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January 8, 2007 ISSUE 241
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl241.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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TIFF ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/t/tiff.htm ) -
Short for Tagged Image File Format, TIFF is a common way to store bit-mapped graphic images that can easily be viewed and edited on both IBM compatible and Apple Macintosh computers, unlike windows BMP files.
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: 1TB drives getting ready to hit the streets
arstechnica.com -- It seems the day of the 1-terabyte consumer hard drive has finally become a reality. Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007. The drive will be the first of three that the company is expecting to release in 2007; the other two are aimed at video pros and the enterprise market. Those two will ship in the second quarter of the year.
01/06/2007 - Cisco acquires antivirus firm for $830m
01/06/2007 - Intel decides to close down research center in S Korea
01/06/2007 - Emotion-aware teaching software tracks student attention
01/06/2007 - The legal rights to your 'Second Life' avatar
01/06/2007 - Fewer excuses for not doing a PC backup
01/06/2007 - SanDisk SSD Available to OEMs
01/06/2007 - Industry denies huge domain name loss
01/06/2007 - Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic hit with Bluetooth lawsuit
01/06/2007 - Hybrid technology to speed laptop start-up
01/06/2007 - Amazon boss shows off spacecraft
01/06/2007 - Adobe To Issue Patches for Reader Vulnerability
01/06/2007 - Super Soldiers: Tomorrow's 'Army of One' Technology
01/06/2007 - World's First Silent Ringtone Available
01/06/2007 - Patent lawsuit filed over Bluetooth tech
01/06/2007 - Bill Joy's greatest gift to man -- the vi editor
01/06/2007 - Ready to produce IMs in court?
01/06/2007 - Google: now time for making real time 3D maps of universe
01/06/2007 - Wikipedia Qatar ban 'temporary'
01/06/2007 - Google plugs Gmail data leak flaw
01/06/2007 - Lycos back online after outage
01/06/2007 - Users Irked By Windows Defender Beta 2 Expiration
01/06/2007 - Counting the real 'Second Life' population
01/06/2007 - Comedian Jimmy Carr takes act into Second Life
01/06/2007 - Futuristic tools and toys at world's largest consumer electro...
01/06/2007 - Samsung unveils "world's first truly double-sided LCD"
01/06/2007 - Computer theft may have exposed patient data across five states
01/06/2007 - Microsoft to kick off 2007 with 8 security updates
01/06/2007 - Online Spending Tops $100 Billion in 2006
01/05/2007 - 'Project Entropia' real estate sale fetches $179,000
01/05/2007 - Researcher says QuickTime hole still a problem
01/05/2007 - Internet Explorer Vulnerable To Adobe XSS Bug
01/05/2007 - PDF security risk greater than originally thought
01/05/2007 - MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs
01/05/2007 - Toshiba Brings HD DVD Write Drive to Desktop PCs
01/05/2007 - 'Web 2.0' Proves Most Popular Wikipedia Entry
01/05/2007 - Amazon.com launches independent Endless.com
01/05/2007 - NBC exec joins Google
01/05/2007 - Three Intel quad-cores coming Monday
01/05/2007 - 1TB drives getting ready to hit the streets
01/05/2007 - 10,000 Chinese domain names vanish amid Web chaos
01/05/2007 - OpenOffice patches 'highly critical' flaw
01/05/2007 - Dems in Congress Living in Virtual Reality
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?02007
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:
Adobe To Issue Patches for Reader Vulnerability
pcworld.com -- Adobe encourages upgrading to Reader 8 and recommends disabling Acrobat and Reader plug-ins on Web browsers until patches are issued.
Users Irked By Windows Defender Beta 2 Expiration
news.yahoo.com -- The beta version of Microsoft's free anti-spyware software expired Sunday, leaving Windows 2000 users out in the cold and some Windows XP owners confused by cryptic error messages.
Microsoft to kick off 2007 with 8 security updates
infoworld.com -- Microsoft plans to release eight sets of security patches next Tuesday, addressing flaws in its Windows, Office, and Visual Studio products.
Researcher says QuickTime hole still a problem
computerworld.com -- The QuickTime vulnerability that led to a widespread worm outbreak on MySpace.com last month could be exploited again, according to security researcher Aviv Raff, who has published software that illustrates his point.
OpenOffice patches 'highly critical' flaw
news.zdnet.com -- OpenOffice.org has patched a critical vulnerability in the open-source application suite. The vulnerability concerns the way OpenOffice handles images in the WMF graphics file format. Exploitation of the vulnerability, which affects all but the newest version of OpenOffice, can enable a hacker to perform a buffer overflow and then introduce malicious code to the victim's PC.
* Privacy:
Google plugs Gmail data leak flaw
news.com.com -- Google has fixed a security hole in several of its services that exposed the address books of Gmail users, the company said Tuesday.
Computer theft may have exposed patient data across five states
computerworld.com -- The theft of a computer from the office of an Ohio-based health care contractor on Nov. 23 has exposed sensitive data belonging to tens of thousands of patients in five health care firms across five states.
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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- Added several new dictionary definitions.
- Performed other minor updates throughout site.
- Completed the majority of site-wide updates for the Year 2007.
- Continued work on new and upcoming 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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How do I determine the version of a driver in Windows?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000868.htm
Unable to remove a device in Windows Device Manager.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000869.htm
What is the thumbs.db file?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000871.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.blender.org/
This week we thought we'd mention another great free and 3D modeling program called Blender. This is a great program and an easy and fast way for anyone who has ever been interested in 3D modeling to learn more and 3D modeling.
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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