Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Windows only (for the moment): Microsoft has thrown open the doors to a "tech preview" of its Live Mesh service, a kind of web-boosted version of Lifehacker favorite folder-syncing tool FolderShare, with a bit of remote desktop connection thrown in. Signing up with a Windows Live ID gets you 5 ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
A "high" severity flaw affecting how BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) opens PDF attachments could be used to compromise a corporate network. Research in Motion quietly disclosed the flaw last week but is yet to issue a patch.
"This issue has been escalated internally to our development team. No resolution time frame ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Crafted Portable Document Format files can allow an attacker to gain control of a BlackBerry server. According to a security advisory from BlackBerry vendor RIM, the bug is in the PDF Distiller component of the Attachment Service, which runs on the server and prepares PDF email attachments for display on ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
For the last decade, as wireless networks have grown in popularity, so has the number of hot spots around the globe.
The leading online hot-spot directory, JiWire, lists 215,666 locations as of this writing. Those are just the ones people bother to report. Believe it or not, they're not all in ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve ‘Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia’s networks.’ According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they’re based on plain glass. As said ...
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