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27 November 2008

heise online news 27/11/2008


heise online news 27/11/2008
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Secunia Personal Software Inspector version 1.0 released

Personal Software Inspector shows users whether the applications installed on their systems are up-to-date, allowing them to avoid surfing with the bow doors open

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France wants to remove intellectual property aspects from the telecoms package

The French European Council Presidency has issued a draft of the Council's position on a revision of EU regulations governing the telecoms market, which makes no mention of measures to fight copyright infringement

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The environmental cost of games consoles

According to a US study, the PS3, Xbox 360 etc. consume a total of 16 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year in the United States alone, equivalent to the total energy consumption of San Diego

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Microsoft invests massively in data centres for cloud computing

In an effort to relocate its applications as services on the internet and so gain a dominant position in cloud computing, Microsoft plans to build up to 10 million servers at 20 different locations

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Gartner: supply and demand disparity in the used PC market

Demand for used computers has outstripped supply, according to market researchers at Gartner. They point to customs fees and high shipping costs as the cause of the disparity

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WordPress update fixes vulnerabiliy

The Wordpress developers have fixed a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and three non-security-related bugs in version 2.6.5

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SVG Tiny 1.2 about to be adopted

Version 1.2 of SVG Tiny, the mobile-devices version of the 2D vector graphics description language, has been given the Proposed Recommendation status - the last stage before its adoption

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Apple is alleged to have violated a patent for simplified web navigation

US company EMG Technology claims that the way the iPhone navigates the internet infringes its patent 7,441,196

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More driver versions for Windows

Updates by AMD, Intel, JMicron, Microsoft, Nvidia, Realtek and VIA/S3

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