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September 18, 2006 ISSUE 228COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl228.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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Metcalfe's Law ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/metcalfe.htm ) -
Coined by Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a network grows by the square of the size of the network. The idea behind this law is that a network's value is increased as the size of the network increases; this law is often referred to when talking about the Internet's value. For example, if the network has 5 machines its value would be 25 (5^2=25), but if another network had 1000 machines its value would be 1,000,000.
This law is also considered applicable to more than just the Internet or a computer network. For example, a software product may increase in value as it grows in size. If a product only has 25 users it is less likely to be known and used. However, if a product has 1,000 users it is more likely to be known and used and introduced to more users.
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: Chip firm agrees $17.6bn buyout
news.bbc.co.uk -- US chipmaker Freescale has agreed to be bought by a private equity team led by Blackstone for $17.6bn (9.35bn).
09/17/2006 - Rage over MySpace photo leads to arrest
09/17/2006 - Warner to send videos through YouTube
09/17/2006 - Sun shake-up hits execs, grid service
09/17/2006 - Is open source getting to Microsoft?
09/17/2006 - The rise of Baidu (that's Chinese for Google)
09/17/2006 - A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light
09/17/2006 - DVD chips 'to kill illegal copying'
09/17/2006 - Meet the $4 million woman
09/17/2006 - Microsoft pitches InfoCard for businesses
09/17/2006 - Creators of Lonelygirl15 blogs go public
09/17/2006 - Google adds more mapping innovations
09/17/2006 - China reports major anti-piracy move
09/17/2006 - Software allows people to write Indian languages using Englis...
09/17/2006 - Zotob virus writers face prison
09/17/2006 - Microsoft Zune out for Christmas
09/17/2006 - iPod fans 'shunning iTunes store'
09/17/2006 - Chip firm agrees $17.6bn buyout
09/17/2006 - Video game exhibition announced
09/17/2006 - Hackers Post Code for New IE Attack
09/17/2006 - Mozilla Fixes Critical Firefox Flaws
09/17/2006 - Wal-Mart sets stage for digital action
09/17/2006 - Cybercrime Is Getting Organized
09/17/2006 - Microsoft tells web site owners to take down FairUse4WM
09/14/2006 - Segway Recalls Scooters for Injury Risk
09/14/2006 - Canon copiers inspected over fire risk
09/14/2006 - A Vulnerability Puts PlayStation Portable Consoles At Risk
09/14/2006 - No fix yet for Word 2000 flaw
09/14/2006 - Apple video move divides industry
09/14/2006 - Court Denies Target Corp. Request to Dismiss Suit
09/14/2006 - Web Site Owner Gets 7 Years for Piracy
09/14/2006 - The Hard Drive Turns 50
09/14/2006 - Skype Connects Macs, PCs
09/14/2006 - eDonkey, Record Industry Reach a Deal
09/14/2006 - Microsoft Takes Third Shot at Buggy Security Patch
09/14/2006 - Robot Navigates Crowds Without Bumping
09/14/2006 - Microsoft Zune Announcement Expected Tomorrow
09/14/2006 - Apple retail stores get new look
09/14/2006 - Google to get into Intuit's QuickBooks
09/14/2006 - Yahoo spruces up e-mail service
09/14/2006 - PC glitch found when running AOL and playing some Sony BMG CDs
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2532006
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:
Hackers Post Code for New IE Attack
pcworld.com -- Hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and they've released code that could be used to attack users of Microsoft's popular browser.
Mozilla Fixes Critical Firefox Flaws
pcworld.com -- Mozilla developers have released an updated version of their Firefox browser that fixes a number of security issues, four of them rated critical.
No fix yet for Word 2000 flaw
news.com.com -- Microsoft on Tuesday provided patches for three security flaws, but it does not have a fix yet for a Word 2000 vulnerability being exploited in cyberattacks.
Microsoft Takes Third Shot at Buggy Security Patch
pcworld.com -- Microsoft just can't seem to shake problems with its MS06-042 update for Internet Explorer. Microsoft today was forced to release its third version of the update because of a new security bug discovered in the update, according to Tony Chor, a group program manager with Microsoft.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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* This week weve been starting to finalize a lot of the large updates being done over the last few months. Although not all updates have been posted the main page has been updated. As can be immediately seen the new main page has a completely new look and feel to it and includes the below new features.
In the news:
An up-to-date live post of our news section featuring recently posted news articles that link directly to the news page.
Visitor favorites:
Listing of visitor favorite pages on Computer Hope based off how many visits the pages receive. These results are based off the previous days hits so will be automatically updated daily and give visitors a direct link to the most popular sections of Computer Hope.
Recent forum posts:
Listing of the five most recent posts from each of the main sections of the forum. This section will be updated frequently and allow forum members and non-forum members a quick easy way to see whats going on.
Whats hip:
List of the 15 most recent whats hip posts made each week on the Computer Hope newsletter.
Visit our main page: http://www.computerhope.com/ to see each of these new changes. We hope to have all updates completed and post by the end of this week and will keep you posted. Any comments, suggestions, problems about the new update can be sent to the Web Masters at: http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/edit.cgi
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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Floppy diskette stuck in floppy drive.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000828.htm
How do I change the font color, size, and/or type in Word?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000829.htm
Microsoft Windows STOP 0x0000007F error.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000830.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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Hybrid Silicon Laser
http://www.intel.com/research/platform/sp/hybridlaser.htm
Intel and the University of California (UCSB) have recently announced a breakthrough in silicon photonics after demonstrating the first electronically pumped hybrid silicon laser. This is a great breakthough as it will allow future chips to transmit data using laster light and potentially have a dramatic increase in overall performance. Read the above link for additional information about this new technology.
ABBYY Mobile OCR
http://www.abbyy.com/sdk/?param=56223
ABBY has developed a great software program that allows camera phones, PDA's, and digital camera users to take pictures of objects with text and read and extract text into your device. For example, a user could take a picture of a buisness card and extract the text on the buisness card into their mobile phones address book. See the above link for additional details and a trial version.
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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