BizToolbelt: February 2008 Archives

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Feb29	Harvard and Myspace to Form Internet Safety Force Alex Ion February 29, 2008 Know More: Security Knowing that Harvard GSAS was hacked a few weeks before it's weird to find out that Myspace and Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet Security have created a new "task force" to protect children from online plunders and to improve online safety tools. Others organizations to be interested in the partnership are Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo! The main priority of these guys is going to be age verification, though I'm not sure how are they going to fight it knowing that false identities on the Internet are widely spread. For adults it could be easier, but if for kids which usually are minors and have no documents to show (driver's license or a credit card) is nearly impossible. Though there may not be tools right now, I'm sure Myspace has a great deal of experience with dealing with child predators and said they will try to "identify the technologies and tools that will be available industry-wide to provide a safer online experience for all Internet users." I applaud for taking action and wish them luck. via ArsTechnica Posted at 6:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb29	Used cans : make speakers of them Alex Ion February 29, 2008 Since I like hearing stories with people doing things on their own, a greener environment and building all kind of gadgets from used products I thought you'd be interested to know that you can make a set of speakers from... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb28	New Internet Explorer 8 Beta Soon Alex Ion February 28, 2008 Why is Microsoft announcing more and more updates lately? Could it be because of the big buzz Apple is getting with their new releases which seem to come at regular time frames? Looks like Microsoft learned something from Apple, even... Continue Reading Posted at 7:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	24ct Full Gold Apple iPhone 16GB Alex Ion February 28, 2008 Goldstriker, the guys that keep on making golden mobile phones, iPods and other stuff, just got their hands on a 16GB Appel iPhone and coated it in 24-carat gold. It has gold on the throughout of the phone, 75 percent... Continue Reading Posted at 6:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb27	Windows Server 2008 Announced with Fanfare Alex Ion February 27, 2008 Microsoft officially launched today their server operating system, Windows Server 2008 and they have high hopes for it. The software is built on the same codebase as Windows Vista but has some admin-pleasing features like "Server Core" or "Hyper-V" a... Continue Reading Posted at 2:03 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb26	GPS Navigation and the Truck is now Stuck Alex Ion February 26, 2008 I'm not a big fan of GPS navigators but to be honest I used them a few times to know the basics. The first thing I understood was that you shouldn't put all your faith in the sat-navigator. It's true... Continue Reading Posted at 6:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb25	Dunnington, Intel's 45nm six-core Xeon processor Alex Ion February 25, 2008 Intel has some goodies for us and it's about a new processor. Dubbed Dunnington, a six-core (three dual-core) Xeon in the Penryn famility working on the 45nm technology, it has 16MB shared L3 cache while each core has a 3MB... Continue Reading Posted at 1:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb21	NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GT, budget hottie Alex Ion February 21, 2008 Now that the manufacturers understood that most of us can't spend thousands of dollars on a SLI graphic card, NVIDIA just announced their new GeForce 9600 GT, a budget hottie. Analysts say that the performances of the new 9600 GT... Continue Reading Posted at 11:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HD video landscape has changed dramatically Alex Ion February 21, 2008 Now that the format war is over with Toshiba officially announcing that they will dump the HD DVD business and Blu-ray winning the fight there are many changes to come. Apparently many retailers changed prices and HD DVD players are... Continue Reading Posted at 11:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb20	USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner - Scent 2.0 Alex Ion February 20, 2008 Are you into aromatherapy stuff just as much as small gadgets? Here's the perfect device that you could take with you at work or use when you get back home after a long stressful day. It's a USB aromatherapy oil... Continue Reading Posted at 12:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb19	Wow-Pen Joy Mouse Alex Ion February 19, 2008 For me it has never been easy to use such a mouse. It's big, can't fit well in my palm and to be honest is heavy. I'm afraid of using them, but for the sakes of it I sure need... Continue Reading Posted at 7:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Binatone's Carrera S350 navigator, GPS for Women? Alex Ion February 19, 2008 I'm not sure if GPS navigators are a man's stuff but for sure there are women using them. Binatone's Carrera S350 navigator is a little bit special just by looking at the picture and that is because it gets a... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb18	Intel Notebook Processors Montevina (Centrino 2) will exceed 3.0 GHz Alex Ion February 18, 2008 Intel, finally decided to name their Montevina platform as Centrino 2. These are the next generation (actually the 5th generation) notebook processors that will support Penryn, the 45nm technology, and should be presented in June during the Computex Taipei 2008... Continue Reading Posted at 3:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Alex Ion February 18, 2008 The buzz last week in the cellphones market was about the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 which not only looks great and is smart but was supposed to run either Windows Mobile 6.5 or a pre 7.0 version. The reason... Continue Reading Posted at 2:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb16	Analog Cellular Networks Shutting Down Next Week Alex Ion February 16, 2008 The FCC gave a green light to mobile operators that would like to shut down their analog networks. This may come as a bad surprise to some of those that have a cell phone, home alarm systems or car assistance... Continue Reading Posted at 6:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb15	Olympus E-430 DSLR Leaked ... Alex Ion February 15, 2008 A Russian photo forum claims to have more info on what is the not yet official Olympus E-430, the company's next DSLR. It's supposed to be an upgraded version of E-410, has a 12 megapixel Live MOS sensor and a... Continue Reading Posted at 3:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb14	Your Clothes May Power-up Your Gadgets Alex Ion February 14, 2008 This is really intriguing to know that by simply wearing a t-shirt we could charge a cellphone or power up a mp3 player if we walk, run, dance, etc but this may be true. Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team... Continue Reading Posted at 8:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb13	RUMOR: AT&T to offer a new tethering plan for the iPhone Alex Ion February 13, 2008 Boys and gals this one is so hot that I can't even explain it very well but I will do my best. Our friends from BoyGeniusReport managed to get some info from their "contributors" on AT&T to offer a new... Continue Reading Posted at 3:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb12	Should we consider PDF a security threat ? Alex Ion February 12, 2008 Last Wendsday, Adobe came in and patched two of their best programs, Reader and Acrobat, but there seems to be a problem with it. Apparently the security hole was open for hackers for as long as 18-days and it has... Continue Reading Posted at 2:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 8	Rumor: New Apple Event, Late February Alex Ion February 8, 2008 Latest Apple rumors say that the company may held an event, late February. I've first heard about it from the unofficial Apple weblog, that mentioned Mira Mobile Television who's already hiring for an upcoming event for the end of the... Continue Reading Posted at 6:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 7	Intel's Tukwila, first 2 billion transistor CPU Alex Ion February 7, 2008 The biggest microprocessor ever made is called Tukwila (strange ...) and was developed by Intel on the 65nm chip technology. It is the first quad-core member of the Itanium Product Family (IPF) and the world's first processor to break the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	ARM to Show off a Working Device Based on Android (Next Week) Alex Ion February 7, 2008 ARM is a mobile processor manufacturer that is ready to present next week in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress a working device to run Google's Android. If you remember Android is an open-source mobile operating system and ARM is the... Continue Reading Posted at 3:59 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 6	Europe is the "King of Spam" Alex Ion February 6, 2008 A new study by Symantec (pdf link) crowned Europe as the new "king of spam" being responsible for 44 percent of worldwide unsolicited emails beating North America for the third month in a row. The main cause could be more... Continue Reading Posted at 1:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 5	Samsung G810 - First Real Competitor to Nokia N95 Alex Ion February 5, 2008 From my point of view, Nokia N95 is one of the best mobile phones ever created. With so many features it was hard for a new manufacturer to come up with a new model that would challange it. However Samsung... Continue Reading Posted at 3:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Feb29	Harvard and Myspace to Form Internet Safety Force Alex Ion February 29, 2008 Know More: Security Knowing that Harvard GSAS was hacked a few weeks before it's weird to find out that Myspace and Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet Security have created a new "task force" to protect children from online plunders and to improve online safety tools. Others organizations to be interested in the partnership are Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo! The main priority of these guys is going to be age verification, though I'm not sure how are they going to fight it knowing that false identities on the Internet are widely spread. For adults it could be easier, but if for kids which usually are minors and have no documents to show (driver's license or a credit card) is nearly impossible. Though there may not be tools right now, I'm sure Myspace has a great deal of experience with dealing with child predators and said they will try to "identify the technologies and tools that will be available industry-wide to provide a safer online experience for all Internet users." I applaud for taking action and wish them luck. via ArsTechnica Posted at 6:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb29	Used cans : make speakers of them Alex Ion February 29, 2008 Since I like hearing stories with people doing things on their own, a greener environment and building all kind of gadgets from used products I thought you'd be interested to know that you can make a set of speakers from... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb28	New Internet Explorer 8 Beta Soon Alex Ion February 28, 2008 Why is Microsoft announcing more and more updates lately? Could it be because of the big buzz Apple is getting with their new releases which seem to come at regular time frames? Looks like Microsoft learned something from Apple, even... Continue Reading Posted at 7:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	24ct Full Gold Apple iPhone 16GB Alex Ion February 28, 2008 Goldstriker, the guys that keep on making golden mobile phones, iPods and other stuff, just got their hands on a 16GB Appel iPhone and coated it in 24-carat gold. It has gold on the throughout of the phone, 75 percent... Continue Reading Posted at 6:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb27	Windows Server 2008 Announced with Fanfare Alex Ion February 27, 2008 Microsoft officially launched today their server operating system, Windows Server 2008 and they have high hopes for it. The software is built on the same codebase as Windows Vista but has some admin-pleasing features like "Server Core" or "Hyper-V" a... Continue Reading Posted at 2:03 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb26	GPS Navigation and the Truck is now Stuck Alex Ion February 26, 2008 I'm not a big fan of GPS navigators but to be honest I used them a few times to know the basics. The first thing I understood was that you shouldn't put all your faith in the sat-navigator. It's true... Continue Reading Posted at 6:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb25	Dunnington, Intel's 45nm six-core Xeon processor Alex Ion February 25, 2008 Intel has some goodies for us and it's about a new processor. Dubbed Dunnington, a six-core (three dual-core) Xeon in the Penryn