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Submission + - MW2 Prestige-Fest for Easter with double XP (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Monday March 22, 2010 @09:52AM

coomaria writes: Yay! Play Modern Warfare 2 using the new Stimulus Package maps over the weekend of 2nd to 5th April and, according to an Infinity Ward insider posting to Twitter, you will get double XP for every game played. I reckon there will be a lot of new Prestige players come the end of that weekend, very tired ones probably.

Submission + - 75% of enterprises have suffered $2M+ cyber attack (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Monday February 22, 2010 @06:45AM

coomaria writes: OK, even allowing for the fact this comes from a newly published study from a security company that's still one heck of a statistic. The fact that it's Symantec, and so has access to perhaps more enterprises than most, makes it a double-heck with knobs on. Or how about this one for size: "every enterprise, yes 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009"

Submission + - Your own personal pink Linux data cloud (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Monday February 15, 2010 @08:42PM

coomaria writes: What's small and pink, incorporates a Linux kernel and an embedded ARM compatible processor, and let's you set up your own personal cloud? The new Pogoplug is very pink and gets very reviewed here.

Submission + - Space boffins invent x-ray machine for legacy code (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Sunday February 14, 2010 @04:58PM

coomaria writes: Boffins who used to work at the Space Technology Centre at the University of Dundee promise to reveal secrets of legacy code with new Visual Studio .NET 'x-ray' software

Submission + - HoneyGrid reveals 95% of UGC is crap (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Saturday February 06, 2010 @08:38PM

coomaria writes: The HoneyGrid scans 40 million websites every hour so it was bound to find something interesting. What it found was a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam.

Submission + - Proof of concept app turns iPhone into spyPhone (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Friday February 05, 2010 @06:29AM

coomaria writes: Apple has known about a serious flaw that can allow iPhone data to be harvested by rogue apps for more than a year, now one security researcher has created an app that turns the iPhone into a spyPhone and he's open-sourced it.

Submission + - Johnny Depp is NOT dead (Big Twitter FAIL) (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Sunday January 24, 2010 @06:37AM

coomaria writes: Top trending item on Twitter is currently 'RIP Johnny Depp' — only trouble is, the actor is not dead...

Submission + - Google hurts foot kicking China in Android nuts (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @07:10AM

coomaria writes: Just how does Google escape this China syndrome without damaging either its business or reputation?

Submission + - It’s an EDGE record breaker (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by coomaria on Monday January 18, 2010 @09:05AM

coomaria writes: Huawei says it has set a new data record for a downlink dual carrier test for Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution (EDGE) of 564Kb/s. To put that in some kind of sausage roll eating perspective, 564Kb/s is twice as fast as existing EDGE networks and could mean that 2G users could soon see 3G services such as live video over their GSM networks.

Submission + - Why cracking encryption is good for security (daniweb.com) 1

Submitted by coomaria on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @08:15AM

coomaria writes: Very interesting piece that suggests the cracking of encryption is essential to drive security standards forward.

Submission + - Bouncing Autonomous Intelligent Botnets (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Thursday December 17, 2009 @05:33AM

coomaria writes: Thought that 2009 was the year that botnets died, well think again, it was actually the year they bounced back. Compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world, every single day this year — and it's going to get worse if intelligent and autonomous botnets arrive in 2010 as predicted here.

Submission + - The Return Oriented Programming Hackers (daniweb.com)

Submitted by coomaria on Thursday October 08, 2009 @04:34PM

coomaria writes: Want to know how to fix an election without resorting to bribery and corruption? Ever thought about throwing some Return Oriented Programming into the voting equation?

Submission + - Lawyer demands jury stops Googling (itwire.com) 1

Submitted by coomaria on Thursday September 17, 2009 @07:09AM

coomaria writes: So lawyers want to get juries to sign, on threat of prison, that they won't Google the case they are hearing. Apparently it could influence their decision, and only lawyers are allowed to do that, right?

Submission + - Thursday is Google Developer Day

Submitted by on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @07:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1482.html Thursday 31st May is the first ever Google Developer Day, with more than 5000 developers at 10 locations around the world taking part. Keynotes and breakout sessions will be taking place in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Paris, Hamburg, London, and Mountain View, California. Both Google engineers and product managers will be on hand to discuss the future of web applications with developers from right around the globe.

Submission + - PlayStation 3 becomes Linux Enterprise Server

Submitted by coomaria on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @12:24PM

coomaria writes: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1480.html As from 1st June the already impressive PlayStation 3 will reveal a new trick: turning into a fully fledged Linux Enterprise Server running HELIO UB using a Yellow Dog installer.

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