News released on 13.04.2005 (updated 16.04.2005)

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Water on Mars

Here is link on NASA web site and local copy if another goes down.

Spyware of 2004

1. PurityScan - increased popup's.
2. n-Case - increased popup's.
3. Gator (GAIN) - used to change the advertising banners.
4. CoolWebSearch (CWS) - alters home page, intercept web search and changes IE settings.
5. Transponder (VX2) - spy your habits and alters banners for you.
6. ISTbar/AUpdate - porn site search. Porn popup's. alters homepage ...
7. Keenvalue - spy your habits and alters banners for you.
8. Internet Optimizer - gives you advertising whensees the keyword.
9. Perfect Keylogger - Logs every keystroke and mouse.
10. TIBS Dialer - Dial paid phones.

More information on internet and soon in articles.

Solaris

OPEN SOLARIS web site is now running. Soon will be possible to download it.

Dual core Processors

We already publish AMD plans, but Intel wants to be first and will announce first dual core processor Pentium EE 840 (on Japan market) witch will support also HT and that means that it will be 4 virtual processors in one chip. Expected price is around $1000 - definitely positioned for gamers. Announce date 18.04.2005.

Source: www.IXBT.com

ATI & Linux

Ati announced new drivers for Linux. They can be downloaded here. Problems solved:

• Unreal Tournament 2004: Intermittent hesitation is no longer noticed while playing Onslaught
• Moving or resizing pseudo color windows no longer results in corruption being noticed on the desktop
• The name and version number of the X.org server is now detected correctly at runtime.
• Attempting to launch any application while Viewperf 7.1.1 is running in the background, no longer results in the Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 version 2. operating system failing to respond
• 64 bit system with 4 GB or more of system RAM, no longer fails to initialize3D graphic acceleration
• The ATI FireGL™ V5000 now uses the DDC information correctly and no longer misidentifies Low Voltage Differential Signal (LVDS) as Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS)

Change log

CTIA announced on CTIA Wireless in New Orleans best mobile wireless devices in different categories

• Wireless color phone - LG F9100
• Wireless phone/Smartphone/PDA - palmOne Treo 650 & Nokia 9300
• Mobile PC for professionals - IBM ThinkPad T43
• Mobile PC for user - Dell XPS Gen 2
• Photocamera - Kodak EasyShare-One
• Mobile/Remote control software- gate5 smart2go Mobile Navigator
• Mobile/Remote service- Verizon V CAST
• Mobile accessory- Jabra BT800
• Wireless LAN- NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless Router
• Innovation Award- Sony Ericsson S710a , Motorola Razr V3

( Nokia 9300 )

Source: www.netz.ru

LED Light Bulb

Smarthome announced LED Light Bulb. This is one of the first models that I've see on the market. Consumes 1,3 W/h of energy!!! and has live around 10 years.

XBOX?

Microsoft announces that next version of popular game console XBox will be announced on sneak peek in collaboration of MTV on 12 and 13 may .

Wireless Home LAN

Microsoft publish a public article about setting up home based wireless network. If you are newbie in this area this article will be useful for you.

Firefox (UPDATE)

Mozilla foundation announces Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 is available for download or update.

What's new: Security and Update Process fixes