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Bittorrent: Now embedded in network and consumer electronics

Today Bittorrent announced that its popular file sharing software will be embedded into network routers and Internet devices. BitTorrent enabled network devices will allow users to connect to the Internet, schedule and download files without the need to use a PC. ASUS, Planex and QNAP are the first to announce plans to embed BitTorrent’s download [...]


Web Browsers: Firefox 2.0 release date 24-October-2006

After Microsoft having released his new Internet Explorer 7 web browser with some hickups this week, the Mozilla Foundation today announced that it will make the version 2 of its popular Firefox browser available for download on next Tuesday 24-October-2006. PC World has created a review of the IE7 and Firefox 2 comparing the new [...]


Game on: Huge interactive computer game exhibition in London

From today you can explore the history and culture of computer games at the London Science Museum huge interactive computer game exhibition Game On. More then 120 classic and modern games – from the world’s first computer game of 1962 up to the latest of todays advanced computer games – will be shown and can [...]


FBI DNA database: Next Generation combined DNA Index System now on its way

Timing couldn’t have been worse – with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 just signed out- the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that the FBI has today awarded a contract to develop the NGCODIS (next-generation combined DNA index system) to a group of providers. Unisys together with IBM, government service provider iSYS LLC and two [...]


Adobe: New Flash Player 9 for Vista and Linux

A new release of Adobe Flash Player 9 has been made available for download today on the Adobe labs web site. In addition to bug fixes and minor enhancements, the new release introduces support for full screen mode in the web player and support for Windows Vista. A prerelease build of Flash Player 9 Update [...]


Apple: Video iPod ships with MS Windows Virus

Last night Apple officially acknowledged that a small number of Video iPods available for purchase after 12-September-2006 have been infected with the MS Windows RavMonE.exe Virus The virus will not damage any Apple Macs or the iPod, but will attack MS Windows machines connected to infected iPods. RavMonE.exe is a Spyware Worm (type W32/RJump-B) that [...]