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 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. …

Hardware 26 Jan 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 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 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 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 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 09:02