Wall worm attacks Facebook users

There are reports of a worm spreading on Facebook, hijacking wall posts and threatening to compromise users' computer security.

The worm is similar to one that infected accounts on microblogging site Twitter earlier this week, according to reports on the US-based social media blog Mashable.

Users can be vulnerable if they click a link in their news feed which appears to be from a friend.

The text before the link reads: "lmao! i cant stop laughing at you in this pic, when did you do this?"

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Wii price drop

Nintendo today announced that beginning Sunday, September 27, the Wii drops by $50 to $199.99. Nintendo won't be messing with the bundle, however, with the package still including the Wii Remote controller (sorry, no Wii MotionPlus), Nunchuk controller and Wii Sports.

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Google announces Push Email support for mobiles

Google has announced that push Gmail support for Google Sync.

Announced last year, Google Sync lets you synchronize your Gmail contacts and your Google calendars with your iPhone, S60 devices and of course, Windows Mobile devices. Yesterday, Google announced another feature for Sync that a lot of people are likely to jump at: Push Gmail support.

Those of you panicking about having to Sync your contacts and calendars too, don't need to worry. You can pick and choose what you want to synchronize so if you just want you mail, that's totally okay.

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Facebook Grows Rich

The world's largest social networking site just got bigger with the announcement it has 300 million active monthly users from around the globe.

Facebook also revealed that it had started making money ahead of schedule.
The company had not expected to start turning a profit until sometime in 2010.
"This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"We are succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way. We are just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone.
"We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the web," Mr. Zuckerberg said in a blog post.
'Milestones'
The news that Facebook had passed these two benchmarks was made at TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, a conference for start ups.
Facebook hit the 250 million user mark back in July. It is estimated that the site is gaining about five million new users a week, or 50 million in the last 75 days.

More than 70% of users are outside the United States
"Passing these milestones to me means we can continue to fund our development and our innovation and be self sustaining as we grow this network," Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's vice-president of engineering, told BBC News.
"We think 300 million is a just a step on the way to get as much of the entire world on the social network communicating with the friends and family and the people they want to communicate with."
"That Facebook is able to continue this growth and build a "cash-flow positive" business is an impressive feat," said Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook.com.
"If the company can cover the cost of scaling to one billion users and still manage to break even, there's no doubt that the company will have a great opportunity to rake in billions," added Mr. O'Neill.
Facebook's Mr. Schroepfer said the company had worked hard to get more money flowing in than out.
"The growth of the network has certainly helped us go cash-positive and the engineering team has done a lot of innovation on our ad products, as our business is primarily advertising-funded.
"As more and more of the world gets on the network, people and advertisers realize the power of sharing information, whether it's about a movie preview or a car," said Mr. Schroepfer.
Look out Twitter, said Ben Parr, who is associate editor at the social media blog Mashable.com.
"If Facebook continues to open up its platform and adopt Twitter's best features, it could spell trouble for the Twitterverse. The world's largest social network is on the warpath," warned Mr. Parr

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Lenovo Touch screen Laptops

Lenovo has introduced two new PCs featuring touch screens that can be controlled with up to four fingers simultaneously.

The ThinkPad T400s is a laptop; the X200 is a tablet. They're designed to take advantage of the touch screen features found in the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. Also included is SimpleTap, a system for controlling the PCs' hardware settings via the touch screen.

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Lenvo on Tuesday unveiled two new computers with multi-touch capabilities that let users employ four fingers on the screen.

The new PCs are the ThinkPad T400s laptop and the X200 tablet PC.

Lenovo ThinkPad T400s laptop
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Lenovo also unveiled SimpleTap, a feature that lets users access hardware functions such as adjusting screen brightness or locking the screen.

Both the T400s and X200 are available now. They will leverage Windows 7's touch capabilities when that operating system hits the shelves.

More Details on Multi-Touch

ThinkPad T400s laptops are aimed at engineering and design professionals. Its multi-touch capabilities will allow for up to four fingers to be used at time, letting two people collaborate on the computer by touching the screen together, Lenovo said.

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 tablet
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The ThinkPad X200 tablet already supports one-finger touch, and multi-touch will let users use more gestures, such as pinching, tapping and flicking to go through documents or Web sites instead of using a mouse. This closely resembles the way the iPhone works.

"On a tablet form factor, where you can work on a flat surface, four-finger touch may actually make more sense, because that makes it easier to collaborate," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.

