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Do your devices have the touch of the
bunny? (Events)
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For those of you coming to CES in Las Vegas, don't forget to swing
by the Energizer display! Anxious to show off their latest wares,
Energizer wants to have a chance to show you why they have the best in
batteries for your mobile devices. Check it out! (No link provided)...
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Net worm using Google to spread (Virus)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
By Robert Lemos CNET News.com December 21, 2004, 11:01 AM PT A Web
worm that identifies potential victims by searching Google is
spreading among online bulletin boards using a vulnerable version of
the program phpBB, security professionals said on Tuesday. The Santy
worm uses a flaw in the widely used community forum software known as
the PHP Bulletin Board (phpBB) to spread, according to updated
analyses. The worm searches Google for sites using a vulnerable... [Continued]
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A Fatal Blow to Shrinkwrap Licensing? (Tech
Law)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Jeff Partridge
This from InfoWorld's writer Ed Foster- Having so often been the
bearer of bad news from the legal front, I am thrilled to have some
good news to report for a change. The old-fashioned shrinkwrap license
appears to have suffered from what may well be a mortal wound.
Microsoft, Symantec, Adobe, CompUSA, Best Buy, and Staples have agreed
in the settlement of a California lawsuit to change their ways, and
you can already see the... [Continued]
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Personal Submarine - the Ultimate Geek Gift?
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
Are you fascinated by submarines like we are? Most likely, the
same things that got us interested in creating and building minisubs
in 1986, got you interested in owning one. Part of it is the mystique
of submarines, the thrill of traveling in the vast unknown of the
ocean's depths. Nothing compares with the excitement of flying your
submersible around coral reefs, over a ship wreck, or around some rock
outcroppings. Piloting a submarine is... [Continued]
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Electronic Arts Buys a Piece of Ubisoft
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Free registration required to read the story. Electronic Arts Buys
Stake in a Rival Game Maker in France Electronic Arts, a maker of
video games, said yesterday that it bought 19.9 percent of a French
competitor, Ubisoft Entertainment, the maker of games based on Tom
Clancy novels. Ubisoft shares had their biggest gain ever on the news.
Warren C. Jenson, the chief financial officer of Electronic Arts,
which is based in Redwood City, Calif., said... [Continued]
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OpenOffice 2.0 preview released
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Link to Friends | Posted by Ken Harthun
From the INQUIRER: OpenOffice 2.0 preview released THE
SUN-SPONSORED OpenOffice.org project based on open sourced StarOffice
code has released a preview of the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 product.
This version touts better MS-Office loading and parsing, strict XML
compliant output, a new database program that mimics Microsoft's
Access, and much more. It's available for 32-bit Windows, Linux (x86),
Sun Solaris x86, and the traditional Solaris for Sparc. We used this
opportunity to take this pre-release "version... [Continued]
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Spinal Cord Injury Hope - Will Bush Kibosh it?
(Science)
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Stem Cell Researcher Makes Paralyzed Rats Walk So far, not a
single person has been helped by human embryonic stem cells. But in
cramped university labs, a young neurobiologist with movie star good
looks, a Carl Sagan-like fondness for the popular media and an
entrepeneur's nose for profits is getting tantalizingly close. Hans
Keirstead is making paralyzed rats walk again by injecting them with
healthy brain cells sussed from a reddish soup of human embryonic...
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Google Desktop Search Vunerability
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
Google says it has fixed a flaw that could have allowed hackers to
search the contents of PCs running the company's desktop search tool.
According to a statement issued Monday by the Web search company, it
has rolled out a fix for the vulnerability. The flaw in the tool was
discovered in late November by a Rice University computer scientist
and two of his students. A Google representative said, "We were made
aware of this... [Continued]
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A Fatal Blow to Shrinkwrap Licensing (Tech
Law)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
YEEAAAH! ED FOSTER'S GRIPELOG Having so often been the bearer of
bad news from the legal front, I am thrilled to have some good news to
report for a change. The old-fashioned shrinkwrap license appears to
have suffered from what may well be a mortal wound. Microsoft,
Symantec, Adobe, CompUSA, Best Buy, and Staples have agreed in the
settlement of a California lawsuit to change their ways, and you can
already see the first results... [Continued]
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eBay snaps up Rent.com for $415m
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Certainly an argument for buying up domains in bulk I suppose, the
recent eBay purchase of Rent.com is one of the more juicy acquisitions
to be sure. The BBC has given details that leads me to believe that
this is a deal that would have made Donald Trump proud. A transaction
of $385m in stocks and $30m in cash is definitely enough to get my
blood pumping, how about yours?... [Continued]
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