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Submission + - Burrito FTP to POP3 translator

sanimalp writes: With Burrito you can read and manage your e-mails with any FTP client. It acts as a POP3/FTP protocol translator — it's actually an FTP server that translates FTP commands to POP3 commands and serves your e-mail messages as individual files. You can view, delete and copy your e-mail messages as if they were files on an FTP server. It's a pretty interesting solution to a problem no one knew existed.
Security

Submission + - Privatization's effect on access to information

Knutsi writes: "The Federation of American Scientists' blog Secrecy News has an interesting entry on how privatization can affect access to research materiall.

Los Alamos National Laboratory will no longer permit historians and other researchers to have access to its archival records because Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the private contractor that now operates the Lab, says it has "no policy in place" that would allow such access.
The blog tells how a Harvard researcher failed to get access that would have been grated in the past. Follow ups, here and here."
The Internet

Submission + - Broadband Congestion (Slow Speeds)

Mark Jackson writes: "That damned movie trailer, you clicked the website link to start playing it over ten minutes ago and it's barely managed to buffer 30% of video. Fair enough, it's 40MB in size, but five minutes!? It should start within seconds and no matter which download server you choose it's the same, but that's not all. Websites are no longer as snappy as they use to be, file downloads take longer and even collecting e-mail has become an increasingly time consuming process.

Where did it all go wrong? Things use to be fine, you might have even upgraded your connection to something faster and yet now the opposite is true. Sadly if this story bares even a slight resemblance to your current level of service then you too could be suffering as a result of broadband congestion.. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/articles/cong ."
Security

Submission + - Duped by Vidoop: New Authentication Scheme Broken

An anonymous reader writes: A new authentication scheme for banks, Vidoop, was unveiled recently that is supposedly invulnerable to "all prevalent forms of hacking" (according to their TV commercial on YouTube). Harvard and CommerceNet researchers announced that they broke the scheme in a few hours, and they posted a video of the attack. The attack is similar to the attack on Bank of America's Sitekey that was demoed by the boarding pass guy and related to the Harvard study on SiteKey that shows how easily users get phished.
Intel

Submission + - Video: Intel's CPU architects talk Penryn, Nehalem

Kez writes: HEXUS.tv has a video interview from IDF 2007 providing an opportunity to get the low-down on Intel's forthcoming Penryn and Nehalem processors straight from two of the guys who designed them — Stephen Fischer and Mark Buxton. From the interview: "We are going to continue to see performance scaling in terms of frequency. Moore's law is not ending on Penryn. The density that we get with this 45nm technology also allows us to add significant capability [to] the die."
Data Storage

Submission + - Data storage at the atomic level

Twyko64 writes: "Science researchers have demonstrated single bit storage at the nanoscale level using a cobalt wire a very few atoms wide. The effect — ballistic anisotropic magnetoresistance — should work with a wire just one atom wide. It's reported in Techworld here:- Researchers claim atomic-level storage — More electron spin? http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?ne wsID=8438&pagtype=samechan Twyko64"
AMD

Submission + - MSI K9AGM2-FIH

John writes: "Ever since AMD bought ATI, we've been waiting to see what could be achieved by combining the minds of these two juggernauts. The first offering comes in the form of a new chipset: the 690. This comes in two flavours — the cut-down 690V and the more exciting 690G — and this is one of the first motherboards to feature the 690G. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?revie wid=759"

Feed Ekiga videophone gets you connected (newsforge.com)

Linux has come a long way in a lot of areas, but if my experience is an indicator, we're not much further along in the use of personal webcams today than we were five years ago. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to use Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting) as a video phone, I finally prevailed and got Ekiga working with both sound and video. The problem -- as always seems the case with computer peripherals under Linux -- begins with drivers, or rather, the lack of drivers.

Feed Adobe takes UK price hikes to new level with CS3 (theregister.com)

Not just pounds for dollars any more

Adobe Systems, producers of Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash, have long had a relatively chummy image compared to – say – Microsoft. But that might be changing, at least for some customers, as the company moves even beyond Redmond's position on price differentials between the UK and US.


Feed Intel eyes big biz with Centrino Pro (theregister.com)

Centrino + vPro = 'Santa Rosa' with all the options

Intel has formally launched the Centrino Pro brand, designed to promote business-oriented notebooks incorporating the chip giant's corporate-friendly vPro platform technologies.


Microsoft

Submission + - MS petition to support Open XML

An anonymous reader writes: From el reg, Microsoft is calling on the Great British public to join its campaign to get the XML Office format adopted as an international standard. The company has launched an online petition encouraging the British Standards Institute (BSI) to vote for ratification of the Open XML Format, used in Office 2007, 2003 and XP, as an official ISO standard. The BSI is an ISO member. I agree with the first commenter on this story: where can I sign a counter petition?
Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo's New Search Engine?

wdr1 writes: "Born as a result of Hack Day, Yahoo has launched into beta a revamped search engine, alpha. According to their blog, it looks like it was done by a group of Aussies and allows concurrent searches of any system supporting Open Search RSS."
The Courts

Submission + - SCO goes for Groklaw. Again...

beav007 writes: SCO has subpoenaed Pamela Jones of Groklaw again.

According to this article on TheRegister,

The attempted deposition will be seen by many as SCO's latest gambit to unmask Jones, who, it has claimed, to be in reality a group of IBM employees or an individual paid by IBM to portray SCO in an unfavorable light. Quoting press articles, SCO's action claims IBM "funneled" between $40,000 and $50,000 into Groklaw, which tracks the minutiae of SCO's cases against Novell and IBM. Also cited as proof of bias is the fact Groklaw is hosted for free on IBM servers at ibiblio.org. According to SCO, Jones has important information and has avoided its subpoenas by going on holiday.

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