Lenovo optimized the firmware for both devices to compensate for less precise taps on the screen such as when users are closing windows or navigating the Start menu, for example.

Why Multi-Touch?

"We're introducing multi-touch now because this is the time for multi-touch PCs," Lenovo spokesperson Kristy Fair said. "People are more familiar with touch screens, and touch is becoming part of life now," she told TechNewsWorld. "Also, the cost of displays has come down, and they offer better features and functionalities."

"Granted, users have to put the mouse down, but this can cut the completion time for a visual product from days to hours," Enderle said. "For large objects or for folks who can manipulate several things at once, true multi-touch is a powerful tool."

He expects other vendors to move to multi-touch and, later, to go beyond four-finger touch.

Both the T400s and X200 run Windows Vista now. Users can upgrade to Windows 7 when it is available on Oct. 22, Fair said.

On SimpleTap

Both devices feature SimpleTap, a technology that gives users access to hardware-based functions. Users double tap the screen anywhere to launch SimpleTap. This then opens up a grid of tiles. SimpleTap's grid tiles offer hardware-based functions such as turning on or off the wireless radio or microphone, previewing scenes in the camera, adjusting the volume or screen brightness, or putting the device in sleep mode. To exit SimpleTap, users tap the screen once.

"SimpleTap's a nice differentiator which allows touch to be more aggressively used to launch applications," Enderle said. "I expect it to become more widely adopted over time."

Tech Specs

The T400s has an Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Core 2 duo SP9400 processor running at 2.4 GHz, or an SP9600s running at 2.53 GHz. It comes preloaded with Windows Vista or an XP Professional downgrade. It also has various office and other applications preloaded.

It has Intel Turbo memory; a 14-inch WXGA display with a resolution of 1,440 x 900 pixels, and is optimized for voice over IP (VoIP), with a 2 MP camera, improved speakers and dual digital microphones.

The T400s supports WWAN, WiMax, WLAN and Bluetooth . It has one standard USB 2.0 port, one powered USB 2.0 port and one eSATA/USB 2.0 combination port. For security, it has an integrated fingerprint reader.

The T-400s' screen has anti-fingerprint coating. It is available at US$1,999.

Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 tablet offers a choice of three Intel Core Duo processors, rated at 1.6 GHz, 1.86 GHz and 2.13 GHz. It runs Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005 or various flavors of Windows Vista.

It supports Intel WiMax/Wi-Fi and Intel Wireless Wi-Fi cards. It also supports gigabit Ethernet, integrated WWAN with GPS, and Bluetooth. Weight with an eight-cell battery is 3.88 pounds. The tablet comes with Acrobat reader; antivirus software and other applications preloaded.

Users who work out of doors can get an optional super-bright screen for the X200. "I think this feature will be a requirement in all laptops before too long," Enderle said. "People like to work outside and generally can't with the vast majority of products."

The X200 is priced at $1,654 with the multitouch screen and at $1,704 with both the multitouch screen and the super-bright outdoor screen

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Cell Phones cause cancer

A recent article at PC Magazine asks, is your cell phone melting your brain? For years, cell phone users have been hammered with talk that radiation stemming from the device and its antennae could possibly cause brain tumors. And for a while the threats of mutation and cancer have been somewhat minimal. However now a group of researchers in Scandinavia and Israel suggest that--while its too soon to know if users are at risk--there's enough evidence to warrant further investigations into the matter.

Dariusz Leszcynski, a research professor at the University of Finland, said that it's premature to say that mobile phones are safe. "In my opinion, the current safety standards are not sufficiently supported by science because of very limited research on human volunteers," he told a Senate Appropriations committee. He also added that the United States needs to dump more funds into cell phone safety research.

Another researcher, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki of Tel Aviv University, has studied the effects of cell phones on humans for over ten years. During that time, she has found a connection between heavy cell phone users and cancer. However, Sadetzki said that her results are not conclusive, and that additional research is still required. The problem, she claimed, is that humans have not used cell phones long enough to "draw any concrete conclusions." With cell phone usage booming in the late 90s and rapidly increasing each year, researchers simply need more time to test and gather data.

PC Magazine said that the US government is currently working on a long-term study of cell phone safety, however the results will not be ready until 2013 or 2014. With that said, who needs drugs when iPhones and Blackberrys will scramble our brains for us? By the time researchers figure it out, the general population will be mutants.

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Fast Flip for Google News

Google is testing a service that will let newshounds read Web pages of magazines and newspapers like they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy.

