heise online news 22/10/2008

heise online news 22/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Scientists spy out keyboard input from a distance of 20 metres Two scientists have released videos explaining how they used simple means to spy out the input on wired keyboards via electromagnetic radiation › Read article     Wikipedia: 10 billion page views per month New statistics for Wikipedia and its sister projects show that the free online encyclopaedia currently racks up around 10 billion page views per month. › Read article     Tracking down license infringements with the GPL Compliance Engineering Guide A newly published document, The GPL Compliance Engineering Guide describes how the team at gpl-violations.org tracks down GNU General Public License infringements in embedded devices › Read article     SanDisk to sell two chip fabs to Toshiba Toshiba takes over two NAND memory factories jointly operated with SanDisk in Japan, securing two thirds of the joint ventures' production capacities. › Read article     Kernel Log: More than 10 million lines of Linux source files A current Git checkout reveals that the Linux files now include more than 10 million lines of text but counting the source code files results in only about 9 million lines of code › Read article     EU to take action against "cyberbullying" and "cybergrooming" The EU's Safer Internet Programme plans to tackle inappropriate behaviour on the net, as well as illegal content, and wants cross-community legislation to protect children when online › Read article     Google's Gears on laptops gets Wi-Fi based geolocation Gears can now geolocate users using nothing more than local Wi-Fi information, allowing laptop users to effectively use the W3C Geolocation API › Read article     Qt preview for Symbian S60 mobile devices Qt Software releases a preview of the QT GUI framework for Symbian S60, with the S60 joining Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as supported Qt platforms › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.