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Posted by: **aaly** on Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 15:29:58 CET

Rumors regarding Nvidia was moving into the netbook market in 2009 turned out to be true. Nvidia plans to replace the legacy 3 chip design with a two chip cross between the Geforce 9400M and Atom chipsets. Rene Haas, Nvidia’s VP of World Wide Sales, told the Inquirer in a recent interview: “It’s really about developing a platform which attaches to the Atom.”

Posted by: **aaly** on Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 15:26:29 CET

Mozilla patched numerous security flaws in its Firefox Web browser Tuesday, six of which were considered "critical," which pave the way for hackers to hijack users' sessions while they surf the Web.

The latest version of Firefox, 3.0.5, repaired a multitude of glitches that could enable remote hackers to execute malicious code that would shut down a vulnerable system or infiltrate a victim's computer and steal information.

Posted by: **aaly** on Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 01:20:15 CET

Hackers had been exploiting the browser's flaw for more than a week, prompting Microsoft to issue an out-of-cycle patch.

Security experts say that Web surfers should immediately install a new bug-fix for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, released Wednesday morning.
The flaw, which was accidentally made public by Chinese security researchers just over a week ago, has been used in a growing number of Web-based attacks over the past few days. Criminals have posted attack code that exploits this flaw on thousands of Web sites so far, according to Rick Howard, intelligence director with Verisign's iDefense group. Verisign has now seen six variants of the attack software, all of which attempt to steal Chinese online gaming credentials.

Posted by: **aaly** on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 10:34:22 CET

A Monday update to Apple's Leopard operating system is causing a host of problems for users, ranging from broken Bluetooth connections and no sound to large popping noises during boot-up and dead USB ports.

The OS X 10.5.6 update is supposed to improve a number of features, including synching between the address book and the iPhone, roaming capabilities of AirPort connections on Intel-based Macs, an encryption alert that appeared in the chat window of iChat, and improvements to gaming performance.

Posted by: **aaly** on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 10:28:40 CET

Once again, Internet Explorer (aka "Internet Exploder") has been attacked through a "zero-day" remote code execution vulnerability. That might not seem like MaximumPC.com-worthy news, except for two factors: the flaw is affecting thousands of websites, and this time, it isn't just Firefox fans who are saying "time to switch browsers, already!" - security experts at Trend Micro, the Spamhaus Project, and the UK's PC Pro magazine are all recommending making a switch, according to the BBC. And here's why:

Posted by: **aaly** on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 10:24:33 CET

A fresh round of speculation about the possibility of an Apple netbook has been triggered by an analyst's "triangulation." Is there a way Apple can market a device that can take on existing netbooks without cannibalising its MacBook sales, that lives up to the company's reputation for design, and still make money on the deal?
Computerworld reported that Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research was predicting a Macworld Expo announcement of two netbooks by Apple. The story proved grist for the rumour mill.

Gottheil's reasoning is that the recession means Apple needs a lower-priced product as consumers are spending less.

Posted by: **aaly** on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 10:18:02 CET

When you've got as much money as Google one thing you can do is throw it at projects you believe in. Google seems to believe in sandboxing as a security technique, and a lot of what they're doing is innovative.
Google seems to be very interested in the concept of sandboxing. I count 3 separate efforts they're involved in. Who knows, they may actually amount to something useful.

The Chrome browser is built around a sandboxed architecture in which browser apps are locked down using Windows-specific features like Job objects and restricted tokens.

Posted by: **aaly** on Thursday, December 04, 2008 @ 18:27:30 CET

When Vista's boot screen was revealed in an early beta, many were confused by its simplicity. This is the best Microsoft could come up with? Microsoft's explanation was that it wanted to keep things as simple as possible in order to encourage OEMs to stop including their own logos during the boot up process. If this video isn't a fake, that approach seems to have gone to out the window (pardon the lame pun).

Posted by: **aaly** on Thursday, December 04, 2008 @ 11:25:09 CET

If you recently bought the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV and are experiencing any minor to major difficulties, you're not alone. This is a release of a GTA game with the single most problems ever. The bugs have been well documented on the Steam forums, with one user compiling a list of potential fixes.

Posted by: **aaly** on Thursday, December 04, 2008 @ 00:39:36 CET

TOMTOM Planning your road trips is about to get a little easier, thanks to a new online route planner from TomTom.

The TomTom Route Planner will be the first online navigation aid to include live traffic information, via TomTom's HD Traffic system, as well as 500 billion historic speed measurements of roads across the world, through IQ Routes.

TomTom says this should give much more accurate time estimates for journeys than the current online planners offered by the AA, RAC and Google Maps.