMPP standard, making it now reachable to hundreds of other services that follow the same standard. LiveJournal are among the communities following that standard, and ofcourse most importantly is the Google Talk. Google them selves are so happy with the release [...]
Microsoft Issues Word Zero-Day Attack Alert
Microsoft have issued a security advisory regarding a newly discovered Word Zero-Day Attack. The attack infects all major Word releases by simply opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown source. Best thing to do know is avoid opening any attachments, even from legitimate source. The report came from Eweek with more details.