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Submission + - Japanese invent printer that uses plastic paper (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by jimboh2k on Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:38PM

jimboh2k writes: The Sanwa Newtec 'PrePeat' (a play on the word 'repeat') RP-3100 prints on sheets of A4 plasticated paper that can allegedly be re-used up to 1,000 times. The printer uses heat transfer technology rather than ink, and so has no consumables.

Submission + - Safari and Chrome: tied for the worst password man (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Startled Hippo on Sunday December 14, 2008 @09:44PM

Startled Hippo writes: Safari and Chrome are tied for the worst password manager built into a major Web browser according to a new study on the issue produced by Chapin Information Services. One problem is that some password managers can be tricked into submitting different password credentials to different parts of the same Web site. The bug has been fixed in Firefox, but Chrome and Safari are still vulnerable to this kind of attack. More details about the study can be found here.

Submission + - Inside Tsubame - Japan's Nvidia GPU supercomputer (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Startled Hippo on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @02:27AM

Startled Hippo writes: Japan's Tsubame supercomputer was ranked 29th-fastest in the world in the latest Top 500 ranking with a speed of 77.48T Flops (floating point operations per second) on the industry-standard Linpack benchmark. Why is it so special? It uses NVIDIA GPUs. Tsubame includes hundreds of graphics processors of the same type used in consumer PCs, working alongside CPUs in a mixed environment that some say is a model for future supercomputers serving disciplines like material chemistry.

Submission + - Intel boosts optical communication speeds (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07, 2008 @10:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: Intel has developed a device, the Avalanche Photodetector (APD), that senses light pulses and amplifies output signals for faster data transfer over long distances. Researchers claim this is a big advancement in the field of silicon photonics, in which silicon is used to transfer light pulses for data exchange between chips and devices. APD can detect light at higher frequencies and moves data at rates of 40G bits per second (bps), making it more sensitive and quicker than earlier photodetectors.

Submission + - Symantec sees spike in dangerous Windows attacks (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Surprised Giraffe on Monday November 24, 2008 @11:56PM

Surprised Giraffe writes: Symantec is warning of a sharp jump in online attacks that appear to be targeting a recently patched bug in Microsoft's Windows operating system, an analysis that some other security companies disputed. Symantec raised its Threat Con security alert level from one to two because of the attacks, with two denoting "increased alertness." The attacks spotted by Symantec target a flaw in the Windows Server Service that Microsoft says could be exploited to create a self-copying worm attack.

Submission + - Film studios sue Oz ISP over BitTorrent downloads

Submitted by Da Massive on Thursday November 20, 2008 @01:38AM

Da Massive writes: Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it's complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, "the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright by using BitTorrent file sharing technology".

Submission + - AMD to take on Intel's netbook dominance (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14, 2008 @01:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: AMD is jumping into the mini-notebook space and from 2009 will deliver processors designed for ultraportable 'netbooks'. AMD's processors for small laptops over the next two years will include dual-core and support for DDR3 memory, and varying amounts of cache. The first chip, code-named Conesus, will support 1M byte of cache and be released in 2009. Conesus will be followed by Geneva, which will support 2M bytes of cache and is due for release in 2010.

Submission + - Colombia signs up for OLPC laptops with Windows (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Cowards Anonymous on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @01:55AM

Cowards Anonymous writes: Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns. Schools in the towns of Quetame and Chia will be outfitted with the small green XO laptops developed by the OLPC. The pilot programs are expected to expand over time.

Submission + - EFF, Public Knowledge sue over secret IP pact (idg.com.au)

Submitted by Cowards Anonymous on Thursday September 18, 2008 @08:15PM

Cowards Anonymous writes: Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws. ACTA could include an agreement for the US, Canada, the European Commission and other nations to enforce each other's IP laws, with residents of each country subject to criminal charges when violating the IP laws of another country, according to a supposed ACTA discussion paper posted on Wikileaks.org in May.

Submission + - Building Google Chrome: A first look (idg.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 12, 2008 @03:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: Chrome is open source, and there's clearly still some work to be done on it. In this article Neil McAllister decided to take a peek under Chrome's hood and view it through the eyes of the developers who will improve and maintain it in the coming years. And it seems Google's open source browser has much to offer prospective hackers (provided they use Windows)!

Submission + - Google claims user content in multiple products (idg.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @03:07AM

An anonymous reader writes: Google last week removed some language in its Chrome browser's terms of service that gave the company a license to any material displayed in the browser, but that language remains in several other Google products, including its Picasa photo service and its Blogger service.

Submission + - ISO relevance questioned after OOXML appeals fail (idg.com.au)

Submitted by Cowards Anonymous on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @01:05AM

Cowards Anonymous writes: Countries whose appeals were dismissed regarding the ISO/IEC's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard are questioning the judgment and relevance of the ISO/IEC and the standards they approve. In a statement made at the Congresso Internacional Sociedade e Governo Electronico (CONSEGI) 2008 conference, representatives from three of the four countries that appealed against an April 1 vote to approve OOXML as a standard said they are "no longer confident" in the ability of both the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission to be vendor-neutral and open when it comes to setting technology standards.

Submission + - Businesses choosing 'community' Linux distros (idg.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01, 2008 @01:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to a new study by the 451 Group, business use of 'community' Linux distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian — as opposed to 'corporate' distros like RHEL and Suse — is rising. Once example is Germany's third-largest public TV and radio station (Bayerischer Rundfunk) choosing to go with CentOS instead of RedHat Enterprise Linux.

Submission + - 15 months' jail, $415,900 fine for game piracy (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 24, 2008 @09:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay US$415,900 in restitution for selling video game systems that were preloaded with more than 75 pirated copies of games.

Submission + - Timing technology behind Olympic record results (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21, 2008 @01:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: We've been on the edge of our seats cheering on the athletes at the Beijing Olympic games — but so often do athletes victories and defeats rely on accurate timing. As the athletes compete on the world stage behind the scenes technology records their results. This insightful interview with Omega's Christophe Berthaud — the company's 23rd time as official Olympic timekeeper — explores how far the technology has come since the first time it was used in 1932.

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