Fast Flip is being tested in partnership with 36 publishers, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Salon.com, which will get a portion of the revenue from ads that Google plans to sell alongside Fast Flip pages.

Fast Flip gives publishers more of what they want: a chance to share in the ad revenue generated by Google News combined with the spotlight and traffic that comes along with inclusion in Google News

But Fast Flip requires publishers to showcase more of their content than a simple Google News listing requires, which could allow readers to completely skip clicking through after getting the gist of the story from the first few paragraphs

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Facebook Lite

Facebook has just launched a new version of the site, called Lite, to give users a simplified, faster-loading experience than the traditional www.facebook.com. The company has said it’s intended to help new users, especially people with with poor internet connections, have a better experience than they have had so far. The app is only live in the US and India, according to Facebook developer Blake Ross, but a worldwide rollout doesn’t seem too far away.

As anyone who has tried to access Facebook on a slow connection already knows, features like photos can take forever to load, or even not load at all.

But more generally, the design aesthetic of Lite is appealing. The news feed includes a simple top toolbar, just items from your friends and a few obvious buttons for posting updates or media. The profile page is similarly bare. However, there’s no bottom toolbar for any third-party apps. There are currently only a few crucial in-house apps available. Facebook’s own Photo and Video apps are located within the profile page, while Events is available in the top toolbar.

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WD announces 640GB Laptop HDD

Western Digital has announced that it has commenced volume shipments of its 9.5 mm high, 2.5-inch notebook hard drive with 640 GB capacity. The WD Scorpio Blue 640 GB hard drives utilize 320 GB-per-platter technology and are designed for mainstream notebook computers.

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Samsung's Mobile App Store

Samsung will roll out the app store in the UK, France and Italy first, according to reports. It will then launch the store in another 30 countries over the coming months.

The apps will reportedly be written for Samsung's Omnia smartphones. Users will initially be able to select from about 300 apps, including games and e-readers. This will increase to about 2,000 by the end of the year.

Omnia owners will have to download a software upgrade to access the apps on the site.

Samsung unveiled updates to its Omnia handset line at the CommunicAsia information and communication technologies expo held in Singapore in June. These included the Omnia II and the OmniaPRO B7610.

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Monopoly running on Google Maps

Google Maps is becoming a Monopoly -- a Monopoly board game, to be exact. On Wednesday, Hasbro and Google launched Monopoly City Streets, a free, online version of what the game maker describes as "the world's most popular board game." Monopoly City Streets runs on top of Google Maps, and is also available using the open-source Open Street Map.

The online, massive multiplayer game is available only for a limited run of four months, as part of a promotion for Monopoly City, a new board game from Hasbro where a 3-D city is built from more than 80 3-D buildings.

'The Richest Property Magnate'

In the various Monopoly incarnations, the object is always the same: Make the most money in real estate through strategic use of properties to become, as Hasbro described, "the richest property magnate in existence."

In Monopoly City Streets, gamers can buy streets and place properties -- including houses, castles and skyscrapers -- anywhere in the world on Google Maps, and they play remotely against other participants. According to news reports Relevant Products/Services, the starting price for London's Downing Street is $231,000, and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., begins at $2 million.

Each player starts by creating a profile at www.monopolycitystreets.com, and they get $3 million in play money. As with the classic board game, a player earns rent from streets and properties owned. Rent is reportedly $50,000 a day for a house and $100 million for a skyscraper.

However, at the beginning of Launch Day -- 09/09/09 -- the site was down, possibly due to over-popularity.

After buying a street, a player can acquire and set up houses, skyscrapers, hotels and other buildings. Players can increase property values by adding schools or even wind farms, or trash an opponent's holdings by setting up prisons or sewage plants through the use of chance cards. A prison or similar eyesore can only be bulldozed away, again via chance cards.

'Most Interesting Mashup Ever'

The game retains the "dealing and negotiating elements" of classic Monopoly, said Senior Marketing Manager Sarah Hoskin, adding that it brings "new creativity" that extends beyond the classic game's famous "green houses and red hotels."

The online game will be available in English, French, Spanish, Dutch and German.

Will Hasbro's online Monopoly lead to Google Maps being used for other games? Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret, doesn't think so.

While this may be the "most interesting mashup ever," he said, it feels "more experimental than anything else," more of a "one-off concept" than the beginning of a new gaming platform.

Mashups for Google Maps add a layer of data and functionality on top of the maps, such as showing all pizza parlors in a given neighborhood.

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AMD's second generation ultrathin platform is here.

