November 01
The signature of computer safety RSA has revealed the one that might be the biggest virus troyano discovered up to the epoch, not so much for his expansion, but because the program has stolen, according to information of the proper company, confidential information of approximately 500.000 bank accounts since it was thrown, in February, 2006.
Sinowal, which is as it is called the virus, has infected computers the length and breadth of the whole world and has been qualified by RSA like one of the most advanced hardware that the cybercrime has never created, as he informs the BBC on his web page.
Finished news | The mother of all the troyanos (The Country)
October 30
Matt Richtell of the New York Steal he has written a big article about the increasing demand of teams that should start quickly. In the history it mentions the proposals of HP, Dell, Lenovo and ASUS, between others, who have a light operating system to realize basic functions how they are email, and navigator Web in less than 30 seconds. And it is there where Linux has a big role. Y es ahí donde Linux tiene un gran papel.
Next year will be the year of Linux in the dessert due to the wished long-awaited rapid starter. Microsoft is losing positions in this aspect and it is there where Linux has much that to say. Linux not only is making basic applications of rapid starter possible, but also it contributes projects as Moblin that allow the starter of a team in only 5 seconds. Linux no sólo está posibilitando aplicaciones básicas de arranque rápido, sino que también aporta proyectos como Moblin que permiten el arranque de un equipo en tan sólo 5 segundos.
Finished news | Next year most of desserts will come with Linux (The Inquirer ES)
October 28
Microsoft has promised that the next version of his operating system Windows will be more rapid and easy to use and will avoid the slips of the Seen introduction of Windows, which drove to despair many users of the software that works in 90 per cent of the computers of the world. To keep on reading the arículo
The company it reckons to throw at the beginning of 2009 a version of test of Windows 7, of which it gave the first slight sign on Tuesday. The new system will take innovations as a technology of tactile screen and the possibility of personalizing the system with more facility.
Windows Dresses it was much criticized due to his scarce compatibility with other devices and to his slowness of starter, which turned into the target of an effective campaign of marketing of his rival Apple.
Finished news | Microsoft tries to move away from Sight and simplifies in Windows 7 (Yahoo! News) Noticias)
October 22
The multinational one American Microsoft will put to the service in November in Colombia the first laboratory of identification of products pirates in Latin America, constructed by a cost for 450.000 dollars, as said to AFP on Tuesday a spokeswoman of the company.
Carolina Sánchez, manager of corporate relations of the multinational for Colombia, said that it is a question of the ninth laboratory in the world to fight the piracy and that it joins the existing ones in Germany, Australia, Canada, China, the United States, Hong Kong, India and Ireland. “It is an alliance with different authorities and local organizations to move forward actions tending to fight the violation of the rights of intellectual property of the software”, told the official.
Finished news | Microsoft installs a laboratory against the piracy in Latin America (Yahoo! News) Noticias)
October 15
Computer programmers of the North American university of Washington have created a software that is allowing already to persons at several disability levels to handle the cursor of his computer with the voice. The system recognizes certain sounds and, according to them, the cursor moves for the screen or opens a linkage, between other functionalities. According to his creators, this device differs from others in the fact that it does not use a standard speech recognition technology, but it detects basic sounds at a speed of 100 per second, what does that it is easy to use. Según sus creadores, este dispositivo se diferencia de otros en el hecho de que no usa una tecnología estándar de reconocimiento de voz, sino que detecta sonidos básicos a una velocidad de 100 por segundo, lo que hace que sea fácil de usar.
Finished news | They create a mouse of computer that manages with the voice (Computer Tendencies)
October 15
The university inaugurates a computer center in which there will be stored the information of institutions and companies of the whole Europe | The head office has a capacity of a million gigabytes and gives support to investigations of Big Colisionador de Hadrones.
Sun Microsystems and the Port of Scientific information (PIC) have presented today in the Autonomous University of Barcelona the biggest hard disk of the Iberian Peninsula, a big computer center full of computers to which there will come the information of institutions, companies and other scientific projects, like Big Colisionador de Hadrones (LHC) of Geneva.
Baptized like Center of Reference in Massive Storage of Scientific Information it has a capacity of a petabyte (equivalent to a million gigabytes, or to 3.300 computers that could be now on the market), a quantity that might double annually.
Finished news | An enormous 'hard disk' in the Autonomous one of Barcelona (ADN.es)
October 01
Computer programmers of the universities of Washington and California have developed a software that allows to locate portable computers stolen without compromising the privacy of the user. In contrast to similar systems commercialized by specializing companies, “Adeona“, since they have baptized it, uses the cryptography to prevent the information of the position of the computer (and of his proprietor) from coming across. This program, which works with the principal operating systems, is of open code, and his creators hope that other computer programmers should improve it and should extend his uses. Este programa, que funciona con los principales sistemas operativos, es de código abierto, y sus creadores esperan que otros informáticos lo mejoren y extiendan sus usos.
Finished article | A software locates portable stolen without compromising the privacy (Computer Tendencies)
