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November 06, 2006 ISSUE 235
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl235.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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Spatial digitizer ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/spatdigi.htm ) -
A type of computer scanner used to input a three-dimensional object into a computer.
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: Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
cnn.com -- Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired? There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October.
11/05/2006 - I, Robot Builder
11/05/2006 - Wired Digital Acquires Reddit
11/05/2006 - Free music downloads are legal, Spanish judge rules
11/05/2006 - Ask.com becoming the search engine that could
11/05/2006 - Expert: LEDs could start replacing lightbulbs soon
11/05/2006 - Intel's quad-core chip powerful but pricey
11/05/2006 - Blue Man Group show has a text message for you
11/05/2006 - U.S. analysts had flagged atomic data on Web site
11/05/2006 - Fitness machine for child gamers
11/05/2006 - Microsoft sets new course for Windows CE
11/05/2006 - Google Revamps Gmail for Mobile Devices, Partners With Sprint
11/05/2006 - Receptionist, porter robots make debut at Japanese hospital
11/05/2006 - Another Nail in the IT Certification Coffin
11/05/2006 - Philips sponsors free New York Times Web access
11/05/2006 - The Best Video Cards for Your Money: November 2006
11/05/2006 - Forgent settles JPEG patent claims, keeps suing
11/05/2006 - RIAA sues Santangelo children
11/05/2006 - Google 'acts on YouTube threat'
11/05/2006 - 'Top technology' woman announced
11/05/2006 - Computer bug study wins top prize
11/05/2006 - Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
11/05/2006 - Symantec shields Windows phones, PDAs
11/05/2006 - Hackers break into water system network
11/05/2006 - 'Second Life' delays real estate price increases
11/05/2006 - Google ad revenue 'to surpass TV'
11/05/2006 - Mozilla pledges to fix Firefox 2.0 bug
11/05/2006 - Virtual Mac Machine Adds Vista Install
11/05/2006 - Microsoft, Novell Reach Accord on Linux
11/05/2006 - Teens: Email Is Just So Old-Fashioned
11/05/2006 - NHL scores Google as video partner
11/05/2006 - Politicians beware
11/05/2006 - PC makers may miss out on holiday joy
11/05/2006 - Wikipedia Critic Finds Copied Passages
11/05/2006 - Wikipedia Hijacked to Spread Malware
11/05/2006 - Top Digg Users Feeling Snubbed
11/04/2006 - Google donates $30,000 to CC
11/04/2006 - Microsoft follows Oracle into Linux market
11/04/2006 - Microsoft removes transfer limitations from Vista
11/04/2006 - Utube sues YouTube for clogging site
11/04/2006 - Bomb explodes at eBay's PayPal headquarters on Halloween night
10/31/2006 - Liquid Computing launches high-end server
10/31/2006 - Why IBMs patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for th...
10/31/2006 - Electronics giants team for wireless HD
10/31/2006 - Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, but Just Right
10/31/2006 - Zend Web tools adapted for Windows
10/31/2006 - Seagate ratchets up hard drive security with DriveTrust
10/31/2006 - Problems hit school data systems
10/31/2006 - International net domains 'risky'
10/31/2006 - Virus writers target web videos
10/31/2006 - China 'driving global chip sales'
10/31/2006 - MySpace 'to block illegal files'
10/31/2006 - New Windows Media Player Shines
10/31/2006 - Microsoft sues counterfeit software dealers
10/31/2006 - ESnips Secures $2m For Media Sharing Site
10/31/2006 - Attack of the Bots
10/31/2006 - Google to MS: Let users choose
10/31/2006 - Apple makes it official: New iPod Shuffle on Friday
10/31/2006 - Google sued by French publishers
10/31/2006 - Hackers have published code that could let an attacker disabl...
10/31/2006 - New Windows attack can kill firewall
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?3022006
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:
Virus writers target web videos
news.bbc.co.uk -- The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals.
* Security:
Hackers break into water system network
infoworld.com -- An infected laptop gave hackers access to computer systems at a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, water treatment plant earlier this month.
Mozilla pledges to fix Firefox 2.0 bug
infoworld.com -- A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter much of a problem in the mean time, a Mozilla official said Thursday.
Wikipedia Hijacked to Spread Malware
tech2.com -- Computer users are being warned against opening unsolicited mails after hackers took advantage of the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia in their attempt to spread malicious code.
New Windows attack can kill firewall
networkworld.com -- Hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable the Windows Firewall on certain Windows XP machines.
Linux guru warns on security of open-source code
news.zdnet.com -- Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the U.K. open-source community, has warned about complacency over the security of open-source projects.
Security firm punctures Vista's Patchguard
theregister.co.uk -- Security vendor Authentium has discovered a mechanism to get around Microsoft's controversial Patchguard kernel protection technology, which is due to ship in the 64-bit version of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
* Privacy:
Phishing Attack Targets MySpace Users
pcworld.com -- Attackers have found a way to use a genuine MySpace account to trick users into disclosing passwords.
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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- Posted new questions and answers.
- Posted over 100 other various updates throughout site.
- Continued work on new scripts and features.
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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Where do I download the .NET framework?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000850.htm
How can I copy text from an Adobe PDF file?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000851.htm
How do I play a movie file in Windows?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000852.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
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6. All Talk
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http://www.mylight.com/booklights_marklight.htm
The marklight booklight & bookmark is another interesting product we recently came across. This creative bookmark gives book readers the best of too worlds, a functional bookmark and a light for when you want to read in a dark place.
http://accent.gmu.edu/
We also recently came across the speech accent archive site, a faciniting site that contains 606 different samples of different types of accents in the English language. This is an interesting site and a fun and easy way to listen to hundreds of different types of accents.
http://www.frontdesign.se/
Finally, YouTube recently featured a great video featuring Sketch Furniture by FRONT. This is an interesting technology that allows a user to draw a 3D object in space by cameras recording invisble pen strokes in air and then have the object drawn printed out. The YouTube video featuring this product is found at the below link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNF5M3IXRbE&eurl
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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