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26th January 2008 Archive

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  • Spamford Wallace's MySpace riches come under attack

    Analysis The FTC's quest for spam stopping balls

    Anybody who says crime doesn't pay obviously hasn't talked to Sanford Wallace. In just six months' time, the prolific purveyor of spam and spyware engineered a scam on MySpace that netted at least $555,850, according to court documents filed this week. The brazen scheme used a combination of malware and social engineering to …

    Spam 26 Jan 2008, 00:24

  • HP plunks 16GB SSD drive into slim business PCs

    Small drive for fat wallets

    Hewlett-Packard is henceforth packing flash solid-state drives into upcoming models of its ultra-slim business desktops. HP's Compaq dc7800 series desktop now has an option of adding a 16GB SSD from SanDisk. Not a lot of capacity, and the disk will add an extra $330 to the system. The disk isn't for everyone, obviously. …

    PCs & Chips 26 Jan 2008, 00:53

  • DRM in latest QuickTime cripples Adobe video editing code

    Artists and producers fume

    The latest version of Apple's QuickTime media player has video production people venting their spleens after discovering that new digital rights management features have crippled the use editing software from Adobe. Shortly after updating to QuickTime 7.4, legions of people charged chat groups to report they were unable to …

    Applications 26 Jan 2008, 01:23

  • 'Tofu' license pits open source against meat

    JavaScript development goes to the dogs

    What you can - and cannot do - with your software is often determined by the code owner's license. From not using open source APIs with closed-source digital rights management (DRM) to being barred from fiddling with Windows source code, we've seen it all. Or have we? Joining the open source and commercial melee is a document …

    Applications 26 Jan 2008, 01:54

  • Logitec reinvents the Bluetooth headset

    Music, chatter and style all rolled into one

    If you really must broadcast your music to everyone whilst walking the streets, then at least you can do it with style now. Thanks to Logitec’s latest headphones/Bluetooth headset combo. Logitec's headphone and speaker combination also accepts incoming calls Called the DiAlive LBT-HP210C2BK, the gadget’s essentially a …

    Reg Hardware 26 Jan 2008, 09:02

  • MPs squeeze science back onto select committee list

    What's in a name

    The House of Commons stationery department was working overtime yesterday, after MPs forced the government to accept there was a need for a select committee with explicit responsibility for overseeing science. The former Science and Technology Committee was borged into the freshly minted Innovation, Universities and Skills …

    Science 26 Jan 2008, 09:02

  • BOFH: What GPS is for

    Episode 3 For having fun with the Boss, of course!

    The good thing about sales reps is that they're never too busy to come on site and explain a couple of their products to you if there's a potential sale in it. Better still when the IT consumables company replaces the grizzled veteran of "over a million 8 inch floppies sold" with Susan, a lovely young woman with a pleasant …

    BOFH 26 Jan 2008, 09:02