Archive for August, 2007
On Thursday, Sony followed in the footsteps of Dell in rolling out no-charge recycling services for its products. The Sony Take Back Recycling Program is designed to encourage consumers to recycle and dispose of electronic devices in an environmentally responsible way.Sony is partnering with 75 Waste Management Recycle America eCycling drop-off centers throughout the U.S. That makes it the first national recycling initiative stateside to see a major electronics manufacturer and a national waste management company work together.
“Providing the highest level of service and support doesn’t stop once a purchase is made,” Stan Glasgow, president and COO of Sony Electronics, said in a statement. “We believe it is Sony’s responsibility to provide customers with end-of-life solutions for all the products we manufacture.”
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August 17th, 2007
Industry rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems are burying the hatchet more deeply this week, with the companies announcing that Big Blue will distribute Sun’s Solaris operating system on IBM’s Intel-based servers and blades.IBM has offered some support for Solaris OS on select IBM BladeCenter servers in the past, but this new pact makes Sun an officially supported option for Big Blue customers. As part of the deal, IBM and Sun will support interoperability via open standards.
“IBM provides the broadest choice of server 
platforms and operating systems to customers with AIX, Linux for x86 and Power, Microsoft Windows Server, and now Solaris,” Bill Zeitler, senior vice president in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, said in a statement.
“IBM is the first major x86 vendor to have such an agreement with Sun,” he added, “and the first big vendor apart from Sun to offer Solaris on blade servers.”
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August 17th, 2007
The digital music world is seeing major developments this week, as iTunes inks a deal to carry John Lennon’s solo works, LimeWire takes a shot at going legit, and a Moscow court dismisses a case against the former boss of a popular music download site.First up, LimeWire. The controversial file-sharing site is following the footsteps of Napster with plans to open a legitimate digital music store. Initially, the store will be a stand-alone Web site, the company said, but it will be accessible from links in the company’s file-sharing software. Subsequent releases will reportedly let users browse and purchase music directly from within LimeWire.
The first partners of LimeWire’s new digital channel are IRIS Distribution, a distributor for independent labels, and Canadian-based Nettwerk Productions, which represents Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Gob and others. The files will be in the universally compatible MP3 format, and customers will be able to buy songs and albums “a la carte” or as part of monthly subscription plans.
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August 17th, 2007
According to McAfee Avert Labs, there is a zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger. The discovery marks the second time in a month that security researchers disclosed a vulnerability in the instant-messaging client.McAfee researchers first learned about the bug on a Chinese-language security forum on Tuesday, then dug into the report and were able to reproduce the vulnerability on Yahoo Messenger. The conclusion: The flaw might allow for code-execution attacks. But as of Thursday morning, there have been no reports of code exploiting this flaw being published.
“It seems like a classic heap overflow which can be triggered when the victim accepts a webcam invite,” Wei Wang, a security researcher at McAfee, wrote in the company’s security blog. “Note that this vulnerability is different from the recently patched one in June which exploited the Yahoo webcam ActiveX controls.”
McAfee said it reported the issue to Yahoo’s security team. Yahoo could not immediately be reached for comment.
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August 16th, 2007
It’s a busy week over at Electronic Arts. The EA Sports division launched the latest edition of its best-selling football franchise: Madden NFL. Madden NFL 08 hit store shelves on Tuesday.Electronic Arts kept the momentum rolling by announcing new cities in the 2007 EA Sports Challenge Series, a string of gaming competitions taking place across North America over the next several months. And for shoot-em-up fans, Electronic Arts launched a new expansion pack for its popular Command & Conquer 3.
The moves are part of the buzz-building prep for the holiday shopping season, but with the NFL preseason underway, Madden NFL 08 is taking the spotlight this week.
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August 16th, 2007
Get ready to roll up your sleeves. If you are in the I.T. department, you are going to be busy for a while. On Patch Tuesday yesterday, Microsoft issued its second-largest set of updates this year with nine security bulletins altogether.The updates fix 14 vulnerabilities. Eight bugs are rated critical, four are rated important, and two are considered moderate. The patches fix holes in Windows, Windows Gadgets, Windows Media Player, Office, Excel, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic, Virtual Server, and Virtual PC.
“Many of the vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft’s fixes could be exploited if a Windows user simply visits a malicious Web site,” said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee Avert Labs. “Microsoft’s patches again underline the trend of malware writers seeking out the Web browser as a means of attack and reinforce the need of safe browsing habits.”
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August 16th, 2007
There’s nothing funny about a billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit — until now. Google has subpoenaed comedian talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for depositions in the suit Viacom filed against it and its YouTube property in March. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion last year.Viacom, the entertainment titan that owns Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, and various other entertainment properties, is suing YouTube and its parent company for posting some 160,000 unauthorized video clips.
“When Google purchased YouTube, everybody said the company was buying into a huge lawsuit. Google knew it going in, but this is a big battle because if this goes as far as everyone expects it to, it’s going to define copyright rights for the digital age in a way that hasn’t been done on such a grand scale yet,” said Ilan Barzilay, an intellectual property attorney with Wolf Greenfield in Boston.
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August 16th, 2007
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