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December 22, 2003 ISSUE 133
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl133.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Plug-compatible ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/plugcomp.htm ) -
Term used to describe a piece of computer hardware that has the ability to connect to other hardware devices using a standardized connection.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story:
12/15/2003 - Google Tweaks AdWords, Froogle
12/15/2003 - Microsoft Reorganizes Its Windows Groups
12/15/2003 - Apple hits 25 million iTunes downloads
12/15/2003 - Attack Against SCO's Web Site Continues
12/15/2003 - Studio Warns Kung Fu Site
12/15/2003 - EMC to acquire VMware for $635M
12/15/2003 - Report: IBM to move up to 4,730 software jobs out of U.S.
12/15/2003 - BMC to Buy Magic Solutions for $47M
12/15/2003 - Top 10 IT stories of 2003
12/15/2003 - CD-burning software prompts patent suit
12/15/2003 - Check Point to buy Zone Labs for $205 million
12/15/2003 - IBM unveils plans to give away free computers
12/15/2003 - Judge OKs Internet Company's Pop-Up Ads
12/15/2003 - Loudeye, Microsoft Offer Online Music Store Set-Up
12/15/2003 - Let's See, Roborace? Roborally?
12/15/2003 - New Gun Shoots Around Corners
12/15/2003 - Yahoo To Challenge PayPal in Global Arena
12/16/2003 - AOL trumpets new Winamp
12/16/2003 - Soon, Marketing Will Follow You
12/16/2003 - Bush Signs Anti-Spam Bill
12/16/2003 - The Best Tech Toys
12/17/2003 - IBM buys private Green Pasture Software
12/17/2003 - BT tunes into 'radio broadband'
12/17/2003 - Cisco warns of holes in PIX firewalls
12/17/2003 - VeriSign Shells Out $140M For Guardent
12/17/2003 - Smart watches tell Microsoft time
12/17/2003 - Micron exec to plead guilty for obstruction
12/17/2003 - Top 100 tech innovations of 2003
12/17/2003 - Intel Expected to Make Chips for Digital TVs
12/17/2003 - Open Source Takes on Hardware Biz
12/17/2003 - N.Y. Uses EBay to Sell Surplus Property
12/18/2003 - First private rocket ship goes supersonic
12/18/2003 - AOL Users Hear ITunes
12/18/2003 - CSC lands $1.8B in contracts
12/18/2003 - NEC Boosts Next-Gen DVD Standard
12/18/2003 - Linux 2.6 Arrives
12/18/2003 - A Quantum Theory of Internet Value
12/18/2003 - Martian lander set for separation
12/18/2003 - Sony shows off jogging robot
12/18/2003 - Games designer claims grand theft
12/18/2003 - Photos 'in 20 seconds'
12/18/2003 - Web firms to name pirates
12/18/2003 - Plug-in gives shape to Google search
12/18/2003 - Microsoft and New York state join to fight spam
12/18/2003 - NASA Web Sites Hacked
12/18/2003 - Microsoft plans Windows 2000 Server retirement
12/18/2003 - RealNetworks sues Microsoft, alleges monopoly abuse
12/18/2003 - Red Hat Linux Advisory: apache
12/18/2003 - Host Integration Server 2004 beta arrives
12/18/2003 - Adobe in surprise e-book move
12/18/2003 - Lehman moves jobs from India
12/18/2003 - AMD introduces budget Athlon 64
12/18/2003 - Red Hat reports a profit and a purchase
12/18/2003 - Wal-Mart to Test Digital Music Downloads
12/18/2003 - Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC
12/18/2003 - Are You Ready for Some Science?
12/18/2003 - Wright Flyer Replica Fails to Fly
12/18/2003 - EBay pulls plug on sale of flu shots
12/18/2003 - Arizona Town for Sale on EBay for $5.5M
12/18/2003 - OpenOffice makes government inroads
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3482003
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus: No new virus news this week.
* Security:
computerworld.com -- Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. is warning customers about security holes in its PIX firewall product and firewall software that runs on the Catalyst 6500 and 7600 series switches.
linuxtoday.com -- Updated Apache packages that fix a minor security issue are now available for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Revised, corrected numerous errors, and posted updates throughout our MS-DOS section.
- Posted 1.6f Open Beta Version of our search engine. This new update contains the following fixes.
+ Corrected issues with ranking system.
+ Corrected issues with search not pulling correct results when users were searching using special or extended characters.
+ Migrated the buying tips category into tips category, so all pages containing tips will be filtered into tips category.
+ Updated search index.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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How to install a software program.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000561.htm
Determining the AGP version.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000308.htm
How to determine system resources / RAM available?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000149.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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This week instead of featuring a single interesting web page or item relating to computers, technology, or science we thought we would re-post some interesting web pages that were mentioned in this weeks news section that feature numerous interesting new technologies introduced in 2003, tech toys, and other top stories for the year 2003.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/2003/homepage/0,18882,,00.html
First, Popular Science has a great new section that features the best of whats new for the year 2003. This is a great page that we highly recommend users visit. On this page a user can browse through numerous categories featuring a wide range of technologies introduced in the year 2003.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/15/HNtop10_1.html
Next is another great article from InfoWorld that features the top 10 IT stories of 2003. In this article users can read through the top stories that rocked the IT boat this year.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1739&e=3&u=/ttzd/114349
Finally, an article by Jim Louderback features a great list of tech toys. This is a great read and features some really unique tech toys and gadgets and is definitely worth reading especially for those of you still looking for gift ideas this holiday season.
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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