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Monthly Archives: February 2008

How to buy a Digital Camera?

If you want buy digital camera. Few features you must consider:
 How many mega pixel camera do you need?
2 megapixels or less
* This is typically found on smaller, inexpensive cameras or cameras in combination with other devices (such as cellphones or PDAs).
* It will be hard to make a high-quality print of any size, but these [...]

FireFox and Opera beta Remote Memory Information Leak

  Opera and FireFox contains vulnerable code for handling BMP files with partial palette. The code allows to craft a BMP file that leaks information from the heap. This information can be sent to remote server using canvas tag (HTML 5) and javascript.
Vulnerable Systems:
* Firefox version 2.0.0.11 and prior that support canvas.getImageData or any other method [...]

Attacks on popular disk encryption systems BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt, and TrueCrypt

Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or [...]

Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys


342 million dollar-Kizuna will allow super-high speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps, which would make it the fastest in the world

 

Japan successfully launches high-speed Internet satellite

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre [...]

Overlay.TV Launches Platform to Monetize and Customize Online Video for the “Publisher Generation”

OTTAWA, CANADA – February 14, 2008 – Overlay.TV, an interactive media company, today launched a revolutionary video-commerce platform that will enable an entire generation of online video publishers to express themselves in a new way by personalizing and monetizing the billions of videos currently posted to the Internet. The Overlay.TV platform offers a simple way [...]

Microsoft announced its bid to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion

Early today, Microsoft announced its bid to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. The offer amounts to $31 per share, a 62 percent increase over Yahoo’s stock price of $19.18 on Thursday. The proposed deal, as widely reported, signals Microsoft’s intensified aggression against Google, which dominates Internet search with 60 percent of the market, as well [...]

Time Machine ‘could create time tunnel’

Feb 6, 2008
Switching on a giant atom-smashing machine might open the door to unexpected visitors - from the future, it has been claimed.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), due to come on stream this year, could turn out to be the world’s first time machine, according to two Russian scientists.
Their calculations show it is possible the [...]

Cern scientists build the web of the future

 
There are two notable things about Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
As the world’s leading particle physics laboratory, it is staffed by people with very large brains.
It is also where Tim Berners-Lee, a former scientist at Cern’s Geneva headquarters, invented the worldwide web as a way to share information among the global research community [...]

A gadget is a device or an appliance and history

A gadget is a device or an appliance that has a useful specific practical purpose and function but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technology at the time of their invention. Gadgets are sometimes also referred to as gizmos.

History
People where [...]