Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Windows Vista, in its first half-year of life, has proven to be an exceptionally secure operating system — much more secure, in fact, than competing desktop OSes, according to Microsoft.
A “6 month vulnerability report” released Thursday by Microsoft shows that, compared to the first six months following the release of Windows XP, OSes from various [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The Gakkel Ridge, encased under the frozen Arctic Ocean, is steep and rocky, and scientists suspect its remote location hosts an array of undiscovered life.
Researchers hope newly developed robots will give them their first look at the mysterious ridge located between Greenland and Siberia.
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod plan to [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Creative’s ZEN Stone launched a few months ago to worldwide acclaim as a serious challenger to the Shuffle at half the price – now Creative adds an OLED and calls is the Stone Plus.
Clearly unable to call their new mp3 player the ‘Creative ZEN Stoned’, Creative have settled on the title ‘ZEN Stone Plus’ instead, [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Canadian developer reveals its secret RPG for Nintendo’s handheld will star Sega’s iconic hedgehog.
Today, Sega’s push to ally with Western developers took an unexpected left turn. That’s when the Japanese publisher announced a new role-playing game starring its iconic blue hedgehog, Sonic.
Although the notion of a new Sonic game isn’t surprising, Sega caused more than [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The device was stolen after a state intern took the device home as part of a policy that called for one backup device to be kept offsite.
A computer back-up device that was stolen last week from an Ohio state government intern’s car contains identifying information on more than 60,000 state employees and 225,000 taxpayers [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
AT&T Inc., which will be the exclusive carrier of Apple Inc.’s much-hyped new iPhone, has hired 2,000 extra workers to staff its company-owned stores for the launch, a spokesman said Thursday.
The iPhone, a combination cell phone, media player and wireless Web device, will be available only at stores owned by Apple and AT&T and on [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Manhunt 2 has been banned by the BBFC in the UK, making it illegal to supply it anywhere in the UK. Both the PS2 and Wii versions of the game were banned with the BBFC unable to recommend cuts or modifications to remove the offending material. The last game to be banned by the BBFC [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Clarification came today from Gateway, the Irvine computer company that issued a voluntary recall yesterday on laptop batteries that had a tendency to overheat and cause a fire hazard.
I immediately thought about last year’s fiasco with the Sony laptop batteries that forced Dell, Apple and other computer makers to recall their own laptops. At the [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Google Inc. said today that it wants federal and state regulators to press Microsoft Corp. to make more changes to Windows Vista’s desktop search and indexing tool.
Although Microsoft struck an agreement yesterday with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 17 state attorneys general to modify some aspects of Vista’s built-in search, Google said antitrust officials [...]
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