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Submission + - Windows Mobile 6 release date for htc products?

Submitted by

ratkid2271

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @09:17AM

ratkid2271 writes: "I recently read a slashdot article about windows mobile 6 being released in august for HTC products. I searched around on the at&t site and found them saying 3rd Quarter 07, i searched on the htc site and couldn't find anything. I was wondering if anyone was able to find release dates for WM6 and for which products they were specific to?"

Submission + - $1.5 Billion settlement against Microsoft halted (nytimes.com)

Submitted by SnapShot on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @08:33AM

SnapShot writes: I'm so conflicted. Microsoft has apparently escaped a $1.5 Billion settlement. On the other hand, Alcatel-Lucent, who filed the claim, looks like they are pushing another frivolous patent claim and everyone who uses MP3 (including Apple) may benefit if this is thrown out. What side should I cheer for?

Submission + - One-liner to crash IE6 (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Kelly Yancey

on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:00PM

Kelly Yancey writes: "A Japanese fellow going by the name Hamachiya2 has stumbled upon one line of HTML/CSS code that crashes IE6. The magic line is:
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input>< /table> You can try it yourself at: http://hamachiya.com/junk/ie_crash.html. Of course, if you are running IE6 or anything that embeds IE6 as a component, you can expect it to crash. All other browsers appear to render the code just fine. I think I may have just found a new signature. :)"

Submission + - Mozilla: 10 day patch guarantee 'not our policy' (itworld.com)

Submitted by

narramissic

on Monday August 06, 2007 @04:49PM

narramissic writes: "Mozilla has officially backpedaled from a pledge attributed to the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within 'Ten ****ing Days.' On Friday, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10 day pledge is not Mozilla's policy, saying 'We do not think security is a game, nor do we issue challenges or ultimatums.' And today, the open source browser maker was forced to issue a statement retracting the pledge."

Submission + - Has Earth been detected by an alien civilization? (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday August 06, 2007 @03:17PM

Anonymous writes: Science of Roundworld modifies the Drake equation: "Given that in the last tens years we have found roughly 250 planets outside our solar system, it is perhaps prudent to ask whether an alien civilization may have already detected our own planet and its biosphere during the approximately three billion years it has harboured photosynthesising life." The blog continues: "The Drake equation, the famous speculative tool to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact, was not intended to address this question but can be modified to do so." After a bit of math it ends up with 1 percent chance that Earth has not been detected by aliens — in other words with 99 percent probability that is has. Speculation is fun.

Submission + - Spam botnet Achilles' heel found (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

amigoro

on Monday August 06, 2007 @02:23PM

amigoro writes: "While hundreds or thousands of compromised computers may be used to relay spam to users, most scams are hosted by individual Web servers and killing a single scam server or a spammer redirect will disable an entire botnet spam campaign, computer scientists from the UC San Diego have found."

Submission + - Fully Unlocked iPhones Will Be Arriving Hong Kong (gearfuse.com)

Submitted by

bob82

on Monday August 06, 2007 @01:55PM

bob82 writes: "News has come in this weekend saying that a batch of fully unlocked iPhones will be arriving Hong Kong tomorrow (Tuesday). Supposedly users will be able to send and receive SMS/MMS, make calls with non-AT&T SIM cards, and even get online with GPRS..."

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