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Submission + - Office 2008 for Mac delayed until January 2008

Submitted by

thefickler

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM

thefickler writes: "Microsoft has announced that Office 2008 for Mac, originally slated for a 2007 release, will now be released in January 2008. No specific reasons were pinpointed in the announcement other than the software was not meeting its quality checkpoints in June and July of this year. Surprise, surprise."

Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by

not5150

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:51PM

not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.

Submission + - Puzzling Wikipedia edits on wrestler's murder (wikinews.org)

Submitted by glesga_kiss on Thursday June 28, 2007 @05:52PM

glesga_kiss writes: An interesting article on wikinews points to edits of WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit's page on wikipedia suggesting foreknowledge of the murder. Edits from an IP in Connecticut, later followed by one from a wifi provider in Australia state that he cancelled an engagement due to the death of his wife. These were posted 13 hours prior to the polices discovery of the bodies after concerned family members asked the police to check up on him after erratic behaviour. A member of the Wikimedia Foundation has suggested that the IP address quite likely belongs to the WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.

Submission + - New low for Cisco (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

carusoj

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @02:40PM

carusoj writes: "Cisco has added a new entry-level certification: the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT), which is a halfway point to the previous entry-level program, the Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA), Network World writes. Many network managers are already questioning the new certification, noting that it really just "caters to the Acronym Abusers by offering up yet another one that people are going to flaunt all over their signatures and resumes.""

Submission + - New full-length movie P2P service for AppleTV (gigaom.com)

Submitted by

wjamesau

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @02:39PM

wjamesau writes: "Om Malik has the goods on Jaman, a new startup that's amassing a library of movies (mostly indy and international) for P2P download. Coolest feature: it's got a plug-in widget for AppleTV, so your computer can find and sync movies from Jaman to your Apple viewer."

Submission + - Bald Eagles removed from Endangered Species List

Submitted by cagrin on Thursday June 28, 2007 @02:08PM

cagrin writes: From the article: When the population reached its recovery goal of 3,900 nesting pairs in 1999, then-President Bill Clinton proposed that the bald eagle be delisted. Today's announcement marks its official removal. Link: Bald Eagles Soar Off Endangered Species List

Submission + - How Apple whipped the press into iPhone frenzy (business2.com)

Submitted by

lone technical writer

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @02:00PM

lone technical writer writes: "Through clever stagecraft, massive advertising buys, carefully calibrated releases of information (and on occasion misinformation), and the coddling of a handful of influential reporters, Jobs has created level of consumer interest and anticipation never before seen for an electronic device. http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/06/this-is-o ne-the.html?postversion=2007062609?cnn=yes"

Submission + - IP address doomsday: 2011? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

carusoj

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @01:38PM

carusoj writes: "The head of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), John Curran, this week said we would run out of IP address space under IPv4 in 2011. According to a Network World article, he said that 68% of all available IPv4 addresses are gone and only 19% are available. The remaining 13% fall into a strange category of being unavailable, which means blocks of addresses that belong to a large company, a university or an ISP and are not used."

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