famility working on the 45nm technology, it has 16MB shared L3 cache while each core has a 3MB... Continue Reading Posted at 1:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb21	NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GT, budget hottie Alex Ion February 21, 2008 Now that the manufacturers understood that most of us can't spend thousands of dollars on a SLI graphic card, NVIDIA just announced their new GeForce 9600 GT, a budget hottie. Analysts say that the performances of the new 9600 GT... Continue Reading Posted at 11:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HD video landscape has changed dramatically Alex Ion February 21, 2008 Now that the format war is over with Toshiba officially announcing that they will dump the HD DVD business and Blu-ray winning the fight there are many changes to come. Apparently many retailers changed prices and HD DVD players are... Continue Reading Posted at 11:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb20	USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner - Scent 2.0 Alex Ion February 20, 2008 Are you into aromatherapy stuff just as much as small gadgets? Here's the perfect device that you could take with you at work or use when you get back home after a long stressful day. It's a USB aromatherapy oil... Continue Reading Posted at 12:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb19	Wow-Pen Joy Mouse Alex Ion February 19, 2008 For me it has never been easy to use such a mouse. It's big, can't fit well in my palm and to be honest is heavy. I'm afraid of using them, but for the sakes of it I sure need... Continue Reading Posted at 7:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Binatone's Carrera S350 navigator, GPS for Women? Alex Ion February 19, 2008 I'm not sure if GPS navigators are a man's stuff but for sure there are women using them. Binatone's Carrera S350 navigator is a little bit special just by looking at the picture and that is because it gets a... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb18	Intel Notebook Processors Montevina (Centrino 2) will exceed 3.0 GHz Alex Ion February 18, 2008 Intel, finally decided to name their Montevina platform as Centrino 2. These are the next generation (actually the 5th generation) notebook processors that will support Penryn, the 45nm technology, and should be presented in June during the Computex Taipei 2008... Continue Reading Posted at 3:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Alex Ion February 18, 2008 The buzz last week in the cellphones market was about the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 which not only looks great and is smart but was supposed to run either Windows Mobile 6.5 or a pre 7.0 version. The reason... Continue Reading Posted at 2:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb16	Analog Cellular Networks Shutting Down Next Week Alex Ion February 16, 2008 The FCC gave a green light to mobile operators that would like to shut down their analog networks. This may come as a bad surprise to some of those that have a cell phone, home alarm systems or car assistance... Continue Reading Posted at 6:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb15	Olympus E-430 DSLR Leaked ... Alex Ion February 15, 2008 A Russian photo forum claims to have more info on what is the not yet official Olympus E-430, the company's next DSLR. It's supposed to be an upgraded version of E-410, has a 12 megapixel Live MOS sensor and a... Continue Reading Posted at 3:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb14	Your Clothes May Power-up Your Gadgets Alex Ion February 14, 2008 This is really intriguing to know that by simply wearing a t-shirt we could charge a cellphone or power up a mp3 player if we walk, run, dance, etc but this may be true. Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team... Continue Reading Posted at 8:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb13	RUMOR: AT&T to offer a new tethering plan for the iPhone Alex Ion February 13, 2008 Boys and gals this one is so hot that I can't even explain it very well but I will do my best. Our friends from BoyGeniusReport managed to get some info from their "contributors" on AT&T to offer a new... Continue Reading Posted at 3:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb12	Should we consider PDF a security threat ? Alex Ion February 12, 2008 Last Wendsday, Adobe came in and patched two of their best programs, Reader and Acrobat, but there seems to be a problem with it. Apparently the security hole was open for hackers for as long as 18-days and it has... Continue Reading Posted at 2:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 8	Rumor: New Apple Event, Late February Alex Ion February 8, 2008 Latest Apple rumors say that the company may held an event, late February. I've first heard about it from the unofficial Apple weblog, that mentioned Mira Mobile Television who's already hiring for an upcoming event for the end of the... Continue Reading Posted at 6:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 7	Intel's Tukwila, first 2 billion transistor CPU Alex Ion February 7, 2008 The biggest microprocessor ever made is called Tukwila (strange ...) and was developed by Intel on the 65nm chip technology. It is the first quad-core member of the Itanium Product Family (IPF) and the world's first processor to break the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	ARM to Show off a Working Device Based on Android (Next Week) Alex Ion February 7, 2008 ARM is a mobile processor manufacturer that is ready to present next week in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress a working device to run Google's Android. If you remember Android is an open-source mobile operating system and ARM is the... Continue Reading Posted at 3:59 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 6	Europe is the "King of Spam" Alex Ion February 6, 2008 A new study by Symantec (pdf link) crowned Europe as the new "king of spam" being responsible for 44 percent of worldwide unsolicited emails beating North America for the third month in a row. The main cause could be more... Continue Reading Posted at 1:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 5	Samsung G810 - First Real Competitor to Nokia N95 Alex Ion February 5, 2008 From my point of view, Nokia N95 is one of the best mobile phones ever created. With so many features it was hard for a new manufacturer to come up with a new model that would challange it. However Samsung... Continue Reading Posted at 3:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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