Sunday, July 30, 2006

Macbook Pro Battery Recall (15")

Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain rechargeable batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro computer systems from February 2006 through May 2006. The affected batteries have model number A1175 and a 12-digit serial number that ends with U7SA, U7SB or U7SC.

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Digg Labs: A Glimpse of Real-Time Possibilites on The Web

After I received an email from Kendall of The Wharton School I looked at the new services on Digg Labs. He described them as offering a glimpse at the possibilities to deliver a real-time experience to the web. As I look at both stack and swarm I think he's right. it could be a very big 1st step in the evolution of how we interact on the web.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

AMD + ATI = CPU/GPU integration

Now that the merger is official, AMD has a set of pages up with information on the combined company's future plans - enable the combined company to compete on the corporate desktop, and system-level CPU-GPU integration. They also mentioned die-level CPU-GPU integration.

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Details of AOL customer retention manual revealed!

Find out how AOL trains its customer service reps to NEVER let you unsubscribe...

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

AMD Plans To Demonstrate Native Quad-Core This Year

AMD plans "to demonstration our next-generation processor core, in a native quad-core implementation before the end of the year." Earlier this year, AMD's Executive Vice President Henri Richard claimed this native-quad core processor would be called K8L.

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Motorola's RAZR 2.0 gets a name: K1

Motorola's update to their ubiquitous RAZR phone is getting ever closer. Formerly codenamed "Canary," the slim phone will be known as the Motorola K1 RAZR. A touch longer yet more svelte than its big brother, it has a built-in 2-megapixel camera and a Micro SD card slot for cranking up capacity built-in memory. Release date is still a mystery.

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Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million

"An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company."

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

How the myspace SWF hack worked

As the title says, this is how the myspace SWF hack/hijack worked.
There's no ads, and this isn't a blog - just a page I quickly made explaining what I found about the hack, also note that I didn't create the hack. I just found it interesting :)
This is hosted on a random free host, which may die at any point - offers of hosting are welcome!

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Symantec admits Zero virus' for Mac OSX

Finally, straight talk from someone inside Symantec.

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Military-Grade PDA is Everything-Proof

Recon X-Series pocket PCs are the toughest we've ever come across. Both new models, the 200MHz 200x and the 400MHz 400x, are tested to stand up to even the toughest conditions, including drops, heavy vibration, extreme temperatures, dust and water that would turn many slicker devices into a shiny pile of junk.

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Microsoft drops its XP pirate checks

Microsoft has dropped elements of its Windows Genuine Advantage Notification after they ignited a firestorm of controversy.

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2009 Camaro starring role / Transformers Movie! (images)

The 2009 Camaro will be the starring role of " Bumblebee " This car is hot hot hot. Nuff said.

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