Along with the new Vision branding initiative, AMD today also launched its new ultrathin mobile platform – codenamed Congo.

AMD had already decided that it wasn't going to partake in a war against Intel for the netbook market by creating an Atom competitor, but instead would make chips that were for similar form factors (small notebooks) but with more processing power (along with heftier power requirements).

The new Congo platform is composed of a low profile, energy-efficient Athlon Neo dual-core and integrated graphics on par with the previous generation's discrete part.

Pat Moorhead, VP of Advanced Marketing at AMD, explains Congo in simple terms as how it relates to the company's previous efforts: "It's real easy to describe the 2nd generation ultrathin design: Take the 1st generation, give it a second CPU core and take nearly the performance of the first generation’s discrete card, shrink it and place it into the chipset decreasing energy consumption."

The result is hardware fit for small form factor notebooks with some decent multimedia muscle too.

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Windows 7 not affected by latest flaw

Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, the software maker also said that the flaw does not affect the final version of Windows 7, contrary to earlier reports.

"Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) implementation," Microsoft said in the advisory. "We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of customer impact at this time."
The flaw could allow an attacker to gain control of a system, although Microsoft said that "most attempts to exploit this vulnerability will cause an affected system to stop responding and restart."
The software maker said it is working with security software partners to provide information that can be used to create protections. Once its investigation is wrapped up, Microsoft said it will take action, which could include releasing a patch during its next monthly cycle or doing an "out-of-band" release, if necessary. Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly release for patches, which included five critical Windows updates addressing eight vulnerabilities.
The software maker said the latest issue affects the "release candidate" version of Windows 7, but not the final version that was completed in July. Also, the recently completed Windows Server 2008 R2 is not vulnerable, Microsoft said, nor are the earlier Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems.
Microsoft is already dealing with a separate, still unpatched flaw reported last week. Attacks have already been seen based on that vulnerability. Microsoft has taken issue with the fact that that flaw, like the latest one, was reported publicly as opposed to being privately disclosed to Microsoft, giving the company time to patch it.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft

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Intel i7 & i5 explained

Intel's two new Core i7 CPUs (860 and 870) are mid-range counterparts to its top-of-the-line Core i7 900-series chips, and initial tests (using Intel's new DP55KG motherboard) indicate their performance follows suit. Our early tests also show the new entry-level Core i5 750 is the one to watch when it comes to best bang for your buck.

Intel's full processor breakdown--including the axing of its Core i7 940 processor--includes some potentially confusing differences between the chips. So here's what you need to know.

The existing Core i7 900-series processor lineup, codenamed Bloomfield, now features three separate products: 3.33-GHz Core i7 975, 3.06-GHz Core i7 950, and 2.66-GHz Core i7-920 processors. Between the Core i7-950 and Core i7-920 processors sit the new "Lynnfield" 2.93-GHz Core i7 870 and 2.8-GHz Core i7 860 processors. The brand-new, 2.66-GHz Core i5 750 CPU is a Lynnfield chip as well, but we'll get to that odd duckling further below.

Technology Differences
Intel took a big leap forward in the design department when it launched Core i7 900-series processors last November. Just a few of these included a new triple-channel memory controller integrated into the chip, a new QuickPath Interconnect system to replace (and improve upon) the front-side bus architecture of old, and the return of hyperthreading that split the chip's four physical cores into eight virtual cores for increased system performance. As the Core i7 900-series chips were based on a new Intel X58 chipset and LGA1366 socket, aspiring upgraders had to invest in new motherboards to reap the benefits of the Core i7 900-series platform.

That part still rings true for the new Core i7 800-series and Core i5 CPUs--all three run on Intel's latest P55 chipset and LGA1156 socket, which necessitates a new motherboard purchase for use. What's changed, however, is that the Core i7 800-series and Core i5 CPUs each adopt different permutations of the fanciest of the Core i7 900-series' features.

All three chips have dropped down from a QuickPath Interconnect and triple-channel memory controller to a Direct Media Interface and dual-channel memory controller. But don't freak out; This is more a loss of future-proofing than anything else given the minute performance differences between current dual- and triple-channel memory configurations.

An integrated PCI Express graphics controller on the Lynnfield CPUs can either deliver 16 lanes of bandwidth to a single PCI Express 2.0 videocard or split this connection into two x8 lanes for an SLI or CrossFire setup. Although it's a cut from the full 32 lanes (for a dual 16x or quad-8x configuration) provided by Core i7's X58 chipset, the bandwidth reduction should only affect those crazy enough to SLI or CrossFire dual-GPU videocards on a Lynnfield setup.

Turbo Boost: Automatic Overclocking

The new Core i7 800-series CPUs and the Core i5 750 still support the same automatic overclocking functionality, or Turbo Boost, as the Core i7 900-series processors. However, this feature has been jacked up on the newer chips. Core i7 900-series CPUs will only increase their multipliers to a maximum of two additional steps according to system demands (effectively taking a 3.33-GHz processor to 3.6-GHz depending on how many cores are in use). The new Lynnfield processors are able to jump up five multiplier steps for the 800-series chips (taking a 2.93-GHz processor to 3.6-GHz) and four for the Core i5 750 (2.66-GHz to a maximum 3.2-GHz).

Performance
Both Core i7 800-series processors support hyperthreading the same as their Core i7 900-series brethren. The Core i5 750 does not-its four physical cores are all that will appear in your operating system's task manager. Even so, the CPU's noteworthy performance makes it an excellent value for its roughly $200 price. We only saw a performance difference of 5 percent between the Core i5 750 and the roughly $555 Core i7 870 (based on WorldBench 6 testing of the two CPUs on identical system builds). In fact, the Core i5 750's score of 127 falls right around the scores set by competing Value and Power PCs that use Core i7 920 processors.

Test Bed: Intel DP55KG Motherboard, 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics, 2x Seagate ST3750630AS hard disks (Raid 0), Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit Service Pack 2

So where does that leave the Core i7 870? Given that its price is almost identical to that of the high-end 3.06-GHz Core i7 950 CPU, a processor that natively runs faster than the 2.93-GHz Core i7 870, it's difficult to see the compelling reason to pick up this chip. The Turbo Boost feature of the Core i7 870 does ultimately beat the speeds of the Core i7-950's, but for the enthusiast market, the increased memory support and bandwidth for multi-GPU setups might not be worth giving up. The Core i7 860 is more reasonably priced at $285, provided you can make sufficient use of its hyperthreading functionality.

It remains to be seen just how far the Core i7 800-series CPUs will overclock compared to the Core i7 900-series chips-the lower power draws of the 800-series processors could make quite a difference in this area. As for the Core i5 750, this chip looks to be a solid winner for those looking to dip their toes into the Nehalem platform without breaking the bank-given Intel's dramatic price points, that's always a strong possibility.

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ASUS: low cost Dual screen ebook reader

Asus is reportedly working on its own entry into the e-book reader market: a dual-screened reader that will open like an actual book. Details are sparse at this time, but one of the more intriguing aspects of the story involves the device's supposed price point. Asus reportedly intends to target the price of $165, significantly undercutting the kings of the market, Amazon and Sony.

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Microsoft: Windows 7 better then Linux

Many companies across many industries partake in some form of evangelism (though some would call it propaganda) for its products. Some of the best evangelism starts at the retail level, where employees can 'inform' the buying consumer while trying to sell a life-saving in-store warranty policy.

A Best Buy employee, who happens to also be an overclock.net forum poster, recently partook in a Microsoft ExpertZone training exercise (with the incentive to be able to buy Windows 7 for $10) encountered materials from Microsoft that push certain superiorities that Windows 7 possess over Linux. While some points were valid, others were untrue.

One of the slides that Microsoft used (above) is fairly misleading, as World of Warcraft is supported in Linux through WINE. Windows Live Essentials are indeed a Windows-only product, but there are many other free alternatives. Video chat is also supported well on Linux through Skype and Pidgin. See here a mirror of the original thread.

It seems that Microsoft is trying to fight off Linux machines that are sold through Best Buy, which if any, are netbooks only. We can't imagine that there will be many customers who will wander into Best Buy without a clue of which operating system he or she should go with – the new and shiny Windows 7 or the mysterious, counter-culture Linux

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How to add email accounts to Outlook 2007

Steps involved to setup an Email account in Microsoft Outlook 2007

1) Start MS Outlook

2) Go to tools and then select Account Options ( Fig 1)

3) then select new ( fig2)

4) then choose MS exchange , pop3, IMAP etc from the menu presented ( fig 3) and click next

5) enter your details and click next (fig 4)

6) Outlook will test / check the user ID and password, as well as search its database for the correct mail settings, for the account you have specified ( Fig 5)

7) If all goes well you should see the screen below ( Fig 6 ) then just  click FINISH and you ready to send and receive